Daybreaks Trust

24/11/2025

🎟️ Have you bought your raffle tickets yet? 🎟️

1st Prize- £300 cash
2nd Prize- £150 cash
3rd Prize- £50 cash
4th Prize- Festive treats box for humans
5th Prize- Festive treats basket for dogs.
The cash was kindly donated by Fivelands Veterinary practice 🐾

To order your raffle tickets, you can call 📞 Daybreaks Kennels on:
0121 782 7702/ 07960 369 820

All proceeds from our Christmas raffle go towards the care and rehoming of former racing Greyhounds ❤️

22/11/2025

🐾 Dogs and Kids can Meet Santa at Daybreaks' Santa Paws! 🎅🏼

-1st Dog meets Santa (also receives a present and digital photo with Santa) - £6.50
-Additional dogs (also receives a present and digital photo with Santa)- £3.50 per dog
-1st Child meets Santa (receives present and digital photo of their magical experience- £7.50
-Additional children meet Santa- £5.50 per child

Pay via Eventbrite, provide your time preferences on the Eventbrite form, and your Santa meet time slot will be emailed to you this week.

Book now at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daybreaks-greyhound-trusts-santa-paws-tickets-1975146966747?aff=oddtdtcreato

19/11/2025

🎄 Could you volunteer at Daybreaks Christmas Market?🎄

Daybreaks’ Christmas Market is one of our biggest events of the year and by volunteering, you’re helping Daybreaks fundraise for the amazing dogs within our care. We’re looking for volunteers to help set-up, man stalls and help pack away on the day. All proceeds from this event go towards the care and rehoming of former racing Greyhounds.

If you can help on Sat 29th November, please email: [email protected]

18/11/2025

Can you Make a Difference this Christmas?

Daybreaks desperately need short-term fosters for the Christmas period...

Why foster a Greyhound for Christmas?
- Give Daybreaks vital information about our wonderful dogs that makes them more homeable
- Change a Greyhound's life by teaching them lessons they can keep with them forever
- Do your good deed this year and make your house a home for one lucky Greyhound!

Requirements:
- Must have owned a Greyhound before
- Willing to look after a Greyhound for the minimum time of 23rd of December till 3rd of January
- Must live within an hour of Solihull, Birmingham

Enquire about being a short-term foster today
Call Daybreaks on 0121 782 7702
Email Daybreaks on [email protected]

17/11/2025

✨ LAST FEW STALL SPACES – CHRISTMAS MARKET ✨

We’ve got just a handful of pitches left for Daybreaks Greyhound Trust’s Christmas Market on Saturday 29th November – and we’d love to fill them with fab local businesses! 🎄🎁

We’re especially looking for:
🧑‍🎄 Christmas gift stalls
🧸 Toy stalls
📚 Book stalls
💎 Jewellery stalls
🍬 Sweet stalls
🧀 Cheese stalls
🍰 Cake stalls

📩 Interested?
Please email Natalie at [email protected] to book your pitch.

💷 Pitch fee: £20
🏠 Please bring your own gazebo, tables and chairs.

Every penny raised from this event goes towards the care and rehoming of former racing greyhounds 🐾💚

👉 Please share this post and tag your favourite local businesses who might like a stall!

16/11/2025

👏 Happy Sup-pawter Sunday! 👏

Daybreaks’ 2026 annual calendars are now available! We’re keeping the prices the same as last year, so £13 for A3 calendars and £8 for the smaller calendars. Calendars can be ordered by calling Daybreaks Kennels on:
📞0121 782 7702/ 07960 369 820

Calendars will be available to collect/purchase from our Christmas Market event, or you can collect directly from the kennels, or we can post them out to you for a small fee.

🎊 Huge congratulations to the following Daybreaks’ supporters 🎊 whose entries are featured in this year’s calendar:

- Toni Taylor’s photo of Xena
- Ruth Price with her photo of Tiggy and Momma
- Tanya and Mark Davenport with their photo of Cilla, Flo and Melly
- Laura Stratford’s photo of Horace
- Claire Hiron’s photo of Larry
- Dawn Cooper’s photo of Amber
- Louisa Richardson’s photo of Freya
- Anne Green’s photo of Timmy
- Lisa Baker’s photo of Buck
- Jess Attwood’s photo of Koda and whippet sister Mabel
- Maureen Szymanski’s photo of Kevin and his cat sister Holly
- Fiona Gulec’s photo of Chloe
- Maureen Szymanski’s photo of Kevin

Thank you to everyone who participated in Daybreaks’ Calendar Competition, the calibre of entries was so high, it was an incredibly difficult decision! You should have received a payment link now so please email: [email protected] if you haven’t received a payment link and still need to pay. All proceeds from your entries will go towards the care and rehoming of former racing Greyhounds.

15/11/2025

🌟 Calling All Daybreaks Supporters – Jodie Needs Your Help! 🌟

*Although Jodie’s talking about rescue dogs, dogs rehomed from Daybreaks can be included as they’re still being rehomed to a new family, so she’s asked us to share.*

We’re putting out a special request on behalf of Jodie, one of our amazing supporters who is currently completing a photography course. As part of her project, Jodie wants to shine a light on the incredible transformation greyhounds go through—from those first days arriving at Daybreaks to blossoming into their true, goofy, confident selves in their forever homes. ❤️

📸 Jodie is looking for as many “before and after” photos as possible
If you have a hound who came through Daybreaks, we’d love you to upload:

🔹 A ‘before’ photo — when they first arrived at Daybreaks or first came home
🔹 An ‘after’ photo — showing their personality once they’d settled
🔹A couple of photos of your dog’s safe space at home (dog doesn’t need to be in this photo)
🔹Dog’s favourite toy (dog doesn’t need to be in this photo)

You can upload them directly to Padlet here: [https://padlet.com/jodieperkins03/the-transformation-of-rescue-dogs-8k88bhub66sbu5ol]

✍️ Along with your photos, please include a short summary of your dog’s transformational journey.
This will help Jodie capture the emotional story behind every face, and she has kindly agreed to share all the photos she collects with Daybreaks, meaning they may help us inspire future adopters too.

Thank you so much for helping Jodie—and for helping us continue showing the world just how special these wonderful dogs are. 💛🐾

Share your ideas and comment on others!

15/11/2025

° RETURNEE °

BOBBY aged 3.

Bobby has been returned to the kennels due to issues with the other Greyhound in the family.
He is currently being assessed and not available for homing just yet!

14/11/2025

🏡 Happy Forever Home Friday! 🏡

A huge congratulations to the lovely Shadow (formerly Nelly) for finding her forever home with her new dad Simon.

Have a great life Nelly! We know you will ❤️