Our corporate supporters

Hearing Dogs doesn't receive any Government funding and relies on the generosity of individuals and organisations to keep helping unwanted dogs and deaf people. 

Our corporate supporters have provided us with vital resources in terms of funds and awareness.  You can see a full list of corporate sponsorship opportunities here - or read on to see a selection of our recent and current corporate supporters.

The Hearing Company

The Hearing Company operates from over 500 outlets nationwide, including all branches of Scrivens opticians.  Over the past two years, the Hearing Company has part-supported the training of two dual purpose hearing and guide dogs trained by Hearing Dogs and The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association.

Andrea Callaway, The Hearing Company’s marketing director, said: “We are delighted to continue to support the Charity, particularly as they train dogs to help those who are both blind and hard of hearing.  As an optical and hearing care retailer, we have a natural link to their work.”

Yorkshire Building Society

The Yorkshire Building Society has supported Hearing Dogs for Deaf People all over the country.  In Surrey, the Woking branch raised £2500 to train hearing dog ‘Doris’.  Raising a fantastic £5000 each, the Nantwich branch supported the training of hearing dog ‘Paddy’ in Cheshire, the Newmarket branch sponsored ‘Rambo’, and Castleford sponsored ‘Arthur’ in Yorkshire.  With other donations received from other YBS branches and the Society’s charitable foundation, nearly £20,000 in all has been donated to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People from YBS.  We are truly grateful to the Society and to every member of staff at YBS who made it happen.

Aspen

City-based insurance and re-insurance company, Aspen has donated a fantastic £10,000 to support the training of two dogs, Lily and Bertie.  Suzy Eul-Brown, Marketing Manager at Aspen saw the 2007 Crufts TV coverage of hearing dog,  Molly winning the Friends for Life Competition, and invited Hearing Dogs to visit Aspen’s Fenchurch Street offices.  Kim Novak took her hearing dog Eva – the first dog allowed inside this gleaming marble and glass building!  Kim  told Aspen’s Charity Committee first hand how much life has changed for them both since Eva’s training as a hearing dog and we were rewarded by this wonderful donation.

HBOS

Five years ago the Halifax/Bank of Scotland - now known as HBOS – set up the HBOS Foundation.  So to mark the fifth anniversary this year, all HBOS staff were invited to enter a ballot from which five lucky winners could nominate a charity of their choice to receive a donation of £500.  Employee, Fiona Whitelaw from Chester was one of the lucky five winners, and as a very active Hearing Dogs volunteer speaker she knew who to nominate!  The value of this is not just the donation, but also a short piece that appeared on the HBOS intranet – therefore potentially putting the Hearing Dogs name in front of 65,000 HBOS employees.