Our Vision – Life After Service
Supporting the Service Dogs and veterans Who Served Us All
Hero Paws supports retired military and service dogs while helping veterans through the powerful bond between humans and dogs.
After years of service protecting us, these dogs and their handlers deserve care and a peaceful future.
Fundraising – Home Life After Service
Support Our Heroes, Two and Four-Legged
Your support helps provide care, rehabilitation, and loving retirement homes for service dogs while supporting the well-being of veterans.
Hero Paws supports them all.
Donate, fundraise, or sponsor a dog and help change lives.
Stand With Our Veterans and Their Dogs
Volunteers – Home Life After Service
Volunteers are the heart of Hero Paws, supporting events, home checks, fundraising, and helping dogs transition into safe retirement homes.
Join a community dedicated to honouring service and giving back.
Stand With Our Veterans and Their Dogs
Volunteers are the heart of Hero Paws, supporting events, home checks, fundraising, and helping dogs transition into safe retirement homes.
Join a community dedicated to honouring service and giving back.
What We Do
At Hero Paws, we’re working tirelessly to turn our vision into reality: A ‘mission by way of a fully equipped retirement and education retreat where forces and service dogs can decompress, recover, and transition from service life onto a well-earned retirement home.
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With your support, we’ll build a space that relieves pressure on the services these dogs come from and increases their ability to provide the best possible options for dogs after their service life.
These dogs have spent their lives serving with unwavering loyalty and dedication.
Now it’s our turn to serve them.
When a service dog retires, their job ends, but their needs don’t.
These dogs have spent their lives protecting, searching, and serving alongside police officers and military personnel. Hero Paws exists to make sure they are never forgotten and never left without the care they deserve.
Ways to support us
£114.2K Raised so far Thursday / 5th / 2026
Powered by volunteers, every pound raised goes towards supporting our service dogs and veterans, alongside the essential costs that keep our work running.
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we’re able to provide vital medical treatment, specialist training, and lifelong support for dogs who have served alongside the military, police and emergency services. Your support helps us honour their service and give them the care, dignity and future they deserve.
Heal / Nuture / Empower
Many people are unaware that retired service dogs do not receive any financial support upon their retirement from the force they served with. This usually means the responsibility for their care and vet bills fall solely to their family or guardian.
Due to their working history, many of these dogs struggle to get pet insurance—or can only access it at a high cost—leaving their adopters to manage ongoing vet bills that can run into the thousands.
Hero Paws provides much needed financial support to these unsung dog heroes and their owners to enable them to have a long and happy retirement.
Stand With Our Veterans and Their Dogs
Hero Paws supports them all.
Donate, fundraise, or sponsor a dog and help change lives.
Healing Heroes
Lucy broke her neck in retirement. Surgery, infection, more surgery. Thanks to Hero Paws, she pulled through. Now she’s safe, healing, and finally just being a dog.
Built for Dogs Who’ve Served
Delivering focused care, responsible funding, and long-term welfare for retired military and police dogs
The vast majority of funds raised go directly to dog care
Hero Paws is structured to keep overheads low, ensuring donations support rehabilitation, recovery, and daily care where it matters most.
A UK-registered charity built on trust and transparency
Operating within Charity Commission guidelines, with clear governance and a commitment to accountability as we grow.
Focused on quality of life, not quick fixes
Every decision is made with long-term welfare in mind, prioritising calm environments, specialist support, and dignity in retirement.
Lean operations. Clear purpose.
Maximum impact for the dogs who’ve served.
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Hero Paws Retreat won’t just be ‘a place’, it will be a community. It will be where former handlers, families, and service dog adopters can come together, learn, and find the support they need to carry on. Whether it’s to decompress, connect with others, or simply take a moment to breathe, Hero Paws is here for you and your dog.
— Hero Paws – Our Vision
