In line with World Animal Day, Mandy from The Cinnamon Trust will be talking about pet companionship, the origins of The Cinnamon Trust, as well as how The Cinnamon Trust preserves this special bond and changes the lives of older people and their pets. 

The Cinnamon Trust was created in 1985 by Mrs Averil Jarvis MBE who saw that older people were being separated from their beloved pets when they needed them most due to lack of support.  Mrs Jarvis aimed to ease older peoples' worries by providing pet care from local volunteers in their area who would dog walk, short term foster and when registered, find forever foster homes through our Pet Profiling service for pets whose owners could no longer look after them. This way, she started building a national volunteer network that is now made of over 20,000 volunteers, while reimagining forever care by making it kennel and cattery free and always in home-from-home environments. 

Speaker Bio:

Mandy has worked for The Trust for 10 years and has experience within:-

Community Service Team

Sourcing volunteers to help with dog walking and fostering.

Pet Profiling Team                 

Giving reassurance to owners that their pets will be cared for life in a home from home environment by them registering for our Pet Profile Service

Appeals Team                         

 Reaching out into local communities to gain new volunteers to join The Trust

Talks and Events                     

Sourcing volunteers to give talks and attend events.  I also give talks to local groups and cover Teams Talks

Regional Representatives

I have created a UK wide Regional Representative Team, and I give support to the Regionals with their events and talks