It's been a whole year since the wonderful Elly Brooks joined us and became a vital part of our team. She manages the yard and is head of rehabilitation and rehoming for our rescues. Her expertise, dedication, team spirit and sense of humour have made a huge impact...

Dusty was one of three ponies rescued from appalling conditions in Valle de Algaidas north of Malaga. She was rehomed a few months ago at Los Prados, a local livery stables. They have just sent us the following report on her progress there. "Just a little progress...

We are always happy to welcome new volunteers into the ARCH family. Members of our team come in all shapes, sizes and ages (our youngest is in her teens, our oldest in his eighties). And we have many different nationalities on our list too. We all share a passion and...

The local TV station came to film a short piece on ARCH recently to find out how we had been managing during the strict lock down. We have been extremely fortunate to have had such dedicated core volunteers as access was very restricted and they were often asked to...

And here we have ....... MERCEDES! Our donkey matriarche was 24 years old on June 1st. Mercedes came from a trekking centre several years ago and suffers badly from arthritis, though she can get to her feed bucket at an amazing speed!. She has also been known to go...

Very often horses arrive at the Centre with no papers or details, others have green cards but no names, so we have to choose something suitable. When an emaciated grey mare arrived earlier in the year, confiscated from an owner who had previously allowed horses to die...

Our little sparrow, Gorrion, has come a long way since she arrived in a very sorry state in February. She was one of a large group of horses subject to a protracted court case and was being "fostered", along with her foal. Her foal had died (we have no further...