Active Members

Horse Reports
Project Hope representatives visit paddocks or properties when we receive a report of horse cruelty.

We train members who would like to help with this important outreach. We explain Project Hope’s role, what equine neglect, and abuse is, and the best way to speak with owners.

We run at least two training days a year and following the training, you decide if you wish to become a Project Hope representative.

Representatives are provided great support from our horse report coordinator, who can be contacted at any time
through the course of attending a report. Representatives can also access further information, support and advice through a private Facebook page. You may also like to read Investigate Neglect and Abuse.

Property Inspections
Before our horses go to a new home, be it for for short or long term care, we need representatives to make sure the property is suitable for the horse. In this role, you’d be checking for items such as well maintained fencing, access to water, what shelter is available, will the horse have a horse companion.

We’ll train you on the key features that make the perfect home for our beloved horses.

Help with Horse Transport
We cover the whole of Victoria, which means we need to transport horses from one property to another. Volunteers with floats or trucks to help us move our precious cargo are critical to the work we do.

Collecting Donations
We are contacted by many generous people with donations of rugs, saddles, tack, feed and more. We need volunteers to help collect these precious resources and deliver them to a committee member.

If you can help with any of these important tasks, we’d love to hear from you.

Administration plays a key role in helping us to record, manage, promote and implement the extensive programs we run.

Administration at Project Hope covers an extensive range of exciting tasks including:

• Assisting the secretarial team with correspondence,
• Preparation for training days
• Keeping records of donations
• Newsletter production and distribution
• Creating posters and brochures
• Developing social media posts
• Photography and videography 
• Media relations
• Plus other tasks, without which, Project Hope could not function.

Ideally you would come with one or more of the following skills: Computers, editing, graphic design, writing or social media content.

Let us know how you can help, we’re open to new ideas and skills, so get in touch!

Project Hope Horse Welfare (PHHWV) takes part in community events to raise awareness and funds to save horses and to share our knowledge and expertise about horse welfare. 

We attend:

• Local shows
• Pony clubs
• Adult riding events
• Open days

We need help with preapring for events as well as the manning of the stalls. It is a great way to meet and learn from othe Project Hope members and help to spread the work about PHHWV among the community. 

If you like meeting people and are keen to share with the community the programs we run to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome horses, do we have a role for you. So get in touch and become an invaluable member of the volunteer team.

This support is for anyone who wants to raise much needed funds for Project Hope Horse Welfare Victoria (PHHWV).

We welcome any way you can help to raise funds to support this work. You don’t have to have your own horse, you don’t even have to have horse knowledge. You might have a love of horses from afar. Ways to help include:

• Organising a local fundraising effort.
• Giving a talk to a club of which you are a member.
• Holding a celebration with gifts being donations to Project Hope.
• Holding a workplace event.

Just a few ideas, let us know how you’d like to fundraise.