01/01/2025
This is the summary of what our charity has been involved with during December 2024.
We currently have 30 dogs in our care, 6 of whom are reserved at the present time.
We had one flight on 1st December for 3 dogs, 2 of which had homes in place and 1 went into UK foster and she has now been rehomed. We currently have 1 dog in UK foster and he is still available. 3 other dogs in Uk foster were rehomed during December.
The next flight will be on 12 January for 11 dogs, 4 of whom have homes in place and 7 are going into foster homes.
We paid our outstanding Cyprus vet bill the total amount of which was 2041 euros. We also paid a UK courier fee of £95.
We donated £250 to the North Cyprus street dog neutering programme, £150 for 1 pointer in the care of another Cyprus based rescue organisation, £500 to GWP Rescue Cyprus, £250 to Saving Pound Dogs Cyprus, £250 to Paws for homes foundation, £500 to Little Ranch Rescue/Gonyeli shelter, £500 to Nicosia Dog Shelter, £200 to Troulloi Pound Dogs, £250 to Anne Parsons, and £250 to Freedom Sanctuary.
We received £1501 from Nicola’s fundraising events, £399 from Jan’s Bonus Ball fundraisers, £5510 from the sale of our 2025 calendar and Christmas cards, £146 from Paula Fahy Bonio wreath sales, £399 from Tracy's birthday fundraiser, £100 from John Byron, £10 from Insa Winkelbrandt, £50 from Stephen Robson, £40 from Jennifer Smith, £100 from Nick Reed, £20 from Caroline Ludkin, £10 from Lisa Cook, £25 from Linda Doyle, £500 from Helen Turnbull-Smith, £35 from Camille de Kok, £400 from Caron Bunclark Sovereign Estates promotion and £30 in general donations.
We also received a volume credit payment of £3007.50 from the Apollo's Angels dog food manufacturers for our total sales of just over 60 tonnes during 2024. This payment is in addition to our normal profit on dog food sales. The volume credit promotion will also be in place during 2025.
The monthly winner of our Pay it forward event who wins a pet portrait commission is Tracey Sandford.
The Apollo unwanted gift auction will begin soon and if anyone has any items they would like to donate please contact Tracy Payne.
Across our three Facebook groups (Rehoming Cyprus Pointers, Apollo’s Angels and Apollo’s Angels Events) 151 new members joined and there were a total of 17276 posts, comments and reactions during December.
During 2024 we rehomed 65 dogs, donated £4113 to help 32 pointers in the care of other Cyprus based rescue groups, donated £2500 to the North Cyprus street dog neutering programme, and also donated £5025 to a number of Cyprus rescue groups.
We would like to thank everyone for all their help and support during 2024.
The next summary will be posted 1st February.