Documentary Unit: Charities

After googling some of the UK ability dog charities the ones that stood out to us as being slightly different were:

Ability Dogs for Young People - Ability Dogs 4 Young People is a newly formed Isle of Wight charity (started April 2012). We are training assistance dogs to enhance the independence of disabled young people living on the Isle of Wight. We are training assistance dogs to help people with physical or mental disabilities (or both), including cerebral palsy, autism and epilepsy. We are unique in our aims; we are the only assistance dog charity focused on providing assistance dogs for disabled young people on the Isle of Wight.

Medical Detection Dogs - 3 types of dogs:

• Medical Alert Assistance Dogs - With their amazing sense of smell our Medical Alert Assistance Dogs support individuals who live with dangerous health conditions
• Cancer Detection Dogs - Dogs can be trained to identify the odour of cancer. This allows the potential to develop a method of diagnosing cancer which would be simple and non-invasive
• Bio-Detection Dogs - Used to detect bedbugs to help people with allergies and also to help create a revenue for the charity

We decided to contact both these charities in the hope that one would like to be involved in our film.


Stay safe,

Helen