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After an anxious time, we are delighted to announce that the annual Great Global Greyhound Walk WILL continue and next years date is Sunday 9th June. This will be our 10th anniversary!  Sue has stepped down from being the ‘boss’, but will still be here assisting and guiding the new team, for which we are […]

Important Notice GGGW is looking for a new Project Manager to oversee the running of the project. This would suit an enthusiastic individual or better still a group/ organization. One suggestion is to split GGGW into chunks and have PM’s on each continent. This would be for a new leader to decide on. I will be […]

We recently held a competition on our Facebook group that amounted to donations wins of a total of £3,000.  Group members were asked to nominate their favourite sighthound charity. This led to 500 comments, 74 UK charities and 26 global charities being nominated. All nominated charities were put in the hat once and winners were […]

We had another successful competition this year. Our theme was Colours of the World and saw lots of sighthounds dressed for the occasion.  Our global winner was Rufus and UK winner Tess.    Congratulations to the two of them. Here are some of the other entries.

2017 proved to be bigger and better than ever. We had 97 UK and 72 Global walks registered. Here in the UK 3,678 sighthounds walked and globally 2,024 sighthounds, giving a total of 5,702. New Zealand kicked off proceedings, followed by Australia, The Philippines and United Arab Emirates  New Zealand kicked off proceedings, quickly followed […]

As many of you know we have a very active Facebook group with over 4,000 members. We also have a Twitter account that was launched 2 weeks ago. If you are a “Twit” or whatever the term is for Twitters why not follow us on the following link. @GGGW2017 Tweets by GGGW2017  

Did you know we have our very own Ambassador, Jack Alford who in addition to spending his precious awakeness hours promoting the Great British Greyhound Walk to sighthounds everywhere, also runs fun competitions on our Facebook page!  Go take a look at the latest – a Selfie Competition! Share on Facebook

With big thanks to the development team our new registration system is now officially open! In the first 36 hours we’ve had nearly 25 UK walks approved plus 3 from overseas. Check out the map! Wonderful and 4 plus months to go!

All greyhound, lurcher, galgo and other sighthound participants in Great British Greyhound Walk 2014 stand up, go woop-woop and pat yourselves on the back! We have a new record!  At 3pm, with some figures still to come in, we have recorded 3194 sighthounds walking in the 100 plus walks around the UK!  

Unfortunately the Stratford on Avon walk has had to be cancelled. We are very sorry but there have been reports that three dogs have died and several others are seriously ill after walking near/ on the race course, Greenway and by the river. Several vets have confirmed that there is a problem, though there does […]