Alexandra Bastedo Champions Animal Sanctuary

Patrons: Joanna Lumley, Peter Egan, Pollyanna Pickering, Mike Tomkies

Welcome to our Animal Sanctuary web-site. The aims of the Sanctuary are to rescue abandoned animals and animals in distress, to provide them with care and protection and - where possible - to find them a new home where they can be happy, safe and properly cared for. In some instances, where the animals are very old, need permanent special diets or have personality disorders through ill-treatment they are guaranteed care and protection and a home with us at the Sanctuary for the rest of their lives.

I have been running an animal sanctuary for nearly thirty years. My first animal rescue was a donkey, and since then our Sanctuary has become home to unwanted donkeys, ponies, miniature shetlands, sheep, goats, cats, pigs, poultry and wild birds. Since moving out of the flood plain near Chichester eight years ago and buying a smaller house with a much bigger acreage for the animals on a hill at Pulborough in West Sussex the number of animals at the Sanctuary have increased enormously and we are now always full to capacity. We also always try to help re-home other unwanted animals - including dogs - through our animal network if we are unable to take them in ourselves.

To look after so many animals and birds I have the support of two other trustees, Allan Sims and John Williams, and the un-stinting help of over fifty volunteers of all ages who between them cover every day, of every week, of every year and without whom the Sanctuary certainly could not operate.

We update our website on a regular basis and if you have any suggestions as to how we might make it more interesting then we would be pleased to hear from you.

We hope you enjoy your visit here, that you'll like the photos of our lovely animals and the work we do for them here at the Sanctuary, and that you'll come back often.

Kind regards,

Alexandra Bastedo