Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
V&C Equestrian in West Linton offers part, full and assisted livery, competitions, events, competition preparation and pony parties. It provides riding lessons and horses for share in Balerno. It was named Horse Scotland's Club of the Year 2024.
Gordon Group Riding for the Disabled Association and Inverurie Therapy Pony Centre is a volunteer-based charity. It runs RDA ridden sessions Monday to Thursday, equine facilitated learning with therapy ponies and pony care courses. It serves people with physical, intellectual or mental health challenges.
Holly Bush Stables is a family-run children's riding centre and livery yard in Byfleet, Surrey with a 5* licence. It offers riding lessons, Pony Club, pony parties, full and part livery and equine therapy. Facilities include a sand school and jumping paddock.
Thanet Disabled Riding Centre is a non-profit in Broadstairs that has run for 47 years. With volunteers and four ponies it caters for about 40 riders a week with disabilities. Sessions are mainly therapy based, working alongside physiotherapists, and include hacking.
Asti Equestrian is a family-run equestrian centre in Goosey in the Vale of the White Horse. It offers riding tuition, pony parties, Pony Club, camps and livery. It has an on-site master saddler and a saddlery shop open seven days a week, and runs dressage competitions.
Tanglewood Equestrian Centre is a small riding school in Colden Common. It offers riding lessons for children and adults with qualified trainers, grouping riders by ability. It also lists livery and fun activities.
Pevlings Farm Riding & Livery Stables in Horsington, Somerset was established in 1985. It offers group and individual riding lessons aimed at leisure riders of all ages. It also provides DIY livery with optional assistance and has floodlit arenas and cross country fences.
Alton Piece is a small family-run riding school near the Wyre Forest in Worcestershire. It offers private and small group lessons for children from age five and adults, with BHS qualified instruction. It also runs school holiday courses, stable management sessions and pony parties.
Derryham Stables in Bailieborough, Co. Cavan, is an AIRE approved yard run by Nicola Clarke. It offers group and private lessons, hacking, pony camps and parties, livery and therapeutic riding.
City of Derry Farm & Equestrian Centre is a fourth-generation family farm in the Faughan Valley outside Derry-Londonderry. It offers riding lessons for children and adults, trail rides and Pony Club activities. It also runs equine assisted wellbeing programmes led by a trained practitioner. Riding holidays with farmhouse accommodation are available.
Moorlands Equestrian Centre in Drumshanbo, County Leitrim, was established in 1993 by the McManus family on the shores of Lough Allen. It is an AIRE approved riding centre offering lessons with qualified instructors, livery and pony club.
The RDA Unicorn Centre is a Riding for the Disabled centre and registered charity in Middlesbrough, opened in 1998. It offers riding lessons, equine therapy, pony care sessions and volunteering for children and adults with additional needs. It has a purpose-built indoor arena with a hoist and an outdoor arena.
Eat Sleep Ride is a Scottish charity at Quarry Farm, Lamberton near Berwick-upon-Tweed. It runs an ABRS approved riding school offering lessons, hacks, pony club coaching and livery. It also provides equine therapy, equine-assisted learning and youth and wellbeing programmes.
Bensville Riding School is a family-operated riding school on the NSW Central Coast run by Chantelle Allaries, an EA qualified coach and national judge. It offers private, semi-private and group lessons, pony rides, birthday parties and school holiday programs. It also works with NDIS clients.
Whyld Equestrian Coaching is a riding school at Glenorie, NSW led by Charlotte Whyld. It teaches riders from beginners to advanced in dressage, showjumping and cross country on its school horses. It also offers agistment and competition programs.
Rosthwaite Farm Estate is an equestrian estate in the Southern Highlands. The website describes training facilities and riding school programs on the property. It also lists agistment, horses, performance and events pages. Accommodation is offered alongside the equestrian activities.
The Parklands Stables is a riding school at Woodlands in the Southern Highlands of NSW. It offers structured riding lessons for children, teenagers and adults, including the Saddle Club program for ages 8 to 12 and holiday camps. Lessons are taught in small groups on its school horses.
Endeavour Park Equestrian Centre is a riding school at Oakdale in the Wollondilly, operating since 1998. It offers lessons and trail rides for children and adults, NDIS sessions, school holiday programs and pony parties. It also offers agistment.
RDA (NSW) Tall Timbers is a Riding for the Disabled centre and registered charity at Gables, NSW. It runs group and individual riding programs, horse care sessions and life skills programs for people with disabilities. It also offers allied health services such as speech pathology and occupational therapy.
Shine Bright Equine Human Services in Arcadia, NSW offers equine assisted counselling and therapy for private clients and NDIS participants. It is run by Anne-Katrin Liebe, a registered counsellor and international equestrian coach. Services include group programs, team building workshops and retreats, alongside a riding school.
Falcon Sporthorses of Australia is run by John and Pip Cooper at Falcon Park, Central Mangrove on the NSW Central Coast. They coach showjumping, dressage and eventing, and offer agistment, boarding, spelling, training and campaigning of horses. The 53 acre property has arenas, an exercise track and cross country fences, and John also trains racehorses.
Harelaw Equestrian Centre is on the Gosford estate near Longniddry, East Lothian. It offers hacks on estate tracks and woodland, beach rides for experienced riders and lessons in an indoor school. It also hires out horses for local common ridings and hunt rides.
Muirhead Stables is a riding school near Dundee in the Angus countryside. It offers hacks of different lengths and lessons in an all-weather school with jumps. Rides go out Tuesday to Sunday.
Barton Field Farm Equestrian Centre is a family run riding school near Canterbury, Kent, founded in 2002. It is a British Horse Society approved centre and a Pony Club Centre. It offers lessons on school horses and ponies, pony club activities, a school jumping league and inter-house dressage and show jumping.
