Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners

12/08/2026

🙏 PProfessional Standards Authority

06/08/2026

💕 Professional Standards Authority for sharing the importance of individuals being on an accredited register
Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners Athena

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 🎉

18/07/2026

It is so wonderful that so many people are focussed on high professional standards 💕

17/07/2026

🎉Really enjoyable day spent at ADO Therapy and we were able to present the first new Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners Organisational Member plaque in person🎉

We will be rolling these out and more to our valued Organisational Members shortly 🙏💕

This plaque represents more than membership—it demonstrates a commitment to ethics, welfare, professional standards and public confidence.

We are delighted to recognise organisations choosing to lead by example and help raise standards across animal, horticultural and equine practice.

Congratulations to all of our Organisational Members. Together, we are building confidence through high standards promoting public confidence.

14/07/2026

Aahep: Association for Animals, Horticultural & Equine Practitioners Organisational Members you asked, we listened. More coming very soon 🙏

Individual Members again thank you for contributing to our polls we are working on some exciting new offerings which we have been successfully trialling so hope to be able to roll out to you over the winter 🧣🧶

Thank you for being part of the AAHEP community 💕