Volunteer Opportunities

Volunteers Are Welcome
We welcome volunteers of all ages every Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Volunteers feed horses, clean stalls, groom horses, wash and fill water buckets and perform other regular farm maintenance. We give each new volunteer an orientation and a mentor to help them learn the ropes. We love to teach new people about proper horse and farm care as well as give them a fun learning experience.

Sunday Open House
Begin Again is open every Sunday from 11 am to 2 pm for visitors of all ages to tour the farm and meet resident horses. Our barn manager and other volunteers are happy to answer your questions. Visitors under the age of 14 need to be accompanied by an adult. We are always seeking knowledgeable volunteers to help with chores, show people around, and talk with visitors.

Morning Chore Volunteers
Minimum Age: 14
We are always looking for volunteers to help with daily chores. Please contact our Volunteers Manager at info@beginagainrescue.org or (585)322-2427 to schedule a visit and orientation.

Wish List Items

Sponsorship For Resident Horses
For $100 per month you can sponsor a horse while it recovers and awaits adoption. We will provide monthly updated information to the sponsor and place a sign on the horse's stall identifying the sponsor.

A New Barn Is Needed
We are fundraising for the construction of a large, 8 stall horse barn. Thanks to a generous ASPCA grant and individual donations, we were able to build six board stalls in our arena and another six in our older pony barn. We built them in such a way that they can easily be taken down and rebuilt in our planned eight stall barn. The approximate cost is $50,000. In 2017 Begin Again Horse Rescue received Verification Status from the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries. The new barn will go a long way towards our full accreditation.

Fencing
After we moved into our donated 28-acre farm in the Fall of 2014, we needed to upgrade existing fencing to ensure the safety of our resident horses. We have been able to raise funds for replacement of the interior pasture fences and the perimeter fence along the busy highway. There is still more to do. We still need to replace the tape fencing along Woodruff Road with no-climb horse fence and wooden posts. $500 will complete a 200 foot section, including posts, fence and hardware. Our property on Woodruff Road totals 1000 feet. Two gates along this road also need replacing. $500 will allow us to do both. The safety of the our horses is paramount and without the fence upgrades, grazing pastures are limited. Volunteers from a service organization at the State University, Geneseo, work at Begin Again every Thursday, replacing posts and fencing or doing other maintenance chores. We will continue replacing the fence line as funds and materials become available.

Generator Needed
We have priced a system-wide generator at $3500 installed. This generator will allow Begin Again Horse Rescue to run the well pump lights and electric fences should we have a power outage. It is one of the items required by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

Windows In Our Barn And Arena To Be Added
In December, 2016 we raised funds and added six wooden stalls to the indoor arena, two to the old barn and replaced four pony stalls with new-to-us secure stalls. In 2017 we received a generous grant and we are putting in six arena windows for ventilation in May 2018. We still need funds to add six windows for better ventilation in the pony barn. Cost is estimated at $800 per window.