Dear all - we did it! Raised well beyond our initial target of £1000 and reach a whopping £1340 - thank you - Thank You - THANK YOU!!! Back office is busying away compiling lists and we're warming up the on line generator to find our winner who will be notified on the 19th Aug if not before - Sara xxx PS I will be working through the list of your beautiful names and contacting you each personally over the next week or two xx

Only three days to go!! As these things are wont to do we've slowed down a bit but I'm hoping for a last minuet rush on ticket sales - each £5 donated means a chance to win an oil on canvas portrait of YOUR DOG worth £490 and every penny goes to help dogs living on the streets. A million thanks if you've donated already, but I want to ask if you'd do one last share with me to see if we can push ourselves nearer our £2k target. Good luck everyone and thank you - can't wait to get in touch with the winner in a few days time! Sara xxx

In support of our fund raising for DOTS we had an event at The Berkeley in Berkhamsted last week, a separate raffle raised another £360 for our cause and we met a wonderful bunch of new friends wanting to join in and help. A very big thank you must go to Marc Abraham who joined us despite having two flat tires en route - he really will go all out to help animals in need! We've 17 days still to run with this Just Giving page - do keep sharing our posts if you can and good luck if you already have a ticket, Sara x

I knew when I met Michelle and saw the work she was doing that I must help her - and from the amazing response we've had from our supporters it's clear that you do too! So this morning I have doubled our target to £2000 - we've 23 days left - we can do this. Whilst I was on the DOTS stand I borrowed some chalks for pavement drawing and did my best, I need more practice at this! The winner of this on line raffle will have a 60 x 60cm oil on canvas portrait of THEIR dog - something I'm a bit more practiced at see www.sara-abbott.com for more x