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However, our 2024 diary is filling up FAST, with another 15,000 hens booked in this week alone!

If you are interested in rehoming hens early next year, please visit our website to reserve. Not all the logistics of who will open and when have been worked out yet, but the spring dates are now confirmed:

January – 20th – Cornwall hens – free range (almost all reserved)

February – 17th – free range

February – 24th – free range

March – 2nd – barn hens

March – 9th – free range

March – 16th – free range organic

March – 23rd – free range organic

April – 6th – Mac’s hens – Free range organic

April – 13th – Mac’s hens – Free range organic

April – 20th – Cornwall hens – free range

That will keep us nicely busy!

With so much planned, it’s a very exciting time to come on board as a volunteer so do please visit our website, fill in a form and be a part of this amazing team, who write a new success story every week

Our next rehome will be on 30th September with Penkridge and Selby will be open – 250 hens.

The 4th & 11th November will see us rehoming 5500 lovely organic hens from The Macs Farm, we know these girls are extremely popular!

The following collection points will be open below which includes 4 new locations!

Alfreton – 11th November

Ammanford – 4th & 11th November

Atherstone **NEW** – 11th November

Aylesford – 4th & 11th November

Basildon – 4th November

Basingstoke – 11th November

Braintree – 4th November

Brecon – 4th November

Bristol – 11th November

Brixham – 4th November

Brundall – 4th November

Burton on Trent – 11th November

Callington – 11th November

Charlwood & Newdigate **NEW** – 4th November

Chelmsford – 11th November

Colchester – 11th November

Congleton – 11th November

Corwen – 11th November

Coventry – 4th November

Crowborough **NEW** – 4th November

Devizes – 4th November

Durham – 11th November

Eastleigh – 4th November

Evesham – 5th November

Folkestone – 4th November

Guildford – 11th November

Harrogate – 4th November

Herstmonceux – 4th November

Hertford – 11th November

High Wycombe – 4th November

Holsworthy – 11th November

Horsham – 4th & 11th November

Ipswich – 4th & 11th November

Lincoln – 11th November

Loughborough **NEW** – 11th November

Mablethorpe – 4th November

Malvern – 11th November

Market Rasen – 11th November

Melton Mowbray – 11th November

Newark – 11th November

North Walsham – 11th November

Northampton – 4th November

Pencader – 11th November

Petersfield – 4th November

Ross-on-Wye – 12th November

Rugby **NEW** – 11th November

Scunthorpe – 4th November

Selby – 5th November

Solihull – 4th November

Sturminster Newton – 11th November

Taunton – 4th November

Wakefield – 5th November

Watton – 4th November

Whaley Bridge – 11th November

Whitland – 4th November

Wisbech – 11th November

To reserve some hens please visit our website www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

If there is not a location open close to you and you can open a collection point or drive a van (fuel and hire paid) we would love to hear from you! We are always looking to expand our network.

We have lots of collection points open for both of these dates please see below the full list.

Two more dates will be going live shortly with some more collection points coming soon!

Alfreton – 25th February & 4th March

Ammanford – 25th February & 4th March

Aylesford – 25th February & 4th March

Barry – 4th March

Basildon – 25th February & 4th March

Basingstoke – coming soon

Beccles – coming soon

Bedford – 4th March

Boston – 5th March

Brixham **NEW** – 25th February

Burford ** NEW ** – 25th February & 4th March

Burton on Trent – 4th March

Callington **NEW** – 25th February

Chelmsford – 4th March

Colchester – 25th February & 4th March

Corwen – 4th March

Coventry – 25th February & 4th March

Crewe – 4th March

Devizes – 25th February

Durham – coming soon

Eastleigh – coming soon

Evesham – Sunday 5th March

Faversham **NEW** – 4th March

Folkestone – 4th March

Guildford – 25th February

Hailsham – coming soon

Harrogate – coming soon

Heathfield **NEW** – coming soon

Hertford – 4th March

High Wycombe – 25th February & 4th March

Hitchin 25th February & 4th March

Holsworthy**NEW** – 25th February

Horsham – Hens available NOW

Huntingdon – 26th February & 4th March

Ipswich – 4th March

Lingfield – Hens available NOW

Llanidloes – coming soon

Mablethorpe – coming soon

Market Rasen – 4th March

Melton Mowbray – 25th February

Milton Keynes – 4th March

Newark **NEW** – 25th February

Northampton **NEW** – 4th March

Penkridge – coming soon

Reading – 4th March

Selby – 5th March

Solihull – 25th February

Southam – 4th March

Southampton – 25th February

Southminster -coming soon

Spalding – 5th March

St Austell – 25th February

Sturminster Newton ** NEW** – 25th February

Sutton Coldfield – 4th March

Taunton – 25th February

Thanet – 4th March

Whaley Bridge – coming soon

Wisbech – 25th February & 4th March

Worthing – coming soon

Head to the website to reserve and help us save these lovely hens.

All rehomed in line with avian influenza protocols.

#freshstartforhens #rescuechickens #rescuehens #adoptdontshop #sharingiscaring

WOW, what a busy weekend!

Started with 3200 hens from The Macs Farm on Saturday morning, and finished with 300 gorgeous khaki Campbell ducks on Sunday, which travelled all the way from Cornwall!

We are now taking reservations for our final rehomings of the year, with LOTS of collection points available, including the ever popular Anglesey & Dolgellau, new collection points at Holsworthy and Burford, and a welcome return of Mold and Garstang

All farms we are rehoming from have already housed their hens, to ensure they are protected against Avian Flu, and we are taking additional precautions at all collection points.

Those collection points that fall into a DEFRA/APHA disease control zone are being moved so they operate outside the zone and within the rules.

Some of the collection points below do not have a set date, but please feel feel to reserve for them and we will open them on demand

Alfreton – 29th October

Ammanford – 29th October, 5th, 12th November

Andover – 12th November

Anglesey – 19th November

Aylesford – 29th October, 12th November

Barry – 12th November

Basildon – 29th October, 12th November

Basingstoke – 12th November

Beccles

Bedford – 29th October

Boston

Brecon – 5th November

Bridlington

Bristol

Bromsgrove – 29th October

Burford **NEW** – TBA

Burton on Trent – 29th October, 12th November

Chelmsford – 29th October, 12th November

Colchester – 29th October, 12th November

Congleton – 29th October, 12th November

Corwen – 29th October November

Coventry – 29th October, 5th, 12th November

Crewe – 12th November

Darlington – 19th November

Daventry

Devizes – 29th October, 12th November

Dolgellau – 13th November

Durham – 12th November

Eastleigh – 26th November

Ellesmere Port – 29th October, 19th November

Evesham – 29th October, 5th November

Folkestone – 26th November

Garstang – 19th November

Gilberdyke

Goodwick – 29th October, 5th November

Guildford – 12th November

Hailsham – 12th November

Harrogate -12th & 19th November

Haverfordwest – 5th November

Heathfield **NEW**

Hertford – 12th November

High Wycombe -29th October November

Hitchin – 12th November

Holsworthy**NEW** – 29th October

Horsham – 29th October, 12th November

Holmfirth – 29th October

Huntingdon – 29th October,5th 12th November

Ipswich – 29th October

Lincoln **NEW** – 29th October

Lingfield -29th October, 12th November

Llanidloes – 30th October

Mablethorpe – 29th October

Malvern – 12th November

Market Rasen – 29th October

Melton Mowbray – 29th October

Merthyr Tydfil – 5th November

Milton Keynes -29th October

Minehead – 12th November

Mold – 19th November

Newcastle

Newton Abbot – 29th October

North Walsham – 29th October, 12th November

Northampton **NEW** – 29th October

Nottingham

Pencader – 12th November

Penkridge – 29th October

Petersfield – 12th November

Plymouth

Reading – 29th October & 12th November

Ross-on-Wye – 29th October

Rotherham

Rugby – 29th October

Sandhurst

Scunthorpe

Selby – 29th October, 13th November

Selston **NEW** – 29th October

Sheffield

Solihull – 29th October

Southam

Southampton

Southminster – 12th November

Spalding

St Austell

Stourbridge

Sturminster Newton ** NEW** – 19th November

Sutton Coldfield – 29th October, 12th November

Taunton – 29th October & 12th November

Thanet

Tunbridge Wells

Wakefield – 29th October

Warminster

Watton – 29th October

Witney

Whaley Bridge – 29th October & 19th November

Whitland – 12th November

Wisbech – 29th October, 12th November

Worthing

The photo is of Macy, our youngest volunteer, with the last hen out of the barn on Saturday