Arrow Riding Centre for the Disabled

28/01/2025

Chelsham and Bromley Riding Club CBRC are holding a charity bingo night in aid of Arrow 👏🏻. A big thank you to those at CBRC for supporting us 💪🏼💜! It sounds like a really fun event so if you're free, why not go along and help raise lots of funds 🤞🏼💙

23/01/2025

📣📣📣Lesson Availability📣📣📣

We have a limited amount of sessions available for lessons during weekday school hours. I think we have spoken to most on our waiting list, so if you are on the waiting list and haven't been contacted and can do weekday school hours then please get in touch. We are also welcoming new applications for riders with all disabilities that are able to ride during weekday school hours. To apply, please complete a rider application form (unfortunately our website is down at the moment!) by popping into the centre or downloading from our website when it's back up at running 🥳

05/01/2025

🌟A big thank you to Smyth Lodge care home🌟

04/01/2025

We have a rare livery vacancy for a gelding, please get in touch!

26/12/2024

Thank you The London International Horse Show for giving RDA and the Arrow Riding Centre for the Disabled this platform! Govind had a brilliant time!

Throwback Thursday to Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA)'s Thursday Live Zone slot: Get going on the road to gold!

Paralympian, Olympian and RDA riders Natasha Baker, Tom McEwen, and Govind shared their competitive journey.

RDA was our official Show charity and they shared so much insight over the week into what they provide, how their organisation works and what we can do to contribute✨

Follow them on socials so you don't miss a moment of their mission and journey🐴

23/12/2024

Thank you so much to Grace Saracen Horse Feeds and Saracen Horse Feeds for this amazing donation! Our ponies are so happy to have received such a fantastic Christmas gift...their favourite thing, food!! We are looking forward to working with Saracen to continue to provide our ponies with great nutrition to keep them in fab condition 💙

𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗮𝘀 🎄

Instead of Christmas gifts for their clients, our Area Managers each donate feed to a chosen charity of their choice throughout December.

Grace Saracen Horse Feeds visited the Arrow Riding Centre for the Disabled, a volunteer-run charity located in Dartford, Kent.

We'd like to wish the Arrow a very Merry Christmas, and we hope the horses enjoy their Super Fibre Cubes!

21/12/2024

And that is us done for Christmas! Lots of lessons this morning using our Christmas tree pole work, lots of gifts received - thank you so much everyone! Doesn't Val look great in her new light up hat 😂. Ponies are now on holiday until 3rd January. Big thank you to our volunteers! Have a great Christmas everyone, see you next year!

19/12/2024

Fab day at the The London International Horse Show! Govind was brilliant being interviewed by Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) CEO Michael Bishop in the Live Zone alongside Paralympian Natasha Baker OBE - Paralympic Dressage Rider and Olympian Tom McEwen. What an experience!

19/12/2024

We still have some unclaimed raffle prizes...if you have any of these tickets from the Carol Concert, please pop into the centre to collect your prize!

18/12/2024

Four years ago, our amazing volunteers made a Christmas video as we couldn't have a carol concert due to Covid. If you haven't seen it have a watch and if you have, watch it again as it's so lovely! From when this video was filmed, we have lost some ponies and volunteers so it's nice to remember them. And a bit of fun! 🎄🎅

Our lovely volunteers and riders have made you a special video to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!Usually we would be holding our annual carol concert no...

17/12/2024

If anyone is heading to the London International Horse Show this week, RDA is this years charity. Pop along to the RDA stand in the shopping area and also make sure you watch Thursday's Live Zone to see our very own Govind with Natasha Baker OBE - Paralympic Dressage Rider and Tom McEwan being interviewed about their competitive journeys. How exciting!! 👏🏻

Only 1 DAY TO GO until The London International Horse Show!✨

We’re thrilled to be the Charity Partner of the Year for the London International Horse Show 2025!

Over the 5 incredible days, we’ll be hosting inspiring and exciting sessions at the Talk Horse Live Zone, featuring amazing speakers like Alanna Clarke, our CEO Michael Bishop, Natasha Baker OBE - Paralympic Dressage Rider, Mari Durward-Akhurst Para Dressage Rider, Govind Nambiar, author Lindsay Nicholson, Faye O'Hara, and our very own Parklane Park Lane Stables RDA.

We can’t wait to see you there!

16/12/2024

Nominations close on the 19th December so if you haven't had the chance to nominate now is the time to do it! Please share with all of your family and friends and let's see if we can do this 🤞🏼

The Benefact Group are donating £1000 to charities with the most nominations - can all our followers help make this happen?! We would so appreciate your nominations 🤞🏼😊
Nominate here https://movementforgood.com/seib

16/12/2024

Our last planned day for riding is this Saturday 21st December but it does depend on whether we have enough volunteers available. Please do let us know if you are planning to ride this Saturday 😊. After Saturday, our ponies are going on their well earned Christmas break and will be ready to welcome everyone back on Friday 3rd January 2025 (where has this year gone 😳!)

15/12/2024

Big well done to Rosa today! Natalie and Rosa have taken part in the Fawkham & District Riding Club dressage series every month since September scoring consistently 1st or 2nd place. Today was the final show of the series and they came 2nd and won the championship 🏆. Red rosettes and big trophies really suit Rosa! Rosa has had a busy but amazing year seeing the world outside of Arrow and I'm sure she is looking forward to her Christmas break! 👏🏻

13/12/2024

💙 Meet Eric 💙
Some of you may have met or even ridden our newest team member Eric. He has been with us for two weeks on trial from Fiona Maynard Para Rider whilst we make sure he is a good fit at Arrow and enjoys being here. He has been an extremely good boy and passed his vet inspection yesterday with Kent Equine Hospital. So today we have agreed with Fiona to buy him and are excited for our future together! A huge thank you to Friendsofshelbynewstead for giving us this opportunity with Eric. Good boy Eric 🌟

We are still on the search for a bigger horse. 15.2hh cob no older than 10 ideally so please keep your eyes peeled!

10/12/2024

What a day we had at our Carol Concert on Sunday! We are totally overwhelmed by the number of people that came, thank you all so much for supporting us ♥️. Our riders and ponies were fantastic and a huge big thank you to all of our volunteers and staff for their hard work, and of course to Val for putting on such a great afternoon. Thanks to all of you, we raised a staggering £4,930 which has blown us away and is just amazing!! Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could raise £70 today to round it off to £5000...please use our Kindlink donation page https://donate.kindlink.com/Arrow-Riding-Centre-for-the-Disabled/4409

We couldn't have done Sunday without so many people so a great big thank you to...
🎄Jeremy Kite
🎄Dartford Concert Band
🎄Dartford Choir
🎄Alistair Gregory
🎄Brian Brockie
🎄Ray Thomas
🎄Dartford Grammar School
🎄ICP Printers

Thank you everyone from all at Arrow. We have had a tough year losing two of our beloved ponies but also some brilliant times. Seeing our riders and their families, our friends and families, our supporters and the local community all coming together on Sunday was the best way to finish this year 👏🏻
Have a lovely Christmas!

08/12/2024

Merry Christmas everyone!!
Thank you for joining us for our annual Carol Concert. Sit back. Relax. And enjoy our festive cheer!

You can donate here - https://donate.kindlink.com/Arrow-Riding-Centre-for-the-Disabled/4409