Influencing Change
Through Politics

To use the influence of experts and politicians to raise
the welfare of animals nationally and internationally.

Influencing Change
Through Politics

To use the influence of experts and politicians to raise the welfare of animals nationally and internationally.

| Associate Members

Organisations will be invited to become members. An application form and fees will be sent to the organisation and they must return the form with the fee before they can become a member. Whether an organisation can be considered eligible for membership will be informed by previous involvement and support for APGAW’s work, for example contribution to meetings, working groups, drafting of letters, etc alongside their level of experience and/or expertise in an area of animal welfare. The Terms of Membership can be found here

The following groups are members of APGAW:

 Animal Behaviour and Training Council

Animal Equality 

 Animal Law Foundation 

Battersea

Blue Cross

BSAVA

BVA

Cats Protection

CIWF

Companion Animal Sector Council

Cruelty Free International

Dog Breeding Reform Group

Dogs for Good

Dogs Trust

The Donkey Sanctuary

Four Paws

Horse Trust

International Cat Care

Jeremy Coller Foundation

The Humane League

Humanimal Trust 

Humane Slaughter Association

Humane World for Animals

Kennel Club

League Against Cruel Sports

Mayhew Animal Home

Nature Watch

NFU

One Kind

One Voice for Animals UK

PDSA

PETA

Pets as Therapy

Pet Industry Federation

Redwings

RCVS

RSPCA

UK Petfood

Woodgreen Animal Charity

World Animal Protection

World Horse Welfare

| News from APGAW

The Four Stages to Better Enforcement

The Four Stages to Better Enforcement

Our new parliamentary report warns that animals across England and Wales are being failed by inconsistent and under-resourced enforcement, despite the UK having some of the strongest animal welfare laws in the world. The Four Stages to Better Enforcement sets out a...

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The innate health assessment tool

The innate health assessment tool

Today APGAW has launched the Innate Health Assessment website and tool which was built by PetProov. There are a significant number of animals bred that can never experience a life worth living because they have been born with physical problems and pain from the very...

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Frontier Economics Publishes Report into APGAW IHA

Frontier Economics Publishes Report into APGAW IHA

Frontier Economics, one of the largest economic consultancies in Europe, has undertaken an independent forward-looking economic appraisal of the potential benefits of introducing the APGAW Innate Health Assessment (IHA) into the regulatory landscape for dog breeding...

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