Founded in 1891 as the ‘National Canine Defence League’, Dogs Trust (name changed in 2003) is the largest national rehoming dog charity, with 22 rehoming centres throughout the four nations of the UK and Ireland.
Since early days, the charity has helped dogs and the public with all things doggie, for example offering general advice on dog care and protection during WWII, see below poster. During WWI, they produced doggy gas masks and helped pay for dog licences for poorer families.
More recently, they are of course heavily involved in rehoming dogs to new loving homes, but also educating children, lobbying the Government re legislation, running the Freedom Project looking after dogs whose owners are escaping domestic abuse, setting up Dog School to train dogs and their owners so they can stay in the domestic home rather than be handed in to rehoming centres, and much, much more!
Evesham Rehoming Centre
Cardiff Rehoming Centre
Canterbury Rehoming Centre
Ballymena NI Rehoming Centre
Founded in 1977, Technik worked closely with Dogs Trust and the main contractor to design, manufacture and install all the components of the dog kennels, kitchens and vet suite during the recent rebuild of the site in 2014. The original wooden ‘old fashioned’ damp and cold kennels all being replaced with modern kennels. The rebuild took over a year and Technik were on site during the installation of the kennels for over a month with e large team of engineers. The site now has a capacity for 120 dogs and they rehome around 600 dogs a year to new homes.
Dogs Trust invested in a brand-new brown field site in the middle of Cardiff docks and have created a state-of-the-art 74 kennel rehoming and rehabilitation centre, with a large veterinary hospital, providing rescue dogs to the good folk of South Wales. Built during Covid, Technik again worked closely with the Dogs Trust and the main contractors to achieve the high standards we like to maintain. Comprising three separate building, rehoming, intake and rehabilitation, this new build remains the most up to date rehoming centre in the UK built on a brand-new brown field site.
Having previously rebuilt the rehoming kennels here in 2010, we were invited to return and complete the job with new intake and booked dogs kennels, as well as a smaller rehabilitation building. This work took place in 2019 and comprised 40 kennels and a vet suite.
