Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
TDS Riding Centre (The Dressage Secret) is a riding school and training centre at Tong near Shifnal, Shropshire. It offers private and group lessons for children and adults on schooled horses, plus clinics in dressage, rider biomechanics and working equitation. It has full livery, indoor and outdoor 20x40 schools and almost 60 acres of land.
Willington Hall Riding Centre on the edge of Delamere Forest in Cheshire has run an approved riding school since 1993. It gives riding lessons to adults and children aged 12 and over, and escorted hacks into Delamere Forest. It is also a professional competition yard run by Sandra and Kevin Hassett.
Springbank Riding School near Whitchurch in South Cheshire is a BHS Approved Centre established for over 30 years. It offers group, private and semi-private lessons with BHS and BSJA-accredited instructors, and BHS stage training courses. It offers full, part, assisted DIY and DIY livery with 50 indoor stables and indoor and outdoor arenas.
Hundleby Equestrian Centre is a riding school near Spilsby in Lincolnshire, run by Siân since 2023. It offers lessons for riders from age 2 to advanced adults with a BHS-qualified coach on site. It also runs Pony Club, a Saddle Club, pony days, therapeutic riding and home-education sessions.
Nedge Farm Riding Centre and Retail is a riding centre near Telford, Shropshire, established in 2000. It offers riding lessons and full, part and DIY livery with large stables and individual or herd fields. An on-site shop sells equestrian equipment.
Everyday Horsemanship is the coaching business of Sally Brett, a professional horsemanship instructor based on the Shropshire and Worcestershire border. She teaches natural horsemanship to help owners build a calm, willing and trusting partnership with their horses. Sessions include one-to-one problem solving, regular lessons, group sessions, topic workshops and lectures for groups.
Clwyd Special Riding Centre is a registered charity in Llanfynydd near Wrexham that offers equine activities and therapy for people with disabilities and additional needs. It is an approved RDA and BHS centre, opened in 1982. It runs RDA riding sessions, independent riding lessons and carriage driving with adapted carriages on a 2km track. Its accessible facilities can also be hired.
Tinderbox Sport Horses near Newark is the base of professional event rider and BHSI coach Tina Canton. She gives private and shared lessons, clinics and camps, with a cross-country field on site. The yard also offers livery, young horse production and a self-drive 3.5t horsebox.
4 Strides Equestrian UK is a western riding school at Fulbeck in Lincolnshire, specialising in barrel racing. It offers private and group lessons in western riding and barrel racing, including on licensed ponies for children. It also offers livery packages, competition-day stabling, mounted shooting and equine facilitated therapy.
Top Merrill Riding School is a riding school on a working farm offering coaching for adults and children. It has two outdoor arenas, show jumps, games equipment and a cross-country course. Besides lessons it runs hacking, mounted games, pony care days, a monthly social club, fun days, competitions and pony parties.
Jody Sole Equestrian is a competition and training yard near Diss run by event rider Jody Sole. It specialises in competition livery and the retraining of racehorses for eventing, showing or riding. Livery packages can include schooling, competition preparation and one-to-one training. The yard has 13 stables, a floodlit 30x60m menage and 12 acres of turnout, and tuition is offered.
RideBylaugh is a riding facility at The Old Hall, Bylaugh, in Norfolk's Wensum Valley. It offers hire of a 60x25m all-weather outdoor school with show jumps and 3¼ miles of grass canter tracks. Visiting instructors give dressage and show jumping clinics and private or semi-private lessons.
Field Farm Cross Country is at Wymeswold in Leicestershire. It has a 30-acre cross-country course, a 600m canter track, and indoor and outdoor arenas for hire. Its livery yard has stabling for 26 horses, and BHSI Jo Shields gives lessons, clear-round jumping and clinics.
The Mount Group RDA is a volunteer-run charity offering riding to adults and children with special needs. It is based at Waterloo Lodge Farm on the Baggrave Hall Estate near Hungarton, Leicestershire. Around fifty riders from schools and day centres ride each week with the help of over forty volunteers. It hires horses and ponies from Almond Equestrian Ltd and also has a mechanical horse.
Long Lane Equestrian is a riding school on Long Lane in Kegworth. It runs children's and adult group classes, lead rein classes and private lessons from beginner to advanced level. It also hosts Pony Club rallies and nights, Young Equestrian nights, and riding lessons for University of Nottingham and Loughborough University riding clubs.
Belvoir Vale RDA is a Riding for the Disabled charity centre at Cropwell Bishop in the East Midlands. It offers therapeutic riding, carriage driving, hippotherapy and other horse activities for all abilities. The 27-acre site has indoor and outdoor arenas, which are also available to hire.
Knowle Hill Equestrian is a family-run riding stables and livery yard near Ticknall in Derbyshire. It teaches riders from age 4, with camps, own-a-pony sessions and competitions in school holidays. It is a Pony Club Centre with BHS approval and has indoor and outdoor arenas and a cross-country course.
The Oaklands School of Riding is a small family-run yard in Ratcliffe-on-the-Wreake, Leicestershire. It is a riding school and also offers livery, Pony Club, clinics, events, and breaking and schooling. Lessons are taught by BHS-qualified instructor Lottie Smith and yard owner Julie Smith.
Kick On Coaching offers personalised riding coaching in the Leicester area. It is run by Jean Bradley, a BHS Senior Coach who has competed in eventing and Pony Club mounted games. Coaching helps riders build confidence and progress towards goals such as their first one-day event.
Bassingfield Riding School & Livery near Nottingham was established in 1954. It gives riding lessons for all abilities, own-a-pony days, children's parties and lessons for disabled riders. It offers DIY, grass, part and full livery on over 50 acres with a cross-country course and hacking.
Ros Blackmore is a British Eventing accredited coach and NLP Master based between Cumbria and Cambridgeshire. She runs riding clinics in all three eventing phases, plus polework and gridwork, at various venues. She also offers off-horse sessions, workshops and an online coaching membership for riders.
Champion Equestrian Coaching is run by Gen, a freelance accredited professional riding instructor based near Newmarket. She offers mobile private, semi-private and group lessons at clients' own yards across Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. Coaching covers flatwork and jumping for riders of all levels.
Barrow Stables is a livery yard in Barrow, Rutland, owned and run by Ruth Matthews for over 30 years. It offers grass, DIY, part, full and holiday livery, and qualified tuition. Facilities include stone stables, a floodlit 30x50 menage, a lunge ring and about 40 acres of grazing. Facilities are also available to hire.
Gorse Farm is a family-run livery yard near Stonnall in Aldridge, West Midlands. It offers DIY and assisted livery, arena and jump course hire, and a cross country course for schooling. Private flatwork and showjumping lessons are available for riders with their own horses. The farm also hires out ground for weddings and camping.
