Guide Dog Bumble with Liz Gilbert & Emma Holt from Guide Dogs and DSU Guide Dogs Society members Eleanor Green, Natasha Loveridge and Emily O'Sullivan
A host of four-legged friends visited us on Monday for a chat about Guide Dogs and lots of furry cuddles!
Organised by our VP Welfare and Community Rebecca Robson as part of our ‘Mind Your Head’ anti-stress week, the visit included training and working Guide Dogs, staff and volunteers from the charity. Students visiting could make a donation to charity whilst meeting the dogs and getting to know more about what Guide Dogs is all about. The event was a massive success and we raised a fantastic £185 - well done!!
Guide Dogs is a self funded charity that breeds, trains and partners guide dogs with people that are blind and visually impaired. They support the partnerships throughout their working lifetime together and then re-home the dogs once they go into retirement.
Liz Gilbert, Guide Dogs Community Fundraiser, explained to students how at age 1 the dogs go into training and at age 2 are matched with a suitable person. Each dog costs £50,000 from birth to retirement and the charity costs £50million a year to operate, relying heavily on volunteers and donations.
As well as providing a lovely break to your studies, the visit also resulted in the creation of our 110th society – Fundraising for Guide Dogs. The society hopes to put on a range of fundraising events for the charity with the aim of raising enough money to name a guide dog Monty – after the latest John Lewis Christmas advert. Cute!!
For more information about the Guide Dogs charity visit www.guidedogs.org.uk and to find out about all our societies click HERE!