Meet the team

I founded Pets on the Green and run every part of it.

I deliver all animal-assisted intervention sessions personally, along with private encounters, mobile parties, school visits, care home visits and public events. I’m the named Designated Safeguarding Lead.

Away from sessions I manage the daily care of over seventy animals across nine species groups — feeding, health monitoring, weight tracking, enrichment, veterinary liaison and the individual records kept for every animal. I run the ethical hedgehog breeding programme, from pairing decisions through to vetting homes.

I also handle everything behind the business: bookings, invoicing, VAT, licensing, insurance, risk assessments, policies, staff training, rotas, the website, and the reports and progress records written for schools, families and local authorities. I write the supporting evidence for EHCP applications and reviews myself.

My dad set up much of the admin originally, and I’ve now taken that on myself too.

What I’m like

Open-minded and outgoing, and I’ll happily talk to anyone. Good with children, confident in what I know, and SEN is my specialism.

Favourite animal to work with

Rosie, our galah cockatoo

Favourite bookings

School visits

Scared of

Alanah’s spiders

Phoebe holds animal management qualifications and has been trained in-house by Ciera on this collection specifically.

She maintains animal welfare across the collection, attends mobile visits and parties alongside Ciera, and delivers private animal handling sessions on her own.

What she’s like

Easy to talk to and quick to make you laugh. Good with people.

Favourite animal to work with

Betty, our bearded dragon

Favourite bookings

Birthday parties

Not keen on

Millipedes, the scorpion and the beetles

Animals at home

Five ferrets, ten giant African land snails, four crested geckos, a cat, a dog, a tortoise, fish, dairy cow isopods and a giant Asian mantis

Alanah holds childcare qualifications and came to us through years of keeping her own animals rather than through an animal course — she now knows this whole collection inside out.

She maintains animal welfare, and delivers private animal handling sessions on her own.

What she’s like

Laid back, and happy to talk about the animals throughout your session. She enjoys teaching people about them.

Favourite animal to work with

The scorpion

Favourite bookings

Private sessions here at the centre

Scared of

Nothing, as far as any of us can tell

Animals at home

A sun beetle, a sapphire flower beetle, Siamese and Hawaiian glow millipedes, rainbow stag beetles, an Indonesian leaf insect, her green bottle blue tarantula and Sazimi’s tarantula, four dogs, five cats and three royal pythons. An aviary is on the way, so birds are next. The spiders are the only ones she brings in.

Matilda volunteers with the animals, supporting daily welfare and wellbeing.

Favourite animal

Custard, our royal python

Animals at home

Two cats, a royal python, a crested gecko, a leopard gecko and a variety of isopods

Volunteers work with the animals only, outside session times.