Corporate Supporters

 

Purina PetCare UK & Ireland 

Purina PetCare has been supporting Canine Partners since 2000. Currently Purina Petcare fully fund some of our puppies through training and they're a key part of the Canine Partners team, helping promote our 'Adopt a Puppy' scheme.

Canine Partners is very grateful to Purina PetCare not only for its financial support over the years but for the continued interest in our work and for providing ongoing PR support and guidance on a number of specific projects.

In recognition of the importance of our partnership, Purina Petcare have chosen Canine Partners to be their very first “Charity of the Year” in 2011/12. So far they have organised and taken part in more than 50 fund raising activities including bake sales,quiz nights, auctions and even sponsored head shaves! As well as being fun for the staff, these activities have raised almost £20,000 so far, that will be match funded by Purina with every penny going to Canine Partners.

In addition to Purina Petcare’s ongoing support, Sarah Russell, one of their members of staff, organised a Fun Gun Dog Event which was held at the Orchard Farm Boarding Kennels and Cattery in Outwood, Surrey courtesy of owners Mandy and Julian Smith. The day consisted of retrieving tests at various levels, and all judges, sponsors and organisers gave their time and resources for free to help raise money for Canine Partners, a fantastic £2050 on the day that gets match funded by Purina PetCare.

A team of 11 Purina PetCare staff are challenging themselves on 5 July 2012 to complete the Three Peaks Challenge in under 24 hours. Please help them to raise more money for Canine Partners and the puppies they are funding through training to become assistance dogs of the future: www.justgiving.com/PurinaTeam3PeakChallenge
 

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Andrex joins Nisa-Today’s to support Canine Partners

Nisa-Today’s, one of the leading supermarket chains, has been supporting Canine Partners for several years, and they have recently joined forces with the nation’s favourite toilet tissue brand, Andrex, who have pledged support of £15,000 in 2012.  This money will go towards the purchase and training of canine partner puppy Gooch.  Throughout this year, shoppers will be able to support Gooch with a donation of 1p from every pack sale of Andrex toilet tissue sold through Nisa stores*. 

Nisa-Today’s will also have the opportunity to contribute to Gooch’s training, as Andrex will reward the retailer with the best in-store display creating the most impactful shopper experience with prizes of one giant and 10 smaller limited edition Andrex Canine Partners soft toys to give away to their customers.

For his part, Gooch attended a special photoshoot for Andrex along with Iain Hamill and canine partner Innie, and those photos have been used for point of sale displays all through the Nisa-Today’s stores.  So next time you need to purchase some toilet tissue, visit your local Nisa-Today’s and help towards Gooch’s training!

* Promotion available between 01.01.2012 and 31.12.2012 on packs of Andrex® dry mainline and premium toilet tissue, excluding Andrex Washlets tubs and refills sold through Nisa stores. Subject to availability in-store.

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Zurich Community Trust (UK) Limited

 

Through Zurich's Community Trust, the staff at financial services company, Zurich, chose Canine Partners as one of their national charity partners in 2001. During the partnership, Canine Partners has built up a strong relationship with the staff at Zurich and has visited most of their offices around the country to help promote the partnership and the Zurich's Give as You Earn scheme. In addition to the generous direct financial support, Canine Partners has also benefited from Zurich's excellent staff volunteering programme. To date eight Zurich Challenges have taken place for Canine Partners, carried out by teams of volunteer staff who fundraise to generate funds for the materials and either carry out the work in their own time or in time allocated by the Company.

In addition to grants and volunteer challenges, Zurich has also helped Canine Partners by providing a several skillshare opportunities. A number of our staff, volunteers and disabled Partners have received Presentation Skills and HR training from Zurich staff, this has been invaluable not only from a cost saving but from through receiving the latest skills in a business environment. 

Read more here on our partnership over the years..
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Tesco Petcare Insurance

 

 

 

 

Tesco Petcare insurance are a new supporter, sponsoring puppies through training and helping to make a real difference to the number of partnerships we are creating. Tesco continue to find ways to create extra awareness through advertising off and online, reaching more people across the UK.
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The Smith Pearman Charitable Trust have been supporting Canine Partners since 2007 and have raised almost £15,000 to help support the training and life-time aftercare of a canine partnership. They continue to carry out all sorts of fundraising events for Canine Partners and other charities that benefit from their very hard work and dedicated charitable activities. 

Keith Hardy, Cindy Wolmarans and Tim Hardy pictured.

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Pets Corner

                           
National pet store chain Pets Corner are continuing to support Canine Partners with a 10% discount card for partners, puppy parents and staff on production of charity ID or business card at any of their stores across the country.  Even more of a bonus is their new store in Midhurst, which is on the doorstep of the national training centre in Heyshott!  Check their store finder and range of products here: www.petscorner.co.uk

"My grandmother has been a Puppy Parent since 1996 and has visited us with Canine Partner puppies many, many times as she has been involved with the training of over 30 puppies! Although I have always loved their company, I never really understood what the dogs did. I wanted to learn more so popped to see the Training Centre at Heyshott and they gave me a very interesting tour of the training facility. I felt so inspired, we talked about how Pets Corner might be able to help Canine Partners provide more dogs for people with disabilities.

We currently trade from 50 stores through the UK and serve just under 2 million customers each year. Our customers shop with us because they appreciate quality products and proper, qualified service and I know they will be very interested in finding out about Canine Partners as will our staff.

Canine Partners have kindly offered the store's staff that generates the most revenue, to experience their vital work first hand on a "Shadow a Trainer Day", which includes getting involved with a Puppy Class!"
Dean Richmond, Managing Director, Pets Corner UK Ltd. 

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Rug Doctor has been supporting the Charity since 2007.

Finance & HR Manager Paul Hansford runs Rug Doctor’s fundraising efforts. The relationship began because of Paul’s own personal connection with the charity.

Paul had previously worked at Canine Partners for two years, as a dog trainer; it was here he recognised the value of their hard work and wanted to continue helping the charity raise funds.

When Paul became an employee at Rug Doctor he identified an opportunity to help Canine Partners through setting up a staff snack shop in the Worthing Head Office, it is here where the funds are primarily raised; staff can buy a variety of drinks and snacks and the proceeds are donated to the charity.

“For the past four years we have been running a 'Snack Shop', which sells cold drinks, chocolate bars, crisps, fruit, healthier snacks etc and even ice creams in the summer,” commented Paul, Finance and HR Manager at Rug Doctor. “Through the empty tummies (!), and generous donations of Rug Doctor staff, we have managed to raise over £6,000 in that time. This is enough to pay for the acquisition of eight puppies to then be trained as assistance dogs”.

Isabel Campbell, Canine Partners’ Director of fundraising and marketing, says: “As a charity that receives no government funding we are reliant on support from companies and organisations such as Rug Doctors to raise vital funds for us.  Their donations are going directly to help us train more dogs for people with disabilities, and we would like to thank them for their generosity.”

On Thursday 25th August 2011 Rug Doctor had great pleasure in presenting a further cheque for £2,500 to Canine Partners at their Heyshott office.

Since the relationship began Rug Doctor has proudly raised over £6,000.

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Colcester United Football Club

Colchester United Football Club have kindly choosen Canine Partners in Essex as one of their charity partnerships for the new season 2011/12.  The package includes a first team player ambassador for the season, use of their hospitality facilities for a fundraising event, the use of a box on a match day, a collection day, signed shirt and ball for auction and a quarter page advert in their match programmes.   

Lindsay Hurrell Essex Community Fundraiser would like to say a huge thanks to CUFC for kindly choosing us as their charity partnership for the next season, it will really help us to continue to raise awareness of the charity here in Essex and the region.

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Pets Perfect

Canine Partners have been offered a discount on all products, including dog supplies at petsperfect.co.uk. We use a variety of leads and harnesses, as each puppy and dog in training has their own individual needs. This support will help the Charity spend more resources on training our assistance dogs for people with disabilities and is very much appreciated!      
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Kew Electrical

Kew Electrical continue to raise support for Canine Partners puppies in training. The company has raised the funds via various methods including staff raffles, Charity Golf Days, monthly employee contributions, a Board of Directors donation and a Company wide donation.  What’s more, there is now information and collecting tins in all 11 branches of Kew Electrical throughout the South.

Geoff Kerly, Managing Director of Kew Electrical comments, “We specifically chose Canine Partners as we wanted to support a charity that had a tangible impact on our own community, as well as highlighting their work to our own audience.  There are a number of dogs in the Sussex area and when you see them in action, the ways in which they help their human partner are very impressive.”
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Staff at Arinc in Crawley, West Sussex have supported Canine Partners since 2005 through their weekly dress down day and monthly breakfast club, where staff shop and serve a cooked breakfast to paying colleagues.

Their latest puppy "Nero" has been matched to a lady in East Sussex and staff love to see their support transforming the lives of local people with disabilities.
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Hydrotherapy- Four Paws second Solent Swim Challenge

Most dogs love water but 28 dogs joined forces in April 2012 again to swim in relay 1500 lengths, which is the equivalent of the distance of the Solent, to raise funds for Canine Partners. The event took place at the Hydrotherapy-Four Paws pool at the Wickham Canine Rehabilitation Centre in Knowle Village and the hardy canines were cheered on in their efforts by canine partner puppy Ivan.

A variety of dogs took part including golden retriever Alfie, who swam 62 lengths and Poppy, a Jack Russell, who completed an awesome 102. Each competitor thoroughly enjoyed their exercise and was awarded a special swim certificate, a home-made carrot and parmesan bone and a tub of doggy ice cream. Big thanks go not only to the four-legged heroes, but also to their owners who raised the sponsorship money, and staff at Hydrotherapy-Four Paws who gave up their Saturday. Their incredible watery challenge has currently raised £2500. 

 

A huge thank you to all staff, the dogs and generous owners supporting Canine Partners.

W: hydrotherapy4paws.com T: 01329 834647

Want to add your company's name to this list and help us train more highly skilled assistance dogs for people with disabilities? Get in touch with us and find out how you can partner with us and make a big difference.

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