L-R – Janet Waller, Ros Loades, Eleanor Mancey, with the late Pam Lewis, and the Chairman of the CKCS Club Mrs Susan Burgess.
We are friends and Cavalier enthusiasts. Our group was formed in 1995, when we decided we would try to give something back to this lovely breed, in which we have gained so much pleasure. So, over a luncheon, ‘Friends of the Cavalier KCS’ was formed and we started planning our first Sponsored Dog Walk to raise money for research into health matters. We had no perception then that with the help of Cavalier owners, breeders, friends, and family, we would go on to raise such amazing amounts of money for the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club’s Health Fund.
At our various events, we raised:-
1996 Sponsored Dog Walk, Birmingham Pype Hayes Park. £ 916-00
1997 Birmingham Pype Hayes Park together with 8 satellite Sponsored Dog Walks £6038-00
1998 Sponsored Dog Walk, Broughton Castle, Banbury £1001-46
2000 Car Boot sale £70-00
2000 Sponsored Dog Walk, Broughton Castle, Banbury £2192-00
Yearly Cavalier adverts in Dog World Annual £706-50
2002 Sponsored Dog Walk and Fun Show, Broughton Castle, Banbury £3341-81
Total to date:- £14,265-77
The committee of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Club made donations from the Club’s Health Fund to research projects including in 1997 and 1998 at The Animal Health Trust and in 2000 and 2002 to a 3 year research project into Mitral Valve Disease being undertaken by Edinburgh University researching the mechanisms underlying disease at cellular level, and collagen production.
All the money raised by our event in 2002 was donated to an important research project which was being supported by the Cavalier Club’s ‘Lub-Dub’ Fund.
