Lessons, instruction and schooling — find a yard to learn the ropes or bring a horse on.
Almond Equestrian Academy is a riding school in Hungarton, Leicestershire, for riders from complete beginners to advanced. It offers riding lessons, BHS exam training and hacking in the countryside. It supports neurodivergent young people in particular.
Hyde Lodge Horses is an eventing and training yard in rural Leicestershire run by event rider and coach Alex Tordoff since 2017. It produces horses and helps riders find and buy horses through an acquisition service. It offers private and shared lessons, clinics across the UK, and training and competition livery. Facilities include an all-weather arena, show jumps and cross-country schooling fences.
Tim and Antonia Brown are based near Brigstock, Northamptonshire, and produce and sell dressage, showjumping and event horses. They teach pupils from Pony Club to 5* level and run clinics. They also source, vet, import and export horses for clients. Their yard has a 60x30m arena, a horse walker and stabling for 18 horses.
The Urban Equestrian Academy is a social enterprise in Leicester that widens access to horse riding. It runs programmes such as Azeezah's Junior Pony Club and Mini Me Pony Sessions, and offers private riding lessons for children and adults. Its services focus on inner-city children, faith groups and communities with little access to equestrianism. It also offers equine assisted learning and works with schools.
Parkview Riding School is an ABRS+ approved riding school in Leicester, family-run since 1982. It offers individual and group lessons, evening classes, pony clubs, guided countryside hacks and birthday parties. Facilities include a large indoor school, a floodlit menage and grazing on 80 acres. Bookings are made online through EC Pro.
Enborne Equestrian Centre is a BHS approved riding school and hacking centre at Hamstead Marshall near Newbury, Berkshire. It offers lessons for all ages, hacking, livery, horse shows and horses for sale.
Weeford Stables is a family-run yard in Weeford on the South Staffordshire and West Midlands border, established in 1989. It runs a riding school with a floodlit all-weather arena and offers full and part livery. The yard is surrounded by bridleways and has 24-hour supervision on site.
Stevie Ansell Riding Centre is a riding school and therapy centre in Walsall in the West Midlands. It offers group and private lessons for all ages and abilities, toddler rides, own-a-pony days, hacks and birthday parties. It also runs lessons for liveries and activities during school holidays.
Poplars Farm Riding School in Stoke-on-Trent has over 40 years of experience. It offers riding lessons for all ages and abilities. It has a range of selected horses and ponies and qualified staff.
Bridlewood Equestrian Centre is a livery yard and riding centre at Tyn y Morfa, Gwespyr, in Flintshire. It offers livery and grazing for horse owners. Riding lessons, own a pony days, jumping classes and pony parties are available. It also runs bridle path rides with instructors.
Harmony Stables is a community interest company in Buckley, Flintshire, that rescues, retrains and rehabilitates horses and ponies. It offers own a pony sessions, limited riding lessons, pony days, holiday club and pony parties. It also provides equine assisted learning, workshops on horse care and part loan packages. It was named Riding School of the Year at the Equestrian Business Awards in 2025.
Right Ride Horses is an equestrian centre for 40 horses in the Whitchurch countryside on the Shropshire and Welsh border, founded by Jasmine Hulme. It offers 5* full livery, rehabilitation, exercise and schooling livery, and private or group lessons. The yard also produces and sells horses, from first-time riders' schoolmasters to competition horses.
Wirral Riding Centre in Little Neston is a BHS Approved riding school established over 40 years ago. It offers private and group lessons for all ages and abilities on over 30 horses and ponies, plus a Saturday pony club and horse care sessions. It is home to two RDA groups and the Northwest Special Olympic Equine Team, and runs an apprenticeship scheme.
EquiTi Equestrian is a family-run indoor riding school in St Asaph, North Wales. The arena has a full set of jumps and a viewing area. The arena is available to hire all year round.
Larton Riding School is a long-established family riding school at Frankby Stiles on the Wirral. It offers private, semi-private and class riding lessons for beginners to advanced riders. Other activities include hacking, stable management days, own a pony days and children's birthday parties. The site also has a cafe, kennels and cattery, and a tack shop.
Poppyfield Equestrian is a family-run riding centre established in 1996 by Simon Kettleboro and his daughter Jo. It is a BHS Approved riding school and an Approved Pony Club Centre that runs activity days. It offers lead-rein tasters, group, semi-private and private riding lessons.
Millhouse Stables is a licensed riding school on Bathley Lane near Newark, established over 25 years ago by proprietor Nicola. It offers group lessons of three to six riders and private lessons of 30 or 45 minutes for children and adults. The yard has two floodlit all-weather arenas and a mix of ponies and horses.
Trentvalley Equestrian Centre is a family-run riding centre near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, established in 1958. It offers riding tuition, summer camps and livery, with stabling for 72 horses and over 300 acres of pasture and paddocks. Facilities include floodlit sand arenas and moveable cross-country fences, with qualified staff on site 24 hours a day.
Calder Farm Riding Stables is a small riding school on Calder Road, Lincoln. It offers riding and stable management lessons on quiet horses and ponies, with a focus on new and nervous riders. Lessons last 30 minutes in an outdoor arena, with 15-minute preschool lessons, and hats, body protectors and boots are provided free.
Bulby Equestrian Centre near Bourne, Lincolnshire, opened in 1999 as a competition livery yard and became a BHS Approved Riding School. It offers group and private riding lessons for all ages and abilities, from age two upward. As a registered Pony Club Centre it runs Pony Club tests, Saddle Club activities and pony parties.
Woolcroft Equine Services is a family-run business in Leverington near Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, opened in 2005. It runs a saddlery shop for horse and rider and a saddle fitting service by SMS qualified saddle fitters, including Master Saddler Mark Fisher. Diana Fisher, a UKCC level 2 coach, gives riding lessons on a floodlit all-weather menage and takes horses for training on full livery.
DK Carriage Horses is a family business in the Vale of Belvoir near Grantham, run by Danny and Sarah Kendle. It provides horse-drawn carriage hire for weddings, funerals, proms and private rides with its Gelderlander and Lipizzaner warmblood horses. Danny, a professional driver since 2007, also teaches carriage driving lessons from harnessing up to driving on quiet lanes.
Bennington Carriages in Long Bennington, Nottinghamshire, designs, builds and maintains horse-drawn carriages for pleasure and competition driving. Its Carriage Driving Academy offers driving experiences for novice to advanced drivers. It also supplies Zilco harness and a full range of carriage driving accessories, sold online or by phone.
Low Woods Farm in Leicestershire is home to British event rider Emilie Chandler. Emilie is a UKCC Level 3 qualified coach working with riders of all levels, and the yard offers bespoke livery packages for competition horses and livery clients. Residential training stays are available with on-site stabling and accommodation, individually tailored training and off-horse coaching.
