First of all I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thank you for all of your support throughout 2015 and as we enter our tenth year thank you to everyone who has helped me get the charity this far.
Internet problems and totally unforgivable service from BT has meant that I haven't been able to update here as much as I would like to, but hopefully things are on the mend. A Christmas with next to no broadband..... how are you expected to cope???
I'd like to say I'll catch up and post all the things you have missed on here, but I'm afraid time stands still for no man, and the one thing I have learnt over the last 10 years is that there is always another wanting helping, there is always another needing so much time..... I will try though.....
2016 is a massive year for us, and not only because of the 10 year anniversary, but also because 2015 has been the hardest year I have known in rescue. How we survived it is down to some incredible hard work by some vitally important people, but the 'bags for life' that currently hang below my eyes are testament to how many sleepless nights and how difficult it really has been.
Anyway, it is a new year and we head into January, we have to remain positive and look forward. SHAK HQ takes off this month with so many exciting dates..... Starting this Saturday with YOUR CHANCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BEING PART OF OUR TEAM.
For us to continue to be as successful as we are in turning around the lives of so many of the dogs we have put a lifelong commitment into, we need reliable HELP. Over the 10 years we have seen so many people come and go for whatever reason, but in all of this there is only one group losing out, the dogs. For some a lack of resources from us has cost them the ultimate price..... their lives.
We are NOT looking for dog walkers, we are looking for committed individuals that are prepared to help in every aspect of the reality that is rescue..... kennel cleaning, washing dishes, fundraising, vets runs, temporary foster when an emergency comes in, and people who aren't afraid and want to learn how to help these dogs the SHAK way.....
I know I am asking a lot, but too much time has been taken up with no long term benefits of an individual that the dogs can count on. After all they are all that matters.....
So if you really are committed to the SHAK cause and are interested in learning more about what it takes to become a volunteer at SHAK, then why not pop down on Saturday morning to SHAK HQ and find out.....
SHAK HQ, Greenwell Road, Alnwick NE66 1HB from 10.30am till 12.
Internet problems and totally unforgivable service from BT has meant that I haven't been able to update here as much as I would like to, but hopefully things are on the mend. A Christmas with next to no broadband..... how are you expected to cope???
I'd like to say I'll catch up and post all the things you have missed on here, but I'm afraid time stands still for no man, and the one thing I have learnt over the last 10 years is that there is always another wanting helping, there is always another needing so much time..... I will try though.....
2016 is a massive year for us, and not only because of the 10 year anniversary, but also because 2015 has been the hardest year I have known in rescue. How we survived it is down to some incredible hard work by some vitally important people, but the 'bags for life' that currently hang below my eyes are testament to how many sleepless nights and how difficult it really has been.
Anyway, it is a new year and we head into January, we have to remain positive and look forward. SHAK HQ takes off this month with so many exciting dates..... Starting this Saturday with YOUR CHANCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT BEING PART OF OUR TEAM.
For us to continue to be as successful as we are in turning around the lives of so many of the dogs we have put a lifelong commitment into, we need reliable HELP. Over the 10 years we have seen so many people come and go for whatever reason, but in all of this there is only one group losing out, the dogs. For some a lack of resources from us has cost them the ultimate price..... their lives.
We are NOT looking for dog walkers, we are looking for committed individuals that are prepared to help in every aspect of the reality that is rescue..... kennel cleaning, washing dishes, fundraising, vets runs, temporary foster when an emergency comes in, and people who aren't afraid and want to learn how to help these dogs the SHAK way.....
I know I am asking a lot, but too much time has been taken up with no long term benefits of an individual that the dogs can count on. After all they are all that matters.....
So if you really are committed to the SHAK cause and are interested in learning more about what it takes to become a volunteer at SHAK, then why not pop down on Saturday morning to SHAK HQ and find out.....
SHAK HQ, Greenwell Road, Alnwick NE66 1HB from 10.30am till 12.
2016 promises to be a decisive year for us as I said before. Without your support we wouldn't be here today.... Unless we get both reliable physical and financial help it is open to the gods to see if we will still be here tomorrow.
