Corporate engagement.

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Engagement opportunities

There are many different ways we engage with organisations and corporate supporters.

Opportunities include: 

  • partnerships 
  • sponsorships 
  • philanthropic support 
  • hosting a Collection Dog 
  • corporate volunteering. 

Partnering with Guide Dogs Victoria not only aligns your business with our high standards, but also leverages the strong brand awareness and positive reputation we have built over the years for empowering the blind and low vision community. 

Building on our impressive achievement of being named Australia’s Most Trusted Charity by the Reader’s Digest Annual Trusted Brands Awards for seven consecutive years from 2020, Guide Dogs Australia was thrilled to be honoured with the Highly Commended Charity Award at the Reader’s Digest in 2024. 

To partner with one of the most iconic brands in Australia, please contact our Fundraising Team on corporate@guidedogsvictoria.com.au. 

To partner with Guide Dogs across two or more states, please contact the National Corporate Partnerships Team at Guide Dogs Australia at partnerships@guidedogs.com.au. 

Black Labrador Delphie licking the face of a Guide Dogs staff member.
Pat and Chats

Spread the puppy love across teams and boost engagement.

Want the ultimate team-building experience for your staff while making a difference in the lives of people with low vision or blindness? 

Enjoy up to two hours of puppy pats while learning about how Guide Dogs Victoria supports its Clients to live a life without limits. 

Bookings are essential! Please contact our team via email at corporate@guidedogsvictoria.com.au or by phone on 1800 804 805 to learn more about how you can organise an event to remember. 

Our partners

Thanks to our generous partners!

We are able to provide services for those with low vision or blindness thanks to generous contributions of our partners.

We would like to thank our major Corporate Partners, Trusts & Foundations, Community Partners and Collection Dog Hosts for the difference they make in the community.

Our National Partners

Guide Dogs Australia National Partners

Black Hawk

In partnership with Guide Dogs Australia, Black Hawk proudly provides premium food, backed by extensive experience and unwavering commitment to quality assurance, to support the health and vitality of Guide Dogs. With over a decade of expertise in crafting canine nutrition, Black Hawk believes in the power of great food to provide the care every dog needs and deserves. Through this partnership, Black Hawk is helping the team at Guide Dogs Australia nurture dogs for optimal health and service.

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Australia

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Australia has a long-standing partnership with Guide Dogs Australia that continues to support and enhance the health, well-being and protection of Guide Dogs.

Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Australia provides complete preventative health support for our puppies and adult dogs, with the on-going provision of NexGard SPECTRA® and canine vaccines.

Whether our dogs are in training, working, or enjoying some downtime, it is essential that they are protected from parasites and infectious diseases.

Our partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Australia means that our dogs will be protected whether they are going into a Guide Dogs Centre for training, to the park with a Client, or on a bushwalk with a Puppy Raiser or Handler.

Coles

Coles has proudly been involved with Guide Dogs Australia since the late 1930s when Lady Margaret Coles became interested in establishing a Guide Dogs Service in Australia.

Lady Coles was an animal lover who dedicated her life to helping improve the bond between humans and animals.

Early on, she recognised the important role dogs play in transforming the lives of people with low vision or blindness and would often paint walls at Guide Dogs headquarters, sell homemade jam for a donation or even wash some of the pups who had been rolling in the mud!

Since then, the partnership between Coles and Guide Dogs Australia has expanded to include hosting hundreds of our iconic Collection Dogs, selling reusable community bags to raise funds, and customer accessibility initiatives.

We are incredibly proud of this long-standing relationship and the impact it has had over many decades.

Flybuys

Flybuys and their members have supported Guide Dogs Australia since 2016. By redeeming their points earnt shopping with major retailers such as Bunnings, Officeworks and Coles into non tax deductible donations, Flybuys and it’s members have donated over $85,000. This generous contribution allows Guide Dogs to provide essential services and programs to Australians with low vision or blindness.

Greenstone Financial Services

Greenstone Financial Services specialises in the design, marketing, distribution, and administration of insurance offering a range of products in the life, funeral, income protection, car, home, travel and pet insurance categories.

One of our valued National Partners since 2018, Greenstone Financial Services supports Guide Dogs Australia through the provision of Guide Dogs Pet Insurance, which offers insurance for dogs, cats, and Registered Guide Dogs to help cover unexpected veterinary costs.

By choosing Guide Dogs Pet Insurance, you are also choosing to make a difference in someone’s life. This is because a portion of first year policy premiums goes to support Guide Dogs Australia provide vital services for Australians living with low vision or blindness.

Learn more about insuring your cat or dog with Guide Dogs Pet Insurance.

IDEXX

IDEXX has supported Guide Dogs Australia for more than 10 years through the complimentary provision of pathology tests for our national colony of dogs.

IDEXX is a global leader in diagnostic solutions for animals and focuses on providing products and services that improve animal health and disease diagnosis.

This diagnostic expertise and support mean we can make sure our dogs are in the best of health at all times. These services also play a vital role in our breeding program, helping us create the next generation of life-changing Guide Dogs.

KONG Company

KONG Company has partnered with Guide Dogs since 2018 to make sure our dogs’ development is supported through quality enrichment and play activities.

KONG Company has been developing, designing, and producing dog and cat toys for over 40 years. They are known to be the best of the best in quality, originality, variety, safety, and value.

By providing their iconic toys and enrichment advice, KONG Company is supporting the health, happiness, and training of our dogs so they can reach their full potential.

PETstock Foundation

PETstock Foundation is the charity arm of the 100% Australian, family-owned and operated PETstock retail business.

PETstock Foundation has partnered with Guide Dogs since 2014 as part of their commitment to making a long-term positive difference in the lives of pets and families in need.

With the support of PETstock stores, team members, and brand partners including ADVANCE™, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health (NexGard®, HeartGard30 Plus®, ParaGard®), PAW by Blackmores®, and KONG Company, PETstock Foundation has donated more than $200,000 to Guide Dogs Australia through fundraising, workplace giving, and cause-related marketing campaigns.

Ritchies Supermarkets & Liquor Stores

Ritchies Supermarkets & Liquor Stores have been a part of Australian communities for more than 150 years and support Guide Dogs by hosting our beloved collection dogs in many of their stores across the country.

TPG Telecom Foundation

The TPG Telecom Foundation’s purpose is to create opportunities to improve the health, wellbeing and education of Australian communities in need. This valued partner is currently supporting an innovative robotic guide project which develops cutting edge technologies and prototypes and conducts user testing. Bringing these together in a robotic platform will help support improved mobility for people with low vision or blindness.

Woolworths

For decades Woolworths supermarkets have hosted our iconic collection dogs to facilitate customer donations to Guide Dogs. Silently, these dogs have collected generous donations from the community and have been a highlight of shopping trips for children.

XL Events

XL Events specialise in designing and delivering team building events and programs that are unique and highly engaging. Each event is designed to deliver specific individual and team outcomes while ensuring participants get the most from their experience. In collaboration with Guide Dogs, XL Events has developed ‘Unleashed. Race to support Guide Dogs’.

National workplace giving partners

Guide Dogs Australia workplace giving partners

  • AON
  • Commbank
  • Maurice Blackburn
  • VIVA Energy
  • Westpac
  • Greenstone
  • Petstock
Our Victorian Partners

Guide Dogs Victoria Partners

Ritchies IGA and Liquor

Guide Dogs have been one of the beneficiaries of the Ritchies Community Benefit (CB) Program for many years now in Victoria, NSW and QLD. We have received over $364,000 from Ritchies through the Community Benefit Program and from this total our Victorian services have received $286,000 year to date.

The money is generated from customers shopping at Ritchies stores who nominate Guide Dogs as their beneficiary. Ritchies donate .5% of the customer’s shop back into the community. Ritchies have donated in excess of 44.6 million dollars back into the community to local clubs, schools and charities over the last 21 years.

Ritchies have been involved in the Puppy Sponsorship program at Guide Dogs Victoria since 2013, supporting Guide Dog puppies on their journey to becoming fully trained Guide Dogs.

Public Transport Victoria

Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is a statutory authority that manages Victoria’s train, tram and bus services. PTV is a single contact point for customers wanting information on public transport services, fares, tickets and initiatives. PTV aims to improve public transport in Victoria by ensuring better coordination between modes, facilitating expansions to the network, auditing public transport assets and promoting public transport.

Yarra Trams

Yarra Trams works closely with Guide Dogs Victoria to improve accessibility for the vision impaired on Melbourne’s tram network. This includes consulting on new projects, reviewing existing infrastructure, and testing services, like new features on our tramTRACKER app.

Last year, Yarra Trams and PTV designed and wrapped a tram for International White Cane Day to help raise awareness of how the white cane can aid mobility and independence for a person with vision loss. This tram travelled on line 109 for 6 weeks and helped spread the Guide Dogs Victoria message to thousands of people across Melbourne.

National Australia Bank

Today, we have more than 35,000 people serving 10 million customers at more than 800 locations in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. We look for innovative ways to deliver social value alongside service for customers and returns for our shareholders.

Through our investments in the community we aim to aim to build social cohesion, financial inclusion, more connected communities and a stronger economy that not only benefits our customers, but others in the community as well.

NAB first supported Guide Dogs Victoria in 2014 with a major grant for the puppy raising program. More recently, through our Community Grants Program, NAB has supported the development of a sophisticated database which will record the genetic values of the Guide Dogs breeding program. This investment will revolutionise the breeding outcomes in Victoria and nationally.  Both of these investments will help with the long term supply of Guide Dogs for the growing community of people with vision loss in Victoria.

NAB continue to help Guide Dogs with grass root fundraising; workplace giving, making our venues available for instructors to use in the Guide Dog training program, and through the provision of volunteers to help at fundraising events.

Houndztooth

Houndztooth is an Australian owned brand specialising in canine grooming products and health supplements. As a strategic partner, Houndztooth proudly supports Guide Dogs Victoria through product supply, retail activations and marketing collaboration, contributing to the health and wellbeing of our dogs and helping us deliver life changing services for people living with blindness or low vision.

Our fundraising platform partners

Guide Dogs Victoria happily partners with several fundraising platforms.

Using fundraising platforms helps us to streamline processes and reduces our administration costs. From time to time, you may see a Guide Dogs Victoria campaign hosted by any of the following fundraising platforms: