Unleashing Potential, Improving Lives
  • "Paws for Progress has helped build my confidence and helped me understand my mental health a lot better"Student, HMP YOI Polmont

    "Paws for Progress has helped build my confidence and helped me understand my mental health a lot better"

    Student, HMP YOI Polmont
  • Creating a world where people and dogs improve and enrich each other’s lives

    Creating a world where people and dogs improve and enrich each other’s lives

  • People and dogs together - Unleashing potential, improving lives

    People and dogs together - Unleashing potential, improving lives

Unleashing Potential, Improving Lives

Paws for Progress is an inspiring and innovative organisation dedicated to improving the lives of both people and dogs. We provide educational, therapeutic, and interactive dog-assisted programmes for people most in need of support.

Through our unique dog-assisted learning programmes provided in prisons, schools, and our local community, we build relationships between people and dogs to support our learners to grow, learn, and progress in their personal development.

As providers of the UK’s first prison-based rescue dog training programme we have unique expertise, specialising in trauma-informed and neurodiversity-informed services for at-risk young people and adults. We particularly focus on those who are involved in the criminal justice system, or at risk of becoming involved.

We deliver high-quality services which are evidence-based and centred around our learners, building on their strengths. We are committed to effective partnership working, collaborating closely with the Scottish Prison Service, Fife College, Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home, the University of Stirling, Enable Scotland, and many more local organisations.

Services

Services

Paws for Progress provide a unique offering which improves people’s wellbeing through engaging with dogs; boosting mental health, building resilience, developing valuable skills, and preparing them for a better future. We provide a range of adaptable services in order to meet each person’s unique individual needs.

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Support Our Work

Support Our Work

Paws for Progress are a registered Community Interest Company (SC469108) and we rely on your support to fund our work, raise awareness, and continue changing lives.

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Events & Research

Events & Research

We actively participate in events that bring together practitioners and professionals from around the globe, in addition to sharing our learning and research.

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Help support our work by making a donation

Every donation, large or small, will help us to enhance the well-being of people and animals