Sponsor our support animals

Our gentle nature has a calming effect on students, helping to reduce stress and anxiety whilst promoting mental health and emotional regulation and wellbeing.

Interacting with us encourages empathy, compassion, and responsibility, as students take turns feeding, cleaning, and caring for us.

Rabbits like us also support learning, offering hands-on work experiences contributing to an animal care qualification understanding animal behaviour and nature. This inspires engagement in core subjects such as writing, storytelling, maths and critical thinking.

With our quiet nature and care requirements, rabbits are an inclusive and accessible way to enhance both the educational environment and the social-emotional development of young learners.

• Veg – £9.50
• Insurance – £34.50
• Nail trips – £25
• Equipment ie. Tunnels, toys, travel case, health – £5

• Our rabbit den
• Tasty hay and straw
• Our friends at Inscape
• Access to our garden
• Sleep time
• Time for cuddles
• Our toys

We are trained guinea pigs that have a calming effect on students. Holding and stroking us helps students to release endorphins and reduce stress.

We work with Danielle, the AAI practitioner at Inscape House School, to work on the student’s Emotion Recognition and Communication.

We also help with mental health and wellbeing because of our nature – we’re non-judgemental and accepting of everyone (we’re also very humble). The AAI space creates a safe space for students to express their emotions and helps create a tool kit to remove barriers they face on a daily basis. 

• Pellets – £4.50
• Hay – £6.00
• Sawdust – £6.00
• Veg – £20
• Insurance – £30
• Equipment ie. house, tunnels, cleaning spray, health med, travel cases – £10

• Our hutch
• Our friends at Inscape
• Our food and fresh grass 
• The Animal Room at Inscape
• Our soft bed
• Our bridge and hay racks, stocked fall of yummy hay 
• Our friends at Inscape 
• Our tunnel & Hay Ball

Teaching students to care for us – including our frequent health checks and bathing methods – helps students to develop their own personal care needs.

Slow and steady, we can also help our younger students with road safety and awareness to develop these much-needed skills when out in the community.  

• Vegetables – £11 
• Insurance – £14
• Sand – £7.50
• Bulbs – £25
• Equipment eg. tunnels, sandpaper, travel case, health – £5

• Our tortoise table 
• Our friends at Inscape
• Our food and fresh grass 
• The Animal Room at Inscape House
• Our daily hot bath 
• Our hay bed and our heat lamps 

Bearded dragons are a species that many of the students haven’t the opportunity to interact with before. I look both wild and adorable, some say almost mythical or dragon-like – and this helps engage students that have an interest in fantasy and mystery worlds.

Working with me helps to embed fine motor skills and coordination into students’ sessions.

I help to teach students social communication and interaction skills with both their peers and adults. These skills then develop back in the classroom setting, at home with students’ families, and out in the community to prevent – removing this from becoming a barrier in their life. 

• Crickets and meal worms (my favourite food) – £30
• Veg – £10
• Sand – £5.50
• Bulb Replacements – £25
• Equipment ie. branches, sandpaper, travel case, health – £6.00
• Insurance – £16

• Climbing my plants and trees
• My mealworms and vegetables 
• My friends at Inscape School
• The AAI room at Inscape
• My soft sand
• Chasing my tasty crickets  

We’re the two newest additions to the Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) team. We may be little, but we’re quick! Inscape House School students voted and chose our names – Nibbles and Nugget. 

We have a big impact despite our small size. Our soft nature teaches the students the importance of being gentle and patient when handling us. Through fun and engaging activities like maze running and fast-paced wheel stunts, we help foster empathy skills.

Students learn the responsibilities of caring for dwarf hamsters, which requires them to adapt to the ever-changing and sometimes unpredictable situations that arise with animals like us. This enhances their social skills and teaches them how to cope with change without prior notice. 

• Pellets – £2.99
• Bedding – £2.00
• Sawdust – £2.40
• ​Veg – £3.00
• Insurance – £5.00
• Equipment ie. House, tunnels, cleaning spray, health medication, travel cases – £5.00

• Our hutch
• Our bridge and see-saw
• My friends at Inscape
• The AAI room at Inscape
• Tasty treats
• Spending time training on our running wheel. We even join the same running wheel at the same time – often leading to one of us tumbling over mid-run (whoops)

I’m a cockapoo who supports students across Inscape House School.

I help students learn animal care skills while improving their sensory tolerance, fine motor skills, social interaction and communication skills during group sessions with students. I’m great at recognising the students’ needs too and adapt quickly to the flow of sessions.

I live with a member of staff but I’m a VIP weekly visitor at Inscape House. I particularly enjoy being pampered with a few tasty treats and attention from students when they brush my fur, making it look extra nice.

• Food – £5 
• Toys – £3  
• Bed – £4
• Equipment – £8
• Insurance – £10 
• Vet or grooming – £5

• My animal family
• The Paws Room and Paws Paddock at Inscape
• My ball
• Walks 
• Having my fur brushed
• My friends at Inscape
• Tasty treats

I might be a more unusual support animal but I’ve proven to be a very popular addition to the school!

I’m an axolotl which is part of the salamander family. We’re a species that’s endangered in the wild, so the students are doing their part to help keep my species alive. AAI sessions help to educate them about the importances of helping animals like me around the world.

Students feed me fish-based pellets and bloodworms, test the water levels, and help Danielle, the AAI practitioner, to change the water and keep me happy here at Inscape.  

• Food – £13
• Equipment – £4
• Insurance – £3.50
• Toys – £2.50
• ​Tank and supplies for the tank – £5

• My tank 
• The AAI room at Inscape
• My rocks and places to hide
• My friends at Inscape 
• Delicious mealworms (don’t know them til you’ve tried them!)