Riding For The Disabled

The Pegasus Centre offers state-of-the-art facilities including indoor and outdoor arenas with dust free surfaces and galleried viewing. The indoor arena has a unique mounting area and hoist for disabled riders. A hearing loop system will be installed.

All our teaching staff are either fully qualified RDA and BHS instructors or the qualification is in progress.

All the Centre horses and ponies are carefully chosen for their temperament, size and ability to work with disabled children and adults.

The benefits of Riding for the Disabled activities have become increasingly recognised by medical and educational establishments as a highly effective therapy.

'Disability Awareness Through Animals' Project

Many children find disability an embarrassing and uncomfortable topic as most have had no experience or exposure, using horse riding as an activity we can integrate disabled and non-disabled people in a positive environment.

We hope to enlighten young people of the difficult lifestyles some disabled people encounter and to introduce a personal element therefore dispelling the prejudices associated with the word 'disabled'.

We would like to develop our links with mainstream education schools, offering visits and workshops. The 'Disability Awareness Through Animals' project is a 'two-pronged fork':

• We want to give children the opportunity to get close up to a horse, learn about their environment and care;
• Using the centre and the horses and ponies we want to raise disability awareness to young people, to encourage volunteering and promote care in the community - using education to conquer prejudice.