Supporting Dogs, Lions, oh... and people too!
3 Goodgymers helped their local community in Sheffield
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Saturday 18th July
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Today we had a fun task for a new charity. Support Dogs help supply for people with disabilities including autism and epilepsy, and they've recently moved their national centre to Hillsborough in Sheffield.
Today we helped them out with setting up a fundraising second hand sale. We helped unload the car, lay out clothes, shoes, toys and bric-a-brac, picking out highlights to display. After eyeing up a few items during set up, we browsed further as the crowds started to arrive and picked up some great bargains!
We hope the charity managed to get rid of most of the stuff and raise lots of money. We chatted to Tess about future potential tasks working on their garden and it's always great to foster new contacts!
Purchases in hand, we headed for lunch in Hillsborough park and logged the nearby lion sculptures that are part of the "Pride of Yorkshire".
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For one day only we will be running a pre-loved items sale, selling a wide range of second hand, nearly new and new items.
Support Dogs is a pioneering national charity based in Sheffield dedicated to providing life-saving and lifechanging health and social care for children and adults living with challenging medical conditions. We train specialist assistance dogs to achieve this. We run three programmes: autism assistance dogs for children, disability assistance dogs for adults including our home care dogs and seizure alert dogs for people with epilepsy, we are the only organisation in the UK that trains dogs to do this specialist work. From keeping children calm and safe, to alerting their owners prior to an oncoming epileptic seizure, from raising the alarm in emergencies to helping open doors and helping to get dressed in the morning, our support dogs transform the lives of their families.
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Mon 20th Jul at 10:25am
thank you Rachel! It was a fun day out!
Tue 21st Jul at 8:31pm
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Tue 21st Jul at 8:31pm
Update from Tess: A huge thank you to everyone who supported our event on Saturday! We quite literally could not have done it without you. Your time, energy, enthusiasm, and willingness to get involved all helped make the day such a fantastic success. We are delighted to share that we raised over £600 on the day, which is an incredible achievement! Even more exciting, we still have a number of higher-value items left to sell, meaning the total raised is set to increase further. It was especially wonderful to welcome so many new visitors to our centre. Many people came along after seeing the event on social media or while visiting the park, so thank you to everyone who took the time to chat, engage with visitors, and help showcase what we do. Those conversations made a real difference and helped create a warm and welcoming atmosphere throughout the day. Thanks to all of your hard work and support, the event was a huge success. We are so grateful for everything you did to help make it happen. Thank you all! 🎉💙
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