E8 · E5
Hackney has more parks per street than almost anywhere in London, and a lot of dogs who know every one of them. Walk dogs in Hackney with Seekies, a new on-demand dog walking app in London: one household at a time, on the walks you choose, paid every week.
Your patch
Hackney has more parks per street than almost anywhere in London, and a lot of dogs who know every one of them: London Fields, Hackney Downs, the Marshes and Victoria Park are all in reach of an E8 or E5 front door.
Broadway Market and Mare Street, the roads off Lauriston Road, Chatsworth Road and Clapton Square, Hackney Downs and the Amhurst Road side, and Dalston towards the N16 border.
A typical Hackney morning: a 30-minute walk on London Fields with a whippet from Martello Street, an hour round Victoria Park with a labrador from Lauriston Road, and a 20-minute check-in on Chatsworth Road to let an older terrier into the garden.
Hackney Central, Hackney Downs, London Fields and Clapton stations, the Overground at Homerton and Hackney Wick, and the 38, 55, 253 and 254 buses. A bike makes Hackney much quicker.
Walkers here usually start from E8, E5, E9, N16 and E2. You set your own starting postcode and how far you will travel when you apply, and you only see walks inside that.
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Pay
Home visits pay by type and length, from £8.50 for a 20-minute cat check-in. Paid per walk, not per hour: per hour of walking that works out at £24 (one hour-long walk) to £36 (three 20-minute walks). Time travelling between walks is not paid.
Paid every week, shown before you accept. Walkers are self-employed.
How it works
Questions
Yes. Seekies is recruiting walkers in Hackney (E8, E5) now. You’d walk round London Fields, Hackney Downs and Victoria Park.
With Seekies, £12 for a 20-minute walk, £16 for 30 minutes and £24 for an hour, the same across London. It’s per walk, not per hour, and you’re paid every week.
Apply at seekies.co.uk/become-a-walker, which takes about ten minutes. We check your ID and right to work in person at our Shoreditch office and talk you through how walks, pay and cancellations work. Then a person approves you, and Hackney walks start coming through the app.
Self-employed. You choose when you work and which walks you take, and you sort your own tax and National Insurance.
Every walker is ID and right-to-work checked, hand-picked and personally vetted by our team, in person, before the first walk.
Not as a job. Real experience with your own, your family’s or friends’ dogs counts.
Yes, if you’d like to. Feeds, fresh water, a litter tray and some company. The cats will act like they didn’t notice.
No. You pick the walks you take, and Seekies opens area by area, so walks start when we open near you.
No. Walkers here usually start from E8, E5, E9, N16 and E2. You set your starting postcode and how far you’ll travel, and walks from Dalston, Clapton and London Fields can come your way too.
No. Joining Seekies is free.
To be 18 or over, permission to do self-employed work in the UK, real experience caring for dogs, and a smartphone with data, location and a camera.
Nearby
New to dog walking? Read how to become a dog walker in London, how much dog walkers earn or part-time dog walking jobs in London.
Apply in about ten minutes. Tell us where you start from and we will match walks near you.
