No riding due to Group Paralympic outing

13 August 2012

There will be no riding on 4th September due to our Group Paralympic outing.

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No riding days for August

13 August 2012

There will be no riding on 27th & 28th August due to Bank Holiday week

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Update: Gill’s Amazing Trek for RDA

13 August 2012

Follow our RDA Volunteer on her Rift Valley Trek 11th – 19th September Our volunteer, Gill Ferguson has taken up the challenge and is training hard to go to Kenya in September to trek the Rift Valley with 29 other RDA group volunteers. She is hoping to raise lots of money for the Stratford upon […]

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Summer Camp 2012 – What a Scorcher!

13 August 2012
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With the temperature in the high 20 degrees, our riders, Holly, Charlotte, Matthew, Sophia, Olivia, Leo, Arthur and Michael attended our first Summer Camp at Home Farm. They were encouraged to catch Marco, Shadow and Meg and lead them back from the field. Then they groomed and tacked them up ready for riding. This is […]

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Enjoy a great ‘Ride with the Lions’ and support us!!

4 August 2012
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The Lions Club of Banbury is pleased to announce its 2012 “Ride with the Lions” Charity Horse Ride. We are all eagerly looking forward to this year’s ride as we now have a new date for the event, and a new exciting course. This year, they are again raising funds for Stratford upon Avon RDA […]

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Fantastic support from John Lewis Partnership

2 August 2012
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Over the past three months Stratford upon Avon RDA have been a nominated charity at the John Lewis store in Solihull. We are pleased to announce that after the members of the public have supported our charity via the posting of green tokens in our charity box, we are due to receive £1021. This generous […]

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‘A Walk in the Wood’ by Fergal, Arthur’s brother

31 July 2012

Once upon a time a pony lived in a barn.  The pony was called Marco and was as black as the night.  One day, Marco went on a ride through the woods with the children Arthur and Michael.  The wood was dark and muddy with trees absolutely everywhere.  Marco was steady-footed and managed to walk […]

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Big ‘THANK YOU’s’

31 July 2012
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A big ‘THANK YOU’ goes to all who rode the Admington Fun Ride in May whose organisers supported our group for a second year by donating £750 from their profits.  We are so pleased that the event was such a success and our RDA volunteers who rode the course said the ride was beautiful and […]

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2012 Awards ceremony a big success!

31 July 2012
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For this year’s annual Awards ceremony we decided to hold an Open House and invited our sponsors, friends and family to come and see us ‘in action’.  What a busy afternoon it turned out to be! We were joined by members from the Southam and Banbury Lions and the Stratford-Upon-Avon Rotary and many of our […]

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RDA riders selected for ParalympicsGB

31 July 2012
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Of the five riders chosen to represent Great Britain, four started their equestrian careers with the support of RDA. Multiple Gold medalist, Lee Pearson is an RDA Honory Life Vice-President and was supported by RDA early in his equestrian career. Sophie Christiansen started riding with RDA for therapy and today trains at South Buckinghamshire RDA. […]

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