Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Berkshire Horses is an equestrian centre at Herons Farm with horses and ponies for riding lessons and private tuition. Riders can use the arena or hack through fields, woodland and private gallops. It also offers pony days, children's birthday parties on horseback, riding holidays and bed and breakfast.
Gairloch Trekking Centre near Red Point, Gairloch offers pony trekking on the Red Point beaches on native horses and ponies. It also offers lessons, lead-rein walk-outs and kids riding breaks and stable days. It is open from Easter to October.
Highland Group RDA is a volunteer-run charity at Sandycroft, Reelig near Kirkhill providing therapeutic and recreational riding for people with disabilities since 1975. Sessions run Tuesday to Friday mornings with qualified coaches and trained volunteers. It is a member of the national Riding for the Disabled Association.
Whole Horse Solutions on the Isle of Skye is run by equine behaviourist Iona Augier. It offers behaviour consultations, riding lessons, stable management tuition, residential schooling and starting young horses. Lessons can take place at Portree Livery yard or at the client's premises.
Longsight Tack Shop and Riding School near Blackburn is a family business since 1997. Its shop sells rider clothing, horse rugs, boots, horse care products, tack and stable equipment. It also runs a riding school.
Braeside Equestrian Centre in St Margaret's at Cliffe near Dover is a small riding school. It offers mainly one-to-one tuition for all standards, Pony Stars, Challenge Awards and BHS stage 1 and 2 training, plus Pony Club and livery. It is a BHS approved centre.
Black Pearl Horses in Gunning, NSW offers horsemanship lessons, clinics and coaching. It provides full-time and part-time training and starting of horses, agistment and stud services. It breeds young stock and sells young horses.
Reinhill Ranch is a western riding centre on a former dairy farm in Athis-Val-de-Rouvre, Orne, run by Cécile Mahé. It offers lessons and courses for all levels, training and breaking of horses, rides and horses for sale. Livery options include field, box and livery with breaking.
Parkside Stables in Alfreton, Derbyshire is a five-star rated, family-run riding school and livery yard. It offers group and private lessons from age 3, stable management, show jumping, Pony Club, parties and Riding for the Disabled. Facilities include indoor and floodlit outdoor arenas.
College Farm Equestrian Centre in West Markham, Nottinghamshire is home to Markham Dressage, run by BHS instructor and British Dressage trainer Vikki Hayton. It offers dressage coaching, BHS exam training, full, schooling and DIY livery, and backing of young horses.
Howden Equestrian Centre near Goole, East Yorkshire is a BHS Highly Commended and ABRS+ approved riding school. It offers private, semi-private and small group lessons from age 3, RDA sessions, a mechanical horse and BHS training up to stage 4.
Normanby Park Riding School near Scunthorpe offers private and group riding lessons from age 2, including flatwork and jumping, plus hacking. It has two outdoor arenas and a small covered arena. It holds a 5-star licence and has a café.
Willow's Leap is an equestrian training facility in the Wollombi Valley in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales. It offers cross country, show jumping and flat work lessons, horse training and spelling agistment. It also has farmstay accommodation.
Clarity Equine at Double M Farms in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island, offers private and group riding lessons. It also offers equine-assisted psychotherapy, an adaptive skill-building program, farm camps and respite support.
Natural Touch Therapy Institute is a private post-secondary school with campuses in Alberta and Saskatchewan. It runs certificate programmes in equine sport therapy, equine massage, equine manual osteopathic therapy and saddle fitting. It also offers a canine massage therapist programme.
New Tunnel Hill Farm near Blisworth, Northampton, is a family-run working farm with a riding school that has been on site for over 30 years. It is an ABRS member and Pony Club centre. It offers DIY, full, part and competition livery, hacking and backing and schooling.
Cottage Farm Stables in Earlswood, Solihull, is a licensed riding centre for riders from beginners to advanced. It also offers stable management sessions and has an onsite café and bakery.
Maryculter Carriage Driving Centre is on a livestock farm near Aberdeen and has operated for 30 years. It offers carriage driving tuition, pleasure drives and carriage hire with its own horses, ponies and carriages. It also offers driving for disabled people.
Foxhills Riding Centre near Barr Beacon, Walsall, has been a riding school and livery yard for over 50 years. It offers riding and stable management lessons, a Pony Club, and DIY and full livery. It is a member of the Association of British Riding Schools.
Strathorn Farm Stables near Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, is a BHS certified riding school run by the Skinner family, who have worked with horses there since 1939. It teaches riding, driving, horse care and stable management. It also breeds a few Clydesdale foals each year.
Hollingwells Equestrian is a small family-run equestrian centre in the Scottish Highlands. It offers riding lessons from age 2, trekking, Pony Club, pony parties and wellbeing sessions. Most lessons are taught by a BHS intermediate instructor.
Barleyfields Equestrian Centre in Etwall, Derbyshire, is a family-owned riding school and livery yard set in over 50 acres. It offers private, shared and group lessons, hacking and livery with over 50 stables. It is also a registered competition centre with a riding club.
Lodge Farm Equestrian Centre in Wetley Rocks has a riding school with tuition from beginners to advanced competition riders. It runs show jumping, showing and dressage events, a Pony Club and pony parties. It also has a saddlery shop and an arena café.
Beaver Hall Equestrian Centre in Bradnop near Leek is a competition venue with livery and a riding school. It hosts affiliated and non-affiliated competitions, clinics and a Pony Club branch, and its schools can be hired. Webster's Show Team, a showing production yard, is based there.
