Name: Example [Training Provider Name]

Area Served: Area of the UK served, can be as broad as UK or small as a county or island

Disabilities: What disabilities the training provider can help with

Dual-disabilities: Some training providers will help with disabilities they don't usually train for as long as the client has one that fits their standard criteria. Some training providers may also hand over the dog to another training provider for this secondary training, this is most common within the ADUK.

Ages: What age range the client must be in to apply for the first time.

Groups: This criteria is present if the training provider is a member of the ADI, IGDF, ADUK or IAADP.

Website: A link to training providers website.

Name:Guide Dogs UK

Area Served:UK

Disabilities: Visual Impairment

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: All

Groups: ADI/IGDF/ADUK

Name: The Seeing Dog Alliance

Area Served: UK

Disabilities: Visual Impairment

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: Enquire

Group(s): IGDF/ADUK

The Seeing Dog Alliance provides fully-trained guide dogs to partially sighted and blind people. They may also help with training dogs for additional disabilities as they are able to dual train with other ADUK organisations. They have also accepted an owner trained partnership to be under their organisation.

Name: Hearing Dogs for Deaf People

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:d/Deaf

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 18+ for main programme, please enquire for minimum age for child programme

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People provide fully-trained hearing dogs for d/Deaf adults. They also do a seperate programme for children. They also have a helpdesk and run a service called LinkUps which is a support group that can be accessed in-person or online. They also provide Sound Support Dogs who alert to sounds in the home but are not suitable for working in public as well as confidence and companion dogs who are well trained but do not alert to sounds and are not suited to working as an assistance dog. They may also cross-train between other organisations such as guide dogs UK for someone who has multiple disabilities.

Name: Canine Partners

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Physical

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 18+

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Canine partners provide assistance dogs to adults with physical disabilities. They can also dual train among other ADUK assistance dog organisations for people who have multiple disabilities. They do regional intake so you will have to wait for your region to be open for applications to apply.

Name: Dogs For Good

Area Served: England and Wales (may cover elsewhere please enquire)

Disabilities:d/Physical, Autism

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 7+ (Physical) 3-10 (Autism Assistance Dog) 3-16 (Autism Family Dog Workshop)

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Dogs for Good provide pre-trained assistance dogs for children and adults who have physical disabilities and autistic children. They operate on a regional intake for applications. They also have and may provide community dogs for Animal Assisted Intervention in health and social care settings and SEN schools. They also do a Family Dog Workshop for families with autistic children who are between the ages of 3 and 16, this is to help with choosing and/or training a dog to help as well as providing advice. This workshop is not for training your own dog as an assistance dog. They also have a wide range of advice articles for general dog ownership. For the purpose of this list we have listed the Dementia Dog Project separately. This organisation was formerly known as Dogs for the Disabled

Name: Dementia Dog (under Dogs for Good)

Area Served: Scotland

Disabilities:Dementia

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages:Unknown

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

The Dementia Dog Project is run by Dogs for Good and Alzheimer Scotland to provide assistance dogs for dementia and run a therapy dog service. Dementia assistance dogs are placed with couples where one has mild stage dementia and the other is their full-time carer. They also provide a community dog service within 2 hours of Glasgow for people with mild stage dementia who are living at home or in supported accommodation. In addition to this, they also offer support such as with their Family Dog Workshop. Certain online services are operated by Alzheimer Scotland.

Name: Support Dogs

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Physical, Epilepsy, Autism

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 16+ (Epilepsy, Physical) 3-10 (Autism (Please read description))

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Support Dogs provide pre-trained assistance dogs for Autism and Epilepsy and helps people with physical disabilities train their own assistance dog. For there autism assistance dog programme you must live within 2 hours of their Sheffield training center. Please be aware that their upper age range varies due to waiting list lengths and 10yro is the maximum age they place a dog not when you first apply. This maximum age at application is currently 7.5 years old. There is select criteria for epilepsy so please check whether you are eligible. If you have a physical disability and a pet dog you wish to be trained they must fit certain criteria and be between the age of 1-2 (This is usually 3 but has been lowered due to the pandemic).

Name: Dog A.I.D. (Dog Assistance In Disability)

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Physical

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 18+

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Dog AID help physically disabled people train their own dog as an assistance dog. The dog must between the ages of 12 months and under 5 years when entering the programme. You may register your interest on their website.

Name: Medical Detection Dogs

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:PoTS, Addison's disease, Severe Nut allergy, MCAS, Type 1 diabetes

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: 5-75

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Medical detection dogs provide pre-trained assistance dogs for people with certain medical conditions, they also can help the disabled person to train their own dog as an assistance dog. Your dog must already show signs of alerting and be between the ages of 6 and 18 months to be trained with them. They do accept applications for 4 year olds who have held a diagnosis for over a year. They usually accept applications from people with other medical conditions but due to COVID-19 this is on hold. They also train bio-detection dogs to detect certain diseases or illnesses such as COVID-19 and have research areas dedicated to different diseases.

Name:Autism Dogs Charity

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Autism

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations/Enquire

Ages: 4+

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Autism Dogs Charity provides pre-trained assistance dogs to autistic children and adults.

Name: Service Dogs UK

Area Served: South of England (West Sussex, Surry, East and North Hampshire, Somerset, Devon, Wiltshire and Dorset)

Disabilities:PTSD

Dual-disabilities: May dual with other ADUK organisations

Ages: Enquire

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Service Dogs UK provide pre-trained PTSD assistance dogs for veterans of the armed forces or emergency services. They also provide Trauma and Wellbeing dogs for police forces.

Name: Darwin Dogs

Area Served: England and Wales

Disabilities:Mental Health, Autism

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: 15+

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Darwin Dogs helps autistic adults and adults with mental health conditions to train their own dogs as assistance dogs. They also can help train your dog as a canine personal assistance if your dog is not suited to be an assistance dog. They accept dogs up to 3 years old in age.

Name: Pawtected CIC

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:All

Group(s): IAADP

Pawtected CIC help people train their own assistance dogs for themselves or someone else. They have membership, associate and independent options. For membership, they provide 1:1 online assistance dog training and support for a dog to be trained to IAADP standards. Independent clients work through online courses by themselves. An associate has access to discounts and extra resources, products and pathways. Pawtected CIC also offer courses for pet dogs and human courses such as courses on Assistance Dog law and Youth courses.

Name: Pawsitive Squad CIC

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Complex (certain criteria)

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:2-26 or a disabled parent and child (under 26) living in the same household or 26-30 where there is no other organisation that can help/where the only program they're eligible for is full

Pawsitive Squad CIC help young people and/or their families train their own assistance dog. They work with people with complex disabilities which reach a certain criteria and can train for multiple people in a household. Whilst they focus on disabled young people, they will also help train an assistance dog to assist a disabled parent in addition to the disabled young person, if they live in the same household. They train both face-to-face in Nottingham and virtually. You must do assessments face-to-face and occasional workshops in Nottingham. They also offer educational packages and a camp for families with disabled children and a therapy/community dog programme for non-profit educational and healthcare providers.

Name: Assistance Dogs Northern Ireland (ADIn)

Area Served: NI

Disabilities:Autism, Physical (full-time wheelchair user)

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: 3-11 (Autism) 3-10 (Physical)

Group(s): ADI candidate

Assistance Dogs Northern Ireland provide pre-trained assistance dogs of children. For an autism assistance dog the child must be 11 or under when applying, for full-time wheelchair users the cut-off age is 10. They also provide therapy dogs to different settings.

Name:Veterans With Dogs

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:PTSD (Veteran)

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: 18+

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Veterans With Dogs train assistance dogs for Veterans with PTSD. The Veteran is involved with the training of the dog at the end of dogs training. They may consider working with a pet dog to train as an assistance dog. They also run another support programme for Veterans with pet dogs. They also do community dogs for group activities and representing the organisation.

Name: Dogs For Autism

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Autism

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Any

Group(s): ADI/ADUK

Dogs For Autism provide pre-trained assistance dogs to autistic people.

Name: Pawsable

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Autism, others on a case-by-case basis

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Any

Pawsable help people train their own assistance dog. Whilst they specialise in autism, other disabilities are considered on a case-by-case basis on how suitable they would be for the person.

Name: Canine Generated Independence (CGI)

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: Enquire

Group(s): IAADP

Canine Generated Independence or CGI help disabled people train their own assistance dogs. Assessments take place in Bristol and they train to IAADP standards.

Name:Oliver's Army Assistance Dogs

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Group(s): ADI candidate

Oliver's Army Assistance Dogs help disabled people and/or their family train their own assistance dogs. They operate mainly as group classes at their training centres in Fife and in Cheshire. They also help people train therapy dogs.

Name:Hypohounds

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Type 1 Diabetes

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:5-70

Group(s): ADI Candidate

Hypo Hounds provide pre-trained assistance dogs to those with type-1 diabetes. The individual has to live within a 2 hour drive of their training center in Kent and be able to go to weekly training sessions. They also provide mental health and wellbeing clinics to their clients.

Name:BRAVEHOUND

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Mental Health (Veterans)

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Groups:ADI Candidate

Bravehound provides pre-trained assistance dogs to Veterans with mental health conditions.

Name:Hounds for Heroes

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Physical and Medical (Veterans and Emergency Service personnel)

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:16+

Hounds for Heroes provides pre-trained assistance dogs to Veterans and emergency service personnel with physical and medical conditions.

Name:Ability Dogs 4 Young People

Area Served: Isle of Wight

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Under 30

Ability Dogs 4 Young People provide pre-trained assistance dogs for young people living in the Isle of Wight. They will also help people train their own assistance dog. After the retirement of one of their dogs they will train a successor dog regardless of the age of the handler. They also provide therapy dogs to schools and similar and can help you train your own. They also run dog phobia classes.

Name:Helpful Hounds

Area Served: Dorset, Hampshire, Surrey, and Wiltshire

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:5-25

Helpful Hounds provide pre-trained assistance dogs to disabled young people and can help them and/or their families train their own dog as an assistance dog. For a dog to be owner trained with Helpful Hounds they must be under 7. They also do school dog training.

Name:Supporting Paws

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Autism

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:5+

Supporting Paws provide pre-trained assistance dogs to children and adult who are autistic. They will also help you train your own with their affiliate programme which is a mix between residential training and you training your dog. There are different options available to you depending on whether you live in Kent or not. They also provide pre-trained companion dogs for those who do not require the same level of support as an assistance dog gives. In addition to this they run a school dog programme.

Name:New Beginning Assistance Dogs

Area Served: Scotland

Disabilities:Autism and Additional Support Needs

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

New Beginnings Assistance Dogs helps train assistance dogs for autistic people and those with additional support needs. The training takes place in Broxburn.

Name:Assistance Dogs Scotland CIC

Area Served: Scotland

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Assistance Dogs Scotland CIC help people train their own assistance dogs. They do training classes at Keith in Scotland and also provide standard puppy and dog training classes for pet dogs. They have also recently started a programme for placing pre-trained dogs.

Name:Paws For Support

Area Served: Guernsey

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Paws For Support help people to train their own dog as an assistance dog. They also provide therapy dog training.

Name:Wild Spirit Dog Training CIC

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Wild Spirit Dog Training CIC provides an assistance dog training programme to help people train their own dogs as assistance dogs. They also have a preparatory programme for young dogs and puppies who are not ready to begin assistance dog training yet. They also provide a wide range of dog training services. They provide training both in-person in a handful of areas and online via zoom.

Name:K9 Pet Services

Area Served: Southend Area

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

K9 Pet Services provides an assistance dog training programme to help people train their own dogs as assistance dogs. They also provide a wide range of dog training services around Southend.

Name:Adolescent Dogs

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Adolescent Dogs provides an assistance dog training programme to help people train their own dogs as assistance dogs. They mainly operate online though there are in person session available. This programme also has the options of residential training trips. They also provide a wide range of dog training services.

Name:Part of the Pack

Area Served: UK (Norfolk based)

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

Part of the Pack help disabled people and/or their families train their dog as an assistance dog. They specialise in autism assistance dogs but will also train for other disabilities except diabetes and epilepsy detection. They also provide a wide range of services for domestic animals. Their expressions of interest list is closed until 2025.

Name: RAD Assistance Dogs

Area Served: GB

Disabilities:Mental Health

Dual-disabilities: All members are required to have a mental disability diagnosis to join. However, we recognise that some of our members also have physical disabilities so RAD do train for some physical disability tasks also.

Ages: All ages can join RAD. If under 18, the member needs to join with a parent or guardian

RAD helps member to train their own mental health assistance dogs. RAD teach behaviours that mitigate the symptoms of a mental health disability. RAD train in person and via zoom. All members are required to attend face to face training. RAD are building their pool of dog trainers around the country and currently have trainers in Cornwall, Stroud, Brighton, Kent, Horsham.

Name: PADs Foundation

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Mental Health

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: 18+

The PADs foundation helps adults with mental health conditions to train their own dogs as assistance dogs.

Name: Together Anything is Pawsible (T.A.P) Assistance Dogs

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Autism

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: 3-16

T.A.P Assistance Dogs provides assistance dogs to autistic children.

Name:ThinkDogs

Area Served: East Midlands (based in Northampton)

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:Enquire

ThinkDogs Training & Behaviour offers assistance dog training services for owners looking to train their dogs to support their disability. They are based in Northampton but can also travel to offer in-person training further afield. They work with a range of conditions and also offer a wide range of other dog training and behaviour services.

Name:Wild Spirit Canines

Area Served: UK

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages:16+

Wild Spirit Canines provide pre-trained assistance dogs and board and train. They help people train their own dogs as assistance dog through in-person 1-1 training (minimum 50 hours). They specialise in dual purpose dogs and assistance dogs for people in higher education.

Name: Pawfectly Behaved

Area Served: Solihull/Birmingham

Disabilities:Enquire

Dual-disabilities: Enquire

Ages: Enquire

Pawfectly Behaved help people train their own dogs as assistance dogs.