SPPOT Day Opportunities for Adults

SPPOT provides adult (18+) day opportunities with 1:1 and group support for adults and young people who have additional support needs

We also provide supported training & volunteering opportunities for adults and young people to become Volunteer Dog Walkers.

Our team has specialist skills in social care & dog training and teaching, Total Communication, canine behaviour, accredited training & much more.

The building bright, safe, and very well equipped. It’s all on one level and is fully wheelchair accessible, including the garden, with safe access onto Haverfordwest Racecourse.

Some of our activities can be seen on our social media accounts

SPPOT provides a huge range of daily dog training & activity sessions, outdoor experiences, community activities & life skills training for adults and young people who have additional support needs.

Every person at SPPOT everyone learns how to care for dogs properly & ethically, in ways that suit them best.

Some of the benefits of becoming part of the SPPOT Team include:

• A clear purpose and worthwhile role in the community
• Developing empathy, care skills, responsibility, resilience, creative thinking, social skills & communication
• Dog walking provides fresh air, exercise, motivation, improves physical and mental wellbeing, community engagement—and fun!

Importantly, many skills for life can be taught through the medium of dogs – for example:
• Teamwork and self-reliance
• Customer service skills
• Bus skills and skills for navigation on foot
• Laundry, budgeting, cooking, cleaning

SPPOT Accredited Training Courses

SPPOT offers a range of accredited vocational learning for our Volunteers, take a look at the courses below.

Everyone who comes to SPPOT learns how to care for dogs properly and ethically, in ways that suit them.

SPPOT’s founder drew on ten years’ professional experience in social care and ten years as a qualified dog trainer, to develop the accredited training programme over six QCFW levels from Entry Level 1 through to Level 3. All staff and volunteers complete core units in “The Care & Welfare of Dogs & Puppies”, “Training Dogs”. A range of training can be completed after core training, such as Vocational Dog Walking and Dog Daycare with new units added regularly.

Training with SPPOT is fun and fully inclusive, with no requirement to read or write or to speak out loud to a group.

Training can be delivered in a standard, ‘start and finish’ style for those who will to get out walking dogs in the community as soon as possible or embedded into daily life at SPPOT as work-based learning for our day opportunities volunteers.

The training enables people to become Volunteer Dog Walkers and Daycarers, supported by SPPOT who will continue to train, support, equip and insure each person in whichever way suits them best.

Every course offered by SPPOT is intended to benefit dogs too, by promoting kind, effective methods of training and handling. We teach up to date, ethical, and scientifically proven techniques.

Please note that all training places are subject to meeting the access criteria and funding being arranged.

Care & Welfare of Dogs & Puppies

Trainees will learn the essentials of dog and puppy care and welfare through working with dogs at SPPOT DHQ.

Dog Training & Canine Behaviour

Trainees learn foundation dog handling and training skills through reward-based training, including clicker training which is suitable for people of all abilities.

Vocational Dog Walking

Trainee Volunteer Dog Walkers learn all about walking dogs for customers. Trainees can have complete this unit while doing the Care & Welfare and Dog Walking unit.