A look to the future

Now we look to strengthen our rehoming capability, in part by providing long-serving and dedicated volunteers with better facilities to enable them to help more hens.

Lorna based in Scotland (and who features in our Christmas Appeal) is such a great example; having volunteered for 8 years and wanting only to do more to help, we have provided her with a double stable block so she can rehome more hens, have better storage facilities and generally give more of her precious volunteering support to help hens.

I want you to be aware too that the charity safeguards all its investments in such a way that benefits both the charity and host, so your donations are carefully used, and sensitively protected. Angel, much-loved resident house hen Another focus for the near future will be the benefits of using hens as therapy. Hens helping humans. This will take a deeper dive into changing culture, the way we consider chickens currently. Seeing the benefits they can bring in challenging environments is, frankly, astonishing at times. Some of you will know we have tried to kickstart this initiative previously, but realised its potential is so big that a clear strategy supported by considerable resource is essential to give direction. Competing priorities have stalled our work a little, but setting objectives to ensure we can illustrate to all our supporters how this work will benefit our beloved hens is under way. And benefit our hens it will.