Therapy Dogs Nationwide

Therapy Dogs Nationwide is a national charity where visiting volunteers take their own dogs into establishments to provide comfort, distraction, and stimulation.

Our volunteers have the unique privilege of volunteering with their own temperament tested Therapy Dogs;  some with over 10 years of experience and always focused on benefiting people in the community.

Using animals especially Dogs as therapy is not a new idea, they have been used for over 40 years in experience in the care sector and a lot of our volunteers have roots with Lesley Scott-Ordish who was a pioneer in visiting with taking your own pet dog to nursing homes.

The benefits of Animal Assisted Therapies (AAT) have been extensively studied and results range from improvement in general health and wellbeing, increased confidence levels, improved and controlled movement to improved communication skills.

Meet Candy and Darcy

We are incredibly fortunate here at Greville Primary School to have Darcy, a beautiful therapy dog, come and visit our school each week to spend time with our children. 

Darcy is a 5 year old black Labrador Retriever who has a wonderfully friendly and gentle nature. She is looked after and loved by Candy and has a sister called Piper. Darcy has lots of hobbies, agility and gun dog training to name just a few! However, she is most happy when curled up on the sofa with one of her teddies.

Darcy has been a therapy dog for just over a year now and is really enjoying it and we love having her here at The Greville.