Tag: Guide Dogs

Jasper’s back!

Guide dog Jasper returns to his roots! 

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Sainsburys Blackhall have been sponsoring Guide dogs for the blind for four years now (writes Gail ). One of the first puppies we sponsored was Jasper.

After fulfilling his year in Edinburgh with Diane Hare, his puppy walker, Jasper then went to Forfar to do his formal training. Of course he passed with flying colours and is now the official Guide dog for Robert Blackwood, who lives in Irving.

Robert found out that Sainsburys Blackhall had sponsored Jasper from birth and wanted to come along to our store and meet the colleagues who had helped him get his guide dog. The colleagues were thrilled to see Jasper back!

Sainsbury’s set to welcome little Vince

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Sainsburys Blackhall’s colleagues and customers have been sponsoring Guide Dogs for the Blind for over three years and have now raised more than £22,000.

Each Guide Dog cost £5,000 to sponsor and we have just received our fourth puppy! Little Vince will hopefully be making his first appearance in Our Blackhall store later next month.

Thank you to all our colleagues and customers for their continuous support.

Gail, Sainsbury’s Blackhall

Name a Guide Dog pup and support Red Nose Day too!

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Name a Guide Dog Puppy and help Guide Dogs and Comic Relief!

Sainsbury’s Blackhall customers and colleagues have now raised enough funds for a third Guide Dog puppy and would like to invite the community to help name the puppy – customers can enter their nomination instore until Friday 15 March (Red Nose Day).

Guide Dog puppies Jasper and Sandy, will also be in-store on Monday 4th and Friday 15th of March to show their support!

Donations will be split between Guide Dogs and Comic Relief – £15,904 has been raised so far, and Sainsbury’s Blackhall colleagues are supporting Red Nose Day by taking part in fundraising and selling the official Red Nose Day merchandise.

Red Nose Day is on Friday 15th March.

 

 

Jasper and Sandy return to Sainsbury’s

Customers and colleagues were delighted to welcome Guide Dog puppies, Jasper and Sandy, and their puppy walkers Catriona and Mhairi back to the store to celebrate their first 6 months of training earlier this week.

Both puppies are doing exceptionally well and were very well behaved on their visit, and we are looking forward to seeing them on their birthday!

Customers and colleagues have now raised £ 15,904.00 and are about to choose a name for the third puppy

Shay, Sainsbury’s Blackhall

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Guide dog pups coming back to Sainsbury’s

Sainsbury’s Guide Dog puppies Jasper and Sandy are now 6 months old and they will be coming in to the store on Monday (4 Feb) at 11.30am to show customers and colleagues how their training is coming along.

Sainsbury’s customers and staff have now raised £15,000 for another Guide Dog puppy and will be starting the process of choosing a name for ‘Puppy 3’ soon!

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Guide Dog puppies visit Sainsbury’s

They came, they saw and they melted hearts! Sainsbury’s customers and staff have raised funds to train two puppies to become guide dogs, and Jasper and Sandy – now a whole fourteen weeks old – called in to the Craigleith store with their walkers to say hello yesterday.

It was also an opportunity for the gorgeous wee dugs to meet the people who named them – Clermiston Primary pupil Eve McCall and Sainsbury’s Rebecca Law won an in-store competition to name the puppies, and both were at Blackhall to meet their wee friends.

Guide dog puppies to visit Sainsbury’s

Aawww! A wee Guide Dog puppy

Jasper and Sandy, two Guide Dog puppies sponsored by Sainsbury’s Blackhall customers, will be making personal appearances at the local store next Wednesday at 2pm. 

Sainsbury’s customers and staff chose Guide Dogs as their nominated charity for 2011/12 and Jasper and Sandy will be calling in to meet everyone and say thanks! Guests of honour will be Rebecca Law, a member of staff at Sainsbury’s, and Clermiston Primary School pupil Eve McCall – Rebecca and Eve won the store’s ‘Name the Puppies’ competition.

Jasper and Sandy – who is named after Guide Dogs volunteer collector Sandy Miller, a well-known face at Sainsbury’s – don’t have too far to travel to visit the local store. Jasper is being walked for his first year by a Guide Dog puppy walker who lives in Blackhall, while Sandy is learning his trade in Leith.

It costs £10,000 to adopt, name and train two puppies for their first year but through collections at checkouts, by volunteers and through a local ‘Go Walkies’ sponsored event generous staff and customers raised that amount and more – the local store is now well on the way to raising another £5000 to sponsor another puppy in the New Year!

Aawww! Another wee Guide Dog puppy!