Alan and Clair - Horst Transport

Alan and Clair

Professional Horse Transporters

Alan and Clair are Redwings’ professional horse transporters and drive our Horse Ambulances, but their role as part of our rescue team is so much more.

The first kindness

Alan and Clair are expert horse handlers, and very experienced at reading horses’ body language. Working on rescues often means working with horses who are frightened, or in pain, and often they have negative associations with people. It is not an understatement to say that this could be very dangerous, but it is thanks to the expertise and knowledge of people like Alan and Clair that our team can read the horses, and the situation, expertly and keep both our team, and the horses that desperately need us, safe.

Both at Redwings, and with the organisations we work closely with, Alan and Clair have a stellar reputation as the people you turn to when you need help with the most nervous or frightened horse, and they have likely been the first human kindness some of our most desperate horses or ponies have ever received.

The ‘day job’ between rescues

Between rescues, Alan and Clair support teams across the Sanctuary – transporting patients to the Horse Hospital when needed, and back home when they’re recovered. Alan and Clair aim to make every trip in their horsebox a positive one, with their gentle and compassionate handling and loading, and their expert and very careful driving, coming together to reassure even the more uncertain travellers.

Clair began volunteering for us when she was still at school, and then took up her first official role with Redwings in 1989, helping to provide the daily care needs of the Sanctuary’s resident horses. Alan joined us in 1998 with the intention of staying for just a month but said the experience of helping animals proved to be “addictive”.

Clair and Alan began working together full-time as our horse box drivers shortly afterwards, and over the decades have played an instrumental role in saving countless animals from lives of neglect and despair, and ensuring we are always Ready to Rescue.

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Wayne and Jade

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Jo and Julie

Senior Field Officers
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Head of Welfare and Behaviour
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Beth and Lucy

Welfare Coordinators
Waynbe and Jade

Wayne and Jade

Maintenance Team

Julie

Jo and Julie

Senior Field Officers

Nic

Nic de Brauwere

Head of Welfare and Behaviour

Beth and Lucy

Beth and Lucy

Welfare Coordinators

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