Fundraising Heroes

It’s been a busy summer for many of our wonderful volunteers. They have been helping us raise much needed funds to enable us to support the kennels.  We would like to thank our amazing volunteers for all their the help at the Jumble on 7th September. A special thank you goes out to Susanne and her husband for running stalls at two fun day events hosted by Brentwood Borough Council, one in Warley playing fields and the other at The Brentwood Centre. Great fun was had by all the attendees and all of the funds raised help us to pay the ever increasing veterinary bills, fuel costs and other outgoings at Wallace Kennels dog rescue.  If you have an event that you think would be suitable foe us to set up a fundraising and promotional stall at please let us know and we’ll do our best to attend if possible.  We look forward to seeing you at our next jumble sale in December, see our events page for details.

A Fabulous Fundraiser

Our jumble sale on Saturday 8th June 2024 raised an amazing £1,700 to support the work of Wallace Kennels Dog Rescue in Brentwood. These funds are vital to enable us continue to provide financial back up to the kennels to help meet the ongoing and ever increasing costs, such as recent veterinary expenses amounting to nearly £4000!

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated items for sale, the many volunteers who gave up their time to plan and organise the event, and run it on the day, including the talented bakers who generously provided us with delicious cakes to sell, and of course all those who came along and bagged many bargains.

Save the date

The next jumble sale will be held on Saturday 7th September, from 10.00 to 12.00 at Doddinghurst Village Hall, CM15 0NJ.

Please contact us at fowksecretary@btinternet.com if you have items you would like to donate or can spare some time to help with this or future events and fundraising activities.

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Changes Ahead!

Welcome to the latest blog by Friends of Wallace Kennels (FOWK). We recently held our AGM and there have been a few changes we’d like to update you on.

The wonderful committee at FOWK have worked tirelessly over many years to establish the charity and provide support for many rescue dogs that have passed through Wallace Kennels Dog Rescue in Brentwood. Unsurprisingly,  after all this hard work, both Margaret (secretary) and Josie (treasurer) are ready to take a well deserved retirement from their roles on the FOWK committee and stepped down at the AGM.    We would like to say a massive thank you to Margaret and Josie for everything they have done for FOWK and we wish them a well earned rest and happy retirement.

Moving forward Charlotte has been elected as the incoming treasurer and myself  as the incoming Secretary,. As such we are currently in a period of change, as information is updated, so please bear with us.  We are hoping to use this time to make some changes within FOWK, such as updating the website as amore user friendly platform of information,  promoting and increasing  membership and raising the profile of FOWK.

We are also lucky enough to have been approached by a lovely member of the public, Charley, who is going to be taking on the 3 PEAKS challenge in June. She has kindly nominated FOWK as the charity she would like to raise funds for. We are in the process of setting up a Just Giving Page to enable Charley to make her fundraising easier to manage. We look forward to sharing more details about this soon and we can hopefully get Charley to complete a blog about the event for us too. What an amazing thing to do…. good luck Charley!

Our first blog 

Welcome to the first blog by Friends of Wallace Kennels (FOWK). If you’re familiar with us you’ll probably realise you’re now looking at our brand new website! It’s really great to see you here, please watch this space for more news and information coming soon.