Famous Friends: Dash

Great British Greyhound Walk is proud to have the backing and support of a number of hounds in the spotlight. We will be featuring them here in the run-up to our 2012 walk as part of our Famous Friends series. Dash & Andrew Dash is the star of the book ‘Dash: Bitch of the Year’ […]

We’re now on 57 walks!

The Great Britain map is filling up and there’s hardly a corner where there isn’t a walk happeniGreat achievement for GBGW to have passed last years walk total already with still a month to go. Thank you everyone!

Introducing the GBGW Team: Claire (Evie)

In this series of posts you’ll get to know the folks and (more importantly) the ‘hounds behind the Great British Greyhound Walk. Introducing: (The Other) Claire Known affectionately by all the ‘hounds on the walks as “Aunty Claire”, Claire Reilly is responsible for distributing both her infamous Liver Cake and all of GBGW’s print media. […]

A great idea to make your walk a bigger event

from the York walk organisers … Our event is taking shape – more of a ‘fete’ at the end this year, including competitions for the hounds. “Daftest face” and “Naughtiest hound” are two of our categories (you can see we’re not taking it too seriously). We’ll be making bottle cap rosettes for the winners, of […]

Introducing the GBGW Team: Claire (Ziggy & Hector)

In this series of posts you’ll get to know the folks and (more importantly) the ‘hounds behind the Great British Greyhound Walk. Introducing: Claire Claire belongs to two hounds, Ziggy and Hector, and together they have been going on Greyhound Walks since late 2010. Claire currently volunteers for Greyhounds Walks as the resident GBGW Website […]

How many walks now? 45!

45 walks registered now and only 17 to go to reach our target of 62 and still 3 months to go. Lots of great plans are coming together with the organisers to make it a real day out with picnics, raffles, fun and games and even mini dog shows being planned. Eastbourne have their own […]

39 walks now registered

Lots of activity on the website getting everything tidy and up to date. We now have 39 registered walks, a couple waiting to come in and 18 being nagged from last year … this years target is 62 walks so please spread the word and help us reach the walk target, then all we have […]

And, We’re Live!

The brand new Great British Greyhound Walk official launch! Our new site boasts an (ever-growing) list of upcoming walks, so why not find a walk local to you? We’ll be adding locations across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, The Channel Islands and the Republic of Ireland throughout the coming weeks, so keep checking back for […]

Welcome to Great British Greyhound Walk!

2014 sees the 5th Great British Greyhound Walk – some achievement and each year it’s got better and better! The Great British Greyhound Walk is an annual dog-walking event that brings together greyhounds, lurchers, other sighthounds and their owners, to raise awareness and show members of the public just what wonderful pets greyhounds make. Every […]

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