DOGS FOR HEALTH

Registered charity 1191801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the CIO are To support people who are in need regardless of their age, disability, health or social circumstances. Particularly but not exclusively by the provision of pets and their volunteer owners or carers visiting individuals homes or visiting public places such as hospitals, workplaces, care and nursing homes and schools. To share learning and resources.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF NEED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY ISOLATED AS A RESULT OF AGE, DISABILITY, SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OR POOR MENTAL OR PHYSICAL HEALTH BY ENABLING THEM TO ENGAGE WITH WELL-TRAINED THERAPY DOGS OR TO PARTICIPATE IN OTHER MANAGED ANIMAL ASSISTED INTERVENTIONS, AND BY RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE BENEFITS OF ANIMAL ASSISTED INTERVENTIONS’.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity received £69,170.46 in income and incurred £69,170.46 in expenditure for the period, resulting in a balanced financial position. The trustees report that the charity continues to offer its services, including free home visits and fundraising activities, with plans to expand services in the coming year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dogs For Health (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily Mitchellchair
• Emma Wilkes
• Esmee Mortimer-Taylor
• Lara Helen Sherwood

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).