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I’m running the Virgin London Marathon 2016 for The Brooke Hospital for Animals on the 24th of April 2016.

The Brooke is an international animal welfare organisation committed to improving the lives of working horses, donkeys, mules and their owners. 

The Brooke helps to educate, and empower working animal owners in order to improve both the lives of the animals, and their owners. 

Some of The Brooke's activities include: 

Direct, hands-on veterinary treatment is and will always be an important part of our work to improve the welfare of animals in pain and with injuries and disease. This may be provided by Brooke vets and paravets in the short to medium term but our aim is to hand over responsibility to trained local veterinary service providers - government, and private sector - so they can continue sustainable animal health programmes.

Strengthening and supporting existing services to improve animal welfare: such as vets, paravets, community based animal health workers and local health providers and farriers, feed-sellers, cartmakers and saddlers.
Engagement with communities to improve their animals’ welfare: broadening our work to tackle the welfare problems that cannot be solved by veterinary treatment alone.
Influencing others

We are raising the profile of working animals and their importance to people’s lives

Working to promote the enforcement of existing animal welfare laws and policies

Influencing governments and international agencies to ensure the welfare of working horses, donkeys and mules is considered in wider agricultural and transport policies and projects.

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