Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners

16/08/2026

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IAHAIO is always striving to strengthen the links between science and practice of these fields, through an interdisciplinary lens drawing from the fields of psychology, medicine, education and special education, sociology, social work, nursing, veterinary medicine, ethology, biology, ethics, and law with the efforts of PAIJ (People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice).

We are proud to share our latest PAIJ Article - Equine-Assisted Therapy for Dementia: A Pilot RCT on Standardizing Sessions to Improve Cognition, Mood, and Quality of Life.🐎

To easily read/download this piece click - https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/paij/vol9/iss1/3/ 💻

15/08/2026

🌱🐴 🐾Have you started your journey in equine, animal or horticultural (including social farming) practice?

❓Did you know that you can now join AAHEP® while you study❓

Becoming an Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners Student Member is straightforward.

If you have:

🎓 Started your learning journey by studying a relevant equine, animal or horticultural course — including one of the courses recognised/listed by AAHEP®
🔗 https://aahep.uk/apr-policy/accredited-practitioner-register-recognised-training-courses

🛡️ Appropriate Professional Indemnity Insurance in place

📄 An appropriate client waiver/consent document ready to use

…you can apply for Student Membership of AAHEP®.

And you don’t have to rush your journey.

Student Membership can remain in place for up to two years, giving you time to study, develop your knowledge and build your professional foundations.

Once you have completed a minimum recognised Level 4 qualification, you can then apply to progress to full Individual Membership, subject to meeting the applicable membership requirements.

AAHEP® is about supporting good professional practice from the beginning of the journey, not just once you’ve reached the destination.

🌿 Study. Develop. Belong. Progress.

👉 Find out more and apply: aahep.uk

13/08/2026

We are very excited to be talking with the Social Farms & Gardens - Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol members on 3 September do book to join if you would like to find out more about AAHEP (pronounced arr-hep)

We have a bumper month in September with two Member Gatherings on offer!

Nature-based Learning and Therapy: Regulatory Registration for Practitioners with Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners
⏰ 4 – 5pm, Thursday 3rd September
📍 Online

The power of growing out of the margins
⏰ 4 – 5pm, Thursday 24th September
📍 Online

👉 Register over on our website: www.farmgarden.org.uk/get-involved/events

🎥 Catch up on our previous gatherings over on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prsDJrWUI0E...

Are you a member of Social Farms & Gardens? If not, join today for FREE! Together we show just how powerful nature-based activity can be. If you're improving lives through activity like farming or gardening, join our growing community. It's easy and free to join online, and you'll get some great perks for your group or organisation too: www.farmgarden.org.uk/get-involved/join-us

12/08/2026

🙏 PProfessional Standards Authority

06/08/2026

💕 Professional Standards Authority for sharing the importance of individuals being on an accredited register
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05/08/2026

Did you know that Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners is an Organisational Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy?

Sharing the new Ethical Framework for those Members in Counselling Professions 👉 https://orlo.uk/Yaijn👈

04/08/2026

At Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners (AAHEP® pronounced “Arr-hep”) collaboration isn’t a slogan, it’s one of the principles that guides everything we do.

As an independent, market-led Accredited Register, AAHEP believes that raising standards happens when we listen, engage and work with the wider sector.

That’s why we:

* globally engage with practitioners from across the profession, including many who are also members of networks and professional membership organisations.
* run polls and consultations so that AAHEP members can help shape the future of the different registers. For example we are busy sending out plaques to Organisational Members as this is just one of the things that these Members have asked us for.
* Keep abreast of developments, guidance and updates from Accredited Registers and relevant professional membership organisations, considering how these can strengthen the policies, procedures and standards that underpin the register.
* Support wider market initiatives, symposiums, conferences that promote public confidence, professionalism, animal welfare and good governance.
* have developed an international register for individuals that meet the similar high standards (as appropriate) set by the Professional Standards Authority under the accredited register.
* continue to reach out across the equine industry to encourage collaborative solutions to important issues, including equine welfare and the licensing challenges that continue to affect equine assisted services and the wider animal and horticultural space.

The accredited register’s commitment is to continuous improvement. That means listening to different perspectives, reviewing emerging good practice, and ensuring the accredited registers standards evolve alongside the profession.

Every conversation, every partnership and every piece of constructive feedback helps us build a stronger, more trusted profession, one that benefits practitioners, commissioners, participants, animals and the wider public.

By working together, we don’t just raise standards, we help shape the future of equine, animal and horticultural assisted services.

💻📞Do get in touch to talk to us about how we can support you and your practice aahep.uk 🙏

02/08/2026

New Media guidelines 🙏 Iahaio_official
👉 IAHAIO.ORG👈

⚙️So beautifully put - let’s all as global members look to raise the bar “together” rather than keep reinventing the wheel in the name of collaboration - especially when there is a whole lot of great collaboration going on ⚙️

In today’s fast‑moving digital age, images of human–animal interactions (HAI) travel further and faster than ever — and they shape how the world understands our work. IAHAIO’s new guidelines help ensure those images reflect ethical, respectful, welfare‑focused HAI.

IAHAIO and our global members are already working within this framework, choosing visuals that show animals and people safe, comfortable, and well‑represented. We invite organizations, practitioners, and researchers to work with us in raising the bar and sharing images that truly honor the relationships at the heart of HAI.

To read these guidelines in full, please visit IAHAIO.ORG today.💻

29/07/2026

Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners is happy to promote the awareness of this HETI - Horses in Education and Therapy International, a global Membership Organisation initiative looking to encourage us all to adopt the 29 July as a global celebration of the work.

For those AAHEP Members and AAHEP Organisational Members working with horses please do share any thoughts or pictures of the great work that you are doing in this space 💕

🌍 Equine-Assisted Services International Day is TODAY!

📸 Share your photo

Don't forget to use:



Your photo will only be part of the global celebration if you include the hashtag.

28/07/2026

Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners is very excited to be sending out these beautiful plaques to its Organisational Members 🎉