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News Update

Dear Friends,

In May this year we will be celebrating 25 years as
a registered charity. In 1998 Greyhounds in Need
was founded by Anne and Arthur Finch after they
had spent a number of years helping and rehoming
greyhounds and raising awareness of their plight.
The charity has grown considerably over the years
and we are lucky to have wonderful collaborations
with many shelters in Spain, some we have worked
with for years.

As GIN has grown the help we have been able to give has expanded and we
are so pleased and proud that it has been possible to increase our help and
support to the shelters abroad rescuing the galgos and the adoption groups in
Europe who work tirelessly to find homes for them.

The veterinary bills the shelters have are always high and much of the funding
we are able to give, thanks to the generosity of our supporters, goes towards
covering such costs. The shelters in Spain are run mostly by volunteers who
give so much of their time to help the abandoned dogs in their area. We have
also been able to fund many necessary projects in Spain to improve facilities
for the dogs while they wait for a home.

On pages 18-19 you can read “A Day at SOS Galgos, Barcelona”, one of the
groups we support written by Anna Clements who is the Director.

In our last newsletter I mentioned that
Tracey was planning to do a Tandem Sky
Dive to celebrate her “special birthday”
and raise funds for Greyhounds in Need,
Parkinson’s UK and Cancer Research UK.
This had to be postponed due to the
weather but finally went ahead on 8th
October, raising £1,704 (£979 for GIN).
Tracey sends a big THANK YOU to
everyone who kindly donated.

Thank you to everyone who took part in
our on-line raffle which raised £1,455.
We were very grateful to Louise, who
adopted galga Daphne from GIN, for donating a weekend break in a fabulous
dog friendly 5 star holiday cottage in Northumberland as a prize. The lucky
winner was Mary Lynch. Louise has kindly offered this prize again later this
year so please look out for details in our next newsletter, website, FB etc.

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