Did you know...?

Students and courses

• Since we started in 1999 with one course and two people doing everything we have registered over 7,650 students.
• We anticipate receiving our 8,000th registration this year.
• We now enrol over 1,000 students a year.
• We currently have 77 courses, 31 of which are dog courses.
• Around 80% of registrations are for dog courses meaning over 800 people each year study dogs with us.
• We have had students from 43 different countries worldwide.
• Our youngest student was 9 years old, our oldest was 84 years old.
• Students funded by Scottish government and other grants has totalled in excess of £25,000 worth of education in the last three years plus Compass has wholly funded around £6,000 worth of courses to rehabilitation of offender programmes.

Animal welfare

We have rescued, cared for and released a range of injured wildlife and keep ex-battery hens (now free range). Amongst those that have been in our care are:

• 4 Buzzards
• 1 Barn owl
• 1 Tawny owl
• 4 Ferrets
• 1 Hedgehog
• 1 Crow
• 1 Rook

• 1 Heron
• 1 Swan
• Several Mallards
• 1 Herring Gull
• Several Rabbits
• Several Guinea Pigs
• Several Rats

We also keep eight dogs, for four this is not their first home.

Conservation

• On our land we have set aside 12 acres for wildlife habitat and have planted over 1,000 conifer and broadleaf trees.
• All of our printed course notes are on 100% recycled paper.

Charitable work

• Donations and uncharged work for charitable animal welfare causes amounts to around £6,000 each year.