Association of Dogs and Cats Homes

November Open Meeting
2021-11-18 10:00 - 12:45 UTC | Virtual Event
About this Event
The programme is available here. We will be covering stray dog contracts, the cat vaccine shortage and the French Bulldog health testing programme.
This Open Meeting will be held virtually over Zoom.
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Registration
Registration in advance is required. You can register here.

Scottish Licencing and Legislation
2021-11-17 10:00 - 11:00
About this Event
Following requests from members, we will be hosting a session concentrating on changes to licencing and legislation in Scotland. Gilly Mendes Ferreira – Head of Education, Policy and Research, Scottish SPCA and Mike Ruiter – Head of Field Operations, Scottish SPCA will be presenting.
The programme is as follows:

Our understanding of the licencing regulations – Gilly Mendes Ferreira
How we have been preparing – Mike Ruiter
Questions for the Scottish Government; collating questions from ADCH members based in/rehoming to Scotland for the Scottish Government to answer – Gilly Mendes Ferreira
Signposting to additional support – Gilly Mendes Ferreira

This session will be held virtually over Zoom.
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Registration
Registration in advance is required, you can register here

July Open Meeting
2021-07-22 10:00 - 13:30
About this Event
Details coming soon.
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Registration
Registration will open June 2021

May Open Meeting
2021-05-13 10:00 - 13:30
About this Event
Details coming soon.
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Registration
Registration will open April 2021

February Open Meeting
2021-02-18 10:00 - 13:30
About this Event
Details coming soon. Please check back in the New Year
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Registration
Registration essential. Registration is expected to open on 1 February 2021

Rescue and Rehoming following latest Government updates
2020-12-10 10:00 - 13:00
About this Event
Host: Adam Clowes, Dogs Trust and ADCH Trustee
Co-hosts: David Bowles, RSPCA and ADCH Trustee, Peter Laurie, Battersea and ADCH Secretary
This interactive event which is free for ADCH Members offers:
– An opportunity for Members to come together to look at the recent Covid-19 updates across the various jurisdictions, and in particular the new Tier system in England.
– Explore and discuss what these changes mean for rescue and rehoming and how Members are adapting.
– Opportunity for Members to ask questions and share ideas.
Who can attend
This event is open to ADCH Members only.
Registration
Pre-registration is essential, please email us for details or refer to the Members Bulletin issued 8 December 2020

November Open Meeting
2020-11-13 10:00 - 13:00
About this Event
The November Open Meeting will include updates on the work of the ADCH Board of Trustees and Committees, along with a Legislative update. Grace Carroll (Queen’s University Belfast) will report on ‘A Global Study of Companion Animal Adoption and Relinquishment during the Pandemic’; Kit Lendon and Tracy Genever (Blue Cross) will cover ‘Safeguarding – What it means for your Organisation’.
At noon, the programme will split into two Breakout Sessions: one cover ‘Stray Dog Contracts (the arguments for and against)’, the other ‘The Importance of Kitten Socialisation – Preparing a Kitten to cope with the Human World’. At the end of the session, the two groups will come back together for final updates and any other business.
Open-Meeting-Programme-Friday-13-November-2020
Who can attend
This event is available for ADCH Members and Sponsors.
Cost to attend
Free event.
Event Recording
A recording of the event is available in the Members Only Area.

September Open Meeting
2020-09-24 10:00 - 13:00
The September ‘virtual’ Open Meeting provided an update on what the ADCH has been doing; how members have worked through the crisis, and looked forward to the rest of the year, and 2021. We had a Legislative update, a report on the Annual Return results and a speaker from Petplan informed about the 2021 ADCH & Petplan Awards.
In the afternoon, we split the programme into four ‘Breakout Sessions’ – two covering dog issues, two covering cats. In each session a Facilitator invited two or three speakers to give a brief (5-10 mins) overview from the perspective of their organisations and then there was a discussion with attendees. At the end of the session, the four groups came back together and the Facilitators provided a top-line summary of their respective group’s discussions.
Event Recording
A recording of the event is available in the Members Only Area.

Webinar - Resilience & Recovery Part 1
2020-05-21 10:00 - 11:00
A recording of this webinar is available in the ADCH Members Area

VAT Advice During Coronavirus
2020-04-16 10:00 - 23:00

Managing Governance, Trustee Responsibilities and Budgets
2020-04-15 10:00 - 23:00
The slides and notes from this webinar are available in the ADCH Members Area
