Helping hands & paws, lifting community spirit with outreach & support.
[Note: Parts of this website contains age appropriate topics & images depicting mental health & trauma.
Caution is advised]
Welcome To WAGGOL
Winston And Gary's Gifts Of Love
WAGGOL was born from the tragic loss of our founders son Garry to Mental Illness, and the need to be kinder in an every growing diverse and divisive society.
We want you to know you are heard and you are seen!
No matter the path of life you travel, let us be a rest stop on your journey, a place you can feel safe and feel respite if only through comforting words of advice or being pointed in the right direction.
Did I mention, we also give a helping paws to the furbabies.
When you're having a bad day WAGGOL this way.
As a mantra of our founder says
"Kindness is a gift that should be given freely without expectation"
What We Do At WAGGOL HQ
To help us in our fundraising, We personally design handmade decor, gifts, cards and more and we also make personilised gifts. We design images for clothing and merchandise that we can also personilse to individualrequirements, we make handmade faux floral arrangments that last forever, bouquets, seasonal wreaths and decorations and home decor. We are creative souls who believe, when it's made with love, its recieved with warmth and a smile (who doesnt deserve to smile right) 😊
All our handmade pieces are sold to raise funds to purchase items to donate to various organisations and individuals, human and animal alike.
We do not keep any profit made, we recoup the cost to replenish materials and then every penny of profit is donated.
We are only a small community group so I help is limited by what we can produce so we also welcome donations of products used in our creative ventures and also for prizes for our events.
We also when able donate staff room hampers to NHS departments as a way of thanking the staff for their care. We are hoping to expand this to other services soon.
This is an information and advice site so please if you are interested in our handmade products or donating, please visit our social media or get in touch by using the contact form.
Thank you.
Our Aims
Our Aims
Over the past year, we have helped both individuals in our community brighten their lives a little by helping with the small things that make the big difference and so help their mental health and well-being.
We have supported organisations with donations for their events.
We have given donations to animal shelters to help feed their furbabies and we have donated prizes for raffles.
As a small community fundraiser, we do the best we can and in 2024 we will focus on three main chosen organisations whilst still helping individuals.
We welcome you to get involved in the community events and any support is appreciated very much.
About WAGGOL
Our Ethos
"Let Yesterday's Painful History Give Stregnth To Tommorows Determined Destiny"
WAGGOL was founded in 2023 by a mother who had tragically lost a son to mental illness after living a lifetime of the disease. Inspired by everyday community hero's and individuals, who are also fighting for their community, WAGGOL and it's co founders wanted to give a helping hand and along with their pawsome pooch Wunston Fabio Brad, WAGGOL was born
'Winston And Gary's Gifts Of Love'
We saw a need for more resources in our community, more support for local organisations, fighting day by day for a better way, and in a cost of living crisis, a little helping hand or paw, where possible.
WAGGOL'S founder is also passionate about nutrition, being an insulin pump wesring diabetic, WAGGOL'S founder became a gatherer of nutritional knowlege, seeking out game changing affordable food products that help her live as normal life as possible whilst advocating for people needing lifestyle changes and wellbeing. Nutrition can play a big part in our mental wellbeing so this has become one of WAGGOL'S founders missions to bring mental health front an centre whilst understanding the road nutrition plays.
"Food not only nourishes the body but nurtures the mind"
Our Team
Our team is small but mighty!
Made up of helping hands and playful paws, we are passionate about our community of both humans and fur boys 'n' gals!
We can't move mountains as a small team, but we do try to help who we can get over the bumps in the road making for more steady journey's.
Meet The 'W' in WAGGOL
Meet Sir Winston (or as he is know fondly by some) Winston Fabio-Brad ♡
The face that launched a thousand smiles.
This is one of the two boys behind the drive to make WAGGOL a reality.
He definitely is an emotional support and is loved by all who know him, admired and adored by those who know him through social media and fawned upon by those he meets on his walkies.
Winstons family, who have grown with him, and his brother (his human brother) and his children that are his brother young ones, value and love him deeply, this has given them an appreciation and understanding that animal welfare is also as important as what we do for each other.
We call him the CEO (Cuddles of Everyone) of the team.
He deserves a round of apaws.
