​Leybourne Grange Riding Centre for the Disabled

 

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Please can we ask when visiting the centre you drive slowly into the car park. The centre at times can be very busy with clients disabled and able bodied walking from the car park to their lessons, liveries, volunteers, horses being turned out and cats/dogs about. If you are dropping off please drive slowly into the car park.

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What's happened this month:  

We have this month had fabulous days with our riding for the disabled pony sessions and also pony sessions for our lead rein and off lead rein riders, which was thoroughly enjoyed by all. We have also had our volunteers summer show day, some photos of which are shown on our Photo's page. Well done to all who attended our pony sessions and volunteers riding day which was very competitive.

We are slowly moving through our waiting list which is now slightly shorter. If you have been on the waiting list for a considerable time, please do give us a call to see where you are, or to see if we may have a "cancellation" one off lesson for you to try. Please note we have slightly increased the lesson prices from 1st June, new lesson prices are shown further down the page, this is due to increased costs of everything, we have continued to keep the costs the same for a considerable number of years, but now we must increase the lessons to enable us to continue with all of our work at LGRCD.

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Please be aware that we now weigh all riders when they come to the stables to ensure they are within our maximum weight of 14 stone / 88.9 kilos, thus we are not asking our horses to work with additional weight. It would be greatly appreciated if you could weigh the rider prior to requesting any lessons, which would alleviate any anxiety in arriving for a lesson, to then be weighed and us informing you that you are above our maximum weight limit. Unfortunately, we do not have any horses available at our centre to allow for riders over 14 stone.

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If you have concerns with regards to this please do speak to a member of staff. 

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We continue our search for new horses and an additional staff member. If you know of any horses who you may think would be possibly suited for our riding centre or someone who would like to work with us, please do send us an email. 

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Leybourne Grange continues to look for any voluntary "handy persons", if you think you would be able to help in fixing a fence, doing some painting, mowing, strimming and other help around the centre, please do give us a call or use the contact us form to send an email.

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Lesson Prices from 1st June 2024

Disabled Group Lessons: £15 Half hour walkout, £17 Half hour riding lesson. £25 Half hour private lesson

Able bodied Lessons: Group Lessons £22, Semi-private lesson £25, Private lesson £28

All riders must wear a hat, which can be hired for your 30 minute lesson at a cost of £1.

 

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PLEASE DO NOT ATTEND YOUR LESSON IF YOU HAVE COVID OR COVID SYMPTOMS.

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Covid is still out there amongst all of the seasonal colds and flu. If a member of your household has covid and you do not have symptoms you may attend your lesson, please do not attend with a person who has symptoms.

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 Please note when paying on arrival for your lesson we do not have any card facilities therefore we only accept Cash and Cheques.

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Please remember that we have a 48hr cancellation policy, if your lesson is not cancelled with 48 hours notice you will be expected to pay for the cancelled lesson. 

 

Just a reminder: people who regularly cancel without a good reason will not be able to retain their regular lesson. we will continue to place clients on our waiting list as requested.

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Supporting us:  If you would like to make a donation to help towards the horses keep we have a PayPal Donation account - the link is at the top of this page.

Just a few examples of prices:

Bag of carrots = £1, Bale of hay = £6, Feed = £10, large round bale of hay they have in the field = £40.

Of course, we know this year has and may continue to be tough for many people, but we would appreciate any help you are able to give, please support the centre while shopping on line at Easyfundraising and AmazonSmile. Thank you so very much.