Brilliant Bess Friends Fundraising

Both Brian and Rebecca are Border enthusiasts (as you can see from the above photo!), which led them to starting their Facebook group.  He says, "This is the third anniversary of our group, having been kindly introduced to organised Border walks when Bess was still pretty much a pup.  Our first was at Ullswater, but after that we chanced upon Jan Binn's Formby walk and we loved it, all off lead and racing around (great walk by the way, if you are ever near)."

He continues, "One day whilst walking on the beach just me Bec and Bess and just looking out at the massive arena we had before us, the idea struck us - 'why don't we try one, you never know people may come'.   So with no [Facebook] page, just piggy backing off the Border Terrier owners page, we created a walk and you know what ten folk came along (you know who you are) and we had a blast!  We held another and more people came, so this carried on enough to warrant us making our Bess Friends walk group page.  Somebody then suggested we raise funds for BTW, so we tried that as well ... thanks to you all, in less than three years we've raised thousands of pounds in donations (I will get a total number soon!)."

Brian finishes up by saying a huge thank you to their friends, "Me, Bec and Bess would just like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has taken part over the years for contributing, donating and coming and trying our walk, we consider every one of you as friends and think ourselves lucky to have such a nice group."

We certainly look forward to hearing about their exploits over the next three years and more!