Warmer, and drier, weather is hopefully on its way soon, but NWESSR’s Dogs Day Out 2024 definitely is! Our annual event is taking place on Sunday, 30th June 2024.

Everyone is welcome, and we’ll be sharing more details with you over the coming weeks, so pop that date in your diary!

127¼ miles and 16 hours after setting off from Liverpool early yesterday morning, Anthony arrived safely in Leeds justafter 9.00pm.

What an absolutely amazing achievement – to cycle the entire length of the Leeds & Liverpool canal in one day!  It was a tough day (rain, slippy towpaths, exploding tyres…) but he carried on regardless.

Everyone at NWESSR is extremely grateful to Anthony for taking on, and completing, such a huge challenge, to raise much-needed funds for the charity.

Thank you so much to everyone who has already sponsored Anthony’s bike ride – it really is appreciated.  Thank you too to those NWESSR owners and Springers who supported him along the route yesterday.  

If you haven’t already sponsored him, but would like to, please go to:

https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/22951

You can read the story behind this mammoth challenge at:

https://www.englishspringerrescue.co.uk/cycling-for-springers

Congratulations Anthony!  Thank you to you, and your family/support team, from NWESSR!

After a few years away, it was so lovely to see some familiar faces and some new ones too at our rebranded Dogs Day Out this year!

A huge thank you to everyone who attended, gave up their time to help, and offered prizes for the raffle and tombola.  Without your support, we just wouldn’t be able to hold the event.

The weather thankfully stayed dry, but it was a bit windy so things did fly around, including spaniels on the Dog Agility course, which was ably run by Eric again!

There were a lot of happy faces in the Show Ring, with a couple of new classes this year.  Thanks to Judge Jennie who had the pleasure of meeting all the wonderful entries in the ring, registered once again by John in the entry tent, and announced by Bledd.

PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW THE PICTURES

 Here are the results of each class:

There was a competitive spirit in the Dog Show Jumping ring, but Wendy still ensured that everyone had great fun.  As did Marie, who watched over the greased lightning Fastest Recall for the first time this year.

Thanks to Mark and Stephanie who did a marvellous job encouraging people to have a go at the Gun Dog Scurry.  Next time we’ll have them a bit nearer so more people can enjoy watching the dogs finding the dummies.

Here are the winners and times for each of the Champions:

Sarah did a wonderful job in the village hall, with the help of Carol, serving tasty homemade cakes and drinks.  It was a couple of long baking days for Sarah, and thank you also to everyone who brought a cake for us to sell. They went down a storm, including the spaniel-shaped shortbreads!

David and the team from Pizza Principles were serving up some delicious pizzas and supported NWESSR with a donation from each one sold.

There were lots of winners on this year’s tombola, superbly run by Anthony (not NWESSR’s trainer – there’s two Anthonys!), with many generous prizes being donated.  First prize on the raffle was a bottle of Moët Champagne, again kindly donated, which was won by Elinor who had been selling tickets all day (it wasn’t a fix!).

Heather did a grand job selling natural treats, dog shampoo and lovely bags of grass seed to repair those ‘little patches’ on your lawn!

Sue also did a great job holding onto all the leaflets on the membership stall in the wind!  We also launched some new merchandise including NWESSR mugs, coasters and dog bandanas.  If you missed out on the day, but would like to purchase any of these, please drop an email to dogsdayout@englishspringerrescue.co.uk. 

Please also contact us if  you would like any of the photos from the day, and we’ll put you in touch with our wonderful photographer Janet, who will be able to send them to you for a small donation to NWESSR.

Even if we haven’t mentioned you personally, we are nevertheless extremely grateful to ALL the volunteers who helped with the event.

Last year we re-homed a Springer each week and demand for our support is ever increasing.  The proceeds from the event will go a long way in helping us to continue our work, so thank you once again for your support.

Next year Dogs Day Out will be on Sunday, 25th June 2023, so save the date and we’ll look forward to seeing you again for another fabulous day!

Elaine Wood (Dogs Day Out Co-ordinator) & Julie Hesmondhalgh (NWESSR Trustee)

Dear Members and Supporters, the Trustees, sadly, have decided to cancel NWESSR Annual Fun day June 2021, as the venue would not have been fully functioning due to the present Covid 19 Pandemic. We must ensure the highest level of safety for our Humans and Dogs. 

We will very much miss the opportunity to meet up with our beloved dogs, share experiences, knowledge and friendship.  We do plan online activities to share as well as raise funds for the charity, so please do keep an eye on our Website and Facebook in the coming months ahead. 

We look forward to hearing from you and very much look forward to seeing you on the Sunday 26^th June 2022, for what we hope to be a very well attended, party atmosphere, Dogs running and Barking, Sun Shining, Tea and cake NWESSR Fun Day.

Take care out there, best wishes NWESSR