13/08/2026
If you can spare a little change next time you’re in the shop we have one of their charity tins.
Thanks to our caring community we sent the last tin which was overflowing- hopefully not all the pennies when people say keep the change! 🙏
☀️ WE ARE CLOSED TODAY ☀️
With temperatures forecast to reach around 37°C today, our team needs to be able to concentrate entirely on the animals - keeping water topped up, providing pools, wallows and cooling, and closely monitoring everyone throughout the hottest part of the day. We also have to consider the safety of our visitors and amazing team!
And this photo rather sums up what the prolonged hot, dry weather is doing to Brockswood. This paddock should be green! Weeks without rain have left our paddocks dry and increasingly bare, with the ground itself now cracking in places. Timber around the sanctuary is drying, shrinking and splitting too, including fence posts and rails, adding yet more repairs to the already considerable workload of our maintenance team. And with so much dry grass and vegetation, particularly after seeing wildfires locally this summer, fire risk is never far from our minds.
Closing during the summer holidays isn’t something we ever want to do, and losing a day of visitor income matters to a small sanctuary like ours, but sometimes looking after Brockswood means knowing when not to open the gates and we’re so grateful to you for supporting that 💚
