2025 Registrant Impact | Sustainability at Dogs Trust

Impact at Dogs Trust

2025 has been a milestone year in our sustainability journey at Dogs Trust. We started our journey in late 2021 and in that time we have produced our Sustainability Action Plan, with long term commitments of achieving net zero and becoming a leader in the charity sector, published our first Environmental Policy, planted thousands of trees across our centres, raised thousands of pounds through recycling schemes, and reduced scope 1 and 2 emissions by 31% from our baseline year.  

We started 2025 with a bang, when we partnered with a local recycling company to recycle clothing and textile donations that we can’t sell or use at one of our retail shops and turn them into dog products such as beds, jackets, and mats.  

During the initial four-month trial, 793kg were collected, raising £396 for the charity and creating 99 dog products, which we plan to eventually sell and is an example of a circular solution that is perfect for what we do.  

Along with this, we released our first Sustainability Report on Earth Day, highlighting our journey so far, the reporting year, and the road ahead, and reached our milestone of planting 5,000 trees by the end of 2025.