Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Caron Roberts Equestrian is a professional livery, coaching and training yard at Lanes Farm near Royal Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire. It offers basic, basic plus and full livery, plus backing, rehab and training. Caron Roberts runs a busy coaching diary and the yard trains apprentices. Facilities are available for hire.
Wapley Stables is a five-star licensed riding school and livery yard near Westerleigh, Bristol. It teaches riders from four years old, from beginners to experienced. Livery options include full, part, DIY, working and schooling livery. Facilities include two floodlit menages, show jumps and a cross country track, and it runs courses, pony days and saddle clubs.
Barton End Stables is a riding centre near Nailsworth in the Cotswolds, approved by the British Horse Society. It offers lessons for all ages and abilities, from tiny tots to adults, with BHS-qualified instructors. It has more than 20 horses and offers hacking, RDA sessions, livery and events.
Brynglas Equine is an equestrian trainer near Aberystwyth. It resolves behavioural, handling and loading problems and starts and schools young horses using force-free methods. It also offers ridden coaching for riders with confidence issues.
SH Dressage is the dressage coaching business of Shelly Harriss, a British Dressage accredited and UKCC level 3 coach. She trains and produces horses and riders and runs dressage and flatwork clinics across Wales. She also offers training courses and creates dressage music.
The Elisabeth Curtis Centre is a purpose-built Riding for the Disabled centre in Bromham, Bedfordshire, running since 1975. It offers riding and other horse activities, including carriage driving, for children and adults with disabilities. It is run by volunteers.
Ashe Green Riding is a licensed 5-star equestrian centre in Campsea Ashe, Suffolk. It offers private and semi-private lessons, countryside walkouts and activity sessions. Bookings are made online.
Poplar Farm Riding School is in Hundon near Haverhill, Suffolk, owned and run by instructor Kay Burtenshaw. It offers group lessons for riders aged 4 and over, including Tiny Tots sessions. Kay has run the school for over 30 years.
Twinstead Riding School near Sudbury, Suffolk, has been established for nearly 70 years and is owned by Verity Stebbing. It offers riding lessons for children and adults of all abilities and relaxed countryside rides. It also offers several livery packages including grass livery.
Sains Hall School of Equitation is a family-run riding school near Great Totham, Maldon, Essex, founded in 2022 by Rachel and James Howie. It offers private and semi-private lessons, courses and hacks for adults and children. It has a menage and access to hacking tracks.
Scooty Wooty's is a small pony business near Battlesbridge in Essex. It offers pony riding for children aged 2 to 10. Ride and groom sessions, themed events and pony parties can be booked. The business is licensed and insured with Maldon Council.
Liscombe Park Equestrian Centre is a licensed riding school offering riding lessons. It offers stabled, grass and working livery packages. Facilities include three arenas, off-road hacking, a small cross-country course and 30 loose boxes. Liveries get a weekly vet clinic and farrier visit.
Cool Hooves Polo is a polo academy based at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club. It offers stick and ball sessions, private, shared and group polo lessons with Hurlingham Polo Association-accredited coaches. It also manages club members' polo, ponies and teams, and runs polo experiences, corporate events and livery.
The Avon Centre is an equine and nature-based activities charity in Henbury on the outskirts of Bristol, formerly the Avon Riding Centre for the Disabled. Its Avon RDA group has provided therapeutic riding for more than forty years. It runs a riding school with lessons, hacking, a horse simulator and stable management, and hires out indoor and outdoor arenas for events.
Cotswold Carriage Driving offers carriage driving experiences, lessons and carriage rides in the Cotswolds. It also offers natural horsemanship sessions and carriage driving holidays with nearby accommodation. No previous experience of horses is needed. Horse-drawn carriages can be hired for weddings.
Horse School runs equine facilitated learning at Church Farm Equestrian and Pony Club Centre near Keynsham, between Bristol and Bath. Its 6-week introductory programme is aimed at children at risk of exclusion from mainstream education. Church Farm opened in 2013 as a small licensed riding school run as a community interest company.
P&A Horsemanship Centre is a family-run centre based on natural horsemanship. It offers pony riding lessons for children and therapeutic horsemanship sessions. Sessions support emotional wellbeing, SEND students and home-educated children. Visitors can also learn to care for ponies, rabbits and guinea pigs.
RDA Woodbridge and District is a Riding for the Disabled group in Suffolk. It offers horse riding, carriage driving and vaulting for people with physical or learning disabilities and health conditions. Participants come from day centres, schools and doctor referrals.
South Buckinghamshire RDA is a Riding for the Disabled group at Mill House Farm, Fulmer. It welcomes children and adults with physical, sensory and learning disabilities and other conditions. Volunteers and coaches help participants ride for independence, exercise and rehabilitation.
Ham Polo Club, founded in 1926, is London's last remaining polo club, set on 23 acres beside Richmond Park and Ham House. It offers polo lessons for adults and juniors with riding experience, as well as riding lessons. The clubhouse also hosts social events.
Gillian Wood Dressage is the freelance dressage coaching business of Gillian Portus, based at Walk to Canter, Hill Farm, Stebbing in Essex. She offers private sessions, clinics and group sessions for riders of all levels. She has competed horses from Novice to International Small Tour.
Lucy Middleton is a classically trained freelance dressage instructor and rider with BHSAI qualification. She gives private and shared lessons on clients' own horses at their yards, plus lunge lessons. She also offers schooling livery.
Hall Farm Stables is a riding school and livery yard in Waterbeach, under three miles north of Cambridge, established in 2005. It offers lessons from beginner to Prix St Georges level, NVQ courses and events. It provides full and part livery on a 35-acre site, and is BHS, Pony Club and RDA Accessibility Mark approved.
