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Lead On Magazine – December 2025 19th January 2026 Lead On Magazine – December 2025 The December 2025 edition of our Lead On magazine is available for download. LEAD ON with pics Dec 25 
Lead On Magazine – October 2024 10th January 2025 The October 2024 edition of our Lead On magazine is available for download. Lead On with images (pdf) Lead On Magazine – July 2024 26th August 2024 The July 2024 edition of our Lead On magazine is available for download. Lead On with images (pdf) 
Dawn and her Labrador Cross 6th March 2024 Dawn Crombie-Dick, 73, is a retired physiotherapist from West Sussex. Her Seeing Dog, Rosa, qualified in January 2023 The Covid-19 lockdown was tough on many people, but for Dawn life suddenly became much smaller. Her last guide dog, Freya, was forced to retire through ill health in 2020, adding a… 
Civil servant finds Seeing Dog Alliance 20th February 2024 Andrea Cooper, 31, is a civil servant at the Department of Education and lives in Coventry. Her Seeing Dog, Midas, qualified early November 2022 Andrea is no stranger to having a guide dog. In fact, she was the youngest-ever recipient of a dog, getting her first (named Cara), back in… Lead On Magazine – February 2024 7th February 2024 From the editor: Happy New Year to you all. Here is hoping that 2024 will be a happy and healthy year for us all. In addition, we hope that it is a bumper year for funds, puppies, partnerships and above all, a prominent increase, in the guide dog world, for… 
Everard pub names Seeing Dog puppy after beer raises £1000 for charity 30th January 2024 A clever partnership, hatched up over a chat in The Brunswick, one evening between Liam Flynn Chairman of The Seeing Dogs Alliance and James Salmon from Brunswick Brewery, has raised a significant £1000 of funds, to support the important work of The Seeing Dogs Alliance. As a thank you, the… 
Sheppard & Shepherd fundraising team 16th January 2024 Last March, Gill Sheppard (our honorary president and former chairman), along with her German shepherd Alba, collected £234 in donations at their local Tesco store. The Loughborough Echo explained how their partnership came to be. Bumping into a ladder in a busy London street at the age of 22 was… 
Seeing Dog’s retirement spurs over £20,000 in donations 13th December 2023 Stephen Anderson, 32, is a local government worker from northwest London. His first seeing dog, Barney, retired in July 2023 and thanks to their frequent travels, his retirement prompted British Airways to support the Seeing Dogs Alliance. Stephen Anderson knew that his farewell trip with retiring seeing dog Barney was… 
Sponsor a Dog with British Airways 9th September 2023 Jack Taylor has ceated a crowd funding project with British Airways. We are fundraising to combat the current shortage of seeing dogs and the urgent need of thousands of visually impaired people across the UK. The crowd funding period has ended, but you can still visit the crowd funding page… Lead On Magazine – May 2023 28th June 2023 The May 2023 edition of our Lead On magazine is available for download. Lead On without images (pdf) Lead On with images (pdf) 
Dog Rosa is The Sun’s Star of the week 26th May 2023 We are very pleased to be able to share national online coverage in the print version of the Sun on Sunday, and The Sun Online, representing a combined readership of over 27,000,000! Dawn Crombie-Dick's Seeing Dog Rosa has been highlighted as The Sun's Star of the week. The write up…