Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Penhalwyn Trekking Centre, School & Livery was established in 1979 and is an approved ABRS member. It offers riding lessons from age four, trekking and DIY livery. Some lessons include stable management.
Bagnum Equestrian Centre offers horse riding in the New Forest. It runs private and shared lessons, hacks and walkouts. It also offers livery, with bookings through an online system.
Bickhams Farm Livery is a family-run livery yard at Whitestone near Exeter, diversified from farming in 2009. It offers packages from DIY to full livery, with daily care sessions on assisted packages. It also offers tuition and lists horses for sale.
Arundel Riding Centre is a BHS-approved riding centre in Arundel, West Sussex. It offers private, semi-private and group lessons, escorted rides, pony rides and cross-country schooling. It also runs pony days, competitions, shows and stable management sessions.
Graceland Equestrian is run by BHS coach Lise-Marie Collins from St Mary's Farm, West Sussex. She gives riding lessons on clients' own horses at their yard or hers. She also offers horse re-training, schooling and grooming.
Rodgebrook Horses is a family-run equine training centre near Newport, Isle of Wight, owned by Robert and Lyn Booth. It offers full livery, schooling and training packages and lessons. Robert is a BHS Stage 5 accredited professional coach.
Cheryl Bezants is a professional event rider and coach with over 30 years of experience training riders and horses. She offers private and group sessions, cross-country schooling clinics and schooling sessions. Full and schooling livery packages are available.
Equine Distance Learning provides online horse care and management courses. It offers BHS Challenge Awards and courses in nutrition, massage and behaviour. It was founded in 2010 by BHS Senior Coach Sarah Tame.
Rosevidney Livery Stables near Penzance, Cornwall, is set on 60 acres. Proprietor Verity Perry is a BHS Intermediate Instructor and British Dressage rider with 25 years of coaching experience. It offers DIY livery, lessons on its riding school cob, schooling, arena hire, clinics and riding holidays.
Eastmoors Riding School & Livery is a licensed riding school near St Leonards, Dorset. It offers forest treks in small groups on woodland tracks with no roads. Its staff hold BHS and equestrian qualifications.
Ferme équestre du Litli Hestur is a riding farm in Saint-Coulitz near Châteaulin, Brittany. It runs a riding school with Icelandic horses and adapted riding. Each session includes preparing the horse and riding instruction, with yearly club subscriptions. It also runs summer holiday activities.
Cheston Farm Equestrian Centre near Wrangaton, Devon, is a riding school with a 5 star local authority licence. It offers individual and group lessons, Dartmoor and beach rides, a kids club and Pony Club. It also has livery, arena hire, clinics, competitions and riding holidays.
Flying Start Children's Riding Centre is a riding school near Taunton, Somerset, established over 25 years ago. It specialises in riding lessons for children from age 3. Owner and head instructor Vicky runs the school.
Foundation First Equestrian Centre near Helston, Cornwall, was set up by sisters Holly and Sophie Bennetts. It offers horse training, including young horse training, problem solving and re-starting. It also offers lessons, rehabilitation, facility hire, events and equestrian holidays.
Bowdens Riding School at Balham Hill Farm, Chiselborough, Somerset, has offered riding lessons to adults and children since 2004. Lessons are kept small or taught individually on carefully selected horses and ponies. It also offers livery.
Southlands Therapeutic Riding Society (STaRS) is a registered non-profit charity in Vancouver, Canada. It provides therapeutic riding and equine assisted learning for people with physical, developmental, cognitive or mental health disabilities.
Enlightened Equitation is a classical riding teaching method founded by Heather Moffett, based at East Leigh Farm near Totnes, South Devon. It offers private Equisimulator lessons, courses and a teacher training programme, including online. A network of EE teachers teaches the method.
The Heart of Horsemanship is run by clinician Mia from a private yard in West Sussex. It offers lessons, clinics, an online video academy and training livery for horses with behaviour problems. It runs beach clinics on Holkham beach and liberty and bridleless displays.
Rayne Riding Centre is a family-run, BHS-approved exam and riding centre in Rayne, Essex, opened in 1982. It has two floodlit outdoor arenas and a covered arena. Qualified instructors teach children and adults from beginner to experienced.
Happy Valley Equestrian Centre in Shoreham-by-Sea is a small family-run, ABRS-approved centre at the foot of the South Downs, established over 50 years ago. It mainly teaches children in group lessons and runs stable days and own-a-pony sessions. Adult lessons and hacks are also offered.
VetPartners Nursing School is a collaboration between Liphook Equine Hospital and the VetPartners group. It trains equine veterinary nurses for the Level 3 Diploma in Veterinary Nursing (Equine). Students must work in an approved equine training practice. It also helps practices become RCVS training practices.
Tremaines Riding Stables is a licensed riding school near Horsted Keynes, West Sussex, at its present site since 1969. It offers individual and small group lessons in an indoor school, led walks, pony mornings, gymkhanas and a small cross-country course. It is family-run.
Tillington Stables is a small, family-run children's riding school in Tillington, West Sussex, established in 1980. It is ABRS approved and holds a 5-star council licence. It runs weekend group lessons, instructional hacking in winter and pony mornings in the school holidays.
KMS Equestrian is run by Kay Sparrow, an Enlightened Equitation teacher and classical trainer based in Dartmouth, Devon. She gives ridden lessons on clients' own horses, group lessons, long reining, yard visits, clinics and training packages. She also offers saddle fitting and formation riding.
