N1 · N7
Islington dogs take Highbury Fields very seriously. Squirrels have been warned. Walk dogs in Islington 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
Islington is Georgian terraces, mansion blocks and garden flats, with Highbury Fields at the top, the canal through the middle and a lot of dogs waiting for someone to get home from the City.
Upper Street and Essex Road, Canonbury Square and the New River Walk, Barnsbury and Thornhill Square, Holloway Road and Tufnell Park on the N7 side.
An Islington round: a 20-minute walk along the New River Walk with a cockapoo from Canonbury, a 30-minute loop of Highbury Fields with a rescue greyhound, and an hour from Barnsbury down to the canal and back with a young retriever.
Angel, Highbury and Islington, Caledonian Road, Holloway Road and Arsenal stations, the Overground at Canonbury, and the 4, 19, 30 and 43 buses.
Walkers here usually start from N1, N7, N5, N4 and N19. 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 Islington (N1, N7) now. You’d walk round Highbury Fields, the Regent’s Canal at Angel and Barnard 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 Islington 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 N1, N7, N5, N4 and N19. You set your starting postcode and how far you’ll travel, and walks from Highbury, Angel and Holloway 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.
