Canine Partners in the media

We’re delighted to share that a number of our partnerships have been featured in print, on radio and on TV recently…

• Partner Wendy with canine partner Carmen was interviewed by Sharon Hartley on BBC Radio Lancashire, broadcast on Tuesday 28 February. Listen again on BBC Sounds.
• Partner Jess with canine partner Xolani feature in the April issue of Your Dog magazine, on newsstands now.
• Partner Jonathan with canine partner Georgia appeared on TV show of Unbeatable, broadcast on Wednesday 5 April at 4pm on BBC1 and available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

A huge thank you and well done to all our wonderful partnerships for helping to raise awareness of Canine Partners.

Fantastic fundraising

Our community across the country have been hard at work raising vital funds this year. We have a couple of highlights to share here:

• Partner Elaine with canine partner Bentley took on the challenge of 400 lengths in four weeks at her local swimming pool in Brighton, to raise funds for Canine Partners. Featuring in the Brighton Argus in January, Elaine has smashed her target of £500, raising over £2,100! Find out more about Elaine’s challenge here.

• The Toyota Manufacturing UK Charitable Trust made a generous donation this year towards equipment for our Midlands Training Centre. Our dogs receive regular physiotherapy check ups throughout their training to help support their strength and mobility development as working dogs. The physiotherapist may prescribe PEMF (Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Fields) therapy so the team have been able to put this fantastic donation to good use straight away, purchasing specialist mats to enable this therapy to be provided. The dogs are able to use the mats at the Training Centre, 2-3 times a day for a few weeks, to help promote tissue repair as part of their physiotherapy plan.

Brilliant Corporates

Canine Partners is fortunate to be supported by fantastic corporate organisations who give their time, energy and funds to support our charity.

Caremark Ltd

• We were delighted to be invited to the annual conference of Caremark Ltd, our new Corporate Partner in January, held at the world famous Silverstone Race Course. Over 300 franchisee owners from across the UK were introduced to the work of Canine Partners with our demonstration team showcasing how our amazing dogs support their disabled partner. Caremark Ltd provide home care assistance to adults and older people and David Glover, Caremark’s Joint CEO says, “I am extremely excited about this partnership with Canine Partners. Their values are completely aligned with ours and we are very proud to be supporting a charity that helps people in the same way as ourselves.”

Purina

• Purina are a long standing corporate partner of Canine Partners and we are very grateful for their ongoing support for the charity. We joined the Purina Annual Conference in London where we engaged with Purina employees and celebrated the special partnership we have with them. There are exciting plans in the pipeline with Purina this summer – watch this space!