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Post by Gizmo (Dave) on Sept 19, 2009 10:01:20 GMT
The Great British Greyhound Walk
10am Sunday 20th June 2010
The Great British Greyhound Walk is the brainchild of Janet Peacock founder of Greyhound Walks in Essex. The first Greyhound Walk was in April 2006 when 5 greyhounds and their families got together after a letter was written to the Braintree Times seeing local owners fancied a get-together. Numbers steadily grew and in August 2006 there was an enormous boost after the plight of ex racing greyhounds was highlighted nationally. Since then once monthly walks have progressed to twice monthly walks and in 2008 we're doing 3 walks each month. The number of dogs at each walk averages 60 and our record attendance was on 1st January 2009 when 128 dogs went walking.
Janet is being assisted in the organisation of the walk by Liz Cooper who has been involved in homing retired racing greyhounds for ten years and helps run the Harlow branch of the Retired Greyhound Trust.
The Great British Greyhound Walk is being held in association with Greyhound Walks and the Retired Greyhound Trust.
At 10am on Sunday 20th June 2010 organised Greyhound Walks will be held throughout the UK.
We're hoping to link up with organisations, kennels and individuals across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to bring public awareness to Greyhounds as pets. It's planned that the scale of the project will attract public and media attention.
The websites are currently going live, and can be found at:
www.greatbritishgreyhoundwalk.org.uk
The websites and this forum will be updated as more organisations sign up, so check back regularly for the latest news.
You'll also be able to check out locations of walks and organisations in your area.
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Post by Jane on Sept 22, 2009 6:41:46 GMT
What a great idea and very exciting. I've marked my calendar already, so we'll be there for the inaugural Great British Greyhound Walk ;D
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Post by alisonh on Sept 23, 2009 12:35:11 GMT
Love the sound of that. My calender's marked ;D
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Post by frankisaysrelax on Sept 27, 2009 11:26:10 GMT
Just wondering if there are gonna be any advertising type things for this? I saw a couple today who had a gorgeous (and very friendly) lurcher and was going to mention this to them but realised I had no information about it and I didn't want to sound daft ;D. If not, I could probably rustle up something myself :).
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Post by Gizmo (Dave) on Sept 27, 2009 12:03:30 GMT
Just wondering if there are gonna be any advertising type things for this? I saw a couple today who had a gorgeous (and very friendly) lurcher and was going to mention this to them but realised I had no information about it and I didn't want to sound daft ;D. If not, I could probably rustle up something myself :).
At the moment we have a website which will be constantly updated as more and more interest is shown:
www.greatbritishgreyhoundwalk.org.uk
We also have leaflets and posters that we take to shows.
I think there's a meeting on Tuesday about putting together an information pack.
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Post by L&B Greyhounds on Oct 12, 2009 15:19:41 GMT
Looking forward to it - had just picked out the dates for next year's L&B walks and purely by fluke the June one falls on June 20th, don't know where we'll do the walk yet though.....
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Post by SJ (Sam) on Oct 22, 2009 2:30:55 GMT
We're going to be holding three separate walks here in West Sussex. As soon as we get locations confirmed will let you know.
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Post by ladygrey on Oct 22, 2009 5:07:22 GMT
Wow how exciting, ive put the date in the Diary, hopefully will be able to attend but its 2 days before me and John get married so it will be a nice distraction if one is needed ;D
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Post by SJ (Sam) on Oct 27, 2009 9:22:21 GMT
We're going to be holding three separate walks here in West Sussex. As soon as we get locations confirmed will let you know.
It may only be two locations now as apparently the London to Brighton bike ride is usually held around this date which make roads in and out of Brighton a nightmare. 
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Post by L&B Greyhounds on Jan 10, 2010 10:34:41 GMT
Has anyone posted this up on Greyhound Gap as they have members from all over the UK?
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Post by Admin on Jan 10, 2010 11:18:22 GMT
Has anyone posted this up on Greyhound Gap as they have members from all over the UK?
not yet, I'm working on it at the moment, will become 'active' in a week or so 
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Post by Admin on Jan 24, 2010 12:03:22 GMT
and it now has a Facebook page ...
please share amongst your friends
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Post by L&B Greyhounds on Jan 25, 2010 23:12:12 GMT
and it now has a Facebook page ...
please share amongst your friends
I can't get onto the facebook page - when it comes up as a search result and I try and become a fan, or click on the result it just times out..... 
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Post by Admin on Jan 26, 2010 3:07:42 GMT
and it now has a Facebook page ...
please share amongst your friends
I can't get onto the facebook page - when it comes up as a search result and I try and become a fan, or click on the result it just times out.....
I'll invite you from Facebook Liz
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Post by L&B Greyhounds on Jan 26, 2010 14:01:25 GMT
I can't get onto the facebook page - when it comes up as a search result and I try and become a fan, or click on the result it just times out.....
I'll invite you from Facebook Liz
Thanks, sorted 
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