ELEVEN QUALIFY FOR TEAM UNICORN
Eleven riders at the Riding for the Disabled Association’s Unicorn Centre at Hemlington near Middlesbrough are celebrating after qualifying to compete at the RDA National Championships this summer.
They’ll all be competing in showjumping, dressage or the Countryside Challenge at the RDA National Championships in Hartpury, Gloucestershire on 17-19 July.
The Riding for the Disabled Association’s Unicorn Centre, based at Hemlington near Middlesbrough is holding an Open Day for everyone this Saturday 16 May 2015.
Everyone is invited to come along to the Centre from 10.00am until 3pm to have a look around the centre, share in its celebrations of a recent award, meet the horses and watch RDA riders take part in the qualifying rounds for the RDA National Countryside Challenge.
PLEASE HELP THE UNICORN CENTRE WIN FUNDING FOR A NEW HORSE
Vote for the Centre by 30 May 2015 to raise up to £5,000 for a new horse plus its tack and rugs - at
https://community-fund.aviva.co.uk/voting/Project/View/3304
Please could we ask for a few moments of your time to help the Centre win up to £5,000 from the AVIVA Community Funds Awards…After 15 years of loyal service much loved horse Grenadier is due to retire and we need to purchase another to follow in his hoofprints…
Use the link above to the website. You will then need to register with your email address to be eligible for 10 votes, which you can use all for the Unicorn Centre. A confirmation e-mail will then be sent to you. You can then log in to vote for ‘Unicorn Centre Riding for the Disabled’ (this is the project name). If searching by category use ‘Health, Disability & Wellbeing’ or location is ‘Middlesbrough’.
Voting closes on 30 May so we’d be really grateful if you could please e-mail this to as many contacts in your address book as possible and share it on Facebook and encourage all your friends and family to vote too! Thank you for your support!
CROFT SPONSORED RIDE - 3 MAY 2015
Thank you, thank you, thank you, to everyone who braved the deluge yesterday morning to take part in our sponsored fun ride at Croft. You are all stars, and we hope you have finally dried out! We're expecting to raise around £1000, but we'll confirm final figures soon. Many thanks to for Kate Chaytor-Norris and neighbouring farmers for allowing us to ride over their land, and to Ann Blowman, Vicky Williams and Trustee Judy Preston for organising and setting up. 2016 date will be circulated soon.
NATIONAL QUALITY MARK EQUALS NATIONAL RECOGNITION FOR RDA UNICORN CENTRE
The Riding for the Disabled Association’s Unicorn Centre, based at Hemlington near Middlesbrough, has been accredited with the nationally recognised quality mark for organisations which provide support to individuals to make learning and work more accessible – the matrix Standard.
With 489 RDA groups nationally, the Unicorn Centre is the first RDA Group ever to have achieved this award, and is enormously proud of this record.
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