Our benefits
Making work work for you.
Benefits and rewards
At Animal Friends, we’re passionate about making your workplace ‘work’ for you. That’s why we offer a range of benefits, to give a little something back to our colleagues. From dedicated (and paid) time to welcome a new pet into your family or pursue a volunteering opportunity with an animal welfare charity, to supporting you with your physical and mental health, we’ve got it covered.
Birthday as holiday
Nobody wants to work on their birthday, right? We give it to you as holiday, so you don’t have to miss out on the celebrations.
Pawternity
Bringing a new pet home? To help settle them in, you can take one additional day of paid ‘Pawternity’ leave.
50% off pet insurance
If you’re the proud pet parent of a dog, cat, or horse, you can save up to 50% on a policy with us as an Animal Friends colleague.
Volunteering Day
Passionate about helping animals? So are we, which is why we offer a paid volunteering day every year.
Looking after you
Pension scheme
Our pension scheme is provided by Smart Pensions.
Health Cash Plan
Save money on everyday healthcare costs with Medicash.
Employee Assistance Programme
Supporting you with work, life, your health, and wellbeing.
Flexible working
Work-life balance is everything to us. Our colleagues work remotely, part-time, compressed hours – whatever works for them.
Pregnancy loss support
Any colleague who experiences a pregnancy loss may take up to two weeks' paid leave from day one of their employment with us.
Holiday purchase scheme
You can purchase up to three days of additional annual leave if you’d like to increase your entitlement for the year.
Retail discounts
We offer you exclusive discounts and cashback at hundreds of retailers.
Increased leave with length of service
To say thank you for sticking with us, we’ll increase your annual leave entitlement with your length of service – 26 days annual leave for two years' service, 27 for four, and 28 for six years' service.
Looking after your loved ones
Maternity and Adoption leave
If eligible, you can take up to 52 weeks' maternity or adoption leave. We also offer an enhanced maternity/adoption pay package.
Paternity leave
If eligible, we’ll give you up to two weeks paternity leave and we also offer an enhanced paternity pay package.
Shared parental leave
We can provide you and your partner the option to share the care of your child in the first year after birth rather than taking maternity and paternity leave. If eligible, you can choose how to split the available leave and we offer an enhanced shared parental leave pay package.
Dependants leave
We’ll give you a reasonable amount of unpaid time off when it is necessary to take care of an immediate or unexpected event involving one of your dependants, for example if your dependant falls ill.
Celebrating you!
Paid sabbaticals
For every five years you work with us, we’ll offer you a fully paid sabbatical!
Colleague of the Quarter scheme
We hold quarterly awards, with the chance to win a bonus AND choose an animal charity for us to donate to in your name.