Saltburn stand helps author raise £500 for working animals

Children’s book author Gregory Harris has raised over £500 for Brooke, partly through his market stand in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. 

Yorkshire-based Harris has been supporting Brooke by selling his books across 2024, including the Billy Burro series following the adventures of a donkey. 

Harris said: “At first sight, you might be forgiven for thinking that Brooke mainly transforms the physical health of working horses, donkeys and mules. 

“However, Brooke’s support is far more encompassing. They also support a working animal's mental wellbeing, ensuring that it and the families and connected communities receive the same kind of lasting support through education and training.”

Billy Burro is a young donkey in Blackpool giving rides to children on the beach, who enacts a mission to help others.  

He is a donkey who expects nothing special from his life, but when starts doing good deeds for others finds his life transformed. 

Like Billy, there are millions of working donkeys, horses and mules worldwide, earning an income which 600 million people rely on to put food on their tables and send their children to school. 

Brooke was created to give these animals a life worth living, after its founder, Dorothy Brooke, sought to help ex-war horses abandoned in Egypt after World War Two. 

Harris’s most recent book, Billy Burro’s Charity Continues, is available to purchase at Waterstones.