Achievements and performance
2022 was busy a year, operationally, and, with all Covid-19 restrictions lifted, an opportunity to review operational performance and priorities across departments, in collaboration with our parent charity The Donkey Sanctuary UK.
To meet the challenges of sustained demand for services created by the donkey welfare crisis in the community, and the pressures associated with managing multiple owned and rented sites, the charity acquired further skilled resources and began a series of critical infrastructural improvements.
The Donkey Sanctuary Ireland’s operational goals for 2022 focused on four key areas:
- Preventing poor donkey welfare in the community through increased intervention and support, and investments in the charity’s owned and rented sites that would improve welfare standards;
- Working smarter, operationally, to achieve cost and time savings and improve outcomes for donkeys and staff;
- Planning and implementing fundraising efforts that would encourage an increase in donations; and
- Developing, and listening to the needs of one of our most valuable asset, our people, to improve their working environments and ensure the right level of skills and resourcing.