Become a Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion

Get ready to take on the challenge of inspiring fundraising in your community for the Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal this October.

This year, 1,300 puppies will start their journey to become a guide dog. We might not all be able to train a puppy to become a life-changing guide dog, but it is still possible for us all to play a vital part in turning our pups into partnerships.

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What is a Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion

Would you like to help raise awareness of our annual Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal and coordinate fundraising in your local area? If you are looking for a new challenge, like to meet new people, and can commit to supporting us for a few hours during September and October, then our new Champion fundraising role is the perfect fit.  

What you could do as a Champion 

Whether you have supported us before, or this is something new – we’ll be with you all the way. 

As a fundraising Champion you could either: 

  • Organise a collection at your work, school, or business. 
  • Coordinate local fundraising with the help of our Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal pack. 
  • Rally a team of friends, family, or colleagues and fundraise your way. 
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A selection of Guide Dogs Champion resources

Steps to being a Champion 

Step 1: Plan 

Once you have signed up, we’ll contact you to provide tips and advice on your role as a Champion. It might be useful to start thinking how and where you would like to fundraise during October. 

Step 2: Get your community involved

Let your friends, family and colleagues know about your fundraising and get them involved too. If you are planning to ask local shops or businesses to fundraise, we recommend visiting in person and can provide leaflets and tips to support these conversations.

Step 3: Order your fundraising packs 

Once your plans are confirmed, we’ll post everything you need to co-ordinate your fundraising collection, activity or event. These could include cardboard money boxes, bucket labels, or our puppy sweepstake which comes with a free cuddly toy as the winning prize.   

Step 4: On the day

The Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal runs throughout October, but fundraising can take place at any time throughout the month. 

Step 5: Pay in the funds raised

It’s time to thank everyone and collect the money you helped raise ready to send to us. We’ll send all the instructions on how you can pay in online or via card, cheque, at the bank or via JustGiving. 

Sign up to be a Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion 

Sign up for this exciting new fundraising role using the short form below. You’ll get access to your downloadable Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion fundraising guide straight away, and we’ll also be in touch in the coming days to start planning. 

All fields marked with * are mandatory.

We will use your personal information, provided below, to process your registration and contact you about your fundraising.

All about you

If you are under the age of 16, please ask a parent or guardian to complete the rest of the form.

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Your contact details

Please use this box to tell us how we can help you further or if there’s anything we need to know to assist your fundraising, e.g. if you require any specific resources, or if you are signing up on behalf of a young person/child etc. (Please provide details in no more than 512 characters)

Have you fundraised for Guide Dogs before?

We respect your personal information and your privacy and will not share or sell your information to other organisations.

We will use your contact details and information on how you have supported us to provide you and others with information we think you will find interesting. To help us do this we may use publicly sourced data and information from data analytics companies.

Find out more about how we manage and respect your data at www.guidedogs.org.uk/privacy-policy or call freephone 0800 953 0113 to request a printed copy. Please use this number to tell us if you have changed your mind about how we contact you; including telling us that you do not wish to receive occasional direct mail about Guide Dogs.

Keeping in touch

To hear about ways you can donate or raise funds for our life-changing services, please let us know how you would like us to contact you (using the details above).

What type of group are you?

About your group

If you are under the age of 16, please ask a parent or guardian to complete the rest of the form.

Please enter a postcode and find your address.

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Your contact details

Please use this box to tell us how we can help you further or if there’s anything we need to know to assist your fundraising, e.g. if you require any specific resources, or if you are signing up on behalf of a young person/child etc. (Please provide details in no more than 512 characters)

Have you fundraised for Guide Dogs before?

We respect your personal information and your privacy and will not share or sell your information to other organisations.

We will use your contact details and information on how you have supported us to provide you and others with information we think you will find interesting. To help us do this we may use publicly sourced data and information from data analytics companies.

Find out more about how we manage and respect your data at www.guidedogs.org.uk/privacy-policy or call freephone 0800 953 0113 to request a printed copy. Please use this number to tell us if you have changed your mind about how we contact you; including telling us that you do not wish to receive occasional direct mail about Guide Dogs.

Thank you for signing up to be a Guide Dogs Puppy Appeal Champion. With your incredible fundraising, we can support people living with sight loss to have greater freedom and independence.
Andrew Lennox, CEO of Guide Dogs

FAQs

Get in touch

We’re with you all the way. Our team are here to help if you have any questions about this fundraising role and throughout your time fundraising with us. Our team is available 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.

0345 143 0192