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About us
Who we are
Founded in 1983, Pets As Therapy (PAT) is a charity working to enhance health and wellbeing in the community. Our trusted volunteers and their temperament assessed dogs (and a small number of cats) visit hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes, schools and a growing list of other establishments throughout the UK, enabling an improved quality of life for thousands of people every year. The therapeutic value of human/animal interaction is now well recognised and PAT is the largest national provider of organised therapy visits by assessed teams, including our popular school literacy support programme ‘Read2Dogs’ (Read to Dogs).
Our model of facilitating thousands of volunteers to make visits enables us to have a major impact, their willingness to share their beloved animal with other people enables PAT to change lives for the better.
