Volunteer, How You Can Help
Volunteers are the heartbeat of Barnabas. Whether it’s grooming horses, mucking stalls, assisting with special needs kids and adults, fundraising, or helping at an event, we have a place for you! No experience? No problem! We will help you learn everything you need to know.
Here are ways you can be involved:
Horse Feeding and Care
this includes feeding, grooming, bathing, holding horses for the farrier, etc.
Farm Chores
this includes mucking stalls, mowing, weed eating, cleaning water troughs, dragging the pastures, keeping the barn clean and fences in good repair, etc.
Special Needs
whether the kids and adults are learning safe horse handling and care or hopping on for therapeutic riding, this is a fun group that could always use more helping hands.
Fundraising
Feeding twenty-seven therapy horses is not cheap! You can help by promoting events, acquiring silent auction items, join the crafting committee, and selling T-shirts, squeeze horses, and horseshoe art. You can also have your own peer-to-peer fundraising campaign on social media with the proceeds being donated to Barnabas. Every little bit counts!
Events
We have several FUN events throughout the year. Do you like to play? Dress like an elf and join the merry making at Santa’s Castle as we take photos with Santa at the Dickens Christmas Show. Do you like to talk? Sign-up for a two-hour time slot at the Home Builders’ Show, Chili Cook-Off, Blessing of the Inlet, craft fairs, victim advocacy conferences, etc. Do you like to serve? Decorate? Sign up for the one of the following teams: Hoedown, Hot Chocolate and Horses, Blue Ribbon Days, Cornhole tournament, and the Pony Swim.
Whether you have two hours available once a month, once a week, or every day, we could use the help. It takes a village to keep the barn doors open!
Volunteers must be sixteen years of age or older and undergo a background check. To get started, email Volunteers@BarnabasHorse.org or SueM@BarnabasHorse.org.