Out in the community
Leeds Care Home's Donkey Visitor
A lovely piece appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post recently, regarding an EST Leeds' outreach visit to a Morley care home
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/weird-world/leeds_care_home_s...
Mary the Christmas donkey
Tue, 22/12/2009 - 16:21 — Claire Shapcott
Last week I joined EST Sidmouth on another Outreach visit to Holmesley Nursing Home in Sidmouth with Mary the donkey.
Donkey leads the way for Palm Sunday
Eeyore, one of our donkeys from EST Leeds, led clergy, the choir and parishioners through Leeds city streets from The Light shopping centre to Leeds Parish Church for the Palm Sunday Eucharist. A full story can be found on the Yorkshire Post website.
The Check House, Seaton
Marilyn Moore, Activities Support Co-Ordinator at The Check House, Seaton says that "the service is absolutely wonderful; the residents love the visits and really look forward to seeing the donkeys and their two-legged helpers. The visits are very therapeutic for those with little sight; just the feel of the donkeys can help to lightnen their lives. We have one resident who has had a stroke and is paralysed down one side of her body; she is quite poorly and cannot speak but when the donkeys arrive her face ligths up - it really is a heart-warming sight".
