Guide Dogs to raise awareness during Guide Dog Week 2008 Busy cluttered high streets, unfamiliar places, crowded shops, obstacles on pavements, complex town centres sometimes, in our modern environment, people with sight loss need an extra helping hand to get around, even if they have a guide dog or use a cane. During Guide Dog Week (06 to 12 October), Guide Dogs will lead the way in educating the public on how they can provide practical sighted guiding techniques to assist visually impaired people. The campaign will inform the public and service providers of the best and safest way to guide visually-impaired people who might need assistance in particularly difficult circumstances, such as at a busy road junction, in a railway station or entering a shop. Read the full story about Guide Dog Week... Help usGuide Dogs' Atherton Appeal - help lead us into the future Guide Dogs has been training dogs in the north of England for 77 years. Over that time, streets and town centres have become very busy and complex, and training methods have advanced to help our dogs meet the challenge. Our current school no longer meets our needs so were building a new one! In early summer 2009 well open our brand new Guide Dog Training School in Atherton and you can be a part of it by raising funds to go towards kitting it out.  There are so many ways to help. You could: Sponsor a Puppy through its training Leave a lasting gift in your will Go green and recycle phones, inkjet cartridges and more Events Why not get a group involved and take on the challenge of one of our team events. Or how about life on the open road with our spectacular Le Tour event. Take on the ultimate event run a Marathon. NewsAfter months of work by The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), guide dog Vargo has become the first guide dog in the UK to enter a mosque. In this momentous event today (on Wednesday 24 September), Vargo accompanied his 18-year-old owner Mahomed-Abraar Khatri to his local mosque in Leicester, seen as a massive step forward for other blind and partially sighted Muslims.  Guide dog Theo who has totally transformed the life of his 24-year-old owner Katie Meakin from Coventry who has additional special needs relating to her learning, spatial awareness and physical dexterity has been crowned Guide Dog of the Year 2008. A three-year-old child was knocked over by a cyclist and broke his leg on the shared surface at the junction between Northcroft Lane and Northbrook Street in Newbury. Guide Dogs are again slamming this street design. About us Read about the history of guide dogs and how the charity began. Find out more about the process of becoming a guide dog owner. Discover the new educational resources available for teachers. |
