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Welcome to Border Collie Rescue Scotland
Registered Charity in Scotland No SC040796
Scottish Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre
Border Collie Rescue is a registered charitable institution operating under charity law
in England, Wales and Scotland.
Registered throughout the UK as Border Collie Rescue - Charity No SC040796 (Scotland) - Charity No 1128983 (UK) and incorporated as a Non Profit Distributing Charitable Company No 3037504.
Centre and Yard
Border Collie Rescue is setting up a centre for the assessment and rehabilitation of dogs in Scotland
One person said the description below made her think
the centre was already up and running so for the sake of clarity the
Scottish centre is a work in progress, it is not up and running it
is being set up. This involves division of land into paddocks,
a lot of building work and fitting out of buildings to achieve our
goals and meet standards for licensing required by Scottish law. It also needs lots
of funding so the more donations we get the faster we will make
progress. Please support it.
We will joyfully let everyone know when it is ready, licenced and taking in dogs.
In the meantime, the 12 acre field has been secured by new inner stock fencing giving us two grazing fields and three paddocks. The paddocks have 6 ft fencing for exercising and training dogs.
The perimeter fencing has also been upgraded with deer fence where needed and 250+ trees have been planted in the area between the two fencelines which is being re-wilded with more trees, shrubs and hedging to give a varied environment for wildlife and be a buffer zone between the dogs, sheep and the outside world.
A small flock of sheep is keeping the grass down and enabling us to assess dogs we are taking in from Scotland as they pass through on their way to England for fostering and further assessments there before being re-homed.
Our principal office has been moved up from Richmond in Yorkshire. The rehoming and welfare office remains there for the time being but will move to Scotland when progress here is sufficient to enable us to accommodate dogs.
So, what have we got?
The property consist of a small registered farm with 14 acres, a farmhouse for staff and guests and a range of outbuildings for conversion into the various facilities we need. It will run in a similar way to our previous centre near York.
Set in a remote location, half a mile up a private track from a single lane road and 2 miles from the nearest village, it will be a remote and quiet 'house of healing' for the traumatised and unsocialised dogs we take in.
One of the main reasons for its location is no neighbours or passing people or vehicles to disturb the dogs.
As it is now it functions as a centre where we are able to assess incoming dogs for working interest and ability in herding.
As we progress this ability will expand to include assessments for a variety of other jobs and disciplines and eventually we will be able to offer these services to other organisations and members of the public by prior arrangement.
Part of the plan is to be able to offer students 7 to 14 day residential courses to learn about Border Collies, sheepdogs and canine behaviour and one building will be adapted to accommodate small school groups to visit and learn about the same subjects.
When accommodation becomes available the centre will provide limited fostering for dogs who's owners are temporarily unable to keep them due to short term hospitalisation and convalescence. We will look after them until they can go back to their owner.
To qualify the dogs owner will have to demonstrate they have no alternative means of accommodating their dog available to them, be means tested or on a pension or benefits and consent to their doctor or hospital confirming their situation.
The centre is not intended to be a re-homing centre and the dogs we will board here will not be available for rehoming.
Visitors will be strictly by appointment only and other than by previous appointment the centre will not be open to the public.
Today, in July 2025, we are assessing dogs here as they pass through and running our main office here. An architect is drawing up plans for submission to the council planning department. The fields are secured and we are busy making the yard secure so dogs can have more freedom as they come and go. The land is being maintained and in some areas cleared for development for another purpose.
We need two things - volunteers and funds.
Please support our new centre - Please make a donation.
Click here to donate online
or send a cheque made out to Border Collie Rescue to -
BARMARK FARM, CORSOCK, CASTLE DOUGLAS, DG7 3DS
Donations made using the above link will go into a restricted fund that will only be used for developing the centre.
Get in touch if you want to volunteer here. A day, a weekend, a week?
We can accommodate a single person or a couple and you will be well fed!
We will joyfully let everyone know when it is ready, licenced and taking in dogs.
In the meantime, the 12 acre field has been secured by new inner stock fencing giving us two grazing fields and three paddocks. The paddocks have 6 ft fencing for exercising and training dogs.
The perimeter fencing has also been upgraded with deer fence where needed and 250+ trees have been planted in the area between the two fencelines which is being re-wilded with more trees, shrubs and hedging to give a varied environment for wildlife and be a buffer zone between the dogs, sheep and the outside world.
A small flock of sheep is keeping the grass down and enabling us to assess dogs we are taking in from Scotland as they pass through on their way to England for fostering and further assessments there before being re-homed.
Our principal office has been moved up from Richmond in Yorkshire. The rehoming and welfare office remains there for the time being but will move to Scotland when progress here is sufficient to enable us to accommodate dogs.
So, what have we got?
The property consist of a small registered farm with 14 acres, a farmhouse for staff and guests and a range of outbuildings for conversion into the various facilities we need. It will run in a similar way to our previous centre near York.
Set in a remote location, half a mile up a private track from a single lane road and 2 miles from the nearest village, it will be a remote and quiet 'house of healing' for the traumatised and unsocialised dogs we take in.
One of the main reasons for its location is no neighbours or passing people or vehicles to disturb the dogs.
As it is now it functions as a centre where we are able to assess incoming dogs for working interest and ability in herding.
As we progress this ability will expand to include assessments for a variety of other jobs and disciplines and eventually we will be able to offer these services to other organisations and members of the public by prior arrangement.
Part of the plan is to be able to offer students 7 to 14 day residential courses to learn about Border Collies, sheepdogs and canine behaviour and one building will be adapted to accommodate small school groups to visit and learn about the same subjects.
When accommodation becomes available the centre will provide limited fostering for dogs who's owners are temporarily unable to keep them due to short term hospitalisation and convalescence. We will look after them until they can go back to their owner.
To qualify the dogs owner will have to demonstrate they have no alternative means of accommodating their dog available to them, be means tested or on a pension or benefits and consent to their doctor or hospital confirming their situation.
The centre is not intended to be a re-homing centre and the dogs we will board here will not be available for rehoming.
Visitors will be strictly by appointment only and other than by previous appointment the centre will not be open to the public.
Today, in July 2025, we are assessing dogs here as they pass through and running our main office here. An architect is drawing up plans for submission to the council planning department. The fields are secured and we are busy making the yard secure so dogs can have more freedom as they come and go. The land is being maintained and in some areas cleared for development for another purpose.
We need two things - volunteers and funds.
Please support our new centre - Please make a donation.
Click here to donate online
or send a cheque made out to Border Collie Rescue to -
BARMARK FARM, CORSOCK, CASTLE DOUGLAS, DG7 3DS
Donations made using the above link will go into a restricted fund that will only be used for developing the centre.
Get in touch if you want to volunteer here. A day, a weekend, a week?
We can accommodate a single person or a couple and you will be well fed!
Centre and land