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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.

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.

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.

This week, train companies officially announced plans to close the majority of ticket offices in England. Only a small number in the busiest train stations will remain, with passengers instead encouraged to book their tickets online or pay for them via self-service machines.

This year marks an incredible eight decades since the very first issue of Guide Dogs’ flagship magazine, Forward, was published. The celebratory 80th anniversary edition of the magazine is out today, and I don’t want to give too many spoilers about its contents, but it does have some extra pages so we could fit everything in!

A guide dog owner from Derby is appealing for technology companies to save a ‘lifeline’ navigation app, that gives her, and others with sight loss an audio map of their surroundings.

Birmingham school children decided to raise enough money to name two guide dog puppies in memory of their classmates via Guide Dogs Name a Puppy scheme.