Animal Focused wins Northampton grant.

Animal focused has been awarded a grant from the Business and IP Centre Northamptonshire Build Your Business initiative along with 17 other west Northamptonshire businesses. The grant is available to businesses in their first year and will be used to help Animal Focused further their canine assisted therapy and educational consultancy.

“We have been using the BIPC Northamptonshire services since we first set up in April 2023, having 1:1 sessions with James and attending some of the webinars and events. 

“The support and guidance has been invaluable and provided the reassurance that I could actually run a business! 

“Having been awarded the Build Your Business grant we are now able to purchase an online learning platform and develop our online course to support schools who are bringing dogs into classrooms for therapy and educational support, providing downloadable resources like risk assessments and infection control policies as well as providing guidance on ensuring the dogs welfare and introducing learning to the dogs.”  - Animal Focused founder, Vicky Skinner

The grant comes at the end of a very positive first year for Animal Focused which has seen the business grow, offering regular therapy dog sessions in care homes and clients own homes as well as delivering dog safety and bite prevention sessions to local organisations and community groups.