Service Dog Ollie Has Transformed My Life
It took me a long time to realise and accept that I had PTSD. I joined the army in 1985, when I was 18, and served for eight years. I gradually realised I was...
Author: Garry Botterill
Service Dogs UK becomes first PTSD Assistance Dog Charity in the UK to achieve Accreditation by Assistance Dogs International!
ADI is the leading authority in the Assistance Dogs industry. It establishes and promotes standards of excellence in all areas of assistance dog acquisition, training and partnership. We started training Veterans who were partnered with...
Three More Newly Accredited Partnerships
We are delighted to announce another 3 accredited partnerships! Despite the difficulties caused by COVID these partnerships were able to perform at the highest level to pass their Public Access Course! Three more great...
BEM Award – Queen’s Birthday Honours
We are extremely proud of Kerry Snuggs, founder of the charity ‘Acts Of Kindness’, on being awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. “Hopefully it highlights that PTSD and mental health...
A Partner’s Perspective – Part 2
Stu is a loving father and husband, he has a wicked sense of humour and is kind and compassionate (well most of the time – no one is that perfect all of the time,...
Fostering for Service Dogs UK
This last year has been a very strange one for everyone in so many ways, and I’m sure most people are really looking forward to life getting back to something like normal as soon...
RAF Personnel Deployed In the Middle East Support Service Dogs UK
Whilst deployed on operations in the Middle East, Royal Air Force personnel have raised important funds, via Just Giving and by gathering personal donations donated by service personnel for Service Dogs UK by participating in a...
A Partner’s Perspective
When I was asked to write something from the perspective of a partner of someone with PTSD and the impact of an assistance dog, I said yes and then didn’t really know when to...
High Sheriff of West Sussex meets Service Dogs UK
High Sheriff of West Sussex Dr Tim Fooks, in his weekly briefing, talks to Service Dogs UK about how it is changing lives, two at a time. Click HERE to read the full article!
Changing Lives, Two At A Time
Read the life changing story of James & Dakota, an accredited partnership of our PTSD Assistance Dogs Programme, who are featured in the My Dog’s Life magazine. Click HERE to read the full article!...