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Guide Dogs has been working with the Games to provide accessibility training to volunteers working at the event. Find out how you can also help to make events more accessible.

Being a Sighted Guide for Guide Dogs means helping someone with sight loss get out and about in their local community. It means increasing someone’s confidence, independence and freedom to enjoy more of what they love. And in some cases, being a Sighted Guide means changing someone’s life and making their dreams come true.

Is braille still relevant in 2023? For Siobhan, Marie and Mel it shaped their love for reading, helped them learn new skills and remains a constant in their lives.

German shepherds are intelligent, adaptable, loyal and loving, and they work as guide dogs across the UK. And yet, more than a quarter of the public (27%) think they are an aggressive dog breed, despite most never having a negative experience with one.

Guide Dogs are delighted to confirm that after a rigorous external assessment, we have successfully completed the accreditation as set by the International Guide Dogs Federation (IGDF).

Our range of volunteering opportunities not only help people with sight loss in a variety of ways but with so many roles to choose from, and the flexibility to try something different – there’s always a new challenge, fun to be had, and of course, people to meet.

The world’s leading organisations for assistance dogs and guide dogs have come together to issue a new joint statement re-affirming their commitment to the wellbeing and treatment of dogs trained by their members.

Plans to close train ticket offices in England will leave visually impaired passengers 'isolated and left behind’ according to a new Guide Dogs survey.