Support Dog For Max

06/12/2023

STOLEN HOLMFIELD

Our sheds and neighbours sheds were broken into last night. from us they made off with garden equipment and 3 bikes! absolute scum who would do this at Christmas.

All 3 bikes were the Cube brand. please make these bike to much hot property and report to the POLICE or forward to me if you see these been sold online.

20/06/2022

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12/05/2022

12 week today since Harry came home ❤️❤️

20/03/2022

🐾1 month together❤️🐾 Time is flying already and these 2 have loved their first month together.

The improvements we have seen in Max's Behaviour, anxiety and meltdowns have been amazing! Can you imagine going from 3 to 6 hour meltdowns to nothing more than 45 mins??

We have our lives back! Max's meltdowns would mean we lost days to overflow and upset now he seems to calm and process much quicker and even if not Harry provides distraction or DPT that aids him

have changed our lives and you all changed Max's life by helping make this possible ❤️❤️❤️

Harry was provided and trained by the wonderful find out more about Autism Dogs at www.autismdogs.co.uk

24/02/2022

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Big smiles from handler, Max, after the delivery of his newly-qualified Assistance Dog ‘Harry’! 😁

To get to the point of qualification, each dog goes through temperament assessments, basic obedience training, public access training and socialisation, Family Training with their handler and their handler’s family, and bespoke task training! Once qualified, the handler and their family also receive Delivery Inclusion Training, as well as aftercare support for the lifetime of the dog!

A lot of hard work is put in by both our team and the handler and their family to get to this point, but it’s definitely worth it to see how our Autism Assistance Dogs can go on to change the lives of autistic people and their families 😍

09/02/2022

It's been a heck of a start to the year and apologies to all for our lack of updates we have over the past 4 week suffered from Covid one after the other :(

But we have great news that Harry will be coming home on the 17th!! Max is so excited he will have a number of training days with autism dogs at home and around Halifax so do give us a wave! And we will be visiting the wonderful business that helped us over the half term!

8 days to go!!

19/12/2021

Best Christmas present ever!! we did it! you did it!!!!!!!
Thank you so so much to everyone who has supported Max's cause! we are thrilled that you have helped us so much in enabling Harry to come into Max's life!

Special thanks to The Fabbadashery Hirds Family Fisheries and The Skircoat Green Post Office who all hosted tubs for many months for Max's fund!

Max's just giving page also raise a wonderful £459.70 in gift aid which goes direct to The Bradley Lowery Foundation who hosted Max's just giving page to help them with all the amazing fundraising work they do for children and now adults too!

Harry is in advanced training now with Autism Dogs CIC and we hope will be coming home to Max permanently in February! We will keep everyone updated on this page when he does and the next steps on the journey for Max and Harry!

Have a wonderful Christmas and and amazing start to 2022! xx

01/12/2021

Huge thanks to the Owners, Staff & Customers of The Fabbadashery (10-12 Clare Rd, Halifax HX1 2HX) for hosting a tub for Max's Fund! The Fabbadashery
2nd tub collected and an MIND BLOWING £121.52 raised!!! Thank you all so much! all added to Max's just giving page! via the direct link taking us to over £3012 raised!! so close to our goal now!!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax
Chrissy Wild 🙂

We are fundraising for an autism assistance dog for Max. Max was diagnosed with autism in summer 2020.

01/12/2021

Huge thanks again to the Owners, Staff & Customers of Hirds Family Fisheries Hirds Family Fisheries (163 Backhold Ln, Siddal, Halifax HX3 9DL) for continuing to host a charity collection tub for Max's fund! Hirds Family Fisheries
7th tub collected and £26.25 raised all added direct to Max's bank account with the Bradley Lowery Foundation and they will add this to his just giving page!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax

We are fundraising for an autism assistance dog for Max. Max was diagnosed with autism in summer 2020.

20/11/2021

What a wonderful 3 days at Family Training huge thanks to Caroline & Andrew at Autism Dogs for giving us all there time and been so patient and wonderful with Max!

We had the best time seeing Max come out of his shell he spent time in shops a thing he has been unable to do for 18months!! He sat through modules of information without complain! In strange places he does not last normally 5 mins!! (Though he might have got too comfy! Especially on the heated floor!)

Max has been heartbroken in leaving Harry but knows he is working hard to come home to us

We have so much to learn but feel so supported by the autism dogs team! Harry is now entering advanced training and skills training In a program specific to Max's needs.

03/11/2021

Huge thanks once again to the Owners, Staff & Customers of The Skircoat Green Post Office & General Store (346-350 Skircoat Green Rd, Halifax HX3 0RR)
10th tub collected and a MIND BLOWING £58.74 raised!!!
WOW!! that makes £295.79 raised in just 2 months and we can not express how grateful we are to you every single one of you and a huge thanks to Dawn and Vicky and their family for taking Max in to there hearts and showing us so much support!
Thank you all so much! All added to Max's Just Giving Page!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax

We are fundraising for an autism assistance dog for Max. Max was diagnosed with autism in summer 2020.

03/11/2021

Huge thanks again to the Owners, Staff & Customers of Hirds Family Fisheries Hirds Family Fisheries (163 Backhold Ln, Siddal, Halifax HX3 9DL) for continuing to host a charity collection tub for Max's fund! Hirds Family Fisheries
6th tub collected and £19.21 raised all added direct to Max's bank account with the Bradley Lowery Foundation and they will add this to his just giving page!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax

We are fundraising for an autism assistance dog for Max. Max was diagnosed with autism in summer 2020.

03/11/2021

At the weekend we spent a lovely few days with Harry!
Max Is utterly obsessed and the lovely care and support that Harry showed Max was beautiful to see!

We cannot thank you all enough for your support in this journey we have now just £919 to raise for the final payment!!
please share our post on your page/stories! share our just giving page https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax or order some of our lovely wax melts or gift sets for Christmas! www.weirdwax.uk

and finally come follow us on Instagram where we hope to share more of our journey and educate others around the benefits of assistance dogs for people with Autism/ASD

07/10/2021

Huge thanks once again to the Owners, Staff & Customers of The Skircoat Green Post Office & General Store (346-350 Skircoat Green Rd, Halifax HX3 0RR)
9th tub collected and an AMAZING £28.20 raised!!!
WOW that makes £237.05 raised in a few weeks and we can not express how grateful we are to you every single one of you and a huge thanks to Dawn and Vicky and their family for showing us so much support!
Thank you all so much! All added to Max's Just Giving Page!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax

07/10/2021

Huge thanks again to the Owners, Staff & Customers of Hirds Family Fisheries Hirds Family Fisheries (163 Backhold Ln, Siddal, Halifax HX3 9DL) for continuing to host a charity collection tub for Max's fund! Hirds Family Fisheries
5th tub collected and £11.72 raised all added to Max's just giving page!
https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax

06/10/2021

Good Morning everyone we hope you are all well! Just an update for those business who host our charity collection tubs (Skircoat Green Post Office, The Fabbadashery and Hirds Family Fisheries and their customers :)

When Max and Harry were matched we decided to use the just giving funds as the final payment of £3780 due at the end of January. The Bradley Lowery Foundation who host the just giving page and have a bank account set up in trust for Max informed us that just giving funds can take up to 3 months from the date deposited to be released.

Now autism dogs have no problem with this but the foundation suggested that all collection tub monies now be direct deposited into Max’s bank account with the foundation and they can add the total to his page, this will enable the payment due to be made fast at the time.

The just giving page will show the amount raised as normal and from now on any tub monies will be shown in the direct deposit section if you scroll down the page (as seen below) and we will continue to post every tub amount when collected as normal.

Again we thank you all so much for all your support! We are counting down the weeks until Harry comes home to Max ###

25/09/2021

Today our Doctor Who loving Lad met his very own Companion! Meet Harry!, Max's assistance dog in training!

We would not be where we are in this moment without all your support! AND again we are asking for you to share this on your pages and stories!

While the just giving page is set at our total amount (we are waiting for this to be updated) as a family we have paid the 1st payment which means Max's just giving page total will pay the final amount of £3780!

Which mean we have just £1618 to go!!

If you would like to donate you can here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/SupportDogForMax
We have also set up a little wax melt business to help raise the funds needed. You can visit our online shop here: www.weirdwax.uk