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GIN Shop, Brighton
Greyhounds in Need Charity Shop
19 St George's Road
Kemp Town
Brighton
BN2 1EB
Telephone/Fax Christine Page on 01273 674100
Please come and visit our very attractive charity shop in Brighton. We would be very pleased to see you and your dogs anytime.
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Friday - 10am - 5pm
Saturdays 10am - 4pm
We sell household items, clothing, toys, DVDs, CDs, books, bric-a-brac etc plus our own greyhound related merchandise: collars, cards, dog coats, stationery, key rings, car stickers and much much more, all at reasonable prices.
Christine Page is running the shop for us and has much knowledge of Brighton and the surrounding areas. She has been a fundraiser for GIN for some years now and we are very grateful to her and her family for all their hard work getting the shop ready for business.
If you can help in any way in the shop, sorting out donations, pricing items, serving customers, or if you have any items that you would like to donate to GIN please give Christine a call on 01273 674100 or pop into the shop, opening hours as above.
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| Rita at the Michelham Priory |
Oct
2011
As
summer is nearly over we will soon be thinking about Christmas – so why
not visit the shop for your gifts and decorations.
It
has been a good summer at the shop with thankfully lots of donations still
coming in and lots of visitors calling in to see us while they are on
holiday in Brighton.
I
spent a day at the Michelham Priory Garden weekend with Rita, Pauline and
Paul and was very happy to meet Merlin the galgo who Pauline had adopted
from GIN a few weeks before the show. He is such a sweet dog and so well
behaved.
Frank
and Heather once again organised two fund-raising events in June and
August at Middleton Common Farm in Ditchling, the weather was kind to us
both days. Please visit our website regularly and click on Events –
these are being added all the time and if you would like to offer help in
your area you will be most welcome- the galgos need all the money we can
raise.
Once
again I ask if anyone would like to organise a coffee morning, sponsored
dog walk, street collection ? These events can be fun and help raise
awareness of the work our Charity does for greyhounds and galgos. Please
give me a ring if you feel you can help.
Many thanks to my team of volunteers.
Christine
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Valentine window |
April
2011
The
shop is doing well and donations are still plentiful.
Lily
from the Arca de Noe refuge in Albacete has been helping us again while
she is in England learning English, and enjoys the shop very much and is a
great help to us. She tells us about how the galgos are treated in her
country. I visited Spain recently with Carolyn, Martin and Carl so could
see for myself what Lily and others in Spain have to deal with.
Every
penny we can raise from coffee mornings, dog walks, raffles etc would be
most helpful. If you have any ideas for fundraising please come and talk
to me at the shop or contact Carolyn and Lynne at Head Office. I will be
at Michelham Priory on 9th and 10th July with Rita and Audrie doing a 2
day fundraising event at the Garden Show. There are lots of stalls and
many dog events throughout the weekend, it's a beautiful venue.
The
window is still a great selling point to the shop with different displays.
During Valentines week we sold hearts for messages to loved ones or pets -
50p each -to stick on the window to raise extra money for the galgos, We
are planning the Easter window and have lots of gifts so it will be a very
pretty window. We need Spring to come as it has been a long winter and I
am sure the Easter display will cheer us all up - come and have a look at
it and purchase your Easter gifts.
Many thanks again to my team of volunteers.
Christine
The shop has been open for just over a year and we are still very lucky and fortunate to have had so many donations of all kinds brought to the shop. We have received many compliments about the shop as well as the staff.
Our window display is still proving to be a good selling point with different themes throughout the seasons (which is great fun to do as well!)
We embraced the World Cup with a football window (shame they didn't win).
Kemp Town village is a special place and worth a visit if you haven't been and a very good opportunity to visit the GIN shop. Many customers bring their dogs, we welcome all shapes and sizes and all are greeted with doggy treats whilst their owners are looking for a gift and a bargain. I am told the dogs pull them across the road now and into the shop and bark outside on the last walk at night. We are proving very popular.
I joined two customers Frank and Heather and their whippet/greyhound cross Sophie for a fund raising day in July at Saltdean Lion's Day where they kindly did a table for GIN and raised £162.50 - thank you both.
Over the last few weeks we have had Lilly, the President of the Arca de Noe Refuge in Albacete, visit us and help in the shop. She has been telling us about her work in Spain for the galgos. She will be spending a year in the UK, to improve her English, and is planning to be a regular volunteer at the shop.
As winter will be soon upon us, feel free to come and visit us for our late night shopping evening on November 25th where we will have mince pies and home-made mulled wine which is made by our volunteer Lynn.
Our regular dogs will be in for their stockings full of doggy treats.
Thank you to all our customers and volunteers for your support in our first year, we do appreciate it. The greyhounds and galgos need all your support.
Christine
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| Dawn and the galgos at the Saltdean Show | Brighton World Cup Shop Window | Christmas stocking | Brighton shop window |
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| Please click to enlarge... |
The Brighton shop has been open now for over six months and is doing very well thanks to the hard work of Christine and her volunteers. They have been very lucky with the huge amount of donations that have been brought along to the shop.
The shop window is changed regularly and this seems to be a popular way to attract more customers - often items in the window catch people's attention and are soon sold.
Christine has her regular visitors, some with their own dogs, and Christmas was a special time - St George's Road had late night opening and despite the bad weather people turned up to enjoy a hot drink and mince pie, Carol singers joined in too. Babs, a volunteer at the shop, made little stockings for all the regular doggy visitors who came along to collect their treats.
The shop sells household items, clothing, toys, DVDs, CDs, books, bric-a-brac plus our own greyhound related merchandise all at reasonable prices.
If you can help in any way in the shop, sorting out donations, pricing items, serving customers, or if you have any items that you would like to donate to GIN please give Christine a call on 01273 674100 or pop into the shop.
See pictures from the opening...
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