BEVA Trust

We provide opportunities, support and funding to allow vets and vet nurses to volunteer for projects that seek to enhance equine welfare both locally and globally, in partnership with other organisations.

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Find out more about the BEVA Trust and why we exist.

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See the volunteer roles we're currently recruiting for.

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Volunteering Opportunities

Volunteering with BEVA Trust provides you with the opportunity to develop your skills, learn new ones, and meet a wide variety of people.

Several opportunities each year range from being a volunteer vet at BHS welfare clinics that run throughout the UK to travelling overseas to support veterinary education and improve the health and welfare of horses primarily in the developing world.

To be eligible for volunteering with the BEVA Trust you must be a BEVA member.

Open Opportunities

*Applications are now closed*

The BEVA Trust is looking for 1 or 2 volunteers to speak at the 18th The World Equine Veterinary Association (WEVA) Congress in January 2026. WEVA is an international charity whose mission is to support the welfare of equids worldwide by promoting high-quality clinical education, particularly to veterinarians working in developing countries. Our work includes staging a biennial international congress in partnership with different national organisations. We are excited that WEVA is collaborating with the Thailand Equine Veterinary Association to stage its 18^th WEVA Congress in Bangkok, from 28^th to 30^th January 2026.

WEVA would like us to help to achieve our objectives by asking for one or more volunteers to share their knowledge at the Congress. The volunteer(s) will be supported to attend by the BEVA trust who will fund economy travel. We would like to recruit a volunteer the following presentations (or similar with modified titles) in the specified sessions. Some moderation of titles can be discussed with the programme committee once volunteers have been selected.

Title of talk	Session Title	Date	Time	Duration (mins)
Medical treatment of laminitis and the acute case	New knowledge laminitis and endocrine disease	Jan 30^th 2026	xx	30min
When to suspect and how to diagnose neck pain?	New Knowledge: Spine	Jan 29^th 2026	xx	30
Cervical spinal nerve root pain: clinical signs and diagnostic tools	New Knowledge: Spine	Jan 29^th 2026	xx

The conference will provide accommodation for speakers. The conference language will be conducted in English for the benefit of the majority of participants. The BEVA Trust will cover travel expenses.

For further information, travel advice and entry requirements for Thailand see Thailand travel advice - GOV.UK

Contact us for further information or to register your interest in this opportunity email leaya@beva.org.uk with your CV and cover note. Applications close 20th January 2025

The BEVA Trust are looking for volunteers to attend the Spring education and welfare clinics coordinated by the British Horse Society (BHS). Attending a clinic is great way of brushing up on skills and supporting equine welfare in the UK. A team of volunteer vets and vet nurses will work though the cases to provide health checks, passports and castration if required to horses considered in "need" guided by a lead vet and supported by staff from the BHS, Bransby Horses, World Horse Welfare and other welfare charities.

Four clinics are planned for Spring 2025:

Wednesday 19^th March - North West Auctions

Wednesday 26^th March - Ruthin Farmers Auction Co

Wednesday 9th April - Berkshire College of Agriculture

Tuesday 29^th April - Thrapston Livestock Auction

If you would like to attend a clinic please get in touch, email leaya@beva.org.uk indicating your preferred location.

Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust volunteering experience

Project Reports

After each project our volunteers provide a project report sharing their experiences, what they gained from the experience and how it contributed to our mission of improving equine welfare globally. Have a read and be inspired to volunteer in the future.

Volunteer stories

28 Feb 2024

BEVA Trust volunteers play a vital role in providing care and education to support equine welfare in the Gambia

In December 2023 BEVA Trust volunteers Annalisa Barrelet and Hamish Leslie spent two weeks working alonside the team at Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. Annalisa tells us about thier trip. Last December, loaded up with suitcases full of donated bandaging materials and headcollars, Hamish Leslie from Cambridge University Vet school and I travelled to the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust (GHDT), to spend two weeks volunteering. Our trip was kindly sponsored by BEVA Trust. Our stay began at the main

Volunteer stories

14 Dec 2023

BEVA Trust volunteers deliver lectures and practical demonstrations in Estonia

In September 2023 Ben Curnow and Nicky Housby Skeggs travelled to join vets from across the region to deliver Dermatology lectures and wet labs to practicing veterinary surgeons and undergraduates. The Tartu veterinary school was established in 1848 and can be considered the predecessor of the Estonia University of Life Sciences which this year celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Veterinary Profession in Estonia. The equine hospital; where they receive referrals from across Estonia as well

Volunteer stories

13 Dec 2023

BEVA Trust volunteer travels to Cambodia to support the work of the Cambodia Pony Welfare Association and World Horse Welfare

In February 2023 Dr Emma Preston joned BEVA Trust trip to Phnom Penh with The Cambodian Pony Welfare Association. Emma shares her expereince of volunteering with the BEVA Trust. I left the cold and wet tarmac of Heathrow on a gloomy Friday evening in February, still glued to my laptop at the gate, I shovelled in chips and raced to complete PowerPoint presentations while I still could, before boarding the plane and losing my Wi-Fi connection. The Cambodian Pony Welfare Organisation manage and run

News

28 Jul 2023

BEVA Trust Activities - July 2023

BEVA Trust volunteers provide CPD to vets and students at the American Fondouk in Fez, Morrocco

In November 2022 Dutch vet Els van den Berg M.Sc., DVM and UK farrier Jeff Newnham DipWCF spent a week in Fez Morocco to provide Dentistry & Farriery CPD at The American Fondouk. The American Fondouk was founded in 1927 at the behest of Amy Bend Bishop, an American traveller who was distressed by the poor conditions of the many working animals in Fez Medina. It is a unique non-profit organization dedicated to providing people-to-people aid through offering free veterinary care for the har

Volunteer stories

27 Jun 2023

BEVA Trust volunteers help to improve equine welfare in the Gambia

In December 2022 Veterinary volunteers Ella Akins and Ana Lopes travelled to the Gambia for two weeks to work alongside the team a thet Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust. Ella and Ana tell us more about thier trip and life as a volunteer in the Gambia. 'First of all, we would like to say thank you to all at The Gambia Horse & Donkey Trust as well as the BEVA Trust for kindly supporting the volunteering outreach project. We were absolutely blown away by the dedication of the staff and volu

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We work with international charities and welfare bodies to provide the veterinary profession with volunteering opportunities that ultimately aim to improve the welfare of horses around the world.

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Meet the Committee

BEVA Trust is led by a committee made up of volunteers who are responsible for overseeing, managing and developing the activities and projects the Trust undertakes.