Our Mission is Kindness

Edgar’s Mission is a not for profit farmed animal sanctuary that seeks to create a humane and just world for all.

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Trottings Story

The Things We Do For Love: 22 years of Edgar’s Mission

Posted May 16 2025

Today marks 22 years since a pig trotted into life, tugged at my heart strings and took me in a direction I could never have imagined.

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Becoming Luke

A true story of resilience, love, and second chances.

We’ll Bring You a Banana

Trottings Story

Strategy

A strategy, simply put, is a plan: a thoughtful approach to achieving a specific goal. It calls for forward thinking, clever choices and a dash of resourcefulness.

Where are the good guys?

Trottings Story

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

When the stories we tell ourselves become our beliefs, they shape our reality.

Trottings Story

The fire is hot

"…an unsettling realisation can emerge: the suffering we allow to befall animals—be it for our convenience, indulgence, or ignorance—is not so different from the suffering we fear for ourselves."

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Campaign

The Gift of Hope

End of year appeal

The holiday season, a time for compassion and the joy of giving, is often when we are needed the most. Your kind donation helps us to provide animals with life-saving veterinary care, prosthetics, cosy bedding, and safe spaces to thrive.

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Stay At Edgar’s Mission

Accommodation

Tiny Houses

Wake up to this!

Enjoy the ultimate sanctuary retreat with a stay at one of our tiny houses. Overlooking the rolling hills and rescued animals of Edgar’s Mission, you’ll enjoy an immersive and environmentally-friendly experience you will never forget.

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Meet the Animals!

Animals

Our Rescued Residents

Lives transformed by kindness

Edgar’s Mission has rescued thousands of animals since it began in 2003. Today the sanctuary is home to more than 500 formerly farmed animals at any given time, each with their own unique story. Read how they came to be in our care, and how their lives have been transformed by kindness!

Edgar Alan Pig

Alex

Leon Trotsky

Ruby

Clarabelle & Valentine

Clarabelle & Valentine

Red Baron (RIP)

Red Baron (RIP)

Meet the Animals

The Sanctuary

Sanctuary

A Place of Kindness

Providing a safe haven for animals

Learn the inspiring story of how Edgar's Mission started with one tiny piglet, where to find us, how to visit for a sanctuary tour, and how to get involved and help.

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Edgar's Mission TV

Classics

Pam’s TEDx Talk

Posted October 03 2023

This 11 minute talk by Edgar’s Mission Founder Pam Ahern’s incredible TEDx Talk is packed with thought-provoking insights that will touch your heart and open your mind.

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Animal Facts

Who’s the dinosaur?

Chickens are the oldest living relative of the T-Rex! Remnants of which still lurk in today’s feathered wonders such as feathers, (yes some dinosaurs had feathers), similar shaped eggs along with hand-like scaly feet with sharp claws. Chicken embryos still have a dinosaur-like tail, the gene for which turns off before the egg hatches.

Clever pigs

Pigs have been shown to have cognitive capabilities equal to or exceeding those of dogs, chimpanzees and even small children. Studies have proven they can work out how to manipulate the joystick of a computer game! Pigs are also incredibly clean. Given the chance, they will never toilet where they eat and sleep.

I miss ewe!

Sheep are highly social with sophisticated emotional skills that can recognise human and animal faces. Research increasingly suggests that sheep can form images in their brain of absent individuals when they are not visible, just as humans would think about a friend or family member that they miss.

The scoop on turkey poop

A turkey’s gender can be determined by the shape of their droppings. For male turkeys, known as Toms, they have a distinct spiral shaped poop, whilst females or hen’s poop can be distinguished by a “J” shape. This is due to the different shape of their cloaca, their elimination organ.

Here’s looking at you, kid!

Goats now have been added to the growing list of animals who can follow the gaze of humans. They too can look into the eyes of a human and seek help. Just ask our friend Steady Eddie, as he looks deep into your eyes then back to the leaf on the tree he wishes you to pick for him.

Al-paca your lunch

Alpacas, who belong to the same family as camels, have a split upper lip which they can manoeuvre to help pick grass and help draw it into their mouths. Not only are they beautiful, they are incredibly clean animals who use a communal “latrine” where they deposit all of their excrement.

What They’re Saying

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I have been to Edgar’s Mission on tours over the years and now volunteer there. Not only are the tours educational, the sanctuary is a ‘feel good’ place with beautiful animals and people.

Ellaine Di Battista

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A beautiful sanctuary for rescued animals. The staff and volunteers are fantastic. Definitely recommend a visit!

Alina Pung

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A beautiful place to visit. We were inspired by the kindness we witnessed here. Thank you for the work that you do, and for making us feel so welcome.

Natalie Whittle

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I have always dreamed a place like this where farm animals can live a wonderful life forgetting any cruelty! I visited Edgar’s Mission last week and this experience has changed my life forever. Awareness is the key to change the world!

Carla Trigilia

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