Our hearts go out to Tracy and Gary who have very sadly lost their gorgeous Bryn this week. Although not a greyhound, Bryn was very much a GRACE boy. He welcomed hundreds of hounds into his home and heart. He taught the hounds under Tracy and Gary’s care how to be a dog; not to be afraid and he told them off when they needed to be!

Bryn was a one in a million boy. He was loved by everyone at GRACE. He will always be remembered and will remain in all of our hearts forever.

We will be at Guisborough market today (Saturday 25th January) from 9.00 – 14.00 with a tombola, dog related gifts and bargains to be had. Our lovely boy Elliott will be helping to greet the public (NB: not his photo).

Weather permitting, we are also at Stewart Park, Middlesbrough tomorrow (Sunday 26th January) for our first meet and greet of 2020 – please see our events page for further details.

Kind-hearted Phillip is running the London Marathon in April and he’s chosen to raise funds for our rescue. I’m sure you can all appreciate how running over 26 miles is not easy! Please donate and share if you are able. We are so grateful that he has chosen to support us.

The link to Phillip’s Just Giving page is below: 
https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/phillip-thompson?utm_term=V5mPawmV6

In between eating treats, Moose has been helping to update our GRACE website. Please tell your family and friends about us, and don’t forget to mention our Facebook page too: www.facebook.com/RescueAGreyhound 

Towards the end of the year we received a large, unexpected vet bill. Someone suggested that we put an appeal on our Facebook page to ask if people would consider donating £1 each.

We were blown away by people’s kindness and the appeal resulted in some very generous donations. As a result, you lovely lot raised a total of £3,790. Without your help the vet bill would still need paying.

So on behalf of the hounds and volunteers of GRACE, we just want to say thank you, thank you, thank you! We wish you health and happiness for the coming year.

The hounds and volunteers at GRACE would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported our recent Christmas fayre and dog show. We made an amazing £755.03!

P.S. you can see more photos from the event on our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/RescueAGreyhound)

Thank you to Stockton Central Library for inviting GRACE founder, Tracy Cook, to be a guest speaker at their regular ‘Books and Banter’ event recently.

Pete and Jen enjoyed their trip out too!

Laura and her dad Richard recently competed in the Great North Run to raise funds for us.

They lost their beautiful boy Rodney a year ago and they ran it in his memory. They are absolute stars to do this for us and we can’t thank them enough!

Frosty and Paris visited The Poplars care home in Thornaby recently to collect some beautiful blankets which the residents knitted and kindly donated to the rescue.

Both boys behaved impeccably, made themselves at home and the residents loved them!

A big thank you to Becky and Michele too who went with them.

On behalf of Moose, thank you to everyone who supported us at The Pop Up Shop in Yarm recently.

As well as a guest appearance from Moose, we raised £245 for GRACE.

Plus a special thank you to Kerrie Murray and everyone else who donated the lovely things to sell.