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Press Release:

Big Walkies start a weekly walk in St Neots

Big Walkies organise walks with physical and mental health benefits for local communities and their dogs.

Since Big Walkies started as a community group they have registered just over 250 households from across the UK as members and have an average daily hit rate of 200 per day.

Big Walkies have joined up with Bryony Peacock, a Vetinry Nurse from St Neots to organise weekly walks in Saturday mornings in St Neots. Bryony also runs her own local business -  The Pet Nurse which provides reliable Professional Pet Care Services in St Neots and surrounding areas.

The first weekly walk will take place on Saturday 7th May, meeting at Connygear Road car park at 10.30am. The walks will be coordinated by Bryony and Jackie (Big Walkies co-director).

You need to register as a member to take part in Big Walkies events, but registration is currently free! Register as a Big Walkies member and receive a monthly e-newsletter including exclusive member offers! You can register at www.bigwalkies.org.uk.

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In August 2010, Director, Becca Bryant tried organising a BBQ for her dog, Buddy's, 1st birthday. It would be a chance for her to get together with friends and also for Buddy to meet their dogs.
The day of the BBQ came and it had to be cancelled, so Jackie (co-director) suggested that we meet at Hinchingbrooke Park to walk our dogs the next month. So on a sunny afternoon in September 2010 Jackie, Becca, Lalli, Fairy and Ian met up to walk the dogs. It was then decided that we should keep this as a monthly occurrence and via Facebook the amount of people meeting for each walk grew and grew and grew!
In January 2011 we had around 20 people walking with us and their dogs, we then thought that we should meet up at a different dog walk the next month. Becca looked on the internet to find walks in Cambridgeshire and couldn't find anything! Well she could, but it wasn't all in one place. Finding this frustrating Becca set to work making a website with recommended walks in Cambridgeshire.... this then evolved into Big Walkies as we know it now.
More and more people wanted to join the group and walk with us as apposed to suggesting walks and local dog services. So in February 2011 the website went live, we now (April 2011) have over 250 household registered and walks taking place monthly in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk. Also weekly walks in St Ives and St Neots. We hope to expand Big Walkies and have walks within every community who wants one!

The Pet Nurse - www.the-pet-nurse.co.uk offers a full range of services, ranging from nail clips to home visits, and everything in between.  We are fully insured for your own peace of mind, so you can rest assured that your pets are in safe hands.

For informal discussion on quotations please contact  Bryony.thepetnurse@gmail.com or 07754269810

 
 
We are really trying to widen the "Big Walkies community" by linking to websites with a common interest to ours. All links are on our 'Useful links' page: http://www.bigwalkies.org.uk/useful-links.html

Please take a look at our website and contact us if you'd like us to link to yours.

We regret to inform you that without a reciprocal link agreement, we are unable to advertise  your website free of charge, for advertisement prices please email us - bigwalkies@live.co.uk

Our preferred reciprocal link wold be: "www.bigwalkies.org.uk - Big Walkies organise walks with  physical and mental health benefits for the local community and their dogs." With our logo included.

 We have an average website hit rate of 200 per day and have over 250 households registered. They each receive an e-newsletter, bi-monthly. We like to give our members special offers, if you are able to provide us with an exclusive offer for our members for our e-newsletter I would be very happy to hear from you. (Offer example - 10% off when buying online etc).

We look forward to hearing from you!

Becca
 
 
Big Walkies is growing much faster than anticipated!

Understandably people want walks in their local communities and are coming forward to become volunteer coordinators! However.... we need to CRB check them and as a community group/not for profit company who are not trading - we are having to ask for sponsorship to CRB check our willing volunteers.

If you know anybody who may consider sponsoring us please contact us!

Becca
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Today Big Walkies Ltd have entered the Huntingdonshire Business Awards 2011 for innovation. If you agree with our entry and would like to support us, please do recommend us for the award too!

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Today Jackie and I met with Bryony, a local vetinary nurse with lots of experience in looking after animals.
Bryony is going to work with us to coordinate weekly walks in St Neots. These will start from Saturday 7th May, 10.30am meeting at the Connygear carpark.

Bryony runs her own business called the The Pet Nurse - she offers:
  • Dog walking
  • Pet sitting
  • Behaviour training
  • Dog grooming
  • Free email consultations (for our members)
  • Mobile vet nursing
  • Boarding small animals and much, much more!
We are delighted to be working with Bryony and welcome her to the Big Walkies Team!

Becca
 
 
We make it into the May edition of the Dog Friendly Out & About magazine :)
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Today Big Walkies held a group walk at Priory Park in Bedford after a very polite and kind request from little miss Isobel!
The walk started at 2.30pm and we were pleased to welcome 28 adults, 4 children and 14 dogs!
All dogs behaved very well - apart from Meg (my dog) who decided she'd walk back to the car halfway around the course!
We walked for just over an hour and covered just over 2 miles.
A great day was had by all, thank you to everybody who came!
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Just about to start the walk when Meg started choking on something lodged in her throat. On route to emergency vets she dislodged it and has now eaten and had water. Gave us a right fright. Lovely lady from last weeks walk took over. Everyone was so helpful. Phew!!
 
 
We have just added a number of events on our events page. Check them out!

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Date: Every Wednesday (starting Wednesday 6th April)
Time: 6.30pm sharp
Location: Hill Rise Park, St Ives. 
Information: Please meet by the carpark. We will walk twice around the dog walk which takes around 40 minutes. Parking is free - but where possible, please avoid driving to the location as there is limited parking.
There is no requirement to book for the weekly walks.