ADANA held its Annual General Meeting on April 10th at the Estepona Football Stadium.

Members were delighted to hear that ADANA President Maria Cawsey was able to report a very successful year for the organisation. She told the meeting that the charity's financial position was steadily improving and that since August there had been a marked increase in the number of dog adoptions.

'We have succeeded in building bridges and making new links with rehoming organisations in Germany and Holland as well as increasing the number of dogs rehomed locally here in the Estepona area', said Maria. 'This is of course a result of the hard work of our Adoptions Officer, Helen Ellis. Our many kennel volunteers also do sterling work cleaning the pens and grooming and walking our dogs'.

The year 2011 has been a mixed one for ADANA - like the proverbial Curate's Egg, good in parts.

To start with the not-so-good things:

No doubt because of the crisis the number of dogs in our perrera has increased to almost two hundred. It is becoming increasingly difficult to provide adequate accommodation for such a large number and inevitably fights and fatalities result.

If you are holding a 2011 Raffle Ticket shown in the following list and have not received your prize or been notified of your win, can you please contact the person you purchased the ticket(s) from or Contact our Fund Raiser  Helen Oldfield on 952 800 933.

The votes for the photos in the 2011 ADANA photo competition have been counted and we can now announce the winners.

We had a total 52 entries in the competition - many thanks to all participants. The photos were voted on by the public and the 12 winning photos will be put in the ADANA 2012 calendar.

Congratulations to the following 12 winners:

at the Padre Manual Centre in Estepona on Tuesday 29 November 2011 - 7pm.

At our last meeting at the Padre Manuel Centre Estepona it was agreed to hold the next quarterly Members Meeting on Tuesday 29th November at the same venue. The topic this time will be fundraising issues and suggestions.  Hope to see you there with loads of ideas!!

at the Padre Manual Centre in Estepona on Tuesday September 27th 2011.

This was the second of the quarterly meetings instigated by the 'new' ADANA Board. The aim of these meetings is to involve members more closely with the decision-making processes, to enable them to voice their opinions in a less formal setting than the AGM and to increase transparency.

The President, Maria Cawsey, opened the meeting and welcomed those present, some thirty members. She explained that the topic of the meeting would be the future of the stalled Sanctuary Project and that although it was essential to give members a full picture of how matters had reached the present state, there would be no 'blamefest' as such would be pointless and we should be looking for viable solutions.