We have finally got an interim payment from my friends legacy. It won’t build a new kennel block but it will keep us afloat in the short term.
The good thing is, we have never owed anyone a penny. With the sale of mine and Bob’s house we have managed to keep going. That wasn’t easy, not easy at all.
We just need to figure out how to keep money coming in on a regular basis. It won’t be any more Charity shops, sadly.
Judi who runs the sponsorship scheme, voluntary, is doing an amazing job and Emma from the Pickering shop has opened up the Ebay shop and she will be running it, as well as the Charity shop. Jo runs the Tia Lottery, also voluntary and that fetches a regular income in monthly.
We do have some stalls coming up in the future and thanks to our loyal fundraisers and supporters who can see the bigger picture and haven’t turned their backs on Tia, in our worst ever time of need.
Thank you from all the sponsor dogs, the dogs waiting for homes, the dogs we are taking from the stray kennels and the dogs we are rehoming direct from trainers. Special thanks to Manda & Nat from Northern Greyhound Rescue who helped us out with all the allotment dogs and who also took all the dogs from the shed in Bradford. The are still Independent, like us, and wouldn’t take the blood money from the Greyhound Retirement Scheme.
It is still business as usual, just in a different way. We have just had to adapt, like everyone and thankfully we are still here.
Thank you….a lot…Deb
