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Kim has been coming to dog walk and help with cleaning every Thursday at the shelter since early 2008. She is a highly valued member of our team and has already had two dogs from the shelter.

Mandy has been volunteering at the shelter since May 2006.

She helps with mainly the cleaning of the kennels and the reception area and has also really improved our little shop area.

Gill has been coming to the shelter to do reception every other Saturday for many years now.

She travels a big distance to help out and her help is greatly appreciated.

Jude is our Sunday receptionist.

Diane has now been coming to do reception every other Saturday for over a year now.

She brings her dog Keira with her who likes to greet all the visitors that come into the shelter.

Elizabeth has been coming to the shelter for about 4 years now and has been a great help during this time.

She used to come as part of her Duke of Edinburgh scheme every Saturday and liked it so much she still keeps coming!

Paola has been coming up to the shelter for a while now and is great with the dogs. She comes up most weekends to help clean, feed and walk them.

Helen has been volunteering at the shelter now for quite some time. She comes in most weekends and in her holidays to spend time with the dogs.

She seems to really enjoy it here and the dogs also enjoy spending time with her.

The pleasant and cared-for appearance of the Shelter owes a lot to Rosemary's dedication. She visits the Shelter at least once a fortnight to plant bulbs, rake leaves and generally tidy the gardens as well as working in the kennels. Here she is dead-heading some daffodils outside the office.

These are some of the knitted toys which Rosemary makes to raise money for the shelter.

Tessa is one of our volunteer receptionists who comes every Wednesday. You can see her at the shelter with her dog Max who she adopted from us. She has now been with us for about 3 years.

I couldn't persuade Geoff to have his photo taken, maybe I will catch him unawares soon! He tries to visit the shelter most days and particularly enjoys helping with the larger dogs, German Shepherds being a particular favourite of his.

"I have always had German Shepherds, and now that I can't have one of my own this is an ideal opportunity to spend time with them. I intend to find out about current training ideas so that I can help the dogs more." he says.

[with Dylan]

Margaret and Tracy enjoy the relaxing atmosphere at the shelter and visit every weekend. Here you can see they are teaching little Dylan how to play.

[tombola]

Here is a photo of the Summer Fayre at Hanley Swan Village Hall.

The Shelter is very grateful to all the volunteers who give up their time to help with manning the stalls - here is the popular Tombola.

After rehoming Jasper (see the 'rehomed dogs' page!) Anne and Malcolm were so impressed with everything about the Shelter that Anne decided to make this website to help with fundraising and publicity. They used to visit the Shelter every weekend to take photos of new dogs and Anne would spend a large part of every Sunday afternoon working on the website! In May 2006 she was able to hand over the day-to-day running of the site to Shelter staff so that they can keep it up to date themselves.

When they organised a birthday party they encouraged their guests to give a donation to the Shelter by including this little poem on the invitations :

To celebrate our birthdays We'd really like to give Something to the Shelter Where the homeless doggies live.
If you'd like to join us In this eccentric plan Don't give us any presents - Put some money in the can!

[M with Wallace]

A rare chance to see Anne on this side of a camera lens, here with the gorgeous Garth, and Malcolm with Wallace.

Daffodil Sunday at Madresfield Court provided the ideal opportunity for these enthusiastic volunteers to set up a stall to raise money for the Shelter.

Click here to see news and pictures from the official Opening of the Rescue Shelter on Saturday 15th September 2001.

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