BEVA Trust Projects Inspire Vets to Volunteer

More than 45 BEVA members volunteered with challenging health-care and education initiatives both at home and abroad.
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The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) Trust’s new focus on voluntary projects has inspired more than 45 BEVA members to get stuck in to some challenging health-care and education initiatives both at home and abroad this year.

The trust is BEVA’s philanthropic arm and was established almost 50 years ago. Historically the bulk of its expenditure was small grants relating to travel and education. However last year members decided the trust should provide support for volunteer projects to help improve knowledge and welfare. They kicked off by assisting with a series of castration and health-care clinics in the U.K. and helping with veterinary training schemes around the world.

Over the past year BEVA Trust veterinary volunteers have worked with the British Horse Society, Redwings Horse Sanctuary, Blue Cross, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Horseworld, and World Horse Welfare to help run five castration and health-care clinics in the U.K. They opened lines of communication with owners whose horses are deemed “at risk” and subsequently castrated over 140 horses, issued over 250 passports and, where appropriate, dewormed horses, courtesy of Zoetis. The clinics were very well received and a further three have now been organized for this autumn.

Additionally, BEVA Trust veterinary volunteers have also been busy helping horses around the world. Earlier this summer BEVA Trust volunteer Marta Ferrari, MRCVS, spent five days in Cambodia, working with World Horse Welfare on an equine welfare workshop aimed at assisting the Cambodia Pony Welfare Organization to deliver advise to village veterinarians working in rural areas

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