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A license will enable a professional dog walker to walk up to SIX dogs at any one time. The council undertook a benchmarking exercise and found that local authorities who had brought in a maximum number of dogs PSPO order, the maximum number of dogs that they permitted being walked by an individual at any one time was SIX. The council wants to set a balance between supporting business and public safety.

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No. The Professional Dog Walker license allows for the walking of five or six dogs at any one time. If you will not walk more than four dogs at any one time, you will not need to obtain a Professional Dog Walker license.

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From 1 April 2026. This is because new fees and charges are introduced at the start of a new financial year.

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  • Between 1 October 2025 and 1 April 2026, the council will waiver enforcing the four-dog limit for professional dog walkers.
  • Professional dog walkers will be able to walk up to six dogs at any one time without a professional dog walkers license but must not walk more than six.
  • Professional dog walkers can register their interest in obtaining the license by emailingHealthand.Safety@towerhamlets.gov.uk. The council will contact professional dog walkers known to us nearer the time with specific information about the license process.
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Enforcement officers are there to ensure that everyone can safely enjoy our green spaces and that dogs are walked responsibly, this includes professional dog walkers. If dogs remain in designated areas (not in gated children’s play areas or gated sports areas), enforcement officers will not take any action. However, if an officer sees a dog walker with five or six dogs, they may offer advice about how to register as a professional dog walker.

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See the professional dog walkers license page on the council’s website.

 

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A breach of a PSPO without a reasonable excuse is an offence. You will be issued with a £100 Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) if you do not comply with the PSPO when asked by an Enforcement Officer. If not paid, you may be prosecuted, for which the maximum penalty is a fine of £1,000.

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Drapers' Charitable Fund Grant (UK)

The Drapers' Charitable Fund (DCF) provides grants to improve the lives of disadvantaged communities, especially in Greater London. The fund supports initiatives, related to education, social welfare, textiles, and heritage.

Eligibility

Registered charities, CICs, and arts organisations. Projects should focus on education and young people, social welfare (homelessness, prisoners), ex-servicemen and women, general welfare, disability, and textiles and heritage

Funding amount

There is no minimum or maximum amount but grants typically are up to £25,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the The Drapers Charitable Fund website.

Arts Council England - National Lottery Project Grants (England)

The National Lottery Project Grants scheme aims to support thousands of artists and community and cultural organisations.

The fund aims to create and sustain quality work. It also seeks to help people across England engage with arts and culture.

Projects must focus on one or more of these artforms and disciplines:

  • Music
  • Theatre
  • Dance
  • Visual arts
  • Literature
  • Combined arts
  • Musuem practice

Eligibility

Museums, libraries, individuals and organisations with projects focussing on the above artforms and disciplines. 

Funding amount

Grants of between £1,000 and £100,000 for a 3-year project.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

For information

Please visit the Arts Council England website.

The Golsoncott Foundation (UK)

The Golsoncott Foundation is an arts-funding trust whose objective is to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts, particularly the fine arts and music.  

Eligibility

Registered charities, Community Interest Companies (CICs), and arts organisations.

Funding amount

Grants of up to £5,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the Golsoncott website.

The Victoria Wood Foundation

Established in memory of the celebrated comedian Victoria Wood, the Victoria Wood Foundation fosters Arts initiatives throughout the United Kingdom. Their funding prioritises arts projects in London and the North of England.  

Eligibility

Arts organisations and groups are invited to submit funding applications for consideration by the Foundation's trustees, who convene twice annually in July and December. To ensure timely review, applications should be received at least two weeks before the relevant meeting date. 

Funding amount

Grants of up to £5,000.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the Victoria Wood Foundation website.

John Ellerman Foundation

The John Ellerman Foundation gives money to UK charities that make between £100,000 and £10m. Funding is available to charities that focus on the arts, environment, and social action. The grants it gives are usually between £10,000 and £50,000 each year, for up to three years.

The foundation's goal is to make people, society, and the natural world better by giving money.

Eligibility

UK Registered Charities.

Funding amount

Between £10,000 and £50,000 per year, for up to three years.

Closing date

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

More information

Please visit the John Ellerman Foundation website.

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Data Controller and Purpose

This privacy notice applies to you ("the service user") and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets ("the council"). The council takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This privacy notice applies to the council’s use of any and all of the data provided by you or collected by the council in relation to your use of this service. It is important that you understand that sometimes we will need to share your data with other agencies where necessary or appropriate and by engaging with our service you understand that your data may be shared.

The information you provide will be used by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Youth Service, to process your Personal data and Special category data.

London Borough of Tower Hamlets will provide services internally, except in the instances where organisations provide services (such as schools/Health and voluntary sector) where this will be a joint service.

We will store your personal and special category data in the Local Authority’s Integrated Youth Support Service (IYSS) database for planning and decision making in line with the Youth Service values.

We process your data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and if you have any concerns the Council’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted on DPO@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

Condition for processing personal data

It is necessary for us to lawfully process your personal data such as name, address, contact details, under GDPR

Article 6

- 6(1)(a) consent
- 6(1)(b) performance of a contract
- 6(1)(c) compliance with a legal obligation
- 6(1)(e) task in the public interest or official authority vested in the controller

And more personal data such as health, personal and household circumstances and Special Category Data under GDPR.

Article 9

- 9(2)(b) employment, social security or social protection law, collective agreement.
- 9(2)(j) archiving in the public interest, or scientific and historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Additional legislation that apply:

  1. Children Act 1989,
  2. Section 17 of the Children Act 1989.
  3. Section 11.1, Pre-birth ‘Good Practice Steps’
  4. Section 47 of the Children Act 1989
  5. Section 20 of the Children Act 1989
  6. The Education Act 1996
  7. The Education Act 2002

A delay in you providing the information requested may result in a delay in providing appropriate services.

How long do we keep your information?

We will only hold your information for as long as is required by law and to provide you with the necessary services. The information will be stored until the data subject reaches the age of 19 years or 25 years if Special Education Needs and / or Disability are identified. For further details, you can view our retention schedule.

We may also anonymise some personal data you provide to us to ensure that you cannot be identified and use this for statistical analysis of data to allow the Council to effectively target and plan the provision of services.

Information sharing

Your personal information may be shared with internal departments or with external partners and agencies involved in delivering services on our behalf.
As stated above; this will include Ofsted, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, external education settings such as schools, Health organisations and services provided by the Voluntary Sector.

The council has a duty to protect public funds and may use personal information and data-matching techniques to detect and prevent fraud, and ensure public money is targeted and spent in the most appropriate and cost-effective way. Information may be shared with internal services and external bodies like the Audit Commission, Department for Work and Pensions, other local authorities, HM Revenue and Customs, and the Police. This activity is carried out under Article 9(2)(b) of the GDPR, under social protection law.

We have a duty to improve the health of the population we serve. To help with this, we use data and information from a range of sources including hospitals to understand more about the nature and causes of disease and ill-health in the area. This data would normally be anonymised and never used to make decisions on a specific individual or family.

Automated decision making and profiling

The service will process some of the data electronically and may therefore make automated decisions on your case. You can ask for this to be explained to you, please see the ‘your rights’ link below. We may also to some degree use the data to build a profile for you regarding service provision and priority.

Your rights

You can find out more about your rights on our Data Protection page and this includes details of your rights about automated decisions, such as the ranking of Housing Applications, and how to complain to the Information Commissioner.

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Data Controller and purpose

The information you provide will be used by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ contact centre service, to process your telephone interactions. London Borough of Tower Hamlets is the data controller and Wavenet is the data processor for telephone calls.

We process your data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and if you have any concerns the council’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted on DPO@towerhamlets.gov.uk.

Condition for processing personal data

It is necessary for us to process your personal data under the GDPR article 6(1)(a) consent.

A delay in you providing the information requested may result in a delay in providing appropriate services.

How long do we keep your information?

We will only hold your information for as long as is required by law and to provide you with the necessary services. Telephone call recordings are retained for 12 months and then the recording is automatically deleted. In order to maintain privacy and confidentiality, the Corporate Contact Centre does not hold conference calls (e.g. talk to a customer and a 3rd party at the same time).

We may also anonymise some personal data you provide to us to ensure that you cannot be identified and use this for statistical analysis of data to allow the council to effectively target and plan the provision of services. 

Information sharing

Your personal information may be shared with internal departments or with external partners and agencies involved in delivering services on our behalf. This may include Council tax, Benefits, Parking and other Council departments.

The council has a duty to protect public funds and may use personal information and data-matching techniques to detect and prevent fraud, and ensure public money is targeted and spent in the most appropriate and cost-effective way. Information may be shared with internal services and external bodies like the Audit Commission, Department for Work and Pensions, other local authorities, HM Revenue and Customs, and the Police.

This activity is carried out under social protection law.

We have a duty to improve the health of the population we serve. To help with this, we use data and information from a range of sources including hospitals to understand more about the nature and causes of disease and ill-health in the area. This data would normally be anonymised and never used to make decisions on a specific individual or family.

The service will process some of the data by computer and may therefore make automated decisions on your case. You can ask for this to be explained to you, please see the ‘your rights’.

Your Rights

You can find out more about your rights on our data protection page and this includes details of your rights about automated decisions, such as the ranking of Housing Applications, and how to complain to the Information Commissioner.

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