Hi and thank you for taking the time to visit our JustGiving page. 

My hearing dog Albert and I will be taking the part in "The 28 Challenge" to raise money for Hearing Dogs to train these amazing life-changing hearing dogs to help deaf people.

Hearing dogs are highly trained to alert deaf people to important and life-saving sounds, such as the smoke alarm, alarm clocks and even intruder alarms and baby monitors. They also provide lots of love, companionship and emotional support, which is really important as many deaf people can feel lonely and isolated. 

There are so many little costs that all add up when training one of these amazing animals to become life-changing companions. In total, it costs £25,000 to fully train an accredited hearing dog, so The 28 Challenge is a great way to raise funds to train more dogs.

Albert is absolutely amazing and so clever, and I don't know what I would do without him. He has given me the confidence to achieve things that I wouldn't have done without him. He has changed my life totally, and he has made me a more confident person, he has made me visible! He’s my ears, my best friend, my companion, my whole world and I love him to bits. It’s all thanks to Hearing Dogs, it is a fantastic charity.

Read our story here about me and Albert:
https://www.hearingdogs.org.uk/blog/potm/hearing-dog-partnership-sarah-and-albert/

Hearing Dogs receive no central government funding which means that they rely on amazing supporters, sponsorships and fundraising. They do a lot of fundraising events to raise money to train these special hearing dogs to change deaf people’s lives, but unfortunately due to the coronavirus they have either been cancelled or postponed. So they are constantly finding different ways to raise money, and one of them is “The 28 Challenge”! They are asking anyone to choose a fun challenge to take on at any point during February. We immediately accepted the challenge!

So our challenge for this, is to do a random challenge every day for 28 days (the whole month of February). We will share our photos/videos on social media, so you can see what we have been up to. We won’t reveal what we will be doing each day, so you will have to tune in each day to see what we did!

We want to do this challenge so we can raise money to help more deaf people to leave loneliness behind, by having their best friend by their side.

If you could donate any amount even a £1, that would be fantastic! All money will go directly to Hearing Dogs, to help them train life-changing hearing dogs to help deaf people, like Albert with me.

Please feel free to share our page to your family and friends. The more donations we get, the more they train life-changing hearing dogs to help deaf people ❤  

Thank you for your support! 

Sarah and Albert (Woof Woof!)