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News from Cheshire and the North West

Hello again everyone,

We hope that you are all safe and well and that your dogs have enjoyed
the additional time they have been able to share with you during these
unprecedented times.

For all of us, I'm sure that being able to walk our dogs as part of our daily
routines helped to maintain some kind of normality during the early days of the
lockdown when none of us had any idea of how long it would last.

We cannot believe that six months have passed since writing our last piece for
the newsletter. We tried to be optimistic as we looked ahead to the summer
and autumn months which we usually spend meeting up with our friends and
volunteers whilst helping to fundraise for GIN. We have not been able to meet
up with many of them since the end of last year.

Sadly, all fundraising and dog walking events have had to be put on hold and
there seems to be very little prospect of their being authorised any time soon,
especially for us here in the North West. We had hoped to be able to fundraise
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in Cleveleys on September 12 , fortunately the Local Authority who issue the
licences have been very sympathetic and have told us that we can have new
dates when the restrictions are eventually eased.

We will keep you posted on the GIN website and Facebook pages when we are
eventually given the go ahead to organise our events.

We have had some sad news during the summer. Sheila and Mike had to say a
very difficult goodbye to their lovely greyhound girl, Missy, who was a very
welcome visitor to many of our events, especially at Marbury and Cleveleys.
Helen and Nigel were devastated to lose Red, a handsome black greyhound, who
had become a valued companion to Nigel during his retirement.

The last few months have given us an opportunity to remember many of the
happier times and wonderful memories we have enjoyed during the thirteen
years we have been volunteering for GIN.

We have always had brilliant support from all the staff at GIN HQ as well as
from the Trustees and of course our volunteers. Here are some of our
memories of both the people and the dogs we have met along the way.

PLEASE KEEP CHECKING OUR WEBSITE AND FACEBOOK
PAGE FOR NEWS ON EVENTS AS WE WILL KEEP THESE
UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS
Thank you

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