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Blue Greyhound News
Blue Greyhound
Huggyhoundz
 
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We are now selling
the official 'Blue Greyhound Huggyhoundz' in our eBay shop. Bessie
stands at 14" high and 17" long - a good old fashioned armful of cuddly
hound. Bessie wears a pretty matching bandanna with her picture on.
She comes complete with her own adoption certificate so you have the option
to change her name. For more information see
www.huggyhoundz.co.uk.
As you can see, our greyhound Alfie has fallen in love with her. |
Isle Of Man
Fundraising
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Our grateful thanks again go to 'Team
Greyhound' on the Isle of Man for their continued support. On 11th
June, they held a fundraising barbecue to coincide with the TT races.
The Blue Greyhound goodies sold well on the evening. £200 was raised,
which also included a couple of sales after the event. A special thank you
to our wonderful supporter Joanne Hetherington who continues to co-ordinate the Blue Greyhound fundraising on the Isle Of Man. |
Honley Show 2010
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We attended Honley Show on 12th June, and had
another fantastic day. Thank you to everyone for all their hard work
on the day, and to all our supporters who visited our stall. Our
gorgeous soft toy greyhound was won by one of our younger visitors who
correctly guessed the pup's name - IZZY. |
Sighthound Welfare Trust
The Blue Greyhound
has included Sighthound Welfare Trust as one of its supported charities. SWT is
a registered charity that raises funds and donates grants to many sighthound
charities in the UK, Eire and Spain. Please check out their website at
www.SighthoundWelfareTrust.org.uk
The Blue Greyhound
eBay Shop
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Our shop continues to
increase sales, thank you to all those wonderful people who regularly donate
goods. Last month another portrait from the artist Thomasz Adamski raised £
258 for Greytexploitations designated charities.
Please check
out our shop for some great bargains.
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/The-Blue-Greyhound-Shop |
Cassie
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Cassie joined us
on 13th March 2010, yet another greyhound discarded by the greyhound racing
industry. Cassie is loving her retirement and never stops wagging her tail.
She will now take over Peggy’s role and help to raise funds for The Blue
Greyhound. |
Cassie loves her
new brothers Dillon and Alfie!
Peggy
Peggy, our
beautiful blue greyhound girl helped to raise funds for The Blue Greyhound, sadly lost her fight with renal failure on 13th February 2010, at the age
of only 9 years. She was a wonderful girl who will be greatly missed by her
family.
Rest in
Peace Peggy until we all meet again at Rainbow Bridge
Thank You
Thank you to all
The Blue Greyhound supporters and volunteers without whose continued support and
help we could not continue our work. Last year we raised over £11,000 which is
wonderful. This money has helped many dogs as well as assist Greyhound Action
with its’ continued fight against greyhound racing.
The Blue Greyhound
also donates to other charities whenever possible, in recent months this has
included donations to Dog Action Welfare Group in Cork, Lincoln Greyhound Rescue
and GreytExploitations – who will donate this donation to local greyhound
charities.
Clairvoyance Evening
On Tuesday 17th November, we held our annual Clairvoyance Evening. As
last year, it was a total sell-out & The Blue Greyhound raised £462. Our
heartfelt thanks to Clairvoyants Una Pearce, Sandra Lee & Antoine Reeves and
everyone who helped make the evening a big success.
Rusty's Portrait
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The Blue Greyhound
eBay shop raised a fantastic £396.92 for this original portrait of Rusty The
Greyhound that was donated to
www.ActionforGreyhounds.co.uk by the artist Thomasz Adamski. Many
thanks to Thomasz and all the bidders! |
Greyhounds Galore 2010
Calendar
September Fundraising
What recession?
The Blue Greyhound goes from strength to strength. Cheques are sent
monthly to our three chosen causes. Last month, we sent out cheques
totaling over £900. A big thank you to all our supporters.
Action for Greyhounds
UK - 2010 Calendar
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The 14 x A4 page calendar features 9
greyhounds rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed by AFG and a further 3
greyhounds belonging to supporters. Photographs are supported by text
relating to the greyhounds featured and remembering greyhounds lost. Further text on
the inside page highlights the inevitable welfare issues associated with
commercial greyhound racing.
Price £7.95
from www.actionforgreyhounds.co.uk. Soon to be stocked in The Blue
Greyhound eBay shop. |
Sponsored Walk - Isle
of Man
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On Sunday 16th
August, a sponsored greyhound walk took place on the Isle of Man, with all
the proceeds going to the RGT, and The Greyhound Sanctuary.
‘Team
Greyhound - Isle of Man’ (Joanne Hetherington, a supporter of TBG together
with friends Sally, Karen & Jayne) held a fundraising stall, to raise
awareness & sell Blue Greyhound goodies. A total of £363 was raised
which was fantastic. A big thank you to Joanne for all her hard work
on the day.
'Team Greyhound'
raised a grand total of £3275 on the day!! |
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June 09 Fundraising
Another great month for good causes sees TBG write cheques totaling over £1,200
to the charities.
Brighouse Charity
Gala, 27th June 09.
 Debut
appearance at this fantastic event for The Blue Greyhound. Over 70 charity
stalls, all doing plenty of business. Spot our stall if you can!
Honley
Show May 09
Attended by over 14,000 people, and a good few of them visited "The Blue
Greyhound's" stall. Over
£600 was raised. Thanks once again to all our wonderful volunteers.
Bark in the Park August 08.
 A doggy fun day in Ravensknowle Park,
Huddersfield
Greyhound
Action Collection May 08.
Huddersfield Town Centre. One of TBG's first town centre collections.
Blue Greyhound Media Coverage
Huddersfield Examiner May 09
Report on the very successful first year of "The
Blue Greyhound"
Huddersfield Examiner Jan 04
Report of when Bessie
hung up her collecting tin.
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