Get together this October

Fundraise for the Guide Dogs Appeal 2023 and help tackle the loneliness and isolation caused by sight loss.

Sight loss can affect anyone, at any age or stage of life. Often, it makes people feel alone and isolated. From friends and loved ones, from careers and communities, from the world they knew and the lives they’d planned.

We need your support to change lives

For this year’s Guide Dogs Appeal in October, we’re asking all our supporters to get together – and raise money to help tackle the loneliness and isolation caused by sight loss.

Cross the generational divide and assemble your friends and family, to fundraise for Guide Dogs. Or simply come together with your colleagues or community to raise money and show people with sight loss they’re not alone.

1 in 5 people will live with significant sight loss in their lifetime.
50% of all people with a vision impairment feel cut off from the people and places around them.
80% of parents believe their child’s sight loss has a negative effect on their ability to make friends.

Ideas for your Guide Dogs Appeal fundraiser

However you choose to fundraise, we’ll support you all the way!

Resources in the Guide Dogs fundraising pack

Free fundraising pack

Sign up today to request a fundraising pack and access to lots of downloadable tools. When you pay in the funds you raise, we’ll also send you an exclusive invitation to visit Guide Dogs!

How your fundraising could help

Big or small, whatever fundraising goal you choose will make a difference. With the money you raise, we can help a child born with a vision impairment to take their first steps into the world or support a grandparent as they relearn to live a full life with sight loss.

“Why not raise money like me for Guide Dogs?” – Rex

Seven-year-old Rex was inspired to fundraise because of his Mum Lorna’s sight loss journey. He initially had the idea to raise £100 through a muddy obstacle course, but soon caught the fundraising bug.

FAQs

We rely on fundraising and donations to continue our wide range of services, both with and without dogs, and help thousands of people live actively, independently, and well with sight loss.

With the money you raise, we can help a child born with a vision impairment to take their first steps into the world or support a grandparent as they relearn to live a full life with sight loss.
Once you’ve signed up, our fundraising team will be in touch via email or phone to see if there is anything extra you might need to help make your fundraising a success. This could include an ‘I’m fundraising in aid of Guide Dogs’ t-shirt, fluffy wearable dogs ears, or additional resources and bespoke fundraising advice.
When you pay in the funds you raise, you’ll receive an exclusive invitation to see behind the scenes at Guide Dogs.

Events are held throughout the year at our National Centre in Leamington Spa. You’ll spend the day behind the scenes including a tour of where we breed our pups, demonstration of how our dogs are trained, and the opportunity to meet a guide dog partnership and hear first-hand the difference your fundraising makes.

Got a question?

If you have any questions or need help or advice about fundraising for Guide Dogs, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

guidedogsappeal@guidedogs.org.u

0345 143 0192