'Life past the post'

CHARITY OFFERING FORMER RACEHORSES A SAFE AND SECURE ENVIRONMENT REFLECTS ON PAST YEAR

- By DEBORAH HALL

IT has been a busy year of promoting the positive side of life after racing for an East Yorkshire charity.

New Beginnings has been looking back over the past 12 months and reflecting on the many activities and progress made in its 15th anniversary year.

New Beginnings, near Bishop Wilton, is a charity determined to offer a "life past the post" for thoroughbreds that have concluded their racing days and provides a safe and secure environment in which they can be retrained ahead of rehoming.

Pam and Kevin Atkinson ditched their respective careers to launch New Beginnings, which has seen huge strides taken in 2025.

The year has been an opportunity to focus on the three core strands of the charity's work - retraining and rehoming former racehorses; community engagement and the New Beginnings education programme. Not long after the charity's annual fundraising ball, in February, its two equine ambassadors Remy (Goldream) and Poppy the pony greeting finalists and guests at the Godolphin Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, at York racecourse.