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Forever Hounds Trust – Gloucestershire Home based Salary £23,500pa Permanent Forever Hounds Trust has been rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming greyhounds, and sighthound lurchers for 25 years. We are dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and homing of unwanted, abused or abandoned sighthounds. Our vision is a day when every sighthound is free from risk or need. …

Battersea has long been great supporters of the work of Forever Hounds Trust. We are now a Battersea Animal Partner. This means that we learn from Battersea’s vast pool of knowledge, and can take advantage of new training and networking opportunities. And our sighthound experience benefits the Battersea team when they need specific advice. We …

We are thrilled to have been selected to be Charity of the Year at the Pets at Home Weymouth store. This means we’ll get all sorts of food donations throughout the year, can take part in their fundraising activities and hold awareness days in store. All of this will help us shout about how great sighthounds are …

There was a significant advancement for animal welfare last week with the maximum sentence for animal cruelty offences increasing from six months to five years. Congratulations go to our colleagues and supporters across the animal welfare sector who have campaigned so hard for this. The change in the law means that those guilty of the …

Following the relaxation of some of the rules surrounding the coronavirus restrictions in England, Forever Hounds Trust has set out the following plan for rehoming dogs. PLEASE NOTE THESE ANTICIPATED STEPS ARE BASED ON CURRENT GOVERNMENT GUIDANCE. THIS MAY BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE DEPENDIN ON HOW THE INFECTION IS SPREADING DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN EACH …

Sadly, pet theft is on the increase and UK police have found that 2020 was one of the worst years for pet thievery, most likely associated with an increased demand for dogs over the national lockdowns. MPs are debating whether to introduce a law specifically for pet theft that will hand out prison sentences rather …

We are delighted to announce that our Haywards Heath charity shop will be open again on Monday 12th April at 10.00am! The team have been working so hard to transform the shop with new displays of spring clothes, gifts, vintage items, books and much more! After the initial opening on Monday, the shop hours going …

HUGE congratulations to Tracey Carter on being a Volunteer of the Year finalist in the Animal Charity Awards. Tracey is an absolute superstar and without her help we simply would not be able to help the number of dogs that we do. Tracey supports us across everything that we do. Many of you will know …

We had a very special visitor at our Centre for Homing and Welfare in Devon! TV Gardener Frances Tophill joined us to chat about an exciting new project for the outside space at the Centre. Watch this space for more exciting news coming soon! While Frances was with us she met some of the dogs …

Petlog customers have been asked to create a new online self-serve account, and customers who had not previously set up an online account, to create one. However, there may be some people whose details – such as their name, email address, or title – have changed since their pets’ details were first placed on the …

The applications for Animal Care Assistant roles with Forever Hounds Trust are now closed. Thank you to those who applied. We had an overwhelming number of applicants. If you have not heard from us, on this occasion, your application was unsuccessful. We regret that we are not able to offer personal feedback to those applicants …