Big V Sanctuary and Hospice is a Vegan Run animal sanctuary, based in Chateauponsac, France. We are a registered non-profit association caring for over 150 residents, both farmed and companion animals, who have been rescued from neglect, mistreatment or slaughter. Our vision is to create a peaceful world for all living beings; a world built on justice and respect, regardless of species. In our hospice, we take care of those nearing the end of their life, with dignity, kindness and respect.
All the money raised will be used to feed the 150+ animals at the Big V Sanctuary. The food bill is always at least €2500 per month so any donation helps!
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25/05/2021
It's Amanda here. I'm sending this with deep sadness within our hearts. Miranda, Jerome and the family need a little time. I haven't the words like Miranda, so here are Miranda's beautiful words to explain:
"Come close my dear family, and let me draw you with me into a tale of love and loss. Crawl into our corner of the world, hold each other tight, for this is solemn news indeed. There is no easy way to impart what needs to be said, for however quiet I want it to stay, we are screaming inside. You can hear our grief across the miles, drifting on the wind, dropping with the rain, clinging to the bark of trees. Wrapping its pervasive threads into the silent parts of our lives, to hang like a real thing, heavy and pendulous.
Our beloved and cherished Winifred has passed away. Exiting our world so swiftly that it does not seem real, the farmhouse gaping in the corners she used to fill, the granite still reverberating with echoes of her conversation and the laughter she gave us all. She can be glimpsed out the corner of our eyes, her wide eyed stare, the feel of her soft head butting our legs. The smell of her lingering, warm, salty wool, filled with hyacinth and jasmine. The smell of an angel, which perhaps she was. We all turn, yet there is space, a nothingness so profound it leaves us breathless. A loss equal to loosing a mountain of character, of chances, of love, now gone, so swiftly that for us a tornado could not have left more devastation, or emptiness in the aftermath. The hope we shared, the dreams we held, now dark and dimming in a pool of bereft heartache.
Walking around we are empty shells, all glancing left and right, eyes filled to drop at the slightest movement. Gwynnevere will arrive, hands entwined around me, head burrowed, twirling the fabric of my dress, trying to disappear and shrink away from the loss. I can feel her fingers clawing, trying to find purchase, respite from the tumbling precipice of grief. She held her for hours last night, begging fate to not take her away, even though she was already gone.
My words are to share how exquisitely beautiful she was for us, how tender the love we held for her; for those to understand that have not yet experienced this with sheep, to glimpse the absolute joy and vast emotional lands that can be travelled with someone that is seen by most, as just a sheep. Yet, as ever, words fall short, and seem dusty and dry, compared to the vast ocean broiling within.
She entrusted us with every ounce of her physical self and laid her emotions open and vulnerable. She was the epitome of gentle courage, knowing innocence, wisdom in silence. Perhaps she was never meant to be here for long, however many opportunities we held out for her, maybe we only bought a little time away from her final destination. Maybe, her journey this time was to touch a few hearts that were open to her story, to her essence, to her tale of living kindly with grace, no matter the cards dealt. Maybe she had reached her purpose, and we were all just travellers for this shortest of journeys. Maybe just maybe, she had fulfilled her purpose as was laid out, or as she felt needed. I have the deepest sincerity when I say, our lives with her were filled with emotions and experiences so raw and exceptional, that she could have been out of this world, yet we were too blind to see it. It is in the stillness between breaths that angels fly, and there she is hovering out of reach, a gossamer kiss of memory, of love. The purity of her self, forever entwined into our existence.
My love for you all that travelled this path with us, I hope the many messages I sent out today, reached your hearts in the manner that I felt was true to Winifred's life on this earth. Gather who you hold precious and kiss them, hold them or call them. Fate is swift, uncaring and brutal, we cannot guess, we cannot know. However hard we try, some paths are always hidden and we can only stand at the end, when it is already over, and we are left trying to catch up.
Please give us a moment to catch our breath and find our feet. The nature of sanctuary life means we cannot stop, but for now, we need the ringing bell to quieten down and our hearts to loosen.
Night night Winifred "
So sorry to pass this news on this way. Together we can make a difference for more, Winifred felt love, compassion, kindness, friendship and love. She had people stretching far and wide for her, and humans who called her family who went to all ends for her. She wouldn't have known this love without the Sanctuary. Thank you for being here and if you can please enlist more Teamers, Miranda and Jerome's birthdays are imminent and it would bring a smile to their grief stricken hearts at this time.
Amanda xxx
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Louise Griifin is an Admin for fund raising for Big V Sanctuary and Hospice. She has Just launched an appeal "500 for 50".
This is a Big Birthday Year - Jerome and Miranda who run the sanctuary are 50 years old on the 23rd and 24th May 2004. The dream they have had is to have 500 Teamers supporting the Sanctury.
500 Teamers, each giving one euro a month, which taken together will give money towards the basic food needed for the animals.
Jerome and Miranda devote their live to the sanctuary. Can we as existing teamers come together to give them their wish for their 50th Birthdays? Yes we can make it happen by just giving a little extra time and thought.
Today there are 250 Teamers. All we have to do is find one person each. We can do this for them.
If all of us who are Teamers introduce one or two people to the Sanctuary; explain how they contribute just one euro and that euro will make change happen. Because we are already teamers we can show them what to do and help them through the process. It just
requires a little time. The time that Jerome and Miranda give is their whole lives devoted to the animals.
So who can you enrol to Teaming - your partner, a family member, a friend, a colleague at work, someone at the gym, a fellow churchgoer, a social media friend . . . . They do not need to be followers of the group just sympathetic to giving the animals the best life.
Please. please make your mind up to do this and give Jerome and Miranda a birthday to remember.
I have just started with one person - my husband, John Dunn, became a Teamer on 10/5/2024. I will ask my daughter too Who will you ask?
Frances Small 14/5 /2024 We have just 9 days!
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Thank you to everyone that is supporting us. We are aware that some people are experiencing problems with making the payments and we are working with the site to resolve this xx
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Fecha de publicación
23/10/2019
Ámbito
Defensa de los animales
País
Francia
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https://www.teaming.net/bigvsanctuaryandhospice
