Adorable Nigel has now been at the sanctuary for just over a year! Prior to Nigel’s arrival, he was sold to a lady as a micro pig by the open farm for just seventy-five pounds, but micro pigs do not exist!

Jack Hodgson is an urban farmer and educator who is helping the Surge Sanctuary get involved with organic plant-based farming. In this interview, he takes us through his past and future projects with Surge and explains the power of growing your own food.

Anji Chapman is a volunteer at the Surge Sanctuary. Anji lives in a house full of beautiful rescue animals and studies philosophy in her spare time. She is also a member of Lincolnshire Animal Save. Here, Anji takes us through what it’s like to be a volunteer, and what she has learned along the way.

Today is another special day at the Surge Sanctuary, as we are celebrating the first birthday of Paul!

The wonderful Peggy the pig, who came to us in an emergency fostering case, has now gone on to take up residence at her forever home.

Pepper, Blackcurrant and Sunshine are from a school hatching project and were brought to us by a teacher who saved them from going back to the farmer. We’re so excited for them to settle in here. All of the animals are enjoying the sunshine so much and we’re so happy that these boys can join the family.

We have wonderful news for all of you today, and this is an exclusive for newsletter and blog subscribers - just yesterday we took in three adorable lambs who had been left to perish in a farmer’s field.

You may have seen on our Instagram account that little Paul - one of two ex-dairy calves who along with his pal Roo joined us recently - has been feeling very poorly with bloat. Find out how he is now as plus lots of other updates.

It’s been a busy two weeks since our last update - how time flies! - so we’re pleased to introduce you to some new residents plus news of more rescues and updates to our buildings, made possible by your support and generosity.

We’ve all been keeping ourselves very busy following the sad and untimely passing of dear Gus last month, having welcomed lots of new permanent and temporary residents to the sanctuary.

It is with great sadness that we write this tribute to Augustus the Kunekune pig, or simply Gus to everyone who loved him, who passed away last week. We are all still in such profound shock, not least of all because he left us unexpectedly and far too soon.

As for the real stars of the show - our non-human residents - there have been newcomers since launch. We’ve welcomed four new turkeys - Lisa, Rosé, Jennie and Jisoo - who were destined for dinner tables this Christmas just past if they hadn’t found their way to us. You can read more about their story on our Instagram.