HIPPOTHERAPY SUCCESS AT THE UNICORN CENTRE
We have great news about one of our participants, Olivia Fairclough, who has been taking part in our Hippotherapy Project after she was paralysed in a riding accident in Egypt three years ago. She is now riding Alfie on a Torsion saddle, is riding off the lead rein and has progressed to sitting trot - all in three months or so!
Olivia's next step is to progress on to private riding lessons at the Centre with her goal to become a Paralympian one day. Now that's what we call ambition!
Read her story in the Horse and Hound: https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/rider-paralysed-freak-fall-gets-back-saddle-first-time-682894
For more details about Hippotherapy at the Unicorn Centre with our Chartered Physiotherapist Victoria Warburton, please call us.
DISABLED RIDERS APPEAL FOR FUNDING IN 21st YEAR
ELEVEN riders from the Riding for the Disabled Association’s Unicorn Centre at Hemlington near Middlesbrough are celebrating after qualifying to compete at the Riding for the Disabled Association UK’s National Championships this summer.
This prestigious event held at Hartpury near Gloucester is the biggest of its kind in the world for disabled riders and drivers and takes place on 12 – 14 July. RDA will be celebrating its 50th birthday at the event with special events including HRH The Princess Royal awarding her President’s Awards – at which we are hoping to have our own surprise!
WE ARE WORKING TO BE DEMENTIA FRIENDLY!
We are very proud to have been awarded our Certificate for Working towards becoming Dementia Friendly by Dave Budd, Mayor of Middlesbrough.
Training of our staff and volunteers continues, and we will shortly be arranging some coffee and pony patting sessions for dementia friends. Please get in touch if you are interested in finding out more.
A dementia-friendly community is a city, town or village where people with dementia are understood, respected and supported and confident they can contribute to community life.
PHOTO: Dave Budd, Mayor of Middlesbrough Council with certificate winners. Claire Pitt, Unicorn Centre Manager (front row second from right) and Jackie Rubin, Unicorn Centre Chair of Trustees and Dementia Friendly Champion for the Unicorn Centre (front row third from right) collected our certificates at the presentation recently.
PRESS RELEASE: DISABLED RIDING CENTRE PILOTS NEW PHYSIO SERVICE
We have started a new pilot scheme involving physiotherapy on horseback.
Hippotherapy is a specialised physiotherapy treatment which uses the movement of a horse to help children and adults gain improvements to their health and well being.
RIDING CENTRE FIRST TO BE DEMENTIA FRIENDLY
The Riding for the Disabled Association’s Unicorn Centre at Hemlington is celebrating a unique achievement: becoming the first riding establishment and RDA Centre in the country to become officially ‘Working to become Dementia Friendly’.
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