25/10/2025
🌿 Outdoor Animal-Assisted Therapy Groups — Building Confidence & Connection in Nature, with Animals 🐴🐰
Designed for children or teenagers finding social situations difficult, or those struggling with anxiety, low confidence or feeling isolated from peers.
At OATS (Outdoor Animal-Assisted Therapy Service), we offer small, nurturing group sessions designed to help children and young people build social confidence, make positive connections, and boost wellbeing — all through the calming, regulating presence of animals and nature.
What makes our groups special:
🌱 Very small groups (maximum of 4) to support social anxiety and ensure individual needs are met.
🦙 Meaningful activities with animals — helping with feeding, care, observation and interaction.
🌳 Nature-filled outdoor environment designed to promote regulation and connection.
🤝 Focus on developing confidence, friendship and emotional resilience.
🌿 Run by a team of highly specialist therapists and mental health practitioners
Our groups run for ages:
🐾 7–12 years
🐾 12–16 years
Term-time week-days, in school hours for those with EBSA/school avoidance, Home-Ed families and those with alternative education needs. Limited after-school groups. Please contact us for availability.
Funding options:
💚 EHCP funding
💚 EOTAS funding
💚 School Funding
💚 NHS Funding
💚 Charity Funding
💚 Private funding (including home-educating families)
If your child would benefit from a calm, therapeutic space to grow confidence and belonging, we’d love to hear from you.
📩 Get in touch: www.oats-uk.org.uk | oats.enquiries@outlook.com
📍 Based in Billingshurst, West Sussex
🌿 “Helping children and young people reconnect — with nature, animals, and themselves.” 🐴
