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St Mary's Canine Creche

St Mary's Canine Creche is licensed by Babergh District Council for dog day care in Capel St. Mary. The council's most recent inspection awarded it 5 stars out of 5.

That puts it in the 81% of Suffolk licensed businesses rated 4 stars or above (101 of 124).

Its licence runs to 27 January 2029. Longer licence terms are awarded to higher-rated operators, which is why a distant expiry date is usually a good sign in itself.

On its own website the business describes itself as: "At St Mary’s Canine Crèche, we keep your dog entertained, socialised, and cared for in a spacious, fully supervised setting designed just for them." We reproduce that as a summary of what it says about itself, not as anything we have checked.

Its site advertises dog day care.

We found no entry for this business on the ICO register of fee payers. That is common for sole traders and is not necessarily a failing, but a business holding your address and door key would normally be expected to be registered.

Under the star rating scheme a 5-star operator qualifies for a licence of up to 3 years and correspondingly fewer unannounced inspections, so the rating affects how often the council will look in as well as what it thought at the last visit.

Babergh District Council publishes an address for this licence, which is set out in full below.

We read 12 pages of its website on 2 August 2026, about 19,589 words in total, and extracted 5 details from them.

Licence record

From its own website

Contact details from its website

Questions and answers

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Where is St Mary's Canine Creche?

Its website gives the address as St Mary’s Canine Creche Unit 1 Capel Grove, Capel St Mary, Ipswich, IP9 2JS.
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How do I contact St Mary's Canine Creche?

Its website lists contact by phone on 01473 480803 and by email at lisa@stmaryscaninecreche.co.uk.
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What services does St Mary's Canine Creche offer?

Dog Day Care, Cosy Club, Enrichment Activities, Puppy Socialisation
Summarised from their website

What qualifications do the staff at St Mary's Canine Creche hold?

Level 3 and Level 4 Diplomas in Canine Behaviour, Care and Welfare, Canine Nutrition and Wellness Certification, and Canine First Aid Level 2
Summarised from their website

What is the Cosy Club?

A space for puppies, senior dogs, or calmer characters with gentle exercise, enrichment, and relaxation
Summarised from their website

What are the opening hours of St Mary's Canine Creche?

Mon - Fri: 8am - 6pm, Sat and Sun: Closed
Summarised from their website

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Where these figures come from

Last updated

2 August 2026

• Local authority animal activity licence registers — English local authorities. Factual fields extracted from each council's published public register: trading name, licence number, licensable activity, star rating and expiry date. Where a council redacts an address — as they routinely do for home boarders operating from a residential address — the record is kept without a location and never geolocated by inference. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Operators' own public websites — The licensed businesses themselves. Factual metadata — description, opening hours, contact details and advertised services — extracted from each operator's own public website. robots.txt is checked and obeyed before every fetch, requests are rate-limited to one per host per run, and every field links back to the page it came from with the date we last checked. Claims operators make about themselves are not verified by us. Licence: Summarised, not reproduced. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Postcode geography — Office for National Statistics / Ordnance Survey, via postcodes.io. Postcodes already published in council registers are resolved to a parish or ward and coordinates. Only postcodes the council itself published are looked up. Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed 1 August 2026.
• Licence details are republished from the Babergh District Council public register under the Open Government Licence.
• Companies House and ICO entries are matched by trading name and corroborated by location; unconfirmed matches are not published.