Arrange a visit from a pet expert
Please see below the list of animal welfare organisations who can visit you. Use the map on the right if you would like to customise your search.
All UK
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A veterinary nurse FREE workshop
Bring the world of vets and pets into your classroom with exciting workshops delivered by your very own veterinary nurse! Learn about the five things that pets need to be healthy and happy and about some of the animals we've helped to recovery through our Pet Hospitals. We can also offer specific workshops on keeping safe around dogs and can tailor all workshops to fit in with topics and curriculum needs.
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A FREE workshop for uniform groups
If you're a uniform group leader, why not request a visit from a PDSA vet nurse to help with your animal-related badges and events? We can tailor our workshops to whatever topic you'd like to cover, including Canine Communication, Animal Heroes and the Five Welfare Needs of pets.
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A FREE Youth Group Workshop
If you're a group with members aged between 5 and 15, why not book an interactive workshop with a PDSA veterinary nurse? As the UK's leading veterinary charity, we can deliver workshops about the five things all pets need to be healthy and happy, safety around dogs, or can tailor our workshops to fit in with other topics.
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Animal Heroes in War and Peace FREE workshop
Looks at the heroic acts of animals in times of war and peace, PDSA’s medal programme and its animal recipients. Also shares the amazing stories of PDSA’s Pet Survivor awards.
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Animals and Us
Our enthusiastic team can visit your school for a fantastic workshop on pet care. The session can be adapted to focus on any animal that you keep in school or those that families have at home. It will involve hands-on activities that expand beyond the classroom to the school grounds, and leave young people with the knowledge that they need to care for pets throughout their lives.
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Battersea Dogs & Cats Home
Free educational visits to a wide range of audiences covering: responsible dog and cat ownership, safety around dogs and the work of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home.
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Blue Cross dog safety workshops
Teach your children how to better understand dogs and how to stay safe around them
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Canine Communication FREE workshops
Classes will learn how to recognise what dogs are telling them through their body language, key dos and don'ts around dogs and how to keep themselves safe. Workshops are fun and interactive.
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Dogs Helping Kids
Dogs Helping Kids has specially trained dogs purely to work in the school, college, and library environment as both educational and therapeutic aids - to help teach children non-violence, empathy, respect, kindness, love, responsibility, friendship and trust.
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Dogs Trust Free Education Workshops
A visit from one of our Education Officers to primary schools and youth groups across the UK to teach children aged 7-11 years about responsible dog ownership and safety around dogs.
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Free talks on pet care
Visiting speaker for schools and youth groups on the needs of pets and how to keep them happy and healthy. Assemblies, class visits or youth groups.
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Free talks to Pony Clubs and horse groups
Blue Cross speakers can talk to your group about their work with horses and about how horse welfare can be improved
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Life skills - responsible dog ownership workshops
Our fun, interactive session will help your class explore the issues and consequences around dog ownership. Suitable for Upper KS2 and KS3. These sessions are free of charge.
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RespectaBULL workshops
Workshops to discuss the issues of keeping dogs by young people in urban areas
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School/community group visits
A cat care/CP charity talk from trained volunteers covering the Five Freedoms and audience specific information
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The Animals Charity can visit your school or group Primary level
Book our Hands On team to come and work with your class or group teaching responsible pet ownership
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The Animals Charity can visit your school or group Secondary level
Book our Hands On team to come and work with your class or group teaching responsible pet ownership
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What's your status?
With the increasing numbers of stray dogs being rescued in Sussex, particularly terrier types, the need to educate young people on pet care has become vital. Our highly trained team will come to your school and deliver a session that is engaging, enlightening and great fun.
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