This year has already been a busy one!  We’ve already seen 7 greyhounds find their loving homes and Goose getting reserved.

This weekend we are attending ‘Eastleigh Love Your Town Day’, you will find us with our own Valentine stall and greyhound pen.  Come and see us, you will meet our new greyhounds too – Kane, Nata, Thunder and Blake.

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/

This week 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:

As we book more events in, we will continue to add more to this list.  We would love to see you at some of our events.

Saturday 14th February – Eastleigh Love Your Town Day – 10am – 3pm

Saturday 7th March – Portsmouth Town Centre – 9am – 4pm

Saturday 14th March – Eastleigh Spring Market – 10am – 4pm

Saturday 4th April – Easter Eggstravaganza – Bishops Waltham – 10am – 3pm

Easter Monday – 6th April – Easter Walk and Raffle – 10.30am – Jamesmoor Pond, Lyndhurst

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.

GL Volunteering Poster

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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 22nd February – Andre Mare Carpark, New Forest at 2pm

Saturday 28th March – Ringwood Forest at 2pm

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.