Everyday Hero: GDQ Anniversary

Congratulations! Celebrate your anniversary with us in a very special way.

Through our partnership with Everyday Hero, you can build your own online fundraising "Hero Page" and ask your friends and family to donate by emailing them the unique link to your page. All donations are recorded on your page and you can upload your own photos and videos, track progress with your "Hero Meter" and read anniversary messages from your donors.

If you're celebrating a 50th anniversary this year like us, we'd love you to join our festivities with a virtual fundraiser.

GDQ Anniversary

Thank you for generously choosing to celebrate your anniversary with Guide Dogs Queensland by fundraising on our behalf. All funds raised will help us to provide training and support to Queenslanders who are blind or have low vision.

Guide Dogs Queensland

In 2010, Guide Dogs Queensland celebrates being 50 years young.

Established in May 1960, Guide Dogs Queensland is today proud to be the state’s principal not-for-profit association providing training and support to Queenslanders who are blind or have low vision.

Although best known for our Guide Dogs, GDQ’s programs have grown to become highly specialised. They include:

• Guide Dogs;
• White Cane training and Electronic Travel Aids;
• Low vision clinics;
• Counselling ;
• Special education programs for children;
• Community education and consultancy.

Every day we help thousands of Queenslanders of all ages overcome the isolation of sight loss. Our programs restore one’s dignity, confidence, independence, mobility and ultimately - freedom.

It costs more than $30,000 to breed, train and place each Guide Dog. We receive no government funding for our Guide Dogs and less than seven per cent in government funding for some fee-for-service orientation and mobility training.

Thanks to community support all services, including Guide Dogs, are provided free of charge.

With help from you, an ‘Everyday Hero’, Queenslanders who are blind or have low vision can look forward to our support and seeing the world through the eyes of a Guide Dog.