Mar 1, 2025 | News
Tia Fundraisers will be out with the stall at the following venues:
Sat 8th March – Outside Sainsburys, Wakefield Trinity Walk Shopping Centre, WF1 1QQ.
Sun 30th March – Junction 32 Shopping Outlet, Castleford, WF10 4FR.
Sun 13th April – Cannon Hall Country Park, Cawthorne, Nr Barnsley, S75 4AT.
Mon 5th May – Knaresborough Pet Day Dog Show, Knaresborough House, HG5 0HW.
Sun 25th May – Lakeside Shopping Village, Doncaster, DN4 5PH.
Many more dates to come…… Please support if you can.
Feb 21, 2025 | News
Recycling for Good Causes
As many will know, Tia Rescue participates in the “recycling for good causes” scheme. This week we received a cheque for £98 – the biggest we have ever received. Just from a sack of stamps, jewelry, mobile phones & foreign currency!
You can drop items off or post items to the Tia Pickering shop. You can also drop them off at the farm or at any of our fundraising stalls. It all helps.
Charity Shop
Tia Charity Shop
1A Market Place
PICKERING
YO18 7AA
Farm
Tia Rescue
Easter Hardmuir Farm
NAIRN
IV12 5QG
Accepted items include;
- Old Currency
- Old or broken cameras
- Stamps
- Old or broken jewellery
- Games consoles
- Mobile phones
Benefact Group – Tia can win £5000
Just a reminder that you can nominate Tia Rescue in the Benefact Group ‘Animals and Wildlife’ special draw between 17th and 23rd Feb.
Ten charities drawn out will receive £5000. Previous nominations in the £1000 draw do not count.
Use charity no. SC051782 or 1105626; it doesn’t matter which.
Thank you.
Feb 15, 2025 | News
Here are the new boys who came up recently – Ventress, Craddock, Bellamy, Bradley, and Orson.
They all need to be castrated ready for their forever homes. This costs £300 each up here, then of course there are the dentals too, which vary in price depending on what treatment is needed.
Please donate to help with these costs and get these big lads into their forever homes. Many thanks to everyone who has already contributed via Facebook – so far we have raised £498.
Thank you.
Feb 10, 2025 | News
As many of you know, we have run a highly successful foster scheme for many years, which helps to prepare the dogs in our care for life in a forever home.
To the uninitiated, the fostering process is simple; you take the dog into your home, pay for its daily/ general care, and we (Tia Rescue) pay for any veterinary costs.
However, we are regrettably having to bring this scheme to an end quite soon…
Like so many organisations at this time of year, we are currently in the process of renewing our insurance. For insurance companies and brokers, the risk associated with fostering is obvious, and we are having difficulty finding a policy that covers it.
So, moving forward we are unfortunately unable to foster dogs out prior to permanent rehoming. We know how many of you past fosters have loved being a part of the journey of these animals as they adapt to life after the track, but our premiums trebled last year, and we cannot afford them to rise by such an amount again.
Tia Rescue’s primary focus has always been on finding these dogs a forever home, so this will not come as as surprise to supporters or fosters.
Any dogs that are currently out on foster will need to be adopted.
We have lots of dogs who are still searching for the perfect home – if you think you can help, please get in touch with Deb at 07974 960684.
Thank you.
Jan 8, 2025 | News
I have been wanting to write this for a long while so here we go.
The perception of Tia is that we have lots of staff and lots of money. We have neither.
The reality is that we are hanging on by a thread. We have two members of staff on the yard, it was a very welcome surprise when Joshua who worked for us in Doncaster moved up, the lovely Kaela who frankly should be a super model not shoveling horse poo. Shannon and Ria in the kennels who have been here almost from the beginning who adore the dogs. Karen and our fabulous Emma at Pickering, Emma goes above and beyond running the online shop and Ebay in her own time as well as helping Jess out with the stalls. Josh in Doncaster who runs the office, sponsor scheme, website, web shop and everything else…he is brilliant.
And of course Bob.
Over the past year Bob has had only 4 days off. I don’t mean 37.5 hours a week with days off and holidays, i mean 4 days off.
He has worked 362 last year putting in at least 11 hours every day. He does however only get paid for 37.5 hours a week.
We are dead on our feet and we need help. We can’t afford to pay anymore staff, and with everything set to rise again i honestly don’t know what the future of Tia is. So I’m asking for help. We need people to come and have a free holiday in the Scottish Highlands, we have a cottage that sleeps four, for friends, family & volunteers. The catch? You stay at the farm 2 nights a week and look after the animals once the staff have left for the day. There won’t be a massive amount to do, just suppers for the dogs and check in on the rest of the animals. We won’t be far away if needed, but we seriously need some time off, even a couple of nights a month. We need some rest..
Since putting this post on we have had some really, unexpected, amazing news which means we are on the lookout for 2 new kennel assistants at the the farm.
In effect we are doubling the team so we can fill the empty kennels…YEAH!!
However this does not alter the fact that we need some time off.
If you want to help Tia continue, please email me    deb@tia-rescue.org
We haven’t had any offers to date…12/01/2025
Feb 7, 2025 | News
Malcolm
Our lovely Malcolm.
Never been a problem here at Tia. Absolutely no way would he have ever passed an assessment test.
A big keen boy, who is succumbing to the awful thing that gets most of the poor dogs. The C word. Nevertheless, he is still with us, and not ready to go yet.
The sad thing is, he doesn’t look poorly. We know it’s the steroids that are keeping him going, but he was so happy the other day… A few more trips the beach and pate sandwiches are the things to do.
Yep, all for him…
Rehoming
Plenty of rehoming action in the last week – Salacres Jane and Haggswood Kenzo both went into their permanent homes and are doing well. Be good… welcome to your new lives, you are very lucky greyhounds indeed.
Plus Four (stupid name), now Nixon, has gone into a foster home with our Jack, Jill, and Saul.
As ever, we have lots more dogs looking for homes – permanent and foster. If you can help, please ring Deb on 07974960684.
New Dogs
These four beauties were brought up here last week by a transporter; thanks Ron.
Bellamy (Mouzy Mac), Bradley (Crooks Hercules), Craddock (Showandgo) and Ventress (Franco Rocky).
They are all huge, lovely boys.
Welcome to Tia lads…
Shop Fittings
We have lots of shop fittings for sale at the farm.
Coat hangers; clothes rails; scaffold board shelving…
Please ring Deb on 07974 960684 for details.
Raffle
Another huge thank you to everyone who has bought tickets for the valentine’s raffle so far. We have now cracked £1000, which is amazing.
The draw is still open until 10th February if you want to enter – tickets are £5, and you can buy them here.
Thank you!
