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IT'S HERE... Our final month at our Holme Lacy Centre before the big move to the new site in Llangrove. Holme Lacy college has been our home for over 30 years, and what a 30 years it has been.... Thank you to everyone that has ever visited, participated, supported, fundraised and done all the other wonderful things to support us! Dreams can become possible! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! Help us by donating: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/herefordshirerda

New Site Update!!! We are really pleased with the progress that the builders are making with the new site. Plus, it looks like we are on track to complete by the end of July. However, we are still short of £50k but we have anything crossed we can do it.... Therefore we are planning to move in over August!!! YAY!!! It's such an exciting time, We're so pleased we are all able to share the experience together! Help support our project by donating via the link below: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/herefordshirerda

We are really excited to announce that we have been invited to attend the Ross-on-Wye Bands in the park event on Sunday 13th July from 14.30 until 16.30. We will have a stall with cakes, plants and a lot more, plus we'll be doing a bucket collection. If anyone is planning to attend please bring some cash along to help support our charity.

Our story starts when Herefordshire Riding for the Disabled was established in 1991 within the grounds of Holme Lacy College. The vision then was to provide a purpose-built RDA centre which could provide horse therapy sessions for disabled independent riders and school groups from Herefordshire and the surrounding borders. Over the past 30 years amazing results have been witnessed with riders benefitting from our horse therapy sessions. Many of our clients have achieved the unimaginable in developing their physical, learning and emotional abilities, developments that had been thought to be the unachievable. This has been possible through building strong bonds…

Herefordshire Riding for the Disabled (RDA) is celebrating the approval of planning permission to construct a modern riding therapy facility at its new site between Llangrove and Whitchurch in the South of the county.  The new centre will include a 30m x 60m indoor riding arena and hydraulic rider hoist, viewing area, 15 stables and a mechanical therapy horse room.   The RDA has outgrown its current home at Holme Lacy College and has been looking for a larger site that will allow for much-needed development.  Over 100 people, aged 5 to 75, currently attend weekly riding therapy sessions, but the…

We're pleased to announce with lockdown restrictions easing, we are reopening the Herefordshire RDA centre on Monday 12th April 2021, this is in line with the governments’ second phase of the easement plan.At Christmas all the RDA horses and ponies went for a two-week staycation at a nearby farm and were well looked after by one of our amazing volunteers and their family. As the end of the year approached everyone was looking forward to their Christmas festivities and the two-week break, after a very difficult 2020!  The centre closed its doors on Friday 18th December after the final lesson…

Come along this half term and learn more about horse care and stable management. All participants will learn about grooming, horse health and daily care tasks. Everyone will also get an RDA proficiency certificate, badge and rosette. Sessions: Monday 17th February: 10 am - 11amWednesday 19th February: 10am - 11amThursday 20th February: 10am - 11am and 1.45pm - 2.45pm To book a place - please contact Emily in the office (admin@rdahereford.org) or call 01432 870831

We are in urgent of need of more volunteers to enable us to run riding therapy sessions at our base at Holme Lacy College. At present, we have new clients on our waiting list and can't offer them riding therapy due to not having enough volunteers. Volunteering with us involves either helping in a riding session, leading a pony or walking beside a rider, or helping on our stable yard with practical tasks. There is no requirement for any experience of horses or working with disabled clients before - as full training is given. We are looking for people able…

We'd like to invite all clients, volunteers and friends to our Summer Fete on Saturday 31st August 2019. Come along to our Holme Lacy Centre between 12pm and 3pm to enjoy our hospitality. Free BBQ, Cream Teas, Stalls and Pony Rides!

Herefordshire RDA are excited to announce that they are on the hunt for new premises to house their ponies and horses that give disabled adults and children riding therapy every week. “We have outgrown our current premises at Holme Lacy College and are looking to upgrade the facilities we offer our clients.” says David Harding, Herefordshire RDA chair of trustees.   “We want to say close to Hereford for our clients but this is a wonderful opportunity to be able to provide top class equestrian therapy for Herefordshire residents”. With to the backing of a charitable donor, the RDA are looking…

We are incredibly grateful to Suzanne Rose who ran the London Marathon in 2019 for Herefordshire RDA and along with colleagues at Santander raised a large amount of money. RDA can only continue thanks to fundraising from supporters like Suzanne so a big thank you for all of us!

New pony 'Dinky' joins our team of ponies at the Centre. He is characterful black and white pony who at 12h will give benefit our young riders. The yard team are learning his 'quirks' which include cantering round the field and not wanting to be caught in the morning!