Creative activities
Whisk up a storm in the kitchen and hold a Bake Sale!
Love baking? Turn your cakes into cash by hosting your very own bake sale to help raise funds for Guide Dogs. Get everything you need including celebrity recipes, donation cards, cake flags and edible cake toppers for your bakes – it really is a piece of cake!
Get crafty with a make and sell fundraiser
Are you a crafty crafter? Why not sell your home-made treasures and raise funds to support our life-changing work? From cards to candles, decorations to doggy treats, we’re here to help you turn your craft into cash with lots of helpful tips.
Raise money with our Puppy Sweepstakes
Our cute puppy sweepstake are a crowd pleaser and an easy way to raise life-changing funds to support us. Simply fill out our short registration form, download and print your sweepstakes and pop in your local hairdressers, pub or even in the office. Choose a prize or portion of the proceeds as a prize and you’ll be raising funds as easy as 1-2-3!
Raising awareness
Influence change by getting involved with our campaigns
Did you know Guide Dogs campaign for the rights of people with sight loss to help them access public transport, our town centres and other public services? Take a look at our current campaigns and find out how you can help in just a few clicks - from signing petitions to raising awareness in your local community.
Help us expand the Guide Dogs Family
Guide Dogs is always recruiting new volunteers and we need your local community expertise to help us recruit new volunteers across the UK. Request a volunteering promotional pack which features posters and other materials, to help spread the word about volunteering for Guide Dogs.
Keep up to date with our campaign activity
You can sign up to our campaigns mailing list to receive updates on our current campaigns. You can also discover how you can get involved and make a difference to people living with sight loss.
Invite one of our inspirational speakers
Do you have an upcoming event that might benefit from a guest speaker? Invite a volunteer speaker from Guide Dogs to come along and speak to your audience about Guide Dogs, helping to raise awareness and inspire people to get involved.Educational activities
Learn With Guide Dogs
Understanding sight loss and creating change: Learn with Guide Dogs is our collection of exciting resources and activities to introduce young people to what having sight loss is like, explain how our guide dogs are trained, share real life stories from young people with a vision impairment, and more.
Ready, set…Fund Race!
Start important conversations about inclusion with a Guide Dogs assembly and sports challenge that everyone can enjoy. Fund Race involves a track race or obstacle course with a twist…every participant is blindfolded and uses a rope or partner as a guide. Schools and youth groups can join us by using this downloadable Fund Race pack.
Social activities
Host a tea party
Home-baked or store-bought, virtual cuppas or garden gatherings – do it your way and use your tea party to connect over your favourite brew and cake whilst raising money for Guide Dogs. Our free tea party pack is filled with everything you need from posters to cake flags, bunting and edible cake toppers.
Get your friends thinking with our quiz pack
Our quiz pack is filled with everything you need from posters to ready-made rounds for your quiz master, including our Celebrity Sound Round. To see what there is available, register for your fundraising pack.
Help out at Guide Dogs events
Join us at Guide Dogs events where you may be helping to set up branding, covering registration, bag drop or stalls, cheering on our participants, co-ordinating sports massages, escorting participants to the post-race reception, handing out medals or marshalling. To get involved please email our events team.
Virtual activities
Like, comment and share on our social media channels
Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok. Liking, commenting on, and sharing our posts helps to introduce us to new audiences. Why not invite your friends to like our pages too?
Put your gaming skills to the test with a Gaming marathon
If you or someone you know plays a lot of FIFA, Minecraft or more, and you are a Twitch Affiliate or Partner, you can fundraise for Guide Dogs using Twitch’s Charity Tool for Creators. Take on a sponsored gaming marathon, host a tournament or perhaps invite other gamers to take part for a donation and offer a prize for the top gamer.
Learn online how to guide someone with sight loss
If you want to help a person living with sight loss by offering guiding assistance, you can watch our handy instructional videos on sighted guiding .
Nominate us for Charity of the Year
You can nominate Guide Dogs at your workplace for Charity of the Year. Our expert corporate team works with companies to create truly bespoke partnerships delivering shared value and impact. Find out how your company can get involved.
Name a puppy
Let your friends, family and colleagues know that they can name one of our life changing puppies by sharing our Name a Puppy page.
Share your birthday treat
Ask your friends to donate to Guide Dogs to celebrate your birthday in lieu of gifts - donate in celebration.
Sporting activities
Lace up those running shoes with our running events
Whatever the distance, lace up your running shoes and make every step count for Guide Dogs! Taking part in one of our running or walking events is a great motivator to get fit whilst also supporting a good cause.
Get those legs pedalling with our cycling events
Prefer to travel on two wheels? We have an amazing range of cycling events you can get involved in, in the UK and abroad.
Feel like something more extreme?
Embrace your wild side and experience the unforgettable thrill of a tandem skydive! Charity sky diving with Guide Dogs
