Ponies for People

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Horseback Archery.

Thank you to Sport England for sponsoring Ponies for People in partnership with Nature Warriors

Events 2025
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Dementia Afternoon Tea
Sunday May 18th 2-4pm


​For Dementia Awareness Week we invite a local group of people living with dementia, and their families to join us for tea, cake and ponies.
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​Stable Pals: 2025

Once again a huge "Thank you" to the National Lottery Community Fund for supporting our Stable Pals. 

If you:

*feel unable to ride 
*would love to groom a pony
*want to talk to people who share your passion
* do something you thought you'd never do
* try riding again after a long break
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​Stable Pals are here for you. We will be hosting weekly sessions throughout the summer bringing people and ponies together in friendship - and not forgetting the coffee and cake! 
Mondays: 11-12.30 Friendship and grooming, confidence building - refreshments
Wednesdays: 10.30- 12
A gentle hour's ride in good company on our steady ponies. Subsidised by National Lottery Community Fund.



We have previously worked with

Young Moslem students
Refugees
Families taking refuge from domestic abuse

Working with ponies outdoors is a great way to bring people together, promote trust and friendship, and inspire confidence in self and others.

 Ponies for People is our constituted, not for profit community group, aimed at raising funding to deliver the therapeutic benefits of horsemanship to a wider and more diverse audience. If you would like to work with people, ponies - or both, and are interested in volunteering, contact Chris on 07527 241627

“There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse”

Ponies do not make judgements about people based on their age, gender, colour, creed, social background, intelligence, wealth or status, only on the person you really are.
By working with them we can engender a sense of worth and value in our clients.

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Thank you to everyone who has sponsored Ponies for People.
Kinex

• Nestor Foundation
• Bacup Inner Wheel
• H and N Campbell
• Bacup Rotary Club
• Peers Clough Pony Pals
  • Jayne Crosland and Pole Moor Riding Club
  • Eric Wright Foundation
  • National Lottery Awards for All
  • National Lottery Community Fund
  • ​National Lottery Covid 19 Fund
  • ​BEF Together Fund​ 
  • Sport England                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       your support is valued and appreciated.

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                                  We label our ponies, but not our clients!

·                                      We aim to:      

• promote education and wellbeing through working with ponies in an atmosphere of care, trust, respect and friendship                                      
• provide opportunity and access for marginalised individuals and groups
• develop positive mental, behavioural, emotional and physical outcomes

Activities may include
Safety first!
Stable management
Grooming and hoof care
Feeding
Horse identification
Horse behaviour
Horse games
​Teamwork
First aid
Introduction to basic riding
..............and more
Our staff are experienced in horsemanship, education, and working with young people and adults with dementia, learning difficulties and social problems.
Individuals and groups catered for -  sessions tailored to your needs.

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Peers Clough Packhorses -Ponies for People has funding to offer pony experiences to women and children living in refuges. 
 "activities you provided
yesterday give them time out to feel normal and content for a few hours,
which when they have gone through what they have, is brilliant to  achieve "

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 Suzy said " today was my best working day ever "

Our working ponies love to support horses and  ponies in need.
www.worldhorsewelfare.org

We have also supported
Children in Need
Rossendale Rubicon
Rossendale and Pendle Search and Rescue
Rossendale Hospice
North West Air Ambulance