The Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal
Training life-changing dogs, with your support.
Every six minutes someone starts to lose their sight in the UK.
Living with sight loss can be incredibly difficult. Without the right support, people can be left feeling alone and isolated. From their friends and family, careers and communities, from the world they knew and the lives they planned.
But our dogs transform the lives of people with vision impairments, being partnered with a guide dog reduces loneliness and enables people with sight loss to get out and live the life they choose.
This October support the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal and help us to transform our pups into partnerships.
About the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal
This year 1,300 puppies will start their journey to become a guide dog. And we need your help to turn these pups into partnerships. The guide dog service receives no government funding, we rely on donations to continue our life-changing work.
So we’re asking people to join the pack and support Guide Dogs to help us raise and train the life changers of tomorrow.
There are so many fun ways you can get involved, either with your friends and family, your colleagues, community or on your own.
Ways to get involved with the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal
From donating or raising valuable funds, to volunteering an hour of your time. You could even sign up to sponsor a puppy and follow one of our pups on their journey to becoming a guide dog. However you choose to get involved, you’ll be helping our puppies to become life-changing guide dogs, giving freedom and independence to people with sight loss.
Fundraise as a Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion
Help raise life-changing cash donations in your community by being a fundraising Champion. Inspire your work, school, local shops, or businesses to fundraise during October.
Donate an hour of your time at a fundraising collection or event organised by us. Come on your own, or rally a team of friends, family or colleagues.
Whether you’re a regular rambler or more of an ambler, raise funds by taking on our 100km Dog Walk in October.
Sponsor a guide dog pup in training and follow their journey to become a life-changer for someone living with sight loss. You’ll get to choose from three puppies and receive regular Pupdates with exclusive content.
Your gift of £29 could pay for an hour of specialist training for a guide dog, helping them learn all the key skills they need to become life-changers.
Support life-changing guide dog partnerships, like Emma and Archie
By supporting the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal this October, you’ll be helping raise and train our amazing pups so they can become life-changing guide dogs, just like Archie. When Emma applied for a guide dog, she hoped it would make her commute for work easier. What she didn’t expect is how much being partnered with guide dog Archie would improve and change every part of her life for the better.
The bond I have with Archie is so strong. He’s my eyes, my left arm, he’s my best friend. Archie has made me so much more confident in myself – he has absolutely changed my life.