Sponsor Lark and transform a deaf person’s life

Toffee and white coloured cocker spaniel, running on grass. The background is blurred heavily.

Sponsor this cute Cocker Spaniel from just £8 a month and you’ll receive a fantastic welcome pack, regular updates throughout her training journey, and exclusive Pupdates in our Puppy Pen blog. You will also be helping people to live well with hearing loss.

Sponsor Lark from £8 a month

Puppy Lark nestled in her doggy bed, looking out.

A cute pup, wearing an oversized hearing dogs jacket, playing on grass

Toffee and tan puppy Lark, crouched on the ground, with a colourful toy in her mouth.

Puppy Lark is sitting on grass, looking to the left of frame.

Puppy Lark standing half in half out of her doggy bed. She looks curiously to the right.

Lark, with her toffee and white fur is walking through grass, one paw slightly raised mid step.

Little puppy Lark is laying on the floor, a plush duck toy caught in her front paws.

Sponsor Lark: A confident and energetic explorer

Say hello to little Lark! With her toffee-coloured coat and white chocolate snout, this sweet Cocker Spaniel is irresistible to everyone she meets. Led by her curious nose and zest for life, time spent with Lark is pure puppy joy. And our all-round good girl is beginning her journey towards transforming a deaf person’s life.

The lovely Lark has been enjoying settling into life as a puppy school pupil. But when she’s not mastering new skills or playing games with her canine friends, Lark has been trying to make friends of a different kind at home…

“Lark’s Volunteer Dog Trainer also has a cat who Lark now gets on well with,” explained Rachel, Lark’s Dog Training Instructor. “To start with, when she tried to play with the cat she received a bop on the nose. So, she then took to lying down on her belly and slowly wiggling closer to them!” It’s not a typical friend-making technique… but each to their own, Lark!

With her adorable determination to learn, this beautiful puppy has got a bright future ahead. And we’re confident she’ll become a life-changing companion for her future deaf partner.

Which other animals will our curious girl befriend? How many hearts will her floppy ears melt? And which deaf person will she grow up to support? Sponsor Lark today to find out!

A man wearing a shorts and blue tshirt is sitting on porch steps with a white cockapoo dog — Peter and his hearing dog Arya

How your puppy sponsorship will help

You'll help a puppy become a life-changing hearing dog. They'll stop a deaf person feeling isolated and alone, and alert them to sounds they can't hear including the doorbell and the fire alarm.

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Very small fluffy white Spaniel puppy with light brown ears holding a soft toy duck in her mouth in a room with a dog bed and some other toys in the background

Sponsor for £8 a month

£8 a month could pay for lots of yummy treats and exciting toys to reward your clever puppy during their training.

Young black Labrador looking to the left with a small hurdle and some cones in front of her and a person to the left, only their legs are visible.

Sponsor for £10 a month

£10 a month could pay for fun puppy classes that help your pup on their journey to become a hearing dog.

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Sponsor for £12 a month

£12 a month could teach your puppy how to alert a deaf person to life-saving sounds, such as the smoke alarm.

Lark learns to resist temptation

As a future hearing dog, Lark will visit a variety of public places. To be a calm companion for her future deaf partner, it’s important that she learns not to follow every impulse that she feels. To support her with this, Lark has been practising her ‘impulse control’ during her early puppy classes, including walking past distractions like toys and other dogs. She may only be a young pup, but we’re proud to share that little Lark has already been making promising progress!

Sponsor Lark from £8 a month

1. How do I sponsor a puppy?

2. What do sponsors receive? How do they follow puppy’s progress?

All sponsors receive a fantastic welcome pack, which includes a certificate, car sticker and postcards of their puppy. You'll also receive a cuddly puppy toy, magnet and pen.

From then on, we send regular updates on how your puppy is doing, either printed or, if requested, by email. We publish training updates roughly every five to six months, depending on how quickly the puppy goes through training. On average, across the 18-24 months of a puppy’s training, this means four updates.

The updates show, through beautiful photos, how your puppy is getting on, with comments from the people involved with his or her training. The full set of updates goes right the way through training and then introduces you to the deaf person your puppy is helping on a daily basis (if they have given us permission to do so).

In between full updates, we also publish ‘Pupdates’ (see what we did there?) in the online Puppy Pen every two months, showing what a fun life your puppy is having as he or she learns about the world. When we do this, we also email our sponsors to tell them there’s a new Pupdate.

So, you'll see the progress you have made possible. You can also celebrate the outcome, when your puppy is partnered with a deaf person and helps them to live well with hearing loss.

3. Can I sponsor as a gift?

Yes! Sponsorship makes a great gift for both children and adults.

To do this, go to the sponsor page and choose ‘it’s a gift’ under ‘Who is this sponsorship for?’. You can also choose whether to have the welcome pack sent to you, or directly to the gift receiver.

It generally takes around 10 working days for welcome packs to be despatched. If you don’t manage to order in time but you want to be sure you have something on that special day, you can download our print-at-home certificate in one of two ways:

If you sponsored online, you will be emailed a link to download your sponsorship certificate as soon as your sponsorship is set up. If your email doesn’t arrive, then please check your junk/spam folder.

If you have sponsored via a manual form, then please phone us on 01844 340734 or email us at [email protected] and we will email a certificate through.

4. What happens when my puppy graduates?

When the puppy’s training journey ends and he or she is matched with a deaf person, we transfer the sponsorship automatically to a new puppy if you paid by Direct Debit or a monthly PayPal donation. You can of course choose not to follow your new puppy and cancel your regular donation if you wish by contacting us. If you paid as a one-off, we ask if you’d like to sponsor another puppy.

We do this with a letter or email at the same time as your final update, in which you get to see the result of your support. We also show you lovely photos of the new puppy. It’s a very exciting time, as one journey ends and another begins!

5. Why do you have minimum amounts?

As a well-run charity we try to be as efficient and effective as possible in everything we do. However, there are certain limits below which we would simply lose money on each sponsorship. The amounts we ask for mean that, after costs are considered, sufficient money goes towards helping a sponsor puppy through its training and helping a deaf person live well with hearing loss.