- Who
- The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association
- What
- 36,670 total number
- Where
- United Kingdom ()
- When
In terms of the number of dogs trained, the world's largest assistance-dog organization is The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (aka Guide Dogs), with its head office in Hillfields, Berkshire, UK. As of 31 December 2021, Guide Dogs had successfully trained 36,670 dogs to provide mobility assistance to blind or partially sighted people.
The charity was formally founded on 30 August 1934, but its origins date back to 1931 when British pioneers Muriel Crooke and Rosamund Bond trained the first four British guide dogs in Wallasey, Merseyside: Flash, Judy, Folly and Meta.
To mark this 90th anniversary in 2021, Guide Dogs named one of their latest recruits, a four-month-old female yellow Labrador, Flash, in honour of one of the original guide dogs from 1931.
