If you want to know what can be achieved to accept pets in rented accommodation, then Maidstone is evidence of how change can be implemented.
Between Dee, Maidstone Borough Council and the following pet supporters, more pets are being accepted in rented accommodation.
Add all the charities, supporters (eg the MP) and anyone else (am happy to be included, people like Amy etc)
Ask them all for quotes so these can be added, they can have links if they’d like
Helen Grant MP: Letter of support for The John Chadwick Pet Policy
Society of Companion Animal Studies – Dr Elizabeth Ormerods Statement is framed on the feature wall in Johns House
UK Parliament: Early Day Motions
Dr Debbie Rook: John Chadwick’s story as a case study for teaching on the Animal Law module on the undergraduate law degree at Northumbria Law School
StreetVet – I am attending the conference next Wednesday – we could get a quote after I present as an inspirational speaker alongside attaching my presentation?
Maidstone Borough Council 'The John Chadwick Pet Policy' – Dee Bonett and John Littlemore (Head of housing at Maidstone Borough Council) - view the presentation below:
In June 2022, Kenward Trust implemented a Street Outreach Service in Memory of John Chadwick.
We assist soup kitchens and the community, by providing a floating support service. We are experienced in addiction, housing, benefits and referral pathways.
We are looking for extra funding to expand the service further, to enable us to support more people. If you can, please gift to: The Kenward Trust Street Reach
We have created actual rental accommodation called 'Johns House' for homeless people and their pets.
We have a home that is leased to Kenward which officially opened in July 2024 for three of 'our' gents. There are no time constraints to move on to the housing register, as with our other Move On Projects.
The John Chadwick House is their 'home' for however long. This gives us as the Street Reach Team, an opportunity to provide clothes, food and a pop in, without being intrusive. So I now have that 'little something for me' too.
Help me to get more pet friendly rented properties across England!
PLEASE SIGN MY PETITION TO GET all councils in England to adopt Maidstone Borough Council's New Pet Policy for Emergency Accommodation:
