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Dear Friends of GIN,
We hope you will enjoy reading this newsletter which will bring
you up to date with our work and also let you know some of our
plans for the future.
GIN will celebrate 10 years as a registered charity in May this
year and to mark this occasion we are planning to produce an
Educational Booklet, in Spanish. This we hope will aid the
individuals and refuges we work with in Spain with their work
teaching children to respect and care for animals (particularly
galgos) — more details on page 15.
Homing opportunities continue to present themselves for the
galgos and in 2007, thanks to the adoption groups we work with
in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy, we were again able to
help more galgos than in 2006. More news and photos on pages
12-14.
Homing in the UK went very well last year too. We are very grateful to Pat for the great job she does
with the homing of our galgos…..see Pat’s write up on page 6. Our new group of galgos have arrived and
their details and photos are on page 20. If you would like to offer a home to one of these galgos please
contact Pat on 01784 434735. If you are able to sponsor one of them, which helps with their quarantine
costs, details are on page 19.
The GIN Cheshire group have homed 30 greyhounds in the last 12 months and as well as the rehoming,
many events have been attended by supporters in the Cheshire area and we are very grateful for all their
hard work promoting greyhounds and galgos as pets as well as promoting the charity..………more news on
pages 7 and 11.
Here at HQ we have been busy organising the movement of the galgos from refuges to kennels, to
adoption groups , and homes and over the last 6 months we have been helped by Geraldine, who lives in
Wraysbury, and comes in once or twice a week, usually armed with some treats for Lurchy !
We have all been looking at new merchandise for our Spring/Summer catalogue. We were very pleased
with the response to the Autumn/Winter catalogue and would like to thank all those sending in orders and
for your nice comments about the merchandise. We are lucky to
have Diana and Colin coming up with new embroidered designs for
some of the items and also Monica, Esther and Sandra for donating
their drawings for us to use on notelets, cards, paper etc. We
have had to increase some prices this time and also postage but we
hope you still find our merchandise good value.
We are pleased to welcome Terry Dickens as a new Trustee for
GIN. Terry visits the office regularly to help with the work and is
another visitor welcomed by Lurchy…..might be something to do
with the biscuits Terry provides ! More on page 4.
We would like to take the opportunity here to thank all of you for
the help you give to GIN without which we would not be able to
carry out our work in Spain. Carolyn and Tracey
INDEX TO PAGES
2-4 Notes from HQ
5 Forthcoming events
6 Homing Update from Pat
7 News from Cheshire
8 News from Sian
9 Tributes
10 News from the Shop
11 Past events
12-14 Our work abroad
15 Help for the refuges
16 Homing UK and Abroad
17-18 How to Help us
19-20 Sponsorship/The Spanish
Galgos
2008 SUMMER RAFFLE
We are enclosing a book of raffle tickets
with this newsletter and we hope you will
again be able to buy some tickets and help
us raise funds for our work for the
greyhounds and galgos.
We have some nice prizes and the draw
will be on the 31st July 2008.
Please send cheques, payable to
Greyhounds in Need, and completed stubs
to us at 33, High Street,
Wraysbury, Middlesex, TW19 5DA
If you would like some more tickets please
call us on 01784 483206 or email us on
info@greyhoundsinneed.co.uk
