£18,000 – £25,000 per year based on experience (pro-rata for part-time)
Fundraising Manager Required to Help Support Our Dogs and Horses
Job description
Tia Rescue is growing its team by creating a new role of Fundraiser. We have just moved to a new site near to Nairn in Scotland and have exciting and challenging plans to develop this new location to look after our rescued greyhounds and heavy horses. You can be a core part of this challenge by developing and expanding our fundraising activities.
We want to use your experience and enthusiasm to make a significant difference to our finances and to engage with local, regional, and national communities about our work. You will need to focus on developing our various existing avenues of fundraising and identifying and implementing additional new channels of income for the charity. It will be a challenging task, but your experience and insight is needed to make it all happen. You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated with the ability to work on your own initiative whilst also working closely with our wider team. You will need to be assertive, yet tactful and able to convey our cause while engaging with stakeholders. You will have a proven ability to build and nurture relationships, with a solid foundation of skills in event management along with previous experience of charity fundraising.
The role will be mainly working from home; however, we would expect the candidate to visit the main site in Scotland from time to time as well as occasional visits to our local charity shops and local and regional supporters/funders, mainly based in Yorkshire.
A full Job Description is available to help provide additional background to the role.
To date we have received just over £3000 for the Askern dogs. This will all go to the neutering and dentals for the dogs. Some of which are being done at Donaldson’s. Some of which will be done up here.
Wilbur & Colleen are on their way up as I type
Thanks everyone, please if at all possible could you set up a monthly donation. No matter how small then we know what we have coming in. At the minute there’s a lot more going out than is coming in…
A lovely testament to a lovely greyhound girl… Lumin
Hi Deb
I’m writing with such sad sad news that my absolute soulmate and our beautiful gorgeous blue girl, Lumin , was put to sleep today. An X-Ray confirmed osteo carcinoma after I noticed she couldn’t jump on the bed on Weds and she favoured her leg on Thursday. A lump appeared on her stifle on Saturday morning and grew on Sunday. She saw the vet on Monday and had an X-Ray today that confirmed the worst so we asked them to keep her asleep. She had been so unlike herself since Thursday and was clearly in pain – we can’t believe how quickly she became so poorly and we did not want to prolong her pain for our benefit. They’d given her 2-3 weeks. I am beyond grief.
We had had her since she was 4 and she was 11 on 16th June. We took her home from TIA to be a confident girl for Ezra – she’d just been spayed and you told us that she nearly died on the operating table – I took her stitches out at home so we could bring her home asap rather than wait for her.
She was a year younger than my daughter and she taught my son and daughter about love, patience, responsibility, commitment, kindness and a million other things. She was a huge special character, a mischievous, counter surfing bin tipper who once ate 3 chocolate oranges one Christmas from under the tree and I loved her so much.
We still have Ramon/Ballyrhan Buddy/Ezra who is lost.
I just wanted to let you know.
I’m sure when the time is right we’ll be back in touch.
So here is the plan so far, always open to ideas though…
A few weeks ago there were fifteen dogs on the allotment, the Askern Refugees, which shot up to seventeen with the two strays that he picked up for me from the stray kennel at Penistone. Also Askern Refugees.
He is taking the boys to Donaldson’s for me for their boy ops and dentals. They are then going back to the allotment. They will sit there and wait for their foster parents to pick them up. That is of course if anyone comes forward…
However that is not a possibility for the girls, some are in season and the others can’t be sent back to the allotment after that big operation…..
So there will be 7 boys waiting for you and 8 girls.
I think so far I’ve only had three offers of foster homes. I’m not asking you to take on another permanent pooch but I am asking you to help me out short term. It will not cost you anything other than the food.
The two boys Sam and Peter are two of the Askern Refugees and they are safe with us up here. I cannot take them all.
Come on guys don’t let them spend the winter on the allotment.
These two were fetched from the pound yesterday when their time was up.
The black and white girl we are going to call Agatha. It suits her.
The black boy Apollo, as his racing name is Adraville Apollo. He has just gone 3 years old and last raced in Ireland on the 25th April this year. He has been in the stray kennel twice since then. Goodness knows what he is making of England.
They aren’t on sofa’s or in homes or at Tia. They are on the allotment with the other 13 dogs. Happy though, amongst their own.
Askern is closing. The last flapping track. It normally holds twelve, six runner races every Friday evening and trials three mornings a week. Flapping men could easily have up to 30 dogs on allotments/sheds and the fallout cannot be underestimated. With these sort of numbers the end will be brutal. These dogs are not the responsibility of the GBGB and the buck stops…..well somewhere.
Please watch “The Flapping Track” 2014 on YouTube and thank what ever you believe in, that these days are coming to an end. It is an hour you will never get back and you’ll need a stiff gin afterwards. If you have a racer off us on the sofa, hold his or her paw and murmur something soppy.
Because most of our/your dogs raced at dives like this at some point. Flappers dreams they call them. Some resurfaced again in stray kennels or on free adds but a huge number arrived at Tia by stealth, restoring our faith in humanity. Decent human beings picked up the nameless failures at the end of the night, knowing we wouldn’t refuse sanctuary in the early hours of the following morning. We didn’t and we won’t.
We owe a few people so much and they are trainers and owners too. Tia have committed itself to taking 13 dogs before the traps finally fly open on 23rd September. We aren’t going back word even if it means another convoy of the faithful but we really need help from you.
Our kennels aren’t ready yet and we need a massive push for funding. We are blessed with having huge support especially when the chips are down. Our FB account has 38,000 subscribers. Just imagine the difference a £1 each could do. Please donate whatever you can, no matter how little, so we can get past this crisis and back on track. Regular donations are even better as we can budget.
The chips really are down for these dogs.
Tia Greyhound & Lurcher Rescue
Nat West
account no 76587576
sort code 60 09 27
Thanks Deb
Please let them all get to have a lovely grey face….
