This month has certainly gone with a FLASH!
The team have been busy at events and looking after our kennel greyhounds.
We have also seen some greyhound rehoming’s too! It is always nice to see our greyhounds blossom in our environment, as they make that transition from kennel to home life. It may be sad to see them leave us but we know they are going to start their next chapter and we are all very happy that they have found their new family.
Greyhounds that have been rehomed this month are – Kelpi, Bren, Gigi, Scramble, Sanker and we know there may be at least one more before the end of the month!
Greyhounds reserved during October:
Buzzer, Jet and Spook, I wonder who will be next!
Kara and Holly are also reserved, from September.
New Arrivals:
Kermit, Pearl and Spook.
Have a look at their descriptions, they are both lovely dogs, Kermit just adores cuddles and gives you those big brown eyes!
Event Updates:
The team have certainly been out and about this month, with three big events attended.
St James Park, Dog Show – the team raised £326.58, which is a brilliant result!
The Meadows, Camberley – yet again our Fleet team came out in force to support us and over the day the team raised £1,012.60; a combination of donations as well as nail cutting donations raised this total. Thank you to the team and everyone who came along to support us.
Brambridge Garden Centre – the team were at Brambridge for the whole day and although the weather was pretty grim, the team stood strong. The kennel greyhounds braved the weather too and were all very well behaved. Over the weekend the team raised £358.65, well done everyone.
We are very proud to have such a supportive team of volunteers, who can make all these totals possible.
Christmas Fair:
We are very excited to announce our Christmas Fair is not far away now. The team are all getting ready for this big event. There will be lots to see, take part in and purchase.
We will have warm mulled wine to keep you toasty, whilst you listen to the music and watch the Best Dressed Christmas Greyhound competition and look around all our stalls.
There will be plenty to buy, stocking fillings for the humans as well as your furry friends!
We will be looking for raffle and tombola prizes for this event, if you have anything suitable we would be very thankful.
Christmas Cards:
This year we have made our own Greyhound Christmas Cards, we are selling them at £2 a card. All photos are of our kennel dogs and recently rehomed ones too! You can purchase our Christmas Cards in person only.
Great Global Greyhound Walk:
Sunday 29th September we hosted our own walk at Lyndhurst, the walk was very well attended, we had 65 people come along to the walk and 58 sighthounds were with them too!
It was lovely to see everyone get involved.
Everyone enjoyed the walks.
The cakes went down well and we also had a small raffle too. We raised £288.39 during the morning.
We are so grateful to everyone who attended the walk. Thank You. The team look forward to next years Great Global Greyhound Walk.
Supporting Greyhound Lifeline:
If you would like to support the work that we carry out, knowing 100% of your donation will be spent on the care and welfare of our kennel greyhounds then please consider being a ‘Friend of Greyhound Lifeline’. Click on the link to find out more about this scheme.
We have a range of other ways to support our work which are all really quick and easy to do. Click on the link to find out more – How To Help Us.
Street Collections & Events for 2024:
Saturday 2nd November – Southampton Street Collection.
Saturday 9th November – Hedge End – Marks & Spencer’s
Saturday 16th November – Jollyes in Totton.
Saturday 23rd November – Winchester Street Collection.
Sunday 1st December – Greyhound Lifeline’s Christmas Fair.
Saturday 7th December – Meadows, Camberley.
Saturday 14th December – Farnborough Street Collection.
Friday 20th December – Greyhound Lifeline’s Greyhounds Christmas Party.
Our next nail clipping session in Fleet is:
Saturday 14th December
Our next nail clipping session in Southampton is:
T.B.C
We are looking for volunteers to join our fundraising team and help at our street collections both around Southampton and also around the Fleet area. If you would like to find out more, please see poster below.
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Our Organised Walks:
We will provide more information about each walk, on our Facebook Page, during the week leading up to each one.
Sunday 24th November – 2pm – Burley, New Forest
Thursday 26th December – Boxing Day Walk at 11am – Sandbanks.