With 3 events in the city centre on Thursday October 27th.

Once again a massive thank you to Lush Store Norwich – to both Management and staff for their great support today.

Not only asking customers to make, and decorate, bath bombs to take home for a £2.00 donation to the in store AFG collection, but also for selling lots of their charity pots of luscious body lotion, with all proceeds donated to AFG and buyers receiving a fabulous free goody bag crammed with wonderful, natural cosmetics which are not tested on animals. 

Many of AFG and Lush’s own anti-racing leaflets were distributed to customers, and our hounds were very welcome in the store

It’s exactly 1 year since our last Lush event which was part of their national campaign promoting other greyhound protection campaigners in their 49 stores across the U.K

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As well as the Lush event and street collection, we also had a charity stall in the city centre. This always receives lots of interest from the public who come to browse, get their bargains and make a fuss of the dogs.

Thank you to our supporters who make items for us to sell and others who donate good quality items to raise much needed funds.

Already our exclusive Christmas cards are proving very popular.

Thank you Blanche for your hard work and support.

Blanche does this event each month for local charities and good causes. She also supports and raises funds for the local air amulance service, as well as running local fortnightly tabletop sales.

Not bad for a very active retired lady.

Of course Greyhounds Snoopy and pip pictured with Blanche, recieved a lot of admiration whilst visiting this event.

Blanche raised a fantastic £60.00 for AFG.

Another lovely weekend, enabling AFG to have yet another very successful awareness/fundraising weekend. With fantastic support once again from the public and the store.

AFG was outside Pets at Home, Lowestoft, over the last weekend in September and at the Pets at Home Norwich based store this weekend. Interest and donations from members of the public made both weekends very successful. AFG would like to thank the management and staff for the support given and making space available.

AFG had a stand once again at the very popular All About Dogs event held at the Royal Norfolk Showground. As one of the largest events of its kind held annually in Norfolk, it presents an excellent opportunity for raising both the profile of the campaign and much needed funds. Products designed and made specifically for AFG sold well and feedback from the public was very positive. The tombola again proved very popular and greyhounds Gem, Pip, Zulu and Snoop enjoyed much fuss and attention. AFG would like to thank the many stall holders for donating prizes.

This was AFG’s fourth consecutive year at Wroxham in the heart of the Norfolk Broads. As a popular area for holiday makers, there was much interest and support from visiting members of the public. Few props are required for this kind of event and in the right location at the right time of the year it can be a very effective way to raise awareness. Accompanying us on different days were Perry, Jani, Zulu, Snoop, Gem, Sophie, Tilly, Raven and Misty. Finding a home for Zim – one of our long term foster dogs – made the week all the more worthwhile.

It is the third year in succession that AFG have had a stand at Suffolk Dog Day. Situated in the beautiful grounds of Helmingham Hall the event is the largest of its kind in the county of Suffolk and attracts as many as 10,000 visitors. The weather was again kind making for a very successful day both for raising awareness and much needed funds for the campaign. Of course the greyhounds that occupied much of the gazebo proved the star attraction, though with the children the tombola came a very close second. AFG would like to thank the many businesses that kindly donated prizes.

AFG was in the centre of Norwich this Saturday as part of Greyhound Remembrance Weekend; an event held annually to remember the hundreds of thousands of greyhounds that have died at the hands of the British greyhound racing industry since the first commercial races were held on 24 July 1926 at Belle Vue.

Joining greyhounds Pip, Gem and Zulu at this years North Walsham Funday was Micky and Misty; two beautiful greyhounds adopted by helpers for the day Dick and Joan. The story of many greyhounds off loaded by the racing industry demonstrates little regard for the dog’s welfare and Misty is no exception with having both ears mutilated in order to remove her identification tattoos. The dogs as always where centre of attention at event that was to prove a great success in both raising awareness about the plight of racing dogs and much needed funds for the campaign.