Sir Peter O’Sullevan Charitable Trust

Through the Trust's Annual Award Lunch, auction and the sale of Christmas cards, the Sir Peter O’Sullevan Charitable Trust raises impressive sums from the horse racing world. Since 2000, Compassion in World Farming has received over £280,000 and we are honoured to be one of Sir Peter’s six chosen beneficiaries.

'The Voice of Racing'

Sir Peter O’Sullevan is probably the most well-known and respected broadcaster in racing. He worked as a BBC commentator between1947 and 1997 and he also worked for the Press Association and Daily Express. Now 90 years old, he remains a central figure in racing.

His retirement allowed him to devote more time to his charitable work. The Trust’s annual award dinner allows Sir Peter to put something back into racing and also to raise funds for animal and racing welfare charities.

Beneficiaries of the Trust

In the eleven years since its inception the Trust has distributed close to £2 million to the six welfare concerns to which it is dedicated: The Blue Cross, The Brooke, Compassion in World Farming, World Horse Welfare, Racing Welfare and The Thoroughbred Rehabilitation Centre.

"We must stop abusing animals in the way we do. I feel the way we human beings treat animals is comprehensively unacceptable in every conceivable way. The way we farm them is becoming more and more unacceptable. Billions of chickens that haven’t got room to move. They have no more than a pocket handkerchief of space during their short existence. Horses being transported from Poland and Lithuania 2000-plus miles to the toe of Italy to be ‘topped’. It’s appalling."

Sir Peter O’Sullevan, Telegraph, 2006

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