Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
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.
Cumbrian Heavy Horses is a BHS approved heavy horse riding centre in the south-west Lake District. Riders of many abilities ride Suffolk Punch, Clydesdale and Shire horses through the National Park. The site also offers camping and pods.
Bursted Hill Stables is a third-generation family-run riding school in the Pett Bottom valley near Canterbury. It offers lessons, hacks and other experiences for riders of all levels, in groups or privately. It is licensed by Canterbury City Council and is an approved Pony Club centre.
Aberdeen Riding Club at Peterculter is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to make riding accessible to all. It offers graded group lessons for children and adults and private lessons. It also provides full and grass livery.
Houston Farm Riding School is a family-run riding school near Dechmont in West Lothian, established in 1972 by Ian and Elizabeth Comrie. It is licensed and approved by the BHS and ABRS. It offers group, private and birthday rides for all ages and standards.
Achnalarig Stables is a TRSS approved riding centre in Oban. It offers group, semi-private and private lessons and treks through the countryside for all ages and abilities. It is also a Riding for the Disabled centre and hires out its outdoor arena.
CC Equestrian is a riding school at Harburnhead near West Calder, West Lothian, run by Lynn Colquhoun and Stephen Campbell. It gives riding lessons and is currently fully booked for new clients. Stephen also breaks ponies to drive and competes in carriage driving.
Tapitlaw is a family business near Dunfermline in Fife run by Bob Yeoman and Fiona Horne. Tapitlaw Riding School offers lessons for riders of all ages and levels. Tapitlaw Sport Horses breeds Scottish sport horses for show jumping and stands two stallions at public stud.
