Category: Fundraising Events
Category: Fundraising Events
2014 Paws Walks
Bracken’s Walk Bracken Newman, being a mature lady, went for a series of short walks in her favourite places and asked all her family and friends to sponsor her.Here is a selection of pictures of some of the places Bracken walked in: IRR would like to thank Bracken and her Mum, Eileen, for all the
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2013 Paws for a Walk
Ossie’s K9 Friends Date: 14th July Walkers and Dogs: Wendy Waygood, Lauren and Charlie Mann with OssieDiane Cook with BertDenise Roberts with Ben and JypsMel Kilby with JaxHayley Dalton and Mum with Maisyanne and Joe Mayne with Ed and FloJackie and Eileen Mawhinney with PoppyBarbara and Dave Hamilton with Gypsy and MindyHazel Alexander Wendy would like
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2012 Jubilee Garden Party
2nd June 2012 A Message from Sandie First and foremost, I’d like to thank Jane and Malcolm for all their hard work in organising the Royal Diamond Jubilee Garden Party on behalf of Irish Retriever Rescue. Jane was the perfect hostess and made sure everything ran like clockwork. Malcolm proved to be a very eloquent
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2012 Liverpool Half Marathon
JANE CRAVEN RUNS THE 2012 LIVERPOOL HALF MARATHON Jane and Ross Jane says “Two years have gone by really quickly since Eric and I picked up Ross from his fosterers in Perton – what a top dog he is too! We only see occasional ‘flashbacks’ of his former life now as he has well and
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2012 Birmingham Black County Half Marathon
7TH JULY 2012 Congratulations and heartfelt thanks from everyone at IRR to Becky White who completed the Black Country Half Marathon in 2 hours 20 minutes and raised just under £600. Jane writes: It all started on a wet and windy day on the 7th July 2012 when Becky was to run her first half
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Gary Cregan, our vet in Ireland, ran a great Dublin Marathon on 31st October in just 3 hours 35 minutes – all on behalf of IRR. We would like to send a big thank you to Gary and a special thank you to all those who supported him with sponsorships and donations. Well done Gary!
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2011 Kathryn Crofton’s Book Launch
Sandie, Lorraine, Andy and Val attended the launch of Kathryn Crofton’s first novel, Circles in the Sand – A Dog’s Tale at the Mansion House in Dublin on Thursday 12th May 2011 in the presence of the Lord Mayor. Kathryn is donating 25% of the royalties from her book between 7 charities of which IRR
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2010 Paws Across the Sea
Paws Across the Sea was a fundraising event where our aim was to walk or swim at least the equivalent of the journey from Dublin to London using teams of dogs and their humans. As you will see, we had a brilliant response and IRR can’t thank enough all who supported us. On completion of the
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Severn Park, Bridgnorth, 17th & 18th July 2010 The weekend was an amazing success but it was the dogs who stole the show with their beautiful bandanas (donated by Diane Killington). They were all amazing ambassadors for the IRR and, by all accounts, were better behaved than the humans!! Sandie, Lorraine and all at IRR
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This year our friends in Cornwall chose IRR as the lucky recipients of theproceeds from their annual Golden Meet Up. The event took place on 14th February 2016 at Daymer Bay, Cornwall. Last year saw 61 Goldens running on the beach For more information click on the link below:http://www.cornwall-beaches.co.uk/north-cornwall/daymer-bay.htm or visit the Valentines Golden
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Our Wonderful Iron Man
Sometimes people go that extra mile for IRR and David Scott-Miller is one of those. He and his wife, Alison, are brilliant fosterers and have been so for several years. They had wanted to help initially as a “thank you” for their first IRR girl Summer, who started it all, but then they found fostering, although
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