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Early Autumn ride!

4 October 2020

Our volunteers and ponies enjoying a hack over the stubble fields

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Eggscellent!

8 September 2020

Big thankyou to our helper Christine, who has raised over £100, selling her free-range eggs.

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Sun & Sunflowers at the stables

2 August 2020

Another busy week at the stables as we develop our activities. As well as meeting the ponies, we now have an activity table, where our participants can find out more about the care and management of their ponies. Our volunteers have also been busy, keeping our ponies fit and exercised. Helpers and ponies have all […]

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Another busy day at the stables

15 July 2020

Heather was delighted to be reunited with Diesel. “Thank you to everyone who made Heather’s visit possible yesterday. Diesel’s condition is a credit to the RDA team looking after him – he looks splendid. Well done girls. Thank you Heather & Hilary 👍” As well as welcoming back riders, we were busy introducing our ponies to “long reining”. […]

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Another happy afternoon!

4 July 2020

Another happy afternoon with Fi & Reuben enjoying their time with Alfie & Kiera – and we even missed the showers- well mostly! The pictures below speak for themselves. Once again our volunteers showed adaptability and innovation, as we made some changes to enhance our riders experience; offering tack cleaning & changing the location slightly. […]

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Exciting Day! Riders meet their ponies!

1 July 2020

What a great day it was when the Group welcomed back its first riders to ‘meet n greet’ their ponies yesterday. With all the necessary precautions put in place, they patted and talked to their ponies with lots of smiles and joy. The ponies have so missed them all and they them. Such a special […]

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Horses and Ponies happy to see our vounteers

6 June 2020

Our horses and ponies are happy that COVID restrictions have been eased so that some of our volunteers can visit them to groom and take them out. Strict special procedures have been put in place and everything is looking a little different at the moment, but lovely to see them looking shiny and happy. It […]

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Thank you to all our wonderful Volunteers

1 June 2020

It’s Volunteers Week, so we would like to thank all our wonderful volunteers who spend so much of their time helping our Group. In this challenging period, we have to say a special thanks to the ones who are ensuring that our horses and ponies will be fit and ready for when we can resume […]

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Riders have a lovely time on holiday in North Wales

22 September 2019

If my memory and maths are correct them this is the eighth time that Stratford RDA group has been to the Clwyd Special Riding Centre (CSRC). For some of us it has become almost a second home, but I am conscious that some of the readers of this article may never have heard of CSRC. […]

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Countryfile showcase RDA

31 July 2019

Did you watch BBC Countryfile Sunday 28th July and feel inspired by the work of RDA National ? Drop us a line if you would be interested in finding out more about how you could support our RDA Group. BBC Countryfile (click here)

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