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🔥 LAKELAND TRAILHOUND WELFARE CALENDAR 2024 UPDATE 🔥

Exciting news! The calendar design is now ready and I’m just awaiting a proof copy before we go ahead with printing. To help us gauge how many calendars we will need, you can now make a provisional order.

PRICING:
One calendar: £12
Additional copies: £11 each.
Postage: To be confirmed

We won’t be able to confirm postage costs until the calendars have arrived and can be weighed and priced up at the post office. Please don’t send any money yet!

🔥 You can email your provisional orders to: 🔥 promotion@trailhoundwelfare.org.uk

Please consider buying an extra copy to help us make this a bumper year for LTW calendar sales. They make fab Christmas pressies (if I do say so myself 😜)

With thanks from the calendar elves!

This events section will be added to on a regular basis so please bookmark it to keep a check on what is going on. We hope to have a number of stalls at events throughout the year. Follow us on Facebook for updates on events. If you would like to be added to our mailing list and informed by email about forthcoming events or want more details, please contact Sue

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Sunday 3rd December 2023

Keswick Victorian Fayre, Market Square. All day. Come and visit our stall at this hugely popular festive event. DETAILS

Carol Valvona from Bona Fido Pet Bebaviour & Dog Training organises fund raising  and information stalls at events in Cornwall on behalf of Trailhound Welfare. Watch this page and our Facebook page for updates.

CORNWALL RUNAROUND SUNDAY 22^nd October

Carol is organising another trailhound runaround at her secure field near Launceston on Sunday 22^nd October at 2pm. If you would like more information, please email her at carol.valvona@bonafido.co.uk

We are very sad to announce that our dear friend Eileen Robinson passed away on Friday 25th February after a short illness. Eileen was instrumental from the inception of Lakeland Trailhound Trust in 1997, in promoting and rehoming many, many hundreds of hounds all over the country. Trailers and adopters alike are indebted to the help and support Eileen gave them over the years. Our sincere condolences go to Eileen’s family.

Eileen’s funeral will take place on Monday 14th March 2022 at 12.30pm at St Hilda’s Church, Bilsborrow Lane, Bilsborrrow, nr Preston, Lancs PR3 0RP. Then afterwards at The Roebuck pub PR3 0RE. Anyone wishing to attend should email Eileen’s daughter Sharon by 7th March at shazzy118118@gmail.com

There will be a Book of Remembrance for people to write in at the funeral. If anyone cannot make the funeral, there will be an opportunity to send their memories to Eileen’s family. It will be a wonderful keepsake for them. Please email us at trailhoundwelfare@hotmail.co.uk  if you wish to add something to the Book of Remembrance and we will pass it on.

Family flowers only. Donations can be made to Lakeland Trailhound Welfare – Account number: 43450007 Sort code: 20 66 97

Trailhound owner Emily Savage has recently written a very comprehensive book about Trailhounds. Every home should have one!

The books are priced at £16.99 plus £3.70 for 2nd class p+p (based on one book per package, within UK). Emily is very generously making a donation to Lakeland Trailhound Welfare for every copy that is sold.

Contents include:
An exploration of the breed
A look at their suitability for re-homing as a pet, and why they might be re-homed
A history of the sport of hound trailing, what it looks like today, and what training involves
The work of Lakeland Trailhound Welfare
Some wonderful tales from the families of retired hounds
The transition from fellside to fireside
Guidance on training life skills and managing common challenges
Providing enrichment through scentwork
Not to mention, some fabulous colour photography!

If you would like to buy a copy, please contact Emily direct. You can contact her via Facebook messenger (messages may not be visible if you are not fb friends), through the Norfolk Unofficial Trailhounds Group page, or email emilysavage80@gmail.com

With thanks and best wishes, Emily.

Thank you to the Hound Trailing Association for a £100 donation. We appreciate this as these are difficult times for all charitable organisations, whose fund raising has been extremely curtailed by Covid-19. We are still rehoming hounds and our primary costs are vet bills, so all donations are very welcome.

Earlier this year, sadly, a well known houndtrailer from Ulverston, Les Tyson, passed away.  Les had always been a firm supporter of the work of Lakeland Trailhound Welfare and, over the years, several of his hounds had been rehomed through us.  We were very surprised and pleased to receive a donation of £400 recently from the family and executors of Les’ estate, in recognition of the Trailhound rehoming work we did for Les.  It was a very much appreciated gift that will be put to good use and we have thanked them for their generosity.