Guide Dogs need your help

Guide Dogs is seeking local volunteers to become counter top collection box co-ordinators, supporting the charity’s ‘Every Penny Counts’ campaign.

The aim of the campaign is to raise £1 million over the next three years, with collection boxes appearing in 40,000 new locations across the UK.

As a Guide Dogs collection box co-ordinator, volunteers distribute and empty the boxes, and deposit donated money. Full training and support to undertake the role is offered and any agreed expenses incurred will be re-imbursed. If readers think they can spare an hour a week to help, we would love to hear from them.

We also need help finding new counter top locations – perhaps readers know a shop, newsagent, petrol station or other public premises that might be happy to support Guide Dogs by giving one of our collection boxes a new home?

Because Guide Dogs relies almost entirely on voluntary contributions to fund its services, every penny collected helps make a life-changing difference to blind and partially-sighted people.

If you would like to volunteer as a collection box co-ordinator, please call us on 0845 371 7771 or email volunteer@guidedogs.org.uk

JULIE MILLAR, Regional development fund-raiser, Guide Dogs.