Waggy Tails Rescue Logo Registered Charity No: 1114957

Jean Sainsbury Trust

We have received a grant of £5000 from the Jean Sainsbury Trust to assist our work.

We are so grateful to them for their continued support.

   

 

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Little Lions Farm Cottage – Holiday lets

Little Lions Farm cottage is 300 years old, and is being let short term to bring some much needed funds into the charity.

It has 3 bedrooms and can sleep 5 and we will allow up to 3 dogs – no cats please as there is a lot of wildlife around.

Fully central heated with log burners in the two large reception rooms and a fully equipped kitchen, dishwasher, washing machine, etc.
Upstairs the very modern bathroom has a bath and walk in shower and underfloor heating.

Surrounded by a beautiful garden full of flowering shrubs and trees, it is a quiet peaceful spot to rest up for a few days.

If you have family or friends wanting to holiday in Dorset do please pass on these details

 

The cottage at the farm is available for holiday lets through Sykes Holiday Cottages

https://www.sykescottages.co.uk/cottage/dorset/little-lions-farm-1167943.html

or for further details phone the office on 01202 875000

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Coffee Morning – 3rd May 2025 – Wise Guys

Thank you to everyone who came along to support us at the Wise Guys Coffee Morning.

We Raised £166

 

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Garden & Dog Show (Cherry Tree Nursery) – 27/04/25 

Thank you to everyone who attended this event, we raised £300.  On a very hot day this was a good result.

We enjoyed linking up with Cherry Tree Nursery and hope that this will be an annual event.

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Waggy Tails London Marathon runner Greg Compton

 

Greg completed the marathon in just under four hours.  He has raised £2193.55 including Gift Aid, for Waggy Tails through his Just Giving page.  We are so grateful to him for this mammoth effort.

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Easter Fair – 5th April

Thank you to everyone who supported our Easter Fair on what turned out to be a very warm Saturday.

It is always good to see lots of our doggy friends and their owners and to make new friends.

We raised a total of £900

        Thank you

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Autumn Fair – Kinson Community Centre

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported this event.

We raised a total of £1388

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Charity Auction Night

Thank you to everyone who came along to the auction.

We raised over £3000 for Waggy Tails and Dorset Animal Workers Group (DAWG)

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Planning Application Refused – October 9th

In August 2022 we purchased a property at Ashley Heath with the hope of moving our small Sanctuary on Magna Road, Wimborne, into a bigger permanent home.  The land would have given us sufficient space to exercise our dogs and possibly take in other animals such as horses, donkeys, goats and hens.

 

After an initial pre application in March 2023, a revised Planning Application was submitted to Dorset Council in October 2023 which included all the advice given to us by the planning officer.  It has taken over twelve months of jumping through various hoops, searches and surveys which in total have cost over £31000, for the application to be refused today.

 

We are not in a position to justifiably spend any more of the Charity’s money on an Appeal.  As a result we are left juggling two properties with our only option left to be the sale of the Ashley Heath Site.  In the current market this will put considerable strain on the Charity’s resources, whilst we find a purchaser.

 

This year to the end of September, we have taken about 600 requests to take in unwanted dogs and since the beginning of October have had a further 20 requests.   Like most rescues nationwide we are full and the requests are coming from further afield as a consequence. The need is there but we are at a loss now, as to how to help.…read more

£1000 from Petplan August draw.

We were lucky enough to win the August draw from Petplan and received £1000.

Spencer came along to present the cheque and to meet our lovely collie pups, Amber, Ivy, Doug and Patch.

Amber found the corner of the cheque quite tasty and managed to leave teeth marks all over it!

 

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