Welcome to the 2025 PawsUp Party!
SCHEDULE
All timings are approximate
7.00 - 7.30
Drinks Reception
Guests to be seated for 7.30
7.30 - 8.00
Welcome speech from founder Ian Squire
Ice Breaker
8.00
Dinner served
Fill your bowls for feeding time
9.00
Balloon Drop
Our lucky dip madness with a difference!
9.15 - 10.00
Music and dance
Practice throwing some shapes on the dancefloor in preparation for later…
10.00 - 10.30
Prize draw and auction
Be in with a chance of winning some treats
10.30 - 11.00
Barking Mad Bingo
Got to be witnessed to be believed..
Get ready for audience participation and dancing on your seats!
11.00 - 01.00
Let’s Party!
Fill the dancefloor with fantastic tunes from ‘Musique’
And a guest appearance from Lady V Sax
01.00
Walkies
Or a taxi if you’ve booked one
All timings are approximate
7.00 - 7.30
Drinks Reception
Guests to be seated for 7.30
7.30 - 8.00
Welcome speech from founder Ian Squire
Ice Breaker
8.00
Dinner served
Fill your bowls for feeding time
9.00
Balloon Drop
Our lucky dip madness with a difference!
9.15 - 10.00
Music and dance
Practice throwing some shapes on the dancefloor in preparation for later…
10.00 - 10.30
Prize draw and auction
Be in with a chance of winning some treats
10.30 - 11.00
Barking Mad Bingo
Got to be witnessed to be believed..
Get ready for audience participation and dancing on your seats!
11.00 - 01.00
Let’s Party!
Fill the dancefloor with fantastic tunes from ‘Musique’
And a guest appearance from Lady V Sax
01.00
Walkies
Or a taxi if you’ve booked one
BALLOON DROP
Exactly what the title suggests!
Kicking off the audience participation with a bit of fun and the chance to
get your paws on a bottle of bubbly and 2 tickets to next years party!
£2 per entry. 1 entry per person.
Catch one of 200 numbered balloons
PRIZE DRAW
Lots of fabulous prizes to be won!
You will find envelopes on your table..
£10 per envelope and please write your name on the envelope to be
collected and placed into the ‘Lucky Dip’
Prizes are on display
AUCTION
The chance to bid on a small selection of prizes that we deemed far too
good to give away for a ‘tenner’!
BARKING MAD BINGO
For those that have experienced this with us before, you know what to
expect!
For the rest of you… GOOD LUCK! and we apologise in advance..
Half an hour or so of utter fun and madness with plenty of audience
participation, music, dancing on your chairs and the chance to win yet
more prizes!
(Some good… others not so)
A fabulous, large and bespoke luxury M&S hamper with 2 complimentary
tickets to next year’s party for the winner
Exactly what the title suggests!
Kicking off the audience participation with a bit of fun and the chance to
get your paws on a bottle of bubbly and 2 tickets to next years party!
£2 per entry. 1 entry per person.
Catch one of 200 numbered balloons
PRIZE DRAW
Lots of fabulous prizes to be won!
You will find envelopes on your table..
£10 per envelope and please write your name on the envelope to be
collected and placed into the ‘Lucky Dip’
Prizes are on display
AUCTION
The chance to bid on a small selection of prizes that we deemed far too
good to give away for a ‘tenner’!
BARKING MAD BINGO
For those that have experienced this with us before, you know what to
expect!
For the rest of you… GOOD LUCK! and we apologise in advance..
Half an hour or so of utter fun and madness with plenty of audience
participation, music, dancing on your chairs and the chance to win yet
more prizes!
(Some good… others not so)
A fabulous, large and bespoke luxury M&S hamper with 2 complimentary
tickets to next year’s party for the winner
AUCTION
Dinner, bed and breakfast
Ramside Hall Hotel with 2 x complimentary tickets to the
2026 PawsUp Party
Signed 2025 Sunderland football shirt
Corporate Hospitality package for 2
at Middlesbrough FC for evening match on Wednesday
11th March 2026
Annual family membership for
Adventure Valley, Durham
Dinner, bed and breakfast
Ramside Hall Hotel with 2 x complimentary tickets to the
2026 PawsUp Party
Signed 2025 Sunderland football shirt
Corporate Hospitality package for 2
at Middlesbrough FC for evening match on Wednesday
11th March 2026
Annual family membership for
Adventure Valley, Durham
PRIZE DRAW
Costa hamper.
Newcastle Gin gift set.
Afternoon tea for 2- Hardwick Hall Hotel.
Dog treats hamper.
M&S goodies box.
2 x day passes for Beamish museum.
Havannah handmade candles and dried flowers set, including a handmade wreath.
Numerous individual bottles of wine, spirits and prosecco.
Sunday lunch for 2 people at Wynyard golf club.
Dog grooming voucher for ‘Groomingdales’ Hartlepool.
Wynyard Golf Club voucher for a round of golf for 4 people.
Wine and spirits hamper.
‘Pamper Hamper’ full of male and female products.
£50 M&S Voucher.
£25 Boots Voucher.
Costa hamper.
Newcastle Gin gift set.
Afternoon tea for 2- Hardwick Hall Hotel.
Dog treats hamper.
M&S goodies box.
2 x day passes for Beamish museum.
Havannah handmade candles and dried flowers set, including a handmade wreath.
Numerous individual bottles of wine, spirits and prosecco.
Sunday lunch for 2 people at Wynyard golf club.
Dog grooming voucher for ‘Groomingdales’ Hartlepool.
Wynyard Golf Club voucher for a round of golf for 4 people.
Wine and spirits hamper.
‘Pamper Hamper’ full of male and female products.
£50 M&S Voucher.
£25 Boots Voucher.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you all for attending this evening’s event.
A huge amount of work has gone into the planning of tonight and it wouldn’t be possible without the help and support of all of you here.
Particular mentions must go to those listed below who have made special contributions for tonight’s event and your entertainment…
Thank you
BOB!
Laura Linskey
Rebecca McGarry
Melissa Runcone
Ramside Hall Hotel and Spa
Louise Squire - Lady V Sax
Mark Ireland - Musique
Tony Hudspith
Yasmin Lawson - ALF Events
Adventure Valley - Janine Calzini
Colin and Marilyn Bates
Julie Smith
Costa Thinford
Phil Smith - Newcastle Gin
Beamish Museum
Hardwick Hall Hotel
Laura Graham
Lisa Bates
Middlesbrough FC
Sunderland AFC
Havannah Candles
Stephanie Lee
Lee Jackson
Del & Giwl Sirett
CC Rachel Bacon - for letting Batesy have the night off!
John Robson
Emma Sheen
Abi Holliday
Groomingdales, Hartlepool
Wynyard Golf Club
&
ANYONE ELSE WE’VE FORGOTTEN!
Thank you all for attending this evening’s event.
A huge amount of work has gone into the planning of tonight and it wouldn’t be possible without the help and support of all of you here.
Particular mentions must go to those listed below who have made special contributions for tonight’s event and your entertainment…
Thank you
BOB!
Laura Linskey
Rebecca McGarry
Melissa Runcone
Ramside Hall Hotel and Spa
Louise Squire - Lady V Sax
Mark Ireland - Musique
Tony Hudspith
Yasmin Lawson - ALF Events
Adventure Valley - Janine Calzini
Colin and Marilyn Bates
Julie Smith
Costa Thinford
Phil Smith - Newcastle Gin
Beamish Museum
Hardwick Hall Hotel
Laura Graham
Lisa Bates
Middlesbrough FC
Sunderland AFC
Havannah Candles
Stephanie Lee
Lee Jackson
Del & Giwl Sirett
CC Rachel Bacon - for letting Batesy have the night off!
John Robson
Emma Sheen
Abi Holliday
Groomingdales, Hartlepool
Wynyard Golf Club
&
ANYONE ELSE WE’VE FORGOTTEN!