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.
Support the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal and help us to transform our pups into partnerships.
Pay in your fundraising
Thank you to everyone who joined our pack this October for the 2024 Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal. Pay in the money you raised, or make a donation, and be part of helping our pups on their journey to become a guide dog.
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.
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.
From hosting your own tea party, pushing yourself in a challenge event or fundraising your own way, find out how you can make a difference as a Guide Dogs fundraiser.
Support the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal when you shop clothing and accessories on the Guide Dogs Teemill store. We receive a royalty on every purchase which helps us raise and train the life changers of tomorrow, so you can support Guide Dogs in style.
Support life-changing guide dog partnerships, like Emma and Archie
By supporting the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal, 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.
Ever wondered how a puppy becomes a guide dog?
Our Pups to Partnerships documentary features insights into what it takes to breed, raise and train a guide dog. You’ll also learn how we carefully match our qualified guide dogs to form life-changing partnerships.
It’s such an honour to have such an important puppy named after me and support the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal. Titch seems to be a very confident and bright little chap – I’m sure he’s got what it takes to become a guide dog someday. I’m looking forward to following his progress in the meantime.