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Annual Report

Welcome to our Annual Report and Accounts 2025

As we reflect on the past year at Medical Detection Dogs, we are heartened by the resilience, dedication, and impact that have defined our journey throughout 2024 and into 2025. Despite ongoing financial and operational challenges faced across the charitable sector, our charity has remained steadfast in advancing its mission: transforming lives through the power of a dog’s nose.
Our Medical Alert Assistance Dogs (MAAD) team has consistently achieved its placement targets, providing crucial support to individuals living with complex health conditions such as POTS and cardiac disorders. We are pleased to have returned close to pre-pandemic placement levels and hold ambitious plans to further expand this service in the coming years, including broadening our regional reach and enhancing client engagement to ensure our dogs’ transformative support benefits an increasing number of people.

The demand for our Medical Alert Assistance Dogs consistently exceeds our annual training capacity, presenting an ongoing challenge in meeting the needs of those seeking our support. In response, we have adopted an innovative delivery model designed to maximise the number of individuals we can assist, while steadfastly maintaining the highest standards of training and quality. This approach enables us to extend our reach effectively without compromising the rigorous preparation and support essential to the success of both the dogs and their recipients.

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