This month we have been the lucky winners of Petplan’s Charity Monthly Prize Draw and we have won £1,000!
Every time we rehome a greyhound and the new owners take on the ‘free four week Petplan Insurance’ we get entered into the prize draw.
Thank You to Petplan and all those customers who support the work we do.
Whiteley Collection:
This Saturday the 11th of April we will be in Whiteley Shopping Centre with our greyhounds. Come along and support us, have a cuddle or two with our homeless hounds and those hounds who have already found their sofas!
The team will be collecting from 9am – 3.30pm. Hope to see you there!
Easter Weekend:
This Easter we were involved with two events.
The team attended Dream Empire’s Easter fair in Bishops Waltham, although the weather let us down a bit, we still had a good day and the team raised £208.90.
On Easter Monday we held our own Easter walk and raffle.
We had a lovely day with like minded people, the weather was good to us with plenty of sunshine and we raised £207 from the raffle and donations given.
Thank you to everyone who came along to support the team at both events. We love seeing you all when we are out and about.
New arrivals:
Pudsey, Blitz and Mowgli.
Reserved greyhounds:
Luna, Nessie, Blitz, Mowgli, Fanta and Goose.
Homed greyhounds:
Puma and Thunder.
The BIG Walk 2026:
This year we will be doing our BIG walk again!
We have now selected our walkers for this event, there will be eleven volunteers who will be walking the 25 miles and a good support team too.
The walkers are – Kit, Nikki, Holly, Jo, Kelly, Graeme, Amanda, Phil, Gina, Cora and Charlie. We are very pleased they have all chosen to complete the challenge.
More information about the walk will be given soon and how you can help.
BUDDY:
This lad is our longest stay greyhound who came in from a home environment, for Buddy’s well being we have decided he will stay with us and live with our manager. Buddy is part of our ‘Becoming a Friend’ scheme, by signing up to this you can help look after Buddy and other long stayers by donating monthly. You can find out more information about this scheme by following the link. https://www.greyhoundlifeline.co.uk/friends/
Buddy had a visitor, Dave had met us previously at Romsey Collection. He had offered his services for free and we were delighted to have his help. Dave took some lovely photos of our lovely lad which we can now share on social media and our publications.
Thank you Dave from New Forest Pet Photography, we are really pleased with the photos.
APPEAL FOR KENNEL DOG WALKERS:
We are looking to extend our walking team, these volunteers walk our kennel dogs each day.
Criteria for walkers:
- Volunteers must live near to Southampton.
- We need people who can help us either early morning, starting time around 7.30am or mid afternoon to exercise our kennel dogs.
- We are looking for walkers who can walk Monday-Friday.
- Volunteers need to have their own transport.
- Volunteers will be joining a group of walkers, we need people who can work well within a team.
Full training will be given to all successful volunteers.
If you are interested in applying please email us on [email protected], please tell us about yourself and your experience around greyhounds/dogs.
Events:
More events will be added to the list as they get booked in. We would love to see you at some of our events.
Saturday 11th April – Whiteley Shopping Centre
Saturday 25th April – Haskins Garden Centre, West End
Saturday 9th May – Pawty in the Park – Itchen Valley Country Park – 10am – 4pm
Saturday 16th May – Fareham Street Collection – 9am – 4pm
Saturday 30th May – Meadows, Camberley
Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June – Greyhound Lifeline’s Summer Fair, St James Park
Saturday 1st August – Christchurch Street Collection
Saturday 8th August – Lymington Street Collection
Bank Holiday Monday 31st August – Stubbington
Saturday 5th September – The BIG Walk
Saturday 19th September – Haskins Garden Centre, West End
Sunday 27th September – Great Global Greyhound Walk
Saturday 3rd October – Southampton Street Collection
Saturday 10th October – Gosport Street Collection
Saturday 24th October – Romsey Street Collection
Saturday 14th November – Winchester Street Collection
Saturday 21st November – Whiteley Shopping Centre
Saturday 28th November – Meadows, Camberley
Sunday 6th December – Greyhound Lifeline’s Christmas Fair
Friday 18th December – Greyhound’s Christmas Party
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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The Friendship Walks:
We will provide more information about each walk, on our Facebook Page, during the week leading up to each one.
Sunday 26th April – Bolderwood, New Forest at 2pm
Saturday 30th May – Rhinefield, New Forest at 2pm
Sunday 28th June – Holt Heath at 4pm
Saturday 25th July – Ringwood Forest at 4pm
Sunday 23rd August – Wilverley Plain, New Forest at 4pm
Sunday 27th September – Great Global Greyhound Walk at 11am
Saturday 31st October – Rockford Sandpit, New Forest at 2pm
Sunday 29th November – Potterne Park, Verwood at 2pm
Saturday 26th December – Boxing Day Walk – Sandbanks at 10am.
Interested in Adopting a Greyhound?
Enquiries should be directed by telephone or text message to Greyhound Lifeline
- For all enquiries:
- 07769 348310
Or by email to enquiries@greyhoundlifeline.co.uk
Or Contact us using our Contact page
