Activities of Organisation: The ability to get around is vital in order to live a full life yet thousands of blind and partially sighted people never leave home alone. Guide Dogs empowers visually-impaired people to do that and relies on the support of public to fund its services. We breed and train guide dogs which provide life changing mobility and there are currently 4500 working guide dog partnerships in the UK. Guide dog owners only have to pay a nominal 50p for their dog to ensure no one is prevented from having one due to lack of funds. The full lifetime cost of a guide dog from birth to retirement is £49,800. We also provide a range of mobility and other rehabilitation servuices such as white cane training as well as campaigning passionately to break down barriers- both physical and legal- to enable blind and partially sighted poeple to get around on their own.

Description of volunteering duties:

• Driving is a crucial service provided by Guide Dogs volunteers across the country. we require drivers for a number of things: dogs and puppies often need to be transported short or long distances, for instance, from our breeding centre in Warwikshire to the homes of puppy walkers; also guide dog owners sometimes require a driver to take them to Guide Dogs events. Similarly, we need some people to transport our equipment to events and to collect our stamp boxes and collection boxes. To be considered for this role you need an ordinary driving licence with the use of your own vehicle *(we pay the mileage and provide the company!)