Chelsea, the founder of Greyhound Walks celebrates her 14th birthday!
Welcome to Greyhound Walks!
Chelsea, with Janet and Lass with Ann & Joe both reached 14 this year, well done girls!
Greyhound Walks are a group of greyhound and lurcher owners and lovers who regularly meet for an hours stroll, chatter and the sharing of doggy tales in and around Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire.
We always meet on the second Sunday of the month at The Discovery Centre Great Notley Country Park, Braintree, Essex at 10am. We also walk most weekends at other venues in and around our counties, see the Walk Calendar for all our planned walks.
Anyone with a greyhound or lurcher is more than welcome to join us, or anyone who would just like to walk out with greyhounds to see what great pets they make. Maybe even take one for a Test Drive! Just turn up on the day and you'll be made very welcome.
If you join us we ask for all dogs to be kept on the lead while we are walking as a group and we restrict the walk to greyhounds and lurchers only. There's no charge but we do have a voluntary contributions bucket, all money collected is passed, via grants to needy Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire greyhounds.
Our aims are to:
- socialise our greyhounds, lurchers and ourselves!
- promote and raise awareness of retired greyhounds as family pets
- through voluntary contributions and events, raise money for needy Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire greyhounds
- support Essex, Suffolk and Hertfordshire greyhound rehoming kennels and animal rescues who rehome greyhounds.
Recent Updates 
16/07/2010
Nearly ALL the pages updated!
10/05/2010
News & Events page updated.
21/04/2010
News & Events, and Show 2010 updated.
27/03/2010
Donations page added, general tidy up of all pages
Our History
The first Greyhound Walk was in April 2006 when 5 greyhounds and their families got together after a letter was written to the Braintree Times seeing local owners fancied a get-together. Numbers steadily grew and in August 2006 there was an enormous boost after the plight of ex racing greyhounds was highlighted nationally.
Since then once monthly walks have progressed to twice monthly walks and in 2009 we did 4 walks each month as our Hertfordshire activity took off.
The number of dogs at each walk averages 60 and our record attendance was on 1st January 2010 when 168 dogs went walking.
