Forward The official Guide Dogs magazine Spring/Summer 2019

Meet Caitlin, the future Paralympian!

Also inside: Introducing the Guide Did you see Dogs Appeal 2019 our heart- warming Who will you nominate for TV ad? a People Award? Do something amazing today

I get just as much from our meetings as I hope Agatha gets from me. Hannah, sighted guide volunteer

You can make a positive difference to the life of someone with sight loss, whilst making new friends, getting exercise and gaining skills. Our specialist training and support will ensure that you feel confident to safely guide someone with sight loss in your local area. You will help someone who shares the same interests as you to get out of their home and into the community, and build their self-confidence and independence. You can make a real difference to their lives – and it will make you feel good too. Find out more

Call 0345 143 0191 Email [email protected] Visit us at guidedogs.org.uk/volunteer Contents 16

Regulars

5. Welcome from the CEO

6. News Stories from across Guide Dogs

11. Guide Dogs in the media A round-up of what’s made the headlines

12. Celebrity round-up special What have our star Features supporters been up to? 11 13 On the campaign 25 A Day In The Life trail Of… Sally Freeman, 41. Caption competition Guide Dogs’ Family Puppy Naylor meets 16  Taking the right Events Manager a larger-than-life STEPs Learn about friend how we train our dogs 29 Introducing our new People and dogs October event… 15 The Guide Dogs 18 Read all about our Appeal 2019! 14. Who will you spring campaign nominate for a to spread the word Guide Dogs People about Guide Dogs 42 In good company Award?

15. Meet Theo, the 20 Caitlin’s story 20 12-year-old who’s Find out how this raised enough to 23 young girl isn’t name a guide letting sight loss dog puppy hold her back 23. Join Dave in celebrating 40 24 Read about our years of guide new Volunteering dog ownership Strategy 24 26. Thank you to our supporters

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Chief Executive’s welcome

more people in the south Speaking of awards, it was west. We’re also expanding my honour to be invited to our training facilities at other present the champion trophy sites, while recruiting 25 to the owner of the Best in more Guide Dog Mobility Group – Gundogs category Instructors this year to tackle at Crufts in March, which waiting times across the UK. was an Irish Water Spaniel We are so dependent on called Luther. We were also our volunteers to do what able to showcase our positive we do and we’re pleased reinforcement training to the to share our new plans to dog-loving public at our stand, expand and enhance the which was very well received. I know many of you will support we provide to our I was also very pleased to want to hear how the black fantastic volunteers. I had be one of the 300 people Labrador puppy my family the pleasure of seeing Ken running for us in the London welcomed into our home Syvret MBE presented with Landmarks Half Marathon. last year is getting on. At the Foundation Award at Especially impressive were the time of writing, Dolly is the Churchill Awards in the 30 brave souls dressed currently being assessed at April for his tireless charity as guide dogs. It was a the National Breeding Centre work. The awards recognise great day and I was happy as a future guide dog mum. If the contribution made by with my time, especially not, then of course it’ll be hard those aged over 65 to British considering that I took the to say goodbye as she moves society. Among a host of chance to greet as many on to guide dog training, other voluntary roles, Ken’s fellow Guide Dogs runners as because she’s become part been a committee member I could on my way round. of our family. But either way, of the Guide Dogs Jersey Don’t forget that you can we’re happy knowing that fundraising group for 60 she’ll be a future life-changer. follow me on Twitter; my years, and its Chairman for handle is @tomwrightuk. Speaking of the future, in my 49 years and counting. It last greeting I introduced was inspirational to hear of With best wishes, our By My Side strategy to someone so dedicated to Tom Wright CBE take this charity to 2023 this charity. Chief Executive and beyond. I explained Guide Dogs that we want to do even more for people with sight loss – whether that’s canine assistance and support services, or services delivered in-person, online or over the phone. And we’re devising all sorts of ways to increase our capacity to make sure that happens. For example, we’ve purchased and are now expanding our Bristol facilities to help even

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Great British Dog Forward magazine – your chance to have your say Survey returns Here at Forward, Forward we’d love to get The official Guide Dogs magazine Spring/Summer 2019 your thoughts on this magazine – what you love, what we can do differently or what

Meet Caitlin, you’d like to see more the future Paralympian! of. That’s why with this edition of Forward,

Also inside: Introducing the Guide Did you see we’ve included a Dogs Appeal 2019 our heart- warming Who will you nominate for TV ad? a People Award? readers’ survey for you The Great British Dog Survey is back! And to fill out and return to us by Friday, 26 July. this year we want to find out even more If you receive a standard print copy of about the nation’s favourite pets. Here Forward magazine, the survey was included. at Guide Dogs, we can’t get enough of If you get any other format, please go to talking about our pooches but now we surveymonkey.co.uk/r/forward2019 to fill out want to hear about yours! Do you have the questionnaire by 5pm on 26 July. While a doggy mastermind or maybe a playful the most efficient way for us as a charity to pup regardless of their actual age? It’s collect responses is online, if you need to time to put your dog on the map! complete the survey over the phone, call 0118 983 8484 by this deadline. We’d love to What’s more, we’ve got some excellent know your views, so please take ten minutes prizes up for grabs; from dog portrait to tell us what you think. photoshoots to a £200 Pets at Home hamper! You’ve got to be in it to win it, so take part today at dogsurvey.org.uk.

Dorothy Richardson: Happy Volunteers’ Week! 3 May 1939 – Volunteers’ Week takes place from 1-7 9 February 2019 June each year to celebrate the fantastic Sunderland and South contribution that volunteers make across the Shields fundraising UK. Here at Guide Dogs, we’ve celebrated group are sad to through our Local Volunteer Awards and by announce the loss of sharing stories of the amazing things that loyal supporter, Dorothy Guide Dogs’ volunteers do to change the Richardson, who lives of people with sight loss. worked tirelessly for the group. Dorothy, who had several We would like to take this opportunity to guide dogs during her life, attended thank you for what you do for Guide Dogs. hundreds of collection days over many Whether you’ve run a marathon, boarded years, raising thousands of pounds for a dog, become a My Guide, raised money Guide Dogs. She will be greatly missed for Guide Dogs or any of the other amazing by all who knew her. ways you support us – we want to give you our heartfelt thanks.

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Stepping out Guide Dogs continues May saw the advent of a new Guide Dogs fundraising challenge: Walk Your Socks Off! to highlight the issue of A test of endurance, participants had to complete 100,000 steps across seven days. dog attacks Did you know that’s what a guide dog Five years since new laws were introduced, dogs trainer could rack up each week walking owned, trained and cared for by Guide Dogs our life-changing pups? are still too often being attacked by other dogs. Launched by celebrity supporters There have been more than 750 attacks on our Laura Anderson, Pandora Christie and dogs since 2014, and our latest figures show an Jess Impiazzi, Walk Your Socks Off saw increase of nine per cent in reported attacks thousands of you stepping up to the since the Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and challenge throughout the month. We’re Policing Act was introduced in that year. expecting to raise as much as £150,000, so To mark the anniversary of the change in the a huge thank you to everyone who took law we helped achieve, Guide Dogs is working part. We hope you will wear your exclusive closely with police to ensure these attacks are stripy Guide Dogs socks with pride! taken seriously. We also continue to urge the public to take responsibility for their dogs. In Keep a look out for next year’s Walk Your May, guide dog owners shared their stories in the Socks Off challenge at guidedogs.org.uk/ media and spoke about the emotional impact walkyoursocksoff. dog attacks had on them and their dogs. Dates for your diary 2019 There is a host of dates coming up for your diaries, including our Annual General Meeting and a series of Use Your Senses events. Use Your Senses are family-friendly fun runs with a difference, as your five senses are stimulated while you make your way around the 5k course. • Use Your Senses Manchester – Saturday, 10 August • Use Your Senses Midlands – Saturday, 17 August • Annual General Meeting – Tuesday, 10 September, 1pm at Guide Dogs’ National The sponsored walk Breeding Centre, Banbury Road, Bishops that’s good for the Tachbrook, Leamington Spa, CV33 9QJ • Use Your Senses Glasgow – SOLE! Saturday, 21 September To enter a Use Your Senses run, sign up at guidedogs.org.uk/useyoursenses or call 0345 1430200 and pledge to raise £25. You can also volunteer to assist at a Use Your Senses event by using the above contact details.

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Brexit and travelling with a dog

Many guide dog owners who work their help anyone travelling to the EU understand dogs abroad will be wondering how Brexit the timescales and processes needed to will affect their travels overseas. Prior to comply with European pet travel regulation. the original leaving date of 29 March, Visit gov.uk/guidance/pet-travel- government departments responsible for to-europe-after-brexit. the import and export of dogs into and It is important to understand that guide out of the UK had been negotiating with dog handlers are not exempt from these the relevant authorities to maintain travel rules because of their disability, as the with dogs much like it has always been. regulations are in place to protect the As this situation is so uncertain, the UK UK from diseases which may impact government has created online guidance to public health and other animals.

Meet Wales’s youngest guide dog owner

“Next year I am off to college and my Libby will be coming with me. I am very excited but nervous to be moving A teenager from Ebbw Vale has become away from home as I won’t know Wales’s youngest guide dog owner. Amelia anyone at first. Having Libby at my side Elliott was 15 when she was partnered with will make such a difference to me.” golden retriever Libby in September last year, and the pair are now inseparable. Amelia, known as Milly, was born with the genetic condition retinitis pigmentosa, and has only some central vision in her left eye. Milly is now 16, and trains with Disability Sport Wales as she’s a British Junior champion in discus and shot put. “Libby comes with me to my training sessions,” Milly said. “It’s such a coincidence that I am a sportsperson and Libby was a sponsored guide dog puppy, named after Libby Clegg, the Paralympic sprinter.

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Newport success for Teaming up with RNIB to empower guide Guide Dogs Cymru dog owners Following a tough campaign by Guide Dogs Cymru, in collaboration with the other major Guide Dogs has sight loss charities in Wales, a vital service worked with RNIB for children with additional learning needs (Royal National has been saved. Newport City Council Institute of Blind withdrew plans to pull out of the Sensory and People) to empower Communication Support Unit, which serves guide dog owners children with hearing, communication and to tackle the rising visual needs across all five of the county of number of reports Gwent’s local councils. Success was achieved of cafés, hotels by highlighting the likely impact on children in and taxis refusing Newport, marshalling all the major sight loss entry to their guide charities under the banner of the Wales Vision dogs. The two sight Forum, robustly pointing out the shortcomings loss charities have in Newport City Council’s alternative plans released a jointly- and getting the issue raised in the National produced toolkit Assembly for Wales. to provide support and advice to guide dog owners and anyone with sight loss anywhere in the UK, informing them of their legal rights and including practical information and guides to challenge access refusals. Guide dog owners can get the toolkit from their local Guide Dogs team or from RNIB on 0303 123 9999.

Game, set and match Helen Kennedy for Northern Ireland with Rigsby tennis players Congratulations to guide dog owners Lisa McLaughlin, Helen Kennedy and Andrea Hope, who have been selected to represent Ireland in the VI Tennis World Championships in Alicante, Spain, this summer. Their training is in full swing and we’ll be following their progress along the way. Good luck to you all – we know you’ll do us proud! Lisa McLaughlin with Fido (left) and Andrea Hope with Debbie.

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Celebrating decades of freedom, dedication… And fun!

This year has yielded a bumper crop of guide dog owners, volunteers and fundraising groups celebrating significant anniversaries.

In September, Alison Members of the Bakewell Fundraising Group May will mark fifty in Derbyshire have two very special reasons years of guide dog to celebrate in 2019. Not only is the group ownership, plus her marking its 30th anniversary, but it has also sixth guide dog, reached the milestone of raising £500,000. Bonnie, will be ten years old. Alison, from Dover in Kent, Four volunteers from Guide Dogs’ Lincoln said: “Thanks to Heidi, and District Fundraising Group received Kaiser, Farley, Faith, long service awards in March, having Teasel and now volunteered for Guide Dogs for 50 years. Bonnie, I have been John Butler, June Butler, Keith Boddy and able to hold down Ron Eveleigh received their awards at a rewarding jobs, raise surprise presentation during the group’s a family, travel extensively and develop a annual meeting, attended by the Mayor of wide network of friends. I am so grateful Lincoln. Since 1967, the group has raised an to all those who have made this possible: impressive total of more than £1.2m. the breeders, fundraisers, puppy walkers, boarders, trainers and the instructors.” Towards the Robert Logan, from end of this year, Ayr in Scotland, Hilary Reed from celebrated 50 Wiltshire will start years of guide puppy walking dog ownership in her 50th guide March. Currently dog puppy. with his seventh dog, Hilary’s puppy yellow Labrador/ walking journey golden retriever started in the Indy, Robert’s first summer of 1982, guide dog was when she received her first puppy, Dale. Glint, followed by Hilary is currently puppy walking her 48th Ambie, Justin, Selma, and 49th puppies, Jake and Badger. Mel and Aneka. “It was like night and day when I got Glint,” said Robert. “Before I had my guide dogs, I Go to page 23 to read about couldn’t go further than the garden gate. Dave Kent celebrating 40 years They helped me take my kids to nursery, to Boys Brigade, to clubs. I couldn’t have done of guide dog ownership. that without them.”

10 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Guide Dogs in the media Guide Dogs in the media

ITV News and London Live both covered

Mail Online, The Sun, Woman and Home and our new report, called By My Side, which Hello! magazines all had online news stories revealed that more than 42 per cent of about our fourth episode of our podcast series, people with sight loss feel ‘left out’ of I See What You’re Saying, which focused on everyday moments. Guide dog owner and Parenting. In the episode, The One Show’s Alex Guide Dogs staff member Ian Morris was Jones was joined by two guide dog owners – interviewed, and called for more My Guide Libby Clegg MBE, a Paralympic gold medallist volunteers to help people with sight loss. who was pregnant with her first child at the time, and Hetal Bapodra, a blind mum of two sighted children. Alex opened up about her fears of becoming a mum of two, and you can still listen to all four episodes of I See What You’re Saying on all podcast platforms.

The star of our new brand campaign Alex Pepper appeared on BBC 2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme after being asked Actress Sophie Thompson appeared on to leave a shopping centre in Kent by ITV’s Lorraine on Easter Monday to talk a security guard. The guard said the about her day as a My Guide volunteer. centre had a no dogs policy, despite She told stand-in host Christine Lampard Alex explaining that his dog, River, was about why she was so keen to get involved a guide dog. On the show, Alex said with our My Guide service due to the that unfortunately such incidents aren’t hereditary sight loss in her family. Sophie, uncommon, but that this was an isolated who was paired with a service user called incident for the shopping centre. You can Sam on a visit to Tate Britain, also told read more about our brand campaign on Christine about how moving she found her pages 18 -19. My Guide training, and about the friendship she has formed with Sam.

11 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Star news Star news Since your last issue of Forward magazine, our celebrity ambassadors and supporters have been busy!

Baby news We are delighted to announce that Guide Dogs Ambassador Libby Clegg MBE gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on 13 April – Edward Daniel Powell weighing 8lb 9oz. Congratulations to Libby and her fiancé, Dan. Libby is a guide dog owner and Paralympic gold medallist. As an Ambassador of the charity, she supports Guide Dogs in a number of activities – including our recent ‘parenting’ podcast, where she chatted with celebrity host Alex Jones and fellow guide dog owner and parent, Hetal Bapodra.

Twice as nice In the running Twin sopranos who grew up boarding Ambassador Jess guide dogs have been to visit some of our Impiazzi donned newest recruits. Naomi and Hannah Moxon her running shoes – better known as Classical Reflection – to run the London visited our National Breeding Centre to Landmarks Half meet some puppies. The 23-year-olds, Marathon for who appeared on TV talent show The Guide Dogs Voice and were nominated for a Classic in March. BRIT Award, grew up around guide dogs Jess, a model, as their family were boarders. The duo actress and TV also adopted two retired guide dogs and personality, ran supported the charity by performing at our an impressive Christmas Concert last year. Naomi said: time of two hours, “We had such an inspiring day. To see first- three minutes and hand how important these cute pups are is raised more than amazing. They really are life changers.” £600. She said: “My mum Debbie lost her sight 10 years ago and the help from having a guide dog gave her her independence back so she could live her life to the full again! I was so pleased to run the London Landmarks Half Marathon to raise money for this amazing charity so that they can keep changing the lives of those with sight loss!”

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Campaigns Highlights of 2019 so far

Brexit! There can only be one word to sum up British politics so far in 2019. However, we have been working hard to ensure that the issues affecting people with sight loss are also being addressed. Fireworks can make many guide dogs and puppies in training extremely frightened and stressed, making it hard for them to work. Sadly, this has meant that some guide dogs have had to be retired early as it’s resulted April marked the two-year anniversary in them becoming oversensitive to noise. since the law was changed, requiring all The Scottish and Westminster governments buses to become “Talking Buses”, with asked for views on fireworks. Guide dog audio-visual announcements onboard. owners across the country told us about their We’re concerned that we are still awaiting experiences and we have called on both Government guidance telling bus governments to undertake an enquiry. companies how and when they should make these changes. Following thousands In March, three pups joined us to deliver a of campaigner emails, MPs from across the birthday treat to Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister political spectrum raised these concerns for Women and Equalities. We thanked with the Bus Minister. The Government her for her work on behalf of people with have now committed to publishing this sight loss by surprising her with a birthday guidance by the end of the year. card with messages from campaigners. Campaigners have been busy sending thousands of emails to their MPs calling for all taxi and minicab drivers to undertake disability equality training, to bring an end to guide dog owners being illegally turned away because they have their dog with them. We were delighted when the Government announced that they intend to make training mandatory, however they are yet to commit to a timescale. We’re working hard to ensure this becomes a reality. Robert and guide dog Winnie

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Guide Dogs’ People Awards 2019

Our People Awards celebrate the fabulous contribution made to Guide Dogs’ work by our inspirational staff, volunteers and service users. We would love to hear from you if you know a Guide Dogs staff member or service user who you think would make a worthy winner.

Our service user award categories are: • Inspirational Person of the Year • Guide Dog Partnership of the Year • My Guide Partnership of the Year • Inspirational Young Person of the Year Our staff award categories are: • Open • Passionate • Innovative • Newcomer • Group Pamela Munroe, Overall staff member of the For further details of the categories and Year 2018, with Mike Holt, Naga Munchetty to make your nomination, please visit and Mike Bushell. guidedogs.org.uk/peopleawards. Nominations close at 12 noon on Friday, 2 August 2019. The awards will be held on Thursday, 14 November at our Atherton Training School near Manchester. Please note that we already have our shortlist of fantastic volunteers from the winners of June’s Local Volunteer Awards. Local Volunteer Awards

The work we do at Guide Dogs is only possible thanks to the dedication of more than 16,000 volunteers across the UK. We would not be able to support the thousands of people with sight loss we currently support without the creativity and enthusiasm of our volunteers. To mark Volunteers’ Week, Local Volunteer Awards were held throughout the UK during June. The awards celebrated the valuable contributions and achievements made by our dedicated volunteers. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who nominated a volunteer for one of these awards. We had more than 800 nominations this year. And of course, an even bigger thank you goes to each and every single Guide Dogs volunteer. Overall winners from each local event will be entered for consideration into the annual People Awards on 14 November.

14 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Name a puppy Theo’s Name a Puppy story

Theo Harvey, from Aberdeenshire, started of tablets. I get tired and often sleep in the raising money for Guide Dogs after losing afternoon when I get home from school. his sight at just nine-years-old due to a brain ‘At home we have a treadmill and I use this tumour. While he has been adjusting to life to help me train for runs that I’ve entered. without his sight and progressing with his Mum and me go out on our tandem bike, long cane training, he has also challenged I love to go fast. We recently entered a 13- himself with a series of running and tandem mile bike ride event and we’re planning to bike events. Theo and his family have set climb Ben Nevis soon. I would love to have up a JustGiving page and have been a guide dog one day, in the meantime I’ve fundraising towards Name a Puppy. Theo, challenged myself to raise money towards who’s now aged 12, has already exceeded new guide dog puppies who will go on to his target, naming a guide dog puppy help other people who have lost their sight.” Harvey. He’s now well on his way to naming a second puppy. Theo has raised an incredible £4,090 so far and is now looking forward to meeting Theo said: “Two and a half years ago, puppy Harvey. Well done Theo! I had emergency major surgery after being diagnosed with a brain tumour. This changed my life forever in many ways. When If you would like more information I woke up in intensive care after surgery I about how you can Name a had lost my sight totally. I spent a long time Puppy contact: in hospital and was very ill, now I take a lot [email protected].

15 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 STEP in action Taking positive STEPs In last summer’s edition of Forward we talked to James Booker, a Guide Dog Mobility Instructor (GDMI) with the Maidstone team, about Positive Reinforcement Training (PRT), and how Guide Dogs has drawn together all our PRT expertise to form our STEP training plan.

Tim Stafford, our Service Director for Canine We recently invited five guide dog owners Assisted Services, explains: “STEP stands (GDOs) to our Atherton training centre near for Standardised Training for Excellent Manchester to share the STEP process, and Partnerships. It uses positive reinforcement to work through some behaviours. Although right the way through, from start to finish. none of their existing dogs had had STEP PRT has always been a fundamental part training before, they were able to learn some of how we train our dogs. What’s different new behaviours very quickly, because of the now is that we are standardising the training PRT principles underpinning the process. process, using marker training, with clickers, STEP involves using food rewards in a more with all our dogs.” structured way than before, and there have Some Guide Dogs community teams are been questions over whether this would already using the STEP process, but it will take encourage dogs to scavenge. In fact, time to roll out to all our teams. Maidstone we have found the opposite. Tim Stafford were one of the first to implement STEP, and explains: “Teaching ‘food manners’ is one James comments: “We’ve seen great results of the first behaviours taught in STEP. Every from the dogs, they enjoy the training – you reward reminds the dog that the food is can see them engaging and focusing on given because of a specific behaviour what you’re asking.” they’ve completed. As the food is always With training going well, we’ve been offered from the handler, this decreases the matching partnerships, and watching them likelihood of dogs trying to seek food from develop and grow. Fern Lulham’s guide dog elsewhere. Food is not the only reward on Nancy was trained using STEP, and Fern says: offer; praise, fuss and play can also be good “Although Positive Reinforcement Training options, but food is convenient to use and was an entirely new concept to me when motivating for most of our dogs!” I started training with Nancy, it’s been an The feedback from the clients themselves amazing journey for both of us.” speaks for itself.

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Guide dog owner Lin Stapley said: As more dogs are being trained through STEP, we will be returning to check on the “I was a little bit sceptical partnerships, and to see how they are about STEP before, but getting on. Fern and Nancy have been partnered for just over a year and Fern told seeing how these dogs are us: “The STEP training has meant that Nancy’s skills have improved over the year, because working… I can’t believe I’m able to reinforce her behaviour. She is how they walk past food.” such a happy working dog, and everyone we meet gets a great impression of me and Guide dogs are famous for being well my guide dog.” behaved – but they’re still dogs, so what happens when they make a mistake? What we often perceive as ‘naughty’ is in most cases completely normal dog behaviour, so we need to teach our dogs what is expected from them in our human world. At Guide Dogs we reward the behaviours we want, instead of focusing on the behaviours we don’t, and we take a three-step approach to reducing any undesirable behaviour.

For example, a dog might jump up when greeting people. Our response is: 1. Management: Prevent the dog from rehearsing jumping up, i.e. place him on a lead when greeting people. 2. Enrichment: Make sure the dog is receiving a balance of exercise, rest and environmental enrichment. A tired dog is usually a well-behaved dog! 3. Train an alternative behaviour: What do you want him to do? We can’t train ‘not jumping up’, but we can reward the dog for keeping all four feet on the floor. If he gets rewarded for that, he will repeat the behaviour.

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Spreading the word about Guide Dogs

Guide Dogs has ambitious plans to support more people with sight loss over the coming years, as part of our By My Side strategy to take us to 2023. To achieve our goals, it’s vital that people with sight loss know about the breadth of services we offer, and that the wider public know about us, understand and love our work and want to help us by volunteering or donating. In March, we launched a multi-faceted campaign to raise the profile of Guide Dogs. Through this campaign, we wanted to change the way the public think about sight loss by making an emotional connection, helping them understand that the people affected are, in every other way, just like them. One of the most prominent aspects you may have seen or heard was our new TV and radio adverts, narrated by Dame Julie Walters. In the adverts, guide dog owner Alex stands at the side of a football pitch while his young daughter plays for her local team. Aware that he won’t be able to see the action, but desperate for him to be involved, the little girl narrates like a commentator so her father knows what’s happening on the pitch. At first, the audience don’t know that Alex has sight loss, before it’s revealed that Alex has a guide dog. You may also have seen the TV advert on Guide Dogs’ social media channels. It generated a huge reaction on Facebook, with many commenting that they loved it or that it brought a lump to their throat. As well as reaching 1.2million views, the emotional connection the advert made with viewers was clear. Scores of people told stories about a current or past guide dog, or a pet dog, or their pride in sponsoring a guide dog puppy. Alongside the advert, we released a new report which revealed how people who are blind or partially sighted are being shut out of society. Like the adverts, the report contributed to our aim of turning public sympathy for people with sight loss into empathy. The report achieved extensive media coverage including on ITV News, BBC 2’s Victoria Derbyshire programme and BBC Radio 5 Live.

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We also launched a podcast series, called how people who are blind or partially sighted I See What You’re Saying, to improve public get on with everyday things just like everyone understanding of what life is like with sight else. We also made a series of longer videos, loss. In this humorous and insightful four-part each focusing on the life of someone who series, celebrity hosts Alex Jones, Adrian uses our services – including popular vlogger Chiles, Sophie Thompson and Jeff Brazier each and guide dog owner, Lucy Edwards. Videos discussed one of life’s everyday aspects: love, detailed how each person came to lose their family, friendship and parenting. Joined by sight, and how they haven’t let that get in their hugely engaging and entertaining guests, the way in life. conversations were honest about the ups, the While it’s important to remember that this downs and everything in between. You can campaign was part of a long-term plan to listen to the series by searching for ‘I See What raise Guide Dogs’ profile as a charity, early You’re Saying’ on your favourite podcast app. results indicate it was successful in helping us The podcast series has been the perfect connect with the general public. Feedback opportunity for us to tell the world about from everyone who saw or heard the advert the range of services Guide Dogs provides. was overwhelmingly positive, including from During March and April’s awareness-raising people with sight loss. Each of the campaign’s campaign, we were able to showcase the activities directed the public to our website to My Guide service thanks to actress Sophie find out more, so we re-designed it to fit with Thompson. Sophie received My Guide training, the campaign, in anticipation of an increase and then was paired for a day with service in visitors. user, Samantha Fox. Sophie talked about the By continuing to raise the profile of Guide whole experience glowingly on ITV’s Lorraine Dogs, we want to reach not only more people show, showing the public that we do even with vision impairments with our services, but more than guide dogs. also recruit more volunteers, supporters and To further highlight My Guide, we reached out campaigners to join us. to social media influencers – people who are popular on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. We gave them My Guide training, and let them post Instagram and YouTube videos of their sessions to their thousands of followers. YouTube commenters called one of the influencer’s videos “informative” and “wonderful”, with some mentioning a friend or relative’s sight loss. Over on our YouTube channel, we created a series called ‘Blind Hacks’, which had thousands of views. Comprising short, audio- described videos, the series showed the world

19 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Children and young people

Caitlin’s story

20 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Children and young people

Guide Dogs was appointed by the local authority to support Caitlin from the age of five, starting with using mental mapping to find her way around school, and eventually progressing to long cane training. We also provided CustomEyes books® so she could read her favourite stories such as David Walliams’ Mr Stink in large print. Claire says: “It wasn’t until Guide Dogs became involved with Caitlin that we realised how much more they could offer than just the guide dog. We’ve been to their family experience days and they’ve made us aware of additional education support that Caitlin could receive. They really have been a lifeline.” Caitlin developed an interest in music and judo from an early age. She loves writing songs and playing piano as a way of expressing her feelings and thoughts, and the highlight was performing in front of 300 people at her music school. And she’s just as Caitlin Leigh is no ordinary teenage girl. happy competing in judo contests against Her two passions in life are music and both sighted and vision-impaired opponents. judo – she’s written and performed her Caitlin won gold at the first national vision- own songs to hundreds of people at music school, has her own YouTube channel, and she’s been invited to train with the British judo vision-impaired team as part of the Para-Potential programme. Surprisingly, Caitlin also has a severe vision impairment – she was born with congenital glaucoma and underwent almost 50 operations in her first five years. Her mum Claire vividly remembers the day Caitlin was diagnosed: “It was completely unexpected – and when she had to be put to sleep at only five days old for major surgery, it was really frightening.” Caitlin, 15, still has some useful vision in her right eye, but growing up with a serious vision impairment hasn’t been easy. Starting school was particularly challenging as she lacked the confidence to join in with activities, and it was time consuming to get lesson materials adapted. “The kids in primary school treated me differently,” she says. “I didn’t get invited to sleepovers or to go out with them because their parents felt uncomfortable and didn’t know what to do.”

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impaired judo competition in London in 2018 and, one day, she hopes to compete at a Paralympic Games. Claire smiles and says: “People can’t believe how much drive and determination Caitlin has – she just wants to have a go at everything.” Despite this, as Caitlin reached her teenage crossings and identifying landmarks to help years she was still experiencing confidence orientate herself. “In the school holidays we issues, and needed some extra support to work on independent living skills such as develop her independence. Luckily, help baking, using an oven, and washing up,” was at hand from Guide Dogs Habilitation Emma adds. “These are just some of the skills Specialist, Emma Foster. Caitlin will need as she gets older.” Emma explains: “When I first met Caitlin she Caitlin says: “I definitely feel more confident was self-conscious about using her cane and since I started working with Emma. I wouldn’t wasn’t taking it out with her. She avoided have gone out at night if it wasn’t for her. going to busy places, going out in the dark, And the mobility skills have helped improve and meeting up with friends. So I helped her my judo performance too.” come to terms with her sight loss and realise Her mum Claire agrees: “It now feels like she can still do the things other teenagers Caitlin is doing normal teen stuff, which I do: she just has to do them in a slightly don’t think would have happened otherwise. different way.” “Having a vision impairment needn’t stop Emma and Caitlin have been practising you from doing anything and Caitlin is cane training on the walk to her music lesson proof of this. She’s always said the vision once a week, as well as travelling into town impairment has to keep up with her, rather to meet friends. This includes using zebra than the other way round.”

22 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Legacies

Dave celebrates forty years of guide dog

ownership Dave and Reuben

Dave with Quince (left) and Chad Dave and Chad at No. 10 Dave with Quince (left) and Chad

Guide dogs are special. The bond “Quince has now retired, staying on in our which exists between dog and owner family as a beloved pet. Guide Dogs promise makes each partnership unique. that they’ll provide a guide dog for as long as necessary, so my latest partner is Chad! Someone who can attest to the amazing He is a cracking dog; I trusted him from and life-changing partnership that a guide the first walk. He positively thrives in central dog offers is Guide Dogs Engagement London conditions, daily stepping onto Officer Dave Kent, who has been paired with crowded Tube trains to get me to work. I a series of wonderful dogs over the years. continue to be on the independent path. If it Now 59, he received his first guide dog aged wasn’t for Chad, I wouldn’t be Dave! 19. “When I lost my sight, it was devastating. “Guide Dogs relies on donations and I’ve been a recipient of the guide dog gifts in Wills, so it’s because of your service for many years and have lived a life support and thoughtfulness that I, and nourished by the dogs I’ve had. others with sight loss, are able to live “It’ll be 40 years this summer since I had my life to the max and enjoy a freedom of first guide dog. I’ve been guided by some movement that is second to none!” truly outstanding four-legged characters. To find out how you can remember the dogs Elma, Skip, Jiles, Nixon, Reuben and not you’ve loved with a gift in your Will, please forgetting my beautiful Quince, have all visit guidedogs.org.uk/giftsinwills. played their part in affording me a quality- of-life I could hardly have dreamt of had I not had the honour of walking with them Go to page 10 of the news section down the years. for more stories of guide dog owners, volunteers and fundraising groups celebrating significant anniversaries.

23 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Volunteering

Introducing our new Volunteering Strategy

We are really excited to launch our new volunteering strategy, called Inspiring Connections. This is our new direction for volunteering, taking us to 2023, the same year as our overall By My Side strategy. The volunteering strategy outlines just how essential our volunteers, and those who support them, are in delivering By My Side’s ambitions, so we can reach even more people with sight loss. We are pleased to say that staff and volunteers have been directly involved in creating these plans.

Our vision is that by 2023: • Volunteers will be involved in every area of This is so that we have more volunteers to our work and will recognise the essential support our growth in areas like mobility role they play in keeping Guide Dogs services and fundraising. But even with relevant in the communities we serve. all this growth, it’s so important that all our volunteers still have the best possible • Staff and Lead Volunteers will have the experience with us. We want even more knowledge, skills and tools to ensure all volunteers to say they would ‘strongly volunteers are inspired, supported and recommend’ volunteering for us by 2023. valued. • A diverse range of people will be gifting How will we achieve this? their time, expertise and energy. There are five key areas of work that outline • Guide Dogs will be recognised internally what we need to do to achieve these and externally as an exceptional place to ambitions. Together, we will: volunteer, providing high-quality and safe 1. Strengthen our volunteering infrastructure, experiences. 2. Build a volunteer positive culture, The numbers part 3. Enhance the volunteer experience, We currently have more than 16,000 4. Develop new ways to get involved, amazing volunteers carrying out 24,500 5. Grow our Lead Volunteer programme. roles to support our cause. We need this to increase to around 22,000 volunteers carrying out 33,000 roles by 2023.

Many thanks to all the volunteers who responded to the recent Volunteer Impact Assessment survey, or chatted to their local Volunteer Voices representatives and gave us their thoughts and experiences. Your views will help shape new developments and help us measure how we are achieving the new Volunteering Strategy.

24 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Day in the life

A day in the life of… Family Events Manager Sally Freeman From audio-described visits to theatres, zoos and theme parks to Experience Days at our training schools, Guide Dogs’ Family Events team are committed to giving children with sight loss and their families the best days out. It’s something Family Events Manager Sally Freeman strives towards with everything she organises. “The most rewarding part is meeting the children and families,” she explains. “We work hard to make every event the best “Our family events are a experience for children and seeing their happy faces enjoying the day makes it great way for families to all worthwhile.” take a break, meet other Sally has a wealth of experience of working families in a similar situation with families of children with a vision impairment, including more than 14 years whilst the children and their at Guide Dogs’ former sister charity, Blind siblings have fun, develop Children UK. confidence and make new As the Family Events Manager, Sally is responsible for organising activities for friends,” Sally continues. children with sight loss and their families Families can also attend Guide Dogs throughout the UK. “We hold events during Experience Days at our training schools and the Easter, summer and Christmas breaks, find out whether a guide dog might be an and offer an annual Family Weekend for option to consider for their child in the future. families of children who have recently been diagnosed with a vision impairment. In 2018, the family events team reached more than 250 children with a vision impairment and introduced parents to a range of Guide Dogs services, including family and education support, mobility and independence training and access technology. “Regardless of the event we’re putting on we always want to create a sense of belonging among the children,” Sally says. “We want to help build their confidence and self-esteem, and make them feel really special.”

Visit Guide Dogs’ website for more information on our Family Events: guidedogs.org.uk/familyevents.

25 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Our supporters

Presents are always tricky when your Thank you birthday falls on Christmas Eve but Anne Watkins, to our supporters from Stepaside, Pembrokeshire, came up with a Dear supporters, great solution by inviting donations I’m hoping that by the time you read to Guide Dogs. this, we’re all enjoying a brilliant summer She presented a with plenty of good weather to help cheque for £300 make our fundraising activities an to Pembrokeshire even bigger success. Some of you may branch secretary have undertaken an epic fundraising Eva Rich and adventure, like Ian West’s journey guide dog Oyster. around the entire UK coastline, or Louise and Dave climbing Machu Picchu in Peru. Others may be aiming their sights Three members of staff from our a little closer to home, such as the Leamington National Breeding Centre Glasgow Southside fundraising group – Lisa Toothill, Sam Diggins and Natasha collecting at a local shopping centre. White – took part in last year’s Coniston I’d like to thank every single one of you Challenge and raised just under £3,000, who has given your time and energy the highest team total. It was Sam’s to raise money for Guide Dogs. Without seventh Coniston Challenge and you, we couldn’t strive for a future Natasha’s second, but Lisa completed where everyone with sight loss has the it for the first time, despite some serious confidence and support to live their lives health issues. The event included a 10k to the full. hike, a 12k bicycle ride and a 5k kayak, which they completed in six hours.

Maria Novell Director of Fundraising

...And to Charlotte Deacon, from Sunderland, who donated £202 in lieu Many thanks to staff at Sunderland Penshaw of birthday gifts on the occasion of her Farm Shop and Tea Room, who generously 102nd birthday. Retired guide dog William donated their Christmas tips of £280... helped to collect the cheque.

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The Glasgow Southside fundraising group raised £1,081 at the Silverburn Shopping Centre in March. Thank you to the shoppers who came along to chat and Puppy walker Louise Orchard-Holmes is a donate! longstanding supporter of Guide Dogs and climbed Kilimanjaro nine years ago raising Mark Philips, from over £7,000. It was on that trip that she met Pembrokeshire, her now husband, Dave, and together they scaled Pen y Fan recently climbed Machu Picchu in Peru, in the Brecon raising £1,200. Beacons, in a famous SAS-style challenge known as the Fan Dance. He completed the demanding route in just over four hours and raised more than £500.

Kay Higgins, of Dumfriesshire, has raised £2,500 to name a puppy Ivy in memory of her mother.

Sophie Armstrong, aged eight, is aiming to raise enough money to name her own guide dog puppy. She and sister Emma, six, held Guide Dogs NI was chosen as the Charity their first fundraising of the Year by Bushfoot Golf Club in event, a craft fair at Portballintrae for the second year running. Strathblane Village The club has donated another £850 to help Club, and raised us in the work we do and continue to be £408 on the day! brilliant supporters.

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The Sainsbury’s Kinross store has already sponsored a guide dog puppy and has now raised enough to sponsor another two, with plans to continue fundraising until they can reach £15,000 and name yet another puppy. Arwel Davies Photography A broken arm didn’t stop West Wales guide Last October, dog owner Louise Jenkins completing Ian West set off Llanelli Half Marathon in two hours 50 on a 7,000-mile minutes, with guide runner Ian Brandreth sponsored walk dressed as guide dog Hero. Six weeks later, around the entire Louise took on the London Landmarks Half UK coastline with Marathon, raising more than £2,500 so far, the aim of raising enough money to name a puppy after her enough money first guide dog, Opal. to name a guide dog puppy Banjo. Guide dog owner Walking every Wayne Strawford day, no matter raised £5,000 in order the weather, Ian to name a guide has raised £3,000. dog puppy. Wayne has been fascinated Hats off to Stena by space travel. He Line ferries in explains that he chose Northern Ireland, the name Laika for the who raised more puppy “because she than £200 for us was the first dog to go with a collection up into space but she at Belfast Docks. never came back, so it’s a tribute to her.”

Kind shoppers at the Diamond Shopping Centre in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, donated a total of £512.59 to Guide Dogs when volunteers Una and Georgie set up a stand.

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The Guide Dogs Appeal 2019 Pups to partnerships – a life-changing Guide Dogs Appeal

This October, we plan to make every day count as our annual Guide Dogs fundraising campaign becomes bigger and better than ever, and we Please look out for more information on need you to help make it happen! our website this autumn to find out how you can get involved with this exciting We know that all of you share our passion Guide Dogs appeal! to ensure that we support as many people with sight loss as we can, giving them the confidence and support they need to live their lives to the full. Our 20 teams across the UK, including both staff and volunteers, work tirelessly to deliver the services that can make a difference every day to those who need them. But what can we do right now to help and let people know we care? We might not all know how to train a puppy to become a life-changing guide dog, but we can all play a part in that journey.

We’ve created the Pups to Partnerships Appeal, where our ambition is to fund seven lifetime guide dog partnerships this October alone! To succeed, we’ve set an ambitious target and need to raise £420,000 to fund those seven puppies in just 31 days. It’s a big total for just one of us, but we know that with everyone doing a little, we can come together and make a big difference! Whether you collect, fundraise or donate during October, you will be helping make Pups to Partnerships possible and will be able to follow the pups’ progress on their journey, from scan to first steps, as they grow and develop.

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Congratulations to our new partnerships

New partnerships are listed by mobility team. Each listing details owner, guide dog, town, breed, puppy walker, brood bitch holder and boarder. Warm congratulations to all our new qualifiers.

Sarah-Jane Buffrey & Taryn Hooper & Morris Mr Malcolm Sparrow Belfast Gracie from Gloucester from Birmingham from Rugby. Mr Andrew Enid Maxwell & Damson GRxL Larry and Jaqueline GRxL Amanda Lewis Walling from Warwick Meaney from Eastleigh from Harbury * Elbert from Craigavon GRxGR Mohammed Rashid & * Patrick & Lesley Wise Loubser from Bicester. Alistair Hunter from Legend from Birmingham from Coventry. Mrs Anne Mrs Helen Rutter from Edinburgh * Lisa Partridge- GRxL John & Maggie Watson from Kenilworth. Stratford-Upon-Avon Davis from Cleeve Prior Garland from Clevedon Mrs Janet Welsh from Alan Johnson & Charlie * Cindy McCreary from Michael McIlvenna & Warwick. Mrs Carol Ann from Birmingham Kidlington. Janette Peri from Coalisland Mahler from Banbury LxGR Susan Rodger from GRxL David & Lynne & Mark Dudley from Peebles * Mrs Pauline Tracey Clarke & Teddy Richards from Swansea Leamington Spa from Shoreham-By-Sea * Mrs Hannah Laird from Belton & Norman Fish Louise Redsull & Nellie GR Patrick & Irene Murfin Warwick. Mr Brendan from Didcot. Mrs Jacqui from Solihull GRxGR Elaine from Bedworth * Helen Duffy from Birmingham Gormley from Ballyclare Bishop from Bromsgrove Cookes from Nuneaton Arlene Miller & Olive Joshua Murphy & * Jane Roberts from from Limavady LxGR Chloe Cotterrell & Zara Horatio from Hereford Wellesbourne. Mr & Mrs Catherine Lobban from from Hereford GRxL Sheila GRxGR Sally Saunders John & Emma Newcombe Aberdeen * Christina Morris from Bromsgrove from Long Itchington * from Cradley Heath * Mrs Catherine Egan Helen Elbourne. Mr Barry Kearney from Shrewsbury. Esther Ryan & Heidi from from Lower Broadheath Holtom from Warwick. Steve And Ruth McEwan- Birmingham GRxGSD Miss Barbara Hall from Lyon from Holywood Andrew Cullen & Kiwi Fiona Parkinson from Leamington Spa Andrea O’Hagan & Becky from Birmingham GR Kidderminster * Rene from Londonderry LxGR * Helen Cookes from Kathryn Nash & Irene Everett from Solihull. Mrs Pat Curson from Dunkeld * Nuneaton. Mrs Joanne from Birmingham LxGR Jane Swain from Hinckley Careless from Hatton Alan And Jean Hildrup Joyce Bartlett from Rugby Alison Smith & Charlie And Emberlin from Ray Dale & Spencer from from Lydney L Kerry Victoria Tennant & Vivvy Malvern * Andrea Kane Solihull L Elaine Hooton Tuszynski from Stratford- from Ballymena LxGR from Leamington Spa. Mark James from Dunbar from Hinckley * Cindy Upon-Avon * Colin Sargent * Mrs Pauline Belton & McCreary from Kidlington. Gena Parker & Lily from from Coventry. Mrs Elaine Norman Fish from Didcot James Deacon, Natasha Northampton GR Nancy Edgar from Birmingham Northall from Northfield Cox from Sherborne, Ian Birmingham & Evelyn Hardiman from Cardiff Cherie Hodgson & Tilly Kidderminster * Gloria Jonathon Bowles & Jonny from Hereford LxGR John Sharon Bright & Annie Holmes from Princes from Gloucester GRxL & Janice Woodroof from from Cardiff L Peter Risborough. Mr Barry Terence Garrett from Northampton * John Henery from * Lucy Anne Holtom from Warwick Stourbridge * Jackie Starkey from Malvern. Mr Chandler from Gloucester. Elliott from Warwick. Mrs Kevin Taylor from Warwick Andrew Pugh & Imber Ms Wendy Medlicott from Catherine Egan from from Kidderminster Coventry. Mrs Richard Lower Broadheath L Nicholas & Sarah & Katherine Lonsdale Drew from Lichfield * from Leamington Spa Margaret Buckingham from Warwick.

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Sue Canham & Henry Ann Hughes & Pudding Coventry Richard & Bernadette from Tenby GR * Tina from Caernarfon GRxL Thompson from Leicester Warner from Warwick. Diana Hatchett from David Adams & Jimbo * Ann Hubble from Mr David Bradshaw from Exmouth * Marie Lee- from Southam LxGR Birmingham. Mrs Andrea Redditch. Paul And Ann Hopps from Redditch. Paul & Maria Fellows Chapman from Worcester. Huc from Leamington Spa from Sutton Coldfield Ms Manjit Kang from Owen Jones & Hero * Jessica Powell from Leamington Spa Karl Davies & Cariad from Merthyr Tydfil L Worcester. Miss Amanda from Carmarthenshire Ron & Hazel Sutton from Hancocks from Daventry. Malcolm Mason & Danny GRxL Clive & Lorraine Monmouth * Helen Mr & Mrs Laura And Dan from Tamworth LxGR Morgan from Pontypool Daw from Bedford. Mrs Cale from Warwick Martin and Kelly Ducker * Griffith from Warwick. Nicola Scarrott from from Eastleigh * Stephanie Witney. Mr & Mrs Mark Gemma Booth & Robin Hill from Warwick. Miss Kirsty Davies & Ricky from & Antonia Pearson from Coventry LxGR Sarah Sheasby from Cwmbran GR Matti Prow from Monmouthshire Kathryn Woodcock from Bromsgrove. Mrs & Mrs from Kingsteignton, Colin Southam * Margaret Luke & Clare Durston from & Diane Sanderson from Hilary Lester & Portia Seales from Malvern. Warwick. Ms Julia Webster Plymouth * Julie Cattell from Newport GRxL from Burton-on-Trent from Worcester. Mr David Susan McCulloch- Alexandra Bowmer & Bradshaw from Redditch. Marshall from Shipston- Pickle from Loughborough Heather McGivern & Mr & Miss Keith And Sharon on-Stour * Douglas Watt L Melvin And Kay Elsa from Queniborough Hanna And Litterick from from Leamington Spa. Cullen from Solihull * GRxL Dorothy Judith Leamington Spa, Lucy Miss Barbara Hall from Cindy McCreary from Anne Barrett from Rugby Frampton from Cheddar Leamington Spa Kidlington. Mrs Pearl * Sonia Evans from Milton and Roy Woodward Keynes. Mrs Felicity Robert Davies & Tawe Garry Moore & Ross from Kenilworth Stratton from Warwick from Penarth LxGR Elaine from Cwmbran GRxL Francis from Rhondda Susannah & Richard Lyndall Burnham & Prince Chris McLatchie-Wade Cynon Taff * Peter Minty Strawson from Tonbridge from Loughborough & Barney from Rugby from Cheltenham. * Griffith from Warwick. GR Carol Edwards from LxGR Philip Warwick Bedworth * Donna Isard from Coventry * Elfyn Evans & Titan from Douglas Morgan & Katie from Coventry. Mr L Rebecca Jackson from Caernarfon GR Allan & from Blackwood GRxL Boylan from Coventry. Kidderminster. Miss Sarah Sue Leigh & Packer from Sheila Newport from Sheasby from Bromsgrove. Westbury * Emily Aram Lichfield * Amber O’Brien Susan Burton & Mr Alistair Fountain from Derby. Mr Barry from Warwick. Mrs Jane Quizzie from Coventry from Leamington Spa Holtom from Warwick. Swain from Hinckley LxGR Julia Rodwell Miss Hannah Waller from from Milton Keynes * Julie Pilsworth & Maeve Lynne Morris & Storm from Leamington Spa. Mr & Corrisanne Dancey- from Grimsby LxGR Gaerwen GR * Donna Mrs Richard And Mair Brock from Banbury. Allison Callon from Isard from Coventry. Mr L Scamans from Llandudno Exeter * Miss Amanda Boylan from Coventry. Sven Cassidy & Keiran Hancocks from Daventry Mark Evans & Bennett from Loughborough L Tom Mosler & Fin from from Cardiff GRxL * Amanda Hilton from Darran Pridmore & Knighton GRxL * Sandra Peter and Kathleen Shipston On Stour. Mr Jamie from Nuneaton L Boden from Rugeley. Bev Sluggett from Exmouth * Marcus Faulkner from Christopher Whittingham Luchmun from Cardiff Samantha Hanley from Warwick. Mr & Miss from Northampton * Telford. Mrs Sue Cox from Terrence Reeves & Leo William And Rachel Amber O’Brien from Leamington Spa. Mr from Wrexham GRxL * Thomas/Gardner from Warwick. Mrs Lana Taylor Andrew Rees from Cardiff Cindy McCreary from Leamington. Mr Adrian from Stratford-Upon- Kidlington. Rachel Hall from Swadlincote Avon. Ms Sarah McKeever Jeremy Hooper & Santon from Leamington from Leamington Spa Snoopy from Newport Zoe Coles & Monty Spa, Samantha Curtiss GRxL * Richard & from Coventry GRxGR Christine Ramble & from Colwyn Bay Pamela Gregson from Janet Ellis from Kettering Sparks from Warwick Derby. Mrs Catrin Lewis Stephen Ricketts & * Jane Roberts from GRxL Lea Burgess from from Cyncoed Crompton from Llanelli Wellesbourne. Mr Atherstone * Sonia Evans GRxL Brian Carlier from Jonathan Packer from from Milton Keynes Alan Howells & Cracker Weston Super Mare * Mrs Leamington Spa from Carmarthen GRxL Gill Sheppard & Alba from Kay Parfitt from Pontypool Beryl Higgins from Carol Gadsby & Ashley Loughborough GSD Linda Tewkesbury, Monica Sue Sims & Saxon from Alvaston GR Tindall from Coventry And Nigel Chetwood from Hengoed GRxL * Tina Warner from * Linda Tindall from from Tewkesbury * Miss Samantha & Jamie Warwick. Miss Yasmine Coventry. Mr & Mrs Sh Cox Elizabeth Bullimore Bevan / McCanna from Bains from Warwick from Axminster. Mrs Gail from Pontypool Cambridge * Marie Lee- Russell Graves & Shaun Murray from Coventry. Mrs Hopps from Redditch from Leicester GRxL Kat Ramos from Warwick

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Carl Christopher Veal Stuart Hayworth & Robert Sim & Gem from Cambridge * Linda & Eaton from Derby Dudley from Aberdeen Whitburn L William & Sheehan from Evesham. GRxL Nick and Karen GRxL Neil & Carol Rita Wilson from Kinross Rev Craig Groocock Dutson from Southam * Wood from Dundee * Katherine Knight from from Leamington Spa. Marie Lee-Hopps from Rugby. Mrs Pamela Mr Robert Chandler Michael Holroyd & Redditch. Mrs Sigrun Griffiths from Coventry. Mrs from Bristol Meldrum from Edinburgh Herlihy from Leamington Sheila Adam from Dundee LxGR Richard &Deborah Gordon Divall & Henry Spa. Mrs Hazel Worrall Wilkinson from Aberdeen Tracy Stewart & Janet from Shoreham-By-Sea from Daventry * Sharn Woodgate from from Polmont L Craig GRxGSD Lynne Dakin Rob Waite & Alvin Chipping Norton & Evelyn Henderson from Woodford Green * from Leamington Spa from Kelty * Janet Paget Rosemary Jackson from Sylvia Johnston & Frankie GSD Elaine Whiteley from Rugby. Mrs Gillian Leamington Spa. Mrs Kat from Dundee LxGR from Solihull Davidson from Forfar Bray from Swadlincote Heather Gilmore from Jason Willock & Ringo Belfast * Stephen Lines Leeanne Tuckwood & Alfie Kathleen Dockerill & from Coalville GRxL Mary from Leamington Spa. from Aberdeen GR John Queenie from St Columb L Checkley from Solihull * Mr Marcus Faulkner Croll from Dundee * Leslie Roger and Karen Damerell Valerie Veness from Sutton from Warwick. Ms Fiona Johnson from Redditch from Plymouth * Stephen Coldfield. Dave Allcott Retalic from Forfar Miller from Chipping And Karolina Staniak Exeter Norton. Miss Jacqui Lee Martin & Sadie from Leamington Spa Roe from Kenilworth from Kirkcaldy GRxL Julie Ankin & Jagger from Edinburgh Sheena Clarke from Exmouth LxGR John & Keith Evett & Hayley from Inverurie * Tim Hunt from Maggie Garland from Street GRxGR Lorna Jones Allan Jamieson Balfour Northampton. Mrs Anne Clevedon * Regina Cardo from Coventry * Helen & Winter from Edinburgh Watson from Kenilworth from Kingswinford. Miss Elbourne. Mr Barry Holtom LxGR Jacqueline Ann Sarah Martin from Exeter from Warwick. Mr Andrew Hardstaff from St Andrews Jim McCafferty & Ward Edward Avery & Josh Campbell from Warwick * Jane Walters from from Edinburgh GRxL* from Roche GRxL Tony & Nuneaton. Miss Amanda Rachel Bagley from Jayne Green & Rowley Patricia Revell from Solihull Hancocks from Daventry. Coventry. Mrs Jane Swain from Newport L Patricia * Margaret Powell from Mr & Mrs Andrew & Jenifer from Hinckley. Mrs May Hicks from Sutton Rugby. Mrs Tony & Patricia Lovegrove from Forfar. Dempster from Larkhall Coldfield * Caroline Revell from Solihull. Mrs Butler from Evesham. Steve and Ruth McEwan Thomas McCluskie & Susan Curry from Solihull. Mrs Helen Harban from - Lyon from Holywood Harry from Sanquhar Mrs Martin & Nicole Leamington Spa William Byrne & Marnie GRxL Alan & Karen Richards from Birmingham. from Edinburgh L Joyce Bibb from Aberdeen Mr Oliver Thom from Stephanie Guy & Frank from Shepton Mallet GRxL Pirrie from Grangemouth John McCreight & Leamington Spa Robert And Susan Johnson * Karen Stanton from Renton from Bathgate GR Alison Bell & Heather from Ilkeston * Lynn Jones Southam. Miss Kimberley Norman & Anne Clark from Exmouth GRxL from Rugby. Lynn & David Shepherd from Forfar from Tayport * Julie Cattell Richard & Sue Beeching Waters & Allardyce from Worcester. Mr David Kevin John Menzies from Redruth from Leamington Spa Cussick & Olive from Bradshaw from Redditch Angela Blackwell & Alison Harber & Inez Dundee GRxL Peter Evelyn Stewart Rose Flynn from Crewkerne from Abertillery GRxL & Thelma Thornton McIntyre & Laddy from L Judith Walling from Natalie Harris from Bristol from Carnoustie Dundee GR Peter & Plymouth * Jenny * Mrs Catherine Egan Hilary Selbie from North Selina Duke & Orchid Cooksley from Coventry from Lower Broadheath. from Bathgate L Robert Queensferry * Susan Theresa Boyce & Betty Mrs Kelly Merritt from Kirk from Irvine * Mrs Ruth Webb from Rugby from Teignmouth GR Leamington Spa Weatherall from Coventry James McKay & Lynda Moore from Ben Harris & Radar Milton from Edinburgh Steven Fettes & Billy from Plymouth * Emily Aram from Frome GRxGSD LxGR James Hynd Huntly GRxL Caroline from Derby. Mr Barry Christine Cummins from Glenrothes, Iain Martin from Shillford * Mr Holtom from Warwick from Buckingham, McLachlan from Forfar & Mrs Andrew & Jenifer Claire Hutchinson * Straker from Stratford- Heather Chang & Ella from Lovegrove from Forfar from Kidderminster Upon-Avon. Kay Saltash GRxL Malcolm * Rosemary Jackson Nicola Graham & Zita Smith from Brechin Tyler from Beaminster * from Dundee GR Daphne Sonia Evans from Milton from Leamington Spa Sylvia Paton & Kate from Barfoot from Belfast Keynes. Mr Nicholas Scott David Horsman & Edinburgh GRxL Sylvia * Joyce Bartlett from from Leamington Spa Turner from Cullompton Rugby. Mrs Ann Freeman Clark from Paisley * Bayley Tina Crinson & Nessa LxGR George Young from Banbury. Shona from Malvern. Mrs Jane from Glastonbury L from Dunfermline * Mitchell from Kirriemuir Swain from Hinckley Tessa Kirkwood from Philip Maycock from

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Bromsgrove. Mrs Pauline Jim Rowley & Taffy from Norton from Warwick family from Hamilton Belton & Norman Fish Torquay L Robert White Jamie Wilkins & Stanley Dakpa Gyaltsan & Minnie from Didcot. Emily from Torpoint, Matti from Yeovil LxGR Susan from Dumfries L Catriona Tristram from Warwick Prow from Kingsteignton Thomas from Weston And Neil Macaulay from * Helen Daw from Hannah James & Ada Super Mare * Jessica Dumbarton * Karen Bedford. Mrs Nicola from Totnes GR Brenda Powell from Worcester. Stanton from Southam. Scarrott from Witney Thomson from Sutton Miss Amanda Hancocks Mr & Mrs Craig & Ms Coldfield * Brenda Fiona Stevens & Inga from from Daventry Walker from Hamilton Thomson from Sutton Bristol GR Fran Dawson Alan Williams & Saffron Susan Hodson & Lady Coldfield. Mr David from Cambridge * Paul from Ipplepen LxGR Helen from Louth GRxL Lynda Bradshaw from Redditch Dodd from Ross-on-Wye. Reed from Stratford-Upon- Waller from Livingston Peter & Clare Topping George Jones & Levi Avon * Jessica Powell * Mrs Elizabeth Watson from Kenilworth. from Kingsbridge L Sylvia from Worcester. Miss from Motherwell Waite from Exeter * Lynn Paul David Sullivan & Amanda Hancocks from Irene Love & Ben from Jones from Rugby. Dr Katy Radar from Bristol GRxL Daventry. Mrs Hannah Grantown-on-Spey Richardson from Exeter Chryzelda Cosgrove Laird from Warwick LxGR Carol Danskin from South Brent * Harriet Keeling & Harry Joan Williams & Marlon from Dundee * Joyce Valerie Veness from from Exeter GRxL Mairi & from Cardiff L John Bartlett from Rugby. Sutton Coldfield Peter Hughes from Perth * Templeton from Glasgow The Mackenzie Bayley from Malvern. Mrs Imelda Swadling & * Karen Stanton from family from Airdrie Jane Swain from Hinckley Ceecee from Seaton Southam. Mr Christopher Alexander Mackintosh L Andrew & Elizabeth & Nuria Trickey from John King & Diesel from & Dublin from Inverness Macdonald from Weston- Leamington Spa Weston Super Mare GRxL GRxL Ann Fraser from Super-Mare * Cindy Vee Freir from Gordon Stuart Williams & Austin Kirkcaldy * Ms Rachel McCreary from Kidlington. from Redruth GR Alleyne Young from Hamilton Carolann Markland & Ms Liza Page from Exeter And Christine Barlow Luna from Devizes GR Isabel Rae & Eryn from Lisa Tainton & Henry from from Plymouth * Tina Veronica Bowden from Glasgow L Barry Aspinall Pontypool LxGR Sibylle Warner from Warwick Bewdley * Marie Court from Haddington * Hippe from Banbury from Halesowen. Miss Mrs May Dempster * Jessica Powell from Glasgow Lesley Coombs from from Larkhall Worcester. Miss Amanda Leamington Spa Lynn Barr & Eva from Hancocks from Daventry. Airdrie L Susan Park from Juan Carlos Rodriguez Donna McKerron-Lewis Mrs Joanna Reed from Larbert * Susan Warner & Marine from Glasgow & Mary from Plymouth Leamington Spa from Gloucester. Miss L Judith Mackay from LxGR Carol Kimberley Edinburgh * Susan Golding Katie Thompson & Sal Sarah Sheasby from from Hinckley from Evesham. Mr & Mrs from Weston Super- Bromsgrove. Mrs Anne Steve & Liz Jones from Maureen McManus & Mare GR * Emily Aram Millar from Larkhall Kenilworth. Ms V Murray Herbie from Paignton from Derby. Mr Barry Gerald Blasby & Mishka from Motherwell L Frances West from Holtom from Warwick from Saltcoats L Colin & Colyton * Amanda Hilton Jean Saint & Hero from Yvonne Trotter & Wilson Iris Cargill from Arbroath from Shipston On Stour. Moffat GRxGSD Va Zimny from Cullompton GRxL * Karen Stanton from Mr Marcus Faulkner from Dundee * Rene Nicholas And Sarah Spann Southam. Andrew & Linda from Warwick. Mrs Zoe Everett from Solihull. from Coventry * Richard Ward from Hamilton Summers from Exeter Mrs Jane Swain from & Pamela Gregson from Thomas Bryce & Hinckley. Miss Tracie Jon Nixey & Sophie from Derby. Dr Tom Beirne Cookie from Wishaw Mallaghan from Hamilton Abertillery GRxL Karon from Leamington Spa L Daniel McKeeman Thomas from Pontypool Stephen Shoemake & Sally Waters & Anne from from Dunfermline * Miss * Valerie Veness from Bobby from Dunoon Bristol L Gemma Wilks Amanda Hancocks Sutton Coldfield LxGR Ronald Shevas from from Alcester * Amanda from Daventry. George Kelty * Joyce Bartlett Andrea Powell & Fletcher Hilton from Shipston & Emma Sutherland from Rugby. The Gordon from Teignmouth GR On Stour. Mr Marcus from Larkhall Family from Larkhall Severine Godson Faulkner from Warwick. James Cowie & Earl from from Banbury * Susan Miss Fiona Roberts from Helensburgh GRxL Fiona Colin Teece & Hugo from Webb from Rugby Leamington Spa Davidson from Dundee Muirkirk GSD * Linda Tindall from Coventry. James Randall & Brian White & Angus from * John Moore & Sheila Mr & Mrs Sh Cox from Shadow from Exeter Redruth LxGR Robert Moore from Strathaven Axminster. The Kennedy GR Susan Hembrow And Florence Ravenhall George Graham & Jaffa Family from Hamilton from Taunton * Lorna from Rugby * Peter from Dumfries GRxL John Latham from Evesham Minty from Cheltenham. & Margaret Gibb from Ms Elizabeth Holmes Aberdeen * The Sharples

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Hull Eileen Till & Mark from Miss Sarah Sheasby Mr & Mrs Catherine & Whitby L Yvonne Madden from Bromsgrove John Wilkinson from Peter Admans & Junior from Glasgow * Lynn Manchester. Mr & Ms Lisa Lee & Chester from from Spalding GRxL * Dignan from Rugby. Marcelo & Crina, Miranda Hebden Bridge GRxGSD Mr & Mrs Marc & Emma Miss Amanda Hancocks & Heghes from Leeds * Clare Pinks from Rugby. Rampling from Beverley from Daventr. Mrs Julie Mrs Catherine Egan from Steven Wadsworth & Crawford from Beverley. Val Boosey & Wilsden Lower Broadheath Mose from Huddersfield Mrs Janet Crawford from Ripon GR J Pearson LxGR Dean & Katie from Cottingham Anthony Loftus & Betty from York * Susan Webb Thomas from Telford * from Knottingley L from Rugby. Mr & Miss Lee Toby & Dobbie from Miss Amanda Hancocks Matthew & Lynne Cannell Mike Dobson & Jade Sleaford LxGR Alistair from Daventry. Mr & Mrs from Sheffield * Brian Fawcett from Manchester Peter from Hexham * Ian & Sue Lomas from Mullis from Coventry. Sharon Cranston from Warrington. Miss Roxanne Kirstin Disney & Merlot Miss Amanda Hancocks Daventry. Miss Jayne Bottomley from Leeds from Bradford L Christine from Daventry Dale from Beverley Henderson from Chester Kevin Whitley & Kenzie Jo Milestone & Perry from Le Street, Libby Hughes Jackie Watson & Rosie from Halifax L Helen Pickering L Sue Phillips from Middlesbrough from Keighley L Coleen Richmond from Burton In from Macclesfield * Susan * Amanda Bourne Baxendale from Doncaster Lonsdale * Susan Golding Golding from Evesham from Nuneaton. from Evesham. Mrs Stuart Denise Wilcox & Boicey Louis Moorhouse & Kizzy & Rosie Taylor & Taylor Davina Hawkyard from Scarborough L * Mrs from Bradford GRxL Harding from Leeds & Tiya from Leeds Pauline Belton & Norman Ashley & Denise Shute LxGR John & Barbara Fish from Didcot. Mr & Mrs Joyce Yates & Starr from Morpeth * Linda Anstie from Sheffield * David & Anne Procter from Wakefield L Joan Langman from Milton Sharon Cranston from from Beverley. Mr Tony & Steven Thompson Keynes. Mr & Mrs Pete Daventry. Mrs Theresa Jose from Woodhall Spa from Warrington * Karen Williams from Droitwich. Lascelles from Beverley Stanton from Southam. Leeds Miss Stephanie Varley from Keith James & Preston Littleborough. Mr Robert Liverpool from Hull LxGR Bev Cole Yasar Atta & Kassie from Redmond from Leeds from Stockton-on-Tees Bradford L Amanda Michaela Blackmore * Julia Rodwell from Percival & Mr Steve David Pemberton & & Sydney from Wirral Milton Keynes. Miss Cragg from Newport Ted from Scarborough GR Pamela Reeve Amanda Hancocks * Anthony Williamson LxGR Lorraine Cryer from Nantwich * Joyce from Daventry. Mrs Julie from Northampton. from Leeds * Mrs Pauline Bartlett from Rugby. Crawford from Beverley Mrs Liz Gould from Belton & Norman Fish Mrs Ann Freeman from Evesham. Mrs Nicola from Didcot. Miss Cath Banbury. Mrs Nicola Eyres Andrew Moody & Penny Barnard from Beverley Sweeney from Leeds from Liverpool. Mr Ross from Driffield LxGR Karen Thomson from Prenton White from Gateshead * Alison Jean Bates & Olivia David Quarmby & Reg Margaret Elaine Roberts from Pickering GRxGR from Huddersfield LxGR Nicholas Draper-Ireland from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Alyson Etherington from Diane Page from Stoke- & Kree from Widnes L Huddersfield * Jackie on-Trent * Christina Wendy & John D’Arcy Stephen Moore & Victor Evans from Droitwich. Kearney from Shrewsbury. from Northwich * Patricia from Hull LxGR Robert Mr Michael Rudge Dawson from Chipping Bryden from Durham * Janet Rayner & Star from from Solihull. Mrs Ruth Norton. Mrs Pauline Joyce Bartlett from Rugby Huddersfield GRxGSD Wood from Leeds Rob & Lucy Collins from Belton & Norman Fish Elizabeth Pimperton & from Didcot. Mr Ernie Christopher Burley & Atherton * Miss Karin Yves from Scarborough Burgess from Burscough Hope from Huddersfield Huntley from Coventry. Mrs LxGR * Sharn Woodgate LxGR John Balderson Janet Gibson from Leeds Robert Grant & Sefton from Chipping Norton. from Keighley * Christina from Liverpool GR Sarah Meadows from Stewart Ross & Spurley Kearney from Shrewsbury Jennifer Wright from Manchester. Mr & Mrs from Ilkley GRxL Elizabeth Edmondson Congleton * Leslie Marc & Emma Rampling Cathy Featherstone Johnson from Redditch from Beverley & Poppy from Halifax from Huddersfield * GR Brenda Abson from Mr & Ms John and Janet Hobday & Laurie Sharron Porter & Tudor Rotherham * Tina Warner Lurdes Barraclough & from Ellesmere Port from York GRxL Dorianne from Warwick. Mr David Beltran from Leeds GR Michael & Eryl Butler from Malton Bradshaw from Redditch Colin Tunningley & Hoskins from Prenton Mavis Thom & Debbie * Stephen Lines from Paul Hinchliffe & Jasper Angus from Knottingley from Spalding GRxL Leamington Spa. Mr from Holmfirth L Michael GRxL Pam Purdue Donna Howson David Bradshaw from O’Connor from Derby from Nottingham * from Rotherham Redditch. Miss Christine * Helen Cooper from Davies from Liverpool Leamington Spa.

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Janet Jones & Willow London from Grays * Mrs Maidstone from Liverpool L Catherine Egan from Valerie Shawcross Isabelle Allen & Chrissie Lower Broadheath Lesley Allinson & Thomas from Buckley * Patricia from Peterborough L from Rochester L Madge Francis Howard & Aiden Dawson from Chipping Karen Chittenden from & Clive Tierney from from Bromley L * Mrs Norton. Mrs Karen Orpington * Jackie Huntingdon * Amber Pamela Griffiths from Wood from Liverpool Ellison from Coventry. O’Brien from Warwick. Mr Marcus Faulkner Coventry. Miss Cecilia Mrs Lana Taylor from Craig Lundberg & Comet from Warwick. Roanne Xiao from London Stratford-Upon-Avon from Liverpool L Peter Insley from London Hayley Johnson-Hurst Fearnhead from Wirral Linda Brooks & Jasmine & Quala from Burgess * Celene Wilkinson from Lauren Bateman & from Canterbury GRxGR Hill LxGR Jeanette, Chipping Norton. Mr Grace from Enfield LxGR Rebecca & David Joseph and Cherkira Marcus Faulkner from Karen & Martyn Penny Bonnick from Heathfield Bau-Mann from Romford Warwick. Mr Andy / Silby from Thatcham * Catherine Waddell * Emily Rousham McDonald from Liverpool * Margaret Seales from from Redditch. Miss Clare Malvern. Miss Larry from Loughborough. Scott from London Sophie Needs & Loki Whitbread from London Mr Nicholas Hudson from Chester GRxL Alan from London Laura Drew & Jimmy from & Debra McLachlan Janet Bedford & Misty Whitstable LxGR * John Bhavini Makwana & from Wallasey * Tricia from Hornchurch GRxL Ted Starkey from Malvern. Colin from Dagenham Ducker from Blisworth. Blundell from Clacton-on- Mr Kevin Taylor from L * Elizabeth Miles Mrs Barbara Stone from Sea * Kay Rutland from Warwick. Mrs Wendy from Kenilworth. Mr Kenilworth. Mrs Eileen Buckingham. Mrs Andrea Tollman from Maidstone Marcus Faulkner from Devlin from Liverpool Chapman from Worcester Warwick. Mrs Esther Alison Hollands & Anne Rigby & Charlie Gillian Carter & Fraser Alexander from London Grace from Dartford from Chester L Lynda from Hayes L Giles & GRxL * Mrs Catherine Stephen Marcano & Dodds from Frodsham Amanda Davey And Egan from Lower Sasha from London L * Robert Asker from Price-Davey from Broadheath. Mrs Julia Jean Bailey from Bury Wolston. Miss Janet Tonbridge * Amanda Bailey from Maidstone Hilton from Shipston St Edmunds * Cindy Glover from Liverpool Howard Leicester & On Stour. Mr Marcus McCreary from Kidlington Christine Sharples & Ice Rose from Otford LxGR Faulkner from Warwick Susan Pitt & Gilly from from Wirral GR Susan Cheryl Richardson from London L * Kathryn Holt Pedley from Llanbedrog Steven Cook & Hugo Chelmsford, Fiona & from Abingdon. Mr Kevin * Joyce Bartlett from from Romford L Michele William Jones from Taylor from Warwick. Mr Rugby. Mrs Ann Freeman Green from Billericay, Sawbridgeworth Tracey Bishop from Jonny Davie And Camilla from Banbury. Mrs Barbara Mangan & Chelmsford * Kathryn Holt Hall from London Louise Pritchard from Beth from Longfield from Abingdon. Mr Kevin Liverpool. Miss Maria Molly Randall & Noah GRxL Donald & Barbara Taylor from Warwick. Liz Foulkes from Liverpool from Wandsworth GRxL Baker from Sevenoaks Smithson from London Marian Jarman from Mark Taylor & Topsy from * Valerie Veness from Chelmsford * Sandra Southport L Beverley Richard Freeman & Sutton Coldfield. Mr Sam Boden from Rugeley Kempson & Miss Fiona Twiggy from South Birkin from Faversham Croydon L Christine Nolan Brown from Hexham Stacy Scott & Biscuit from Paul Mann & Ramble from Chelmsford * Gail * Caroline Dempster Morden GRxL * Greg from St. Leonards-on-Sea Winnett from Birmingham. from Leamington Spa. Roselli from London LxGR Valerie Townsend Mr Malcolm Sparrow Ms Kelly Rodrigues from Nick Stroud & Bowie from Ashford * Jessica from Rugby. Mr Derek Woodford Green from London L Myriam Powell from Worcester. Irlam from Wirral Paul Fuller & Bolt Steadman from Welling * Miss Amanda Hancocks Derek Thomas & Sutton from Middlesex LxGR Lynn Jones from Rugby from Daventry. Mr & Mrs from Liverpool L Sue Lloyd * Margaret Seales Jason & Andrea Mutton Haren Thillianthan & from Southport * Pamela from Malvern from Sittingbourne Addie from London L Moody from Leicester. Mrs Linda Gaitskell & Chris & Danielle Scott John Martin & Indigo Carol Clarke from Rushden Chrissie from Harrow from Camberley * Rachel from Whitstable GRxL Janette White & Roo LxGR Sue & Michael Bagley from Coventry Brian & Cynthia Jones from Wirral GRxGR Spicer from Chichester * from Maidstone * Jackie Paula Thomas & Inca Lesley Batchelor from Rebecca Jackson from Elliott from Warwick. from London L Linda & Macclesfield * Jackie Kidderminster. Miss Sarah Mrs Catherine Egan Son Andrew Grimbleby Evans from Droitwich Sheasby from Bromsgrove from Lower Broadheath. from Newbury * Margaret Mr Simon Randall Paul Harman & Star from Buckingham from from Maidstone Thornton Heath GRxL Warwick. Mr Malcolm Jacquelyn Osborne Sparrow from Rugby

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Stephen Saunders & Grace Illidge & Biscuit Darren Parker & Frankie David Hewson & Heidi Rosie from Hailsham from Lancaster GRxL from Thornton Cleveleys from Gateshead GR GRxL Philip & Catherine Alison Hadfield from GRxGSD David & Emma Peggy & Mary Conway Geddes from Whitchurch Manchester, Clair Regan Flook from Rochdale from By Broughty Ferry * Catherine Keenan from from Manchester * Mr & * Rosemary Jackson * Denise Bright from Halesowen. Mrs Anne Mrs John & Fiona Saunders from Leamington Spa. Kidlington. Miss Sarah Watson from Kenilworth from Manchester Mr & Mrs Nicki & Mark Lohoar from Whitley Bay Yates from Leigh Tom Sloane & Frankie Kim Johnson & Hector Samantha Hogg & Betty from Aylesford GRxL from Macclesfield Anna Wignall & Venice from Darlington LxGR Rose Helen & Tierney Grover GRxGSD Jeffrey & Vivien from Blackpool L * Joyce from Glenrothes * from Sittingbourne Hopcroft from Thornton- Mrs Barbara Stone Joyce Bartlett from Rugby * Richard & Pamela Cleveleys * Sharon from Kenilworth Luke Johnson & Lottie Gregson from Derby Faulkner from Coventry. from South Tyneside GRxL Mr Paul Albrecht from Newcastle Janet Talbot & Grace Caroline Power from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Mrs from Battle GR Brian Stephen Beresford & Oscar Glasgow * Lynn Jones from Shirley Jukes from Wigan & Lesley Killick from from Middlesbrough GRxL Rugby. Ms Alison Binalle Sheerness * Donna Isard Georgina Joyce & Otis William & Sylvia Thomson from Newcastle upon Tyne from Coventry. Mr L from Preston L Terri Cowley from Bridge Of Don Andrew Mawdsley & Boylan from Coventry from Stalybridge * Janet Lee Brunton & Evie from Isaac from Ashington Paget from Rugby Mark Turner & Maddie North Shields GRxL Alison GRxL Tony And Peggy from Brighton L Brian Wayne Knighton & Arnott from Denny * Ms Thornton from Tillicoultry And Lynda Hardy from Keighley from Ramsey Julie Barrow from Blyth Sonya McGuire & Essex * Cindy McCreary L Martyn & Beverley David Carter- Wanda from Darlington from Kidlington Butterworth from Bonsteel & Lottie from GR Tom Duly from Littleborough * Celene John Wills & Quiz from Middlesbrough L Paula Dunfermline * Leslie Wilkinson from Chipping Rainham LxGR Caroline Garden from Aberdeen Johnson from Redditch Norton. Mr Marcus & Sam Kiernan from Deal * Mrs Dot Robinson Faulkner from Warwick. Simon Morris & Baxter * Corrisanne Dancey- from Middlesbrough Mrs Sharon & Chris from Middlesbrough Brock from Banbury. Mr Sudlow from Bolton Steven Clark & Pepsi LxGR Henry & Grace & Ms Robbie And Monika from Redcar LxGR Moira Simpson from Dundee Granese from Chigwell David Lacey & Tilly Duncan from Inverurie, * Judith Adlington from from Stoke-on-Trent L Sue Yates & Oscar from Margaret Hyslop from Coventry. Mrs Julie Stephanie & Antony Guy Battle GRxGR * Helen Dunfermline * Mrs Pauline Trent from Leicester. Ms from Ormskirk * Susan Elbourne. Mr Barry Belton & Norman Fish from Katie Robertson from Warner from Gloucester. Holtom from Warwick Didcot. Mr Mark Scobie Cramlington. Mr Paul Miss Sarah Sheasby from Newcastle Upon Tyne Thompson from Redcar Manchester from Bromsgrove Jenna Featherstone & John Newton & William Sarah Lancaster & Thelma Julie Barlow & Jack from Diamond from Chester- from Newcastle upon from Barrow-in-Furness Thornton Cleveleys GRxL le-Street LxGR Sheila Watt Tyne GRxL Carol King L * Susan Golding from Gillian Ruleman from from Brechin * Straker from Leven * Bayley Evesham. Dr Helen Drury Manchester * Lynn Dignan from Stratford-Upon-Avon. from Malvern. Mrs Jane from Manchester from Rugby. Miss Elisabeth Mrs Lauren Hart from Swain from Hinckley Robinson from Bolton Barry Marsden & Woody Newcastle upon Tyne Vicky Richards & Yeoman from Burton-Upon-Trent Bob Dysart & Ronnie Fiona Ferguson & Pat from Ryton GR Craig LxGR Vivien Parker from from Blackburn LxGR from Darlington GRxL Herbert from Glasgow Leyland, Stephanie Daniel & Rose Harvey Alan & Margaret Millar * Helen Cookes from & Antony Guy from from Liverpool * Sharn from Bangor * Tricia Nuneaton. Miss Claire Lyall Ormskirk * Elaine Aworth Woodgate from Chipping Ducker from Blisworth. from Chester Le Street Norton. Mrs Sandra from Northampton. Mr Mrs Barbara Stone from Rigby from Wigan & Mrs Allan & Louisa Kenilworth. Mr Ricky Jim Robson & Dunsmore Siderfin from Bolton Flanagan from Belfast. from Newcastle upon Tyne John Hawkes & Princess LxGR Elaine Osinski from Keith McDonald & Jelli Ms Katie Robertson from Wigan LxGR Bathgate * Julia Rodwell from Seascale LxGR Sarah from Cramlington Margaret Thompson from Milton Keynes. Miss Heaton from Wigan, Rona from Knutsford * Susan Harrison & Amanda Hancocks from Blanchard from Preston Sharon Cranston from Reggie from Hartlepool Daventry. Mrs Helen * Elaine Aworth from Daventry. Mrs Shirley GR Chris Blakey from Preston from North Shields Jukes from Wigan Northampton. Miss Mary Larbert * Marie Court Caswell from Bolton from Halesowen. Miss Stephanie Morris from Newcastle upon Tyne

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Robert Ross & Summer Ann Davenport & Brad Kevin Seabrook & Biggles Chipping Norton from Billingham GR from Nottingham GRxL from Sheffield LxGR Jen Hayden & Barley Catherine Reid from Helen Owen from Wem Paul & Teresa Hiley from from Norwich GR * Emily Strathaven * Tammi Curran Doncaster * Alison Nuttall Ben Fishburn & Quester Aram from Derby. Mr Barry from Rugby. Mrs Ann from Redditch. Miss Sarah from Chesterfield LxGR Ian Holtom from Warwick Freeman from Banbury Sheasby from Bromsgrove. & Lesley & James Rideout Mr Andrew Campbell Valerie Martin & Marex Peter Scott & Lucca from Harlow * Corrisanne from Warwick. Mr Iain from Ely LxGR Sandra from North Shields LxGR Dancey-Brock from Armstrong from Sheffield & Raymond Brett from Stephen & Hazel Norrie Banbury. Mr Alan George Welwyn Garden City from St Andrews * Elaine Bone from Sheffield Robert Stooke & Prince * John Starkey from Aworth from Northampton from Nottingham LxGR Patricia Fletcher & Mary Malvern. Mr Kevin * Joyce Bartlett from Carly Tune & Franklin from Buxton GRxL Fiona Taylor from Warwick Rugby. Keith & Alison from Whitley Bay GRxGR Gunn from Sutton-in- Sheldon from Nottingham David Page & Macca Stuart Donaldson from Ashfield * Mrs Diana Starr from Great Yarmouth Cupar * Jackie Evans from Nottingham. Mr Peter Margaret Wilkinson & Joy LxGR William Reid from from Droitwich & Ruth Watts from Matlock from Glossop STPxL Stacey Inverurie * Miss Amanda Dawn Roberts & Mr Steven Sandra Wilkinson & Andrew Hadley & Granger Hancocks from Daventry Edgson from Nottingham Unika from Blyth LxL from Rotherham GR * Joan Brinkworth from Yvonne Saint-John & * Claire Aluko from Alison King from Morpeth Nuneaton. Mr & Mrs Nelson from Peterborough Northampton. Mr Kevin * Dawn Parsons from Landsberg from Milton GRxL Renick Nichols Taylor from Warwick Wallingford. Mr & Mrs Keynes. Mr & Mrs David from Swindon * Mike Stephen & Margaret & Rachel Fairless from Garvey from Woodford Nottingham Cresswell from Sheffield Bacup. Mrs Rebecca Green. Mrs Paula Elliston Jane Aucott & Prince from Jane Hawthorn & Norman Armstrong from Sheffield from Lakenheath Derby L Julie Bateman from Nottingham L Teresa Skurek & Arthur from Billingham * Ruth Amanda Senior from Peterborough from Kings Lynn LxGR Mercer from Warwick Newcastle upon Tyne Helen Andrews & Bramble Emma Whiting from Alton * Helen Cooper from Martin Barnett & Diesel from Wymondham * Rebecca Jackson from Leamington Spa. from Nottingham LxGR GRxGSD * Rene Everett Kidderminster. Miss Sarah Miss Sarah Sheasby * Philip Maycock from from Solihull. Mrs Jane Sheasby from Bromsgrove Bromsgrove. Mrs Pauline from Bromsgrove Swain from Hinckley. Mrs Annette Smart & Maci Belton & Norman Leslie Hewitt & Dealow Lisa Hill from Peterborough from Norwich L Amanda Fish from Didcot from Newark L Glyn Jacqueline Brooks & & John Thornton from Southall from Brierley Colin Beresford & Gilbey Leo from Haslingfield Wokingham * Jilly Walker Hill * Sue Walters from from Rotherham GRxGR GRxL Lesley Murray from Leamington Spa. Stourbridge. Miss Anna Maureen Martin from from Kirkcaldy * Lynn Miss Sarah Sheasby Jackson from Leamington Sheffield * Jane Roberts Jones from Rugby. David from Bromsgrove from Wellesbourne. Spa. Craig & Jackie Gilmurray from Dundee Mr & Mrs Simon & Hulatt from Nottingham Reading Lisa Corbett & William Suzanne Partington Paula Hyde & Tammy from from Great Yarmouth Philip Adams & Robbie from Manchester. Jenny High Peak LxGR Norman GR Hilary Colquhoun from Bognor Regis L Ellen Craggs & Hayden Frank Feely from Wirral * from Edinburgh * Leslie Young from Basingstoke * Faulds from Sheffield Margaret Elaine Roberts Johnson from Redditch Samantha Howkins from Susan Brookes & Deakin from Stratford-Upon-Avon Northampton. Mr & Mrs Cynthia Easeman & from Sheffield GRxL * Greg David & Cathy Harman Christine Morris & Gem from Hunstanton Eckersley from Leigh from Reading. Mr & Crumpet from Southwell GRxGR Janice Burn from Mrs Rebekah & Marcel Antonia Brown-Griffin GR Susan Coxon from Wokingham * Wyatt Palmer from Horsham & Wolfy from Tunbridge Nottingham * Leslie from Leamington Spa Wells L Mike & Joanne Johnson from Redditch Terry Brewell & Jacob Caroline Giddings & Burns & Miss Jenna Burns from Bracknell LxGR Lisa Kellie Pilbean & Cassie Spencer from Stowmarket from Oldham * Susan Ford from Maidstone, from Sleaford L Bethany GRxL Jacquelyn Durward Warner from Gloucester. Elizabeth Endacott from Hudson from North from Forfar, Andrew Hopes Miss Sarah Sheasby from Deal * Jessica Powell Shields * Patricia Dawson from Cupar * Elizabeth Bromsgrove. Mr & Mrs Paul from Worcester. Miss from Chipping Norton Miles from Kenilworth. Zoe And Kim Roberts from Amanda Hancocks from Cartwright from Forfar Leeds. Mr Alan George Gary Price & Cedar Daventry. Nigel & Linda Bone from Sheffield from Nottingham Nicky Griggs & Bruno Herbert from Wokingham GRxGR * Jackie Evans from Kings Lynn LxGR Alex from Droitwich Penney from Ballyclare * Sharn Woodgate from

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Ella Davies & Jasper from * Wyatt from Leamington Kevin Betteridge & Susie & Peter Bell from Henley On Thames GRxL Spa. Mr Andrew & Heather Bramball from Cradley Church Stretton White from Reading Heath GRxL * Tricia Kieran Denver & Moby James Richardson & Ducker from Blisworth. from Slough L Anne, Barbara Morton & Flash Unity from Stoke On Mrs Barbara Stone John & Samuel Harris from Milton Keynes LxGR Trent GRxGR * Jonathan from Kenilworth from Chippenham * Jilly Jane Bright from Benfleet Gadsby from Coventry Walker from Leamington Mark Bromley & Veelee Louise Petch & Poppy Paul Ross & Jogger from Spa. Miss Sarah Sheasby from Wolverhampton from Worthing LxGR Stoke On Trent GR Graham from Bromsgrove GRxL Nicola Rollinson Janice McCauley from Moorcroft from Derby * from Wirral Mark Dickinson & Dougal Sittingbourne * Mr & Brenda Thomson from from Boston LxGR Sharon Mrs Matthew & Amy Victoria Compton & Alfie Sutton Coldfield. Mr David Green from Malmesbury Durman from Reading from Much Wenlock Bradshaw from Redditch. GRxL Alan & Valerie Gillian And Gerard Gillian Dunne & Helen Maria Ryan & Ruby Dobson from Newcastle Burgess from Oswestry from Milton Keynes from Didcot GRxL John upon Tyne * Mrs Christina GRxGR * Helen Elbourne. Swain from Purfleet * Mrs Aleksandra Surla & Sallie Jones from Atherton Mr Barry Holtom from Tim & Julia Haycocks from Wolverhampton Warwick. Ms Vanessa from Bracknell Aidan Flynn & Farrell L Ruth & Ian Hennell Clarke from Buckhurst from Bridgnorth GRxL from Wirral * Susan Jeffrey Stockwell & Hill. Mrs Ryan & Leanne Ann Wackett from York Golding from Evesham Twyford from Guildford Dixon from Wokingham GRxL James O’Halloran Sarah Louise Ford & Berry Patricia Waterfield & Clive Fathers & Stanton from Chatham * Ann from Bilston GRxGR Joan Bramble from Burton-on- from Didcot LxGR Buxton from Leicester Hoenich from Newcastle Trent L James & Emslie Rebecca Timmins from upon Tyne * Jackie Harrison from Nottingham Julie Vobe & Vernon from Calne * John Starkey Evans from Droitwich * Robert Asker from Ascot L David And Gail from Malvern. Mr Kevin Wolston. Miss Amanda Saunders from Oxford Alicemarie Goodall & Taylor from Warwick Hancocks from Daventry * Elizabeth Miles from Spencer from Shrewsbury John Flannery & Finn from Kenilworth. Mr Marcus GR Jacqueline Oliphant Jean Worrallo & Uschie Banbury GRxL Jeanette Faulkner from Warwick. from Whitley Bay * from Walsall LxGR * & Geoff Greenland Mr & Mrs Christine & John Dawn Parsons from Stephen Lines from from Hungerford * Wiggins from Woodley Wallingford. Mrs Diane Leamington Spa. Griffith from Warwick. Bamber from Bolton Mr Marcus Faulkner Lesley Wellbelove & Adrian Scaife & Daniela from Warwick Biscuit from Staines- Barbara Hackett & Esposito from Reading Upon-Thames GRxGSD Val from Bridgnorth Southampton Nicky Greenhill & Sparky Tom Coy from London * LxGR Jane Slater from from Godalming L * Rene Everett from Solihull. Stafford * Elaine Aworth Rachel Antar & Aster from Caroline Butler from Mrs Jane Swain from from Northampton Portsmouth GR Carol Evesham. Mrs Alexandra Hinckley. Mrs Alexandra Harris from Kingsbridge Lilian Hadley & Amber Gilkes from Crowthorne Gilkes from Crowthorne * Brenda Thomson from from Newcastle L Derek Sutton Coldfield. Mr David Rebecca King & Holly from Shrewsbury & Alison Ewing from Bradshaw from Redditch. Reading LxGR Denise & Nottingham, Sue Thornhill Mr Andrew Walling from Mohammed Ahmed Terence Gardiner from from Nottingham * Lesley Warwick. Mr & Mrs Prisca & Freda from Stoke On Maidstone * Margaret Reddy from Warwick. & Ronnie Mascarenhas Trent LxGR * Christina Seales from Malvern. Mrs Mrs Carol Clarke from from Southampton Shuk Chang from Ilford Kearney from Shrewsbury. Rushden. Miss Melissa Michael And Janette Sharples from Lowton David Baker & Boston Hazel Lawson & Waffle Stewart from Lowton from Romsey GRxL Kate from Bagshot L * Janet Hewitt & Gateley Orchard from Exeter Les Arnell & Jarvis from Emma Watson from from Stoke-on-Trent LxGR * Ann Hubble from Shrewsbury GRxL Sue Leamington Spa * Sharon Cranston from Birmingham. Mrs Andrea Fletcher from Sheffield Daventry. Sarah Meadows Shawn Mayell & Piran Chapman from Worcester Julie Ball & Jack from from Manchester from Crawley GRxGR * Tanvir Bush & Mitzie from Stoke On Trent LxGR Jonathan Gadsby from Mr Johnson & Lily from Corsham L Gordon John John & Allison Williams Coventry. Ms Joanne Stoke On Trent GR Derek McGregor from Tayport from Whitchurch * Mrs Davis from Reading. & Nicola Ireland from * Celene Wilkinson from Pauline Belton & Norman Mrs Alison Nicholson Blairgowrie, Kathleen Chipping Norton. Mr Fish from Didcot from Wokingham Rae from Perth * Susan Marcus Faulkner from Webb from Rugby Ian Morris & Millsey from Craig Bates & Yoda Warwick. Kevin & Janet Portsmouth GRxGR Martin from Willenhall GRxL Fredrick Onions & Jim Johnson from Warwick & Sandra Elliott from Ilford from Cannock GRxL

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David Chaffey & Liam Ms & Mr Hanna And Buzzard L Ben Horner Stephen Pratt & Quest from Winchester LxGR Matt Ratcliffe And from Berkhamsted * from Bexhill-on-Sea LxGR Williams from Warwick Rachel Bagley from Wendy Hartwell from Simon De La Mare & Cyril Coventry. Gillian Braintree * Corrisanne from St Peter Port GRxGR Thomas Rawlings & Molly O’Sullivan from St. Albans Dancey-Brock from Richard And Anita Silk from Trowbridge L Tony Banbury. Mr & Mrs Tim & from Warminster * Wyatt And Kim Wheatley from Harry Garwood & Reggie Jo Howell from Upminster. from Leamington Spa. Mrs Ryde * Miss Amanda from Billericay GRxGR * Mrs Jill Wyles from Romford Sarah & Roger Hammett Hancocks from Daventry Carol Flint from Stafford from Southampton Alicia Vallory & Ariel Janet Read & Nico from Elaine Guess & Scout from from Welwyn GRxGR Glen Everson & Ezra from Salisbury GRxL Dick Houghton Regis GRxL * Carol Flint from Portsmouth GRxL Derek & Jacqui Richomme John & Nicole Collins from Stafford. Mrs Lorraine & Norma Stent from Bath from Jersey * Catherine Newham, Jacqueline Leith from Loughton * Sonia Evans from Milton Keenan from Halesowen. Lodge from London, Keynes. Mr & Mrs Abigail Mrs Anne Watson from Olivia Thomas from Abbey * 26.09.18 * L * And Mark Goodrich Kenilworth. Ms Angie Walthamstow * Richard Bitch * Mrs D Merker from from Southampton Dempster from Andover & Pamela Gregson Malvern. Mrs J Kempton from Derby. Mr Stephen from Leamington Caroline Fielding & Ann Simmons & Ace Hathaway from St Albans Spa. Mr Malcolm Mike from Melksham from Southampton GRxL Sparrow from Rugby LxGR Sarah Bush from Julie Matthews from Amy Hawkins & Rusty Wells * Regina Cardo Southampton * Marie from Southend-on-Sea Annie * 09.11.18 * L * Bitch from Kingswinford. Mrs Lee-Hopps from Redditch. GRxL Abbie Walton from * Miss J Knifton from Barry & Liz Gilbert from Mr & Mrs Alice & Graham Tenterden * Dee Moloney Leamington Spa. Mrs P Leamington Spa Wilkinson from Eastleigh from Leamington Spa. Miss Smith from Rochdale. Mr Joanne Bell from Ilford Paul Sharp from Coventry John Glanville & Bowker Christopher Wilde & from Bradford On Avon Vaughn from Stockbridge Susan Henshall & Yosie Belinda * 01.02.19 * GRxL * Mrs Catherine Egan GRxL Jenny Hopkins from from Harwich GRxGR GRxGR * Bitch * Mr & from Lower Broadheath Clevedon * Ann Hubble Andy & Jackie Gardner Mrs Barry from Leicester. from Birmingham. Mrs from Potters Bar * Jane Dr KG Graeme-Cook Ashley Eden Guerin & Andrea Chapman from Roberts from Wellesbourne / Mallaburn from Bailey from Melksham Worcester. Mrs Lauren Welwyn Garden City L Gill Maynard from Samuel Lacy & Albie from Kendall from Southampton Southampton * Jackie Basildon L Deborah Butler Bess * 13.09.18 * GRxGR Ellison from Coventry. Welwyn Garden City from Romford * Cindy * Bitch * Mr M Spelman Mr Marcus Faulkner McCreary from Kidlington from Coventry. Ms D from Warwick Chris Button & Todd from Barfoot from Belfast Chelmsford L Kevin & Ann Lynn & Boris Stephen Lawford & Marilyn Hawkins from from Rayleigh LxGR Biscuit * 21.11.18 * GR * Winston from Romsey Braintree * Mrs Pamela Christine Stanley from Bitch * Mr P Maycock CCRxL * Sarah Darnes Griffiths from Coventry Harpenden, Su Brooker from Bromsgrove. from Stratford-Upon- from Harpenden, Glyn Miss J Tavendale Avon. Mr Adam Fincham Rhiannon Clark & Luna & Mark Adelaye / from Kilmarnock from Leamington Spa. Mr from Witham GRxL Skinner from Welwyn Brody * 10.10.18 * Christopher & Nuria Trickey Donatella Bovington from Garden City * Peter GSD * Stud * Mr S Ball from Leamington Spa Bushey Heath * Richard Minty from Cheltenham & Pamela Gregson from Coventry Helen Norton & Floss Barbara Norton & Iris from from Derby. Mrs Kay Cathy * 10.10.18 * from Weymouth GRxGR Bedford L * Kathryn Holt Cole from Brentwood GSD * Bitch * Ms J Lesley Stewart from South from Abingdon. Mr Kevin Powlesland And Marshall Queensferry * Jackie Christopher Croft & Taylor from Warwick from St. Austell Evans from Droitwich. Sporter from Leighton

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Forward Breeding Stock Qualifiers

Claret * 09.11.18 * L * Bitch * Mrs J Hope * 14.02.19 * L * Bitch * Mr Shelley * 01.10.18 * L * Bitch * Mrs L Macgregor from Warmington. Mr & & Mrs Griffith from Warwick. Atkins from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Mrs A & L Robinson from Sunderland. Mrs S Ward from Retford. Mr Mrs L Lumsden from Rochester. Ms Wendy Medlicott from Coventry & Mrs Lowe from Coventry Mrs G Blackman from Chelmsford Diesel * 25.10.18 * L * Stud * Mrs Kate * 24.03.19 * L * Bitch * Mrs Sky * 17.01.19 * GRxGR * Bitch J Walker from Leamington Spa. A&RS Smalley from Maldon * Mrs T Fallows from Banbury. Mrs C Hull from Maldon. Mr Mr N Watson from Leeds Katie * 18.12.18 * GRxGR * Bitch Marcus Faulkner from Warwick * Mrs A Hutton from Cupar Sophie * 21.11.18 * L * Bitch * Mrs L Dottie * 10.10.18 * GRXL * Bitch * Atkins from Stratford-Upon-Avon. Mrs Lucky * 26.09.18 * L * Bitch * Mrs A Mrs A Green from Malpas. Mrs L Atkins from Stratford-Upon-Avon Lane from Bristol. Mr R Endsor from Barbara Stone from Kenilworth Bristol. Mr Paul Sharp from Coventry Sylvia * 29.03.19 * L * Bitch * Mr & Duffy * 21.11.18 * GRxGR * Bitch Mrs Griffith from Warwick. Mrs Meadow * 18.12.18 * L * Bitch * * Mr M Spelman from Coventry. M Evans from Warrington. Mr Ms D Nicol from Henley In Arden. Mr C Sanderson from Plymouth & Mrs Lowe from Coventry A Mitchell from Stamford. Miss Ela * 21.11.18 * GR * Bitch * Mr P Amanda Hancocks from Daventry Unique * 25.10.18 * GR * Bitch Maycock from Bromsgrove. Mr J * Mrs A Nuttall from Redditch. Millie * 17.01.19 * GRxGR * Bitch Emmett from Burton -Upon-Trent Mrs L Beechener from Exeter * Mrs E Churchill from Leeds Fisher * 23.11.18 * L * Stud * Mrs G Vixen * 17.01.19 * GRxGR * Bitch Oasis * 13.09.18 * L * Bitch * Winnett from Birmingham. Mr D * Mrs L Partridge-Davis from Mrs D Merker from Malvern. Tossell from London. Ms Wendy Cleeve Prior. J Leggett And Mrs SB Bissett from Sawtry. Mr Medlicott from Coventry Vann from Sutton Coldfield Malcolm Sparrow from Rugby Gene * 13.09.18 * GSD * Stud * Ms Vixen * 25.10.18 * GRXL * Bitch * Perkins * 10.10.18 * L * Stud * Mrs J Webb from Wolverhampton. Mrs S Macvean from Inchture. Mrs J Macgregor from Warmington. Mrs R Milner from Edinburgh Barbara Stone from Kenilworth Mrs E Crichton from Forfar. Ms Georgia * 08.11.18 * GSD * Bitch Wendy Medlicott from Coventry Whitney * 13.09.18 * L * Bitch * * Mr J Bourne from Nuneaton. Mr S Parsons from Cirencester. Ribbon * 09.11.18 * GRxGR * Bitch Mrs C Arrowsmith from Alton T Westley from Chelmsford * Mr H Dorrell from Worcester. Mrs Giselle * 13.09.18 * GSD * Bitch * G Pemberton from Dunfermline Winter * 25.10.18 * L * Bitch * Mrs Ms J Webb from Wolverhampton. S Hollis from Worcester. Mr & Mrs Riva * 26.09.18 * L * Stud * Mrs L Mrs A Roberts from Edinburgh M Fullalove from Worsley. Mr P Langman from Milton Keynes. Nelson from Blaydon-on-Tyne Holly * 13.11.18 * GR * Bitch * Mrs P Reeve from Nantwich Mr S Read from Birmingham. S Zion * 10.10.18 * L * Bitch * Mr Robbie * 26.09.18 * L * Stud * Leigh & Packer from Westbury & Mrs Day from Droitwich. Mrs Mrs C Hole from Clevedon. I A Timms from Birmingham Honey * 25.10.18 * L * Bitch * Lonsdale from Corsham. Mr Miss J Knifton from Leamington Paul Sharp from Coventry Zuki * 10.10.18 * L * Bitch * Mr & Mrs Spa. Mrs J Bagnall from Wirral. Day from Droitwich. Mr & Mrs B Mr Paul Sharp from Coventry Croucher from South Ockendon

40 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Over to you

Letters Dee truly has a sense of adventure

Your magazine frequently what is important to her and wonderful walks; they’re includes inspiring stories her family. for mixed groups of about people who have Formerly a chartered sighted guides and vision- overcome adversity. My accountant, Dee has impaired people (and of friend Dee Jones is indeed retrained and now runs course their guide dogs!) an inspiration; she started a successful massage around the Malvern Hills losing her sight due to rod therapy business. She’s in Worcestershire. Outings and cone dystrophy 15 also set up a small venture are a day of fun and years ago. Two years ago, called Sense Adventures, friendship whilst taking in she was partnered with her offering activities for the the beautiful scenery, with wonderful guide dog, Jax. visually impaired, as Dee transport available from While she has had to make loves sharing her sense of local train stations. Visit huge changes to her life, freedom and love of the senseadventures.co.uk for she is determined not to let outdoors with others. I want more information. her vision-impairment get in to let your readers know Sue Armstrong the way and to not give up about Sense Adventures’ Caption competition Guide dog puppy in training, Naylor, is a black Labrador/ retriever cross who was eight months old when he met this larger-than-life new rabbit friend. Naylor was at a collection at his local branch of Pets At Home when this photo was taken. What do you think he is thinking or saying to the rabbit? Help us caption this photograph by sending your captions to: Forward, Guide Dogs, Hillfields, Burghfield Common, Reading RG7 3YG or email [email protected] with your name, address and a daytime phone number. There’s a £10 Marks and Spencer voucher for the winner.

The winner of the last caption competition was Rachael Hoye, from North Shields, with: “Has that cured the itch buddy?” Congratulations, and thank you.

Competition rules This competition is open to anyone resident in the UK, except employees of the be notified by either post or telephone and the results will be published in the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, their families and anyone connected next issue of the magazine. The winners must agree to the publication of their with the competition. No purchase necessary. Proof of posting cannot be names, photographs and any publicity, if requested. In all matters concerning accepted as proof of delivery. No responsibility can be accepted for entries the competition the Editor’s decision is final. No correspondence can be delayed, damaged or mislaid or wrongly delivered. Illegible entries will be entered into. Entry implies acceptance of the rules. disqualified. Only one original entry is allowed per envelope. The winners will The closing date for the competition is 31 August, 2019.

41 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 In good company

Guide Dogs wins with People’s Postcode Lottery

Guide Dogs has joined forces with players of People’s Postcode Lottery, raising more than £1m for our charity since last November. Players are funding the lifetime of an entire litter of puppies, with one being aptly named Lottie, who recently had her photo taken at a puppy class in Edinburgh. Funds have also supported our Standardised Training for Excellent Partnerships (STEP) programme, which harnesses the power of Positive Reinforcement Training, changing how we train, care and manage all our dogs. STEP makes use of the very highest standards of animal welfare in training, giving our dogs We would like to take this opportunity choices, and ensuring that they are actively to thank all players of People’s engaged in the work they do, and ready to Postcode Lottery, without whom this change the lives of people with sight loss. would not have been possible.

Third time’s the charm with Toyota GB

We are delighted to announce that our corporate partner, Toyota GB, has chosen to continue their Charity of the Year relationship with us for a third year running! Toyota GB set an initial aim to raise £50,000, which could provide enough money for 10,000 days of mobility for someone with sight loss. Fast forward two years and they have raised more than an impressive £200,000 through staff fundraising and other initiatives at their head office in Surrey. Toyota GB and Guide Dogs have gifts-in-kind and sponsored several a shared vision of mobility for all and, of our guide dog puppies including in addition to fundraising, Toyota have our social media star, Banjo! worked tirelessly to increase awareness A big thank you to everyone who has for our charity. Toyota have offered pro- been involved and helped make our bono support and worked collaboratively partnership a success. We are thrilled on research projects, volunteered, to be working together again! sponsored our events, donated various

42 Forward Magazine | Spring/Summer 2019 Living with sight loss can be hard

Whether you have a vision impairment yourself, or a loved one who needs your support, we can help. We’ve got lots of hints and tips to make your lives easier. We offer: • Online videos demonstrating how you can best guide your loved one in a range of everyday scenarios – all available from the comfort of your own home. • Face-to-face sighted guiding training sessions for you and your loved one – these offer a more in-depth experience, and enable you to practise together and build your confidence in a safe environment. What’s more, they are free!

The training was great fun, and we both learned so much. In the past, we found a way to make it work, but now everything is so much smoother! Service user

We’d love to hear from you, so get in touch today. Call: 0345 143 0229 or visit our website www.guidedogs.org.uk/guiding