East Boldon Riding Centre

31/10/2024

29/10/2024

Private lesson available today at 2:30
Message quick to secure!!!!

26/10/2024

Rare Private Lesson availability 2pm and 3pm today.

Call or message socials to book.

19/10/2024

🤗Coming soon!!!

🐴We are excited to announce that our winter schedule will be opening up brand new slots on Saturday mornings and afternoons for our beginner/grade one and grade two riders.

🐎We have also extended our group riding sessions across weeknights every Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday for our higher grades offering more availability for our riders.

📲Please message our page to find out more where these brand new slots can accommodate you or talk to us in person at reception ❤️

We have a few spaces left today in some of our lessons… send us a message to reserve one of the last remaining spaces!

Team EBRC 🐎🐎🐎

04/10/2024

Appreciation Post!

Isabelle…

Isabelle consistently turns in every Saturday and watching her riding journey develop and flourish has been an absolute pleasure. Julie often comments on Isabelle’s kind and skillful riding during her lessons. Zeb & Isabelle have such a lovely bond, she has developed a beautiful long standing partnership and continues to work hard on her riding skills and has so much patience with him now he is semi retired.

Isabelle will help with any tasks required on the yard, she is competent in every area and always has a smile on her face.

Isabelle you are an asset to EBRC. Thank you for your hard work, determination, lovely manners and resilience you bring every week. Well done and a huge thank you! ❤️

29/09/2024

The très amigos!!!

🐎Zeb ~ Bam ~ Ollie🐎

These three are literally the three musketeers… they have even taken to sleeping next to each other within the field. You will need to zoom in to spot all three!! So cute!!

26/09/2024

🐓Our chickens have well and truly embedded themselves into our farm life!

The chickens are a great enhancement to our farm, our alternative provision children love to look after them and check for their daily eggs! Even the horses and ponies are good friends with them and curious to see what they are up to!!

What would you name one of them if you could?

24/09/2024

✨All our specific grade groups and private lessons run on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays.

All ridden structured lessons are open to riders aged four and upwards.

🐎We have something within our schedule for everyone. Our grading system runs right from beginners to advanced riders and lessons are structured appropriately to enable progression up through our grades.

Here’s a little snippet of what to expect to learn within the graded groups and what you need to consistently demonstrate to your instructor to be able to progress to the next grade.

𝗕𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟭
🐎Working to be in control of the ponies speed, able to make pony go slower, faster & change direction independently with the leader walking beside them. In walk and trot and able to do rising trot.

𝗣𝗿𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟮
🐎Working to Walk & Trot off lead rein, Learn trot diagonals. Walk and trot with no stirrups.

𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟯
🐎Learning to canter, be able to canter a full lap of arena, understand canter leads and the introduction of Pole work.

🐎𝗣𝗿𝗲 - 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟰
Working towards being able to Walk, trot, canter with and without stirrups, canter circles, canter figures of eight, changing legs through trot over X, introduction of jumping.

🐎𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟱
Can Jump a course of jumps, canter poles & introduction of lateral work.

🐎𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱. 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝟲
Jumping more technical grids, bounces, combinations and introducing elementary level dressage.

All lessons can be booked in three ways:

🐴In person at our on-site reception area.
🐴Send us a direct message on Facebook.
🐴 Telephone us on 07904 814764.

📲Any new customers looking to register with us can simply send us a message or call us and our staff will walk you through getting registered to ride and available lesson slots suitable for your rider.

22/09/2024

Have you reserved your time with your best friend yet??? Send us a message to reserve your slot for this week!! ❤️❤️❤️🐎🐎🐎❤️❤️❤️

20/09/2024

‼️We had some feedback last night that our posts aren’t showing in people Facebook feeds so they are missing important updates about lesson availability.

✅We have a quick fix to help you! It’s down to the Facebook mechanics and your personal content preference settings. If you want to consistently see our posts in your Facebook feed to never miss an update please add us to your favourites in your settings… here’s a simple how to step by step from your phone using the FB app.

✅1) Access the cog wheel top right of your page on your personal page.

✅2) Click settings & privacy.

✅3) Scroll down and click content preferences

✅4)Click favourites

✅5)Type East Boldon Riding Centre into the search bar

✅6) Click Add when you see us!

Voila! Welcome to all our posts ❤️

Any issues please send us a direct message.

Team EBRC 🐎🐎🐎

19/09/2024

Can all customers please report to reception upon arrival
Thank you
Team EBRC🐴

17/09/2024

❤️Our meet & greet experiences are suitable for our children aged from 2.5 years which act as the perfect opportunity to introduce children from a young age to our ponies, learn how to groom & be safe around them and will build up to a short assisted ride building their confidence to participate in our group beginner lead rein lessons when they are four years old.

Drop us a message with an enquiry to reserve a slot 😁

15/09/2024

We are fascinated when we watch our herd play fight and interact with each other in their fields... Woody and Zeb often display these behaviours together! We researched a little more into the play fighting behaviours we see (particularly from our boys) and found this really interesting article we thought might make an interesting read! 📖🐎Why do horses play?Scientists understand that play is vital to all young animals. The games young animals play is teaching them skills they may need later in life. When the animals play these games, it releases chemicals in their brain, so as they play the same games over and over again, they are hardwiring these behaviours. This is no different in horses.When horses play fight, the whole aim of the game is to get the other one to move. This play fighting also helps them learn vital social cues from other members of the herd.🐎Do different horses play differently?Research has found that male and female horses play the same games. But that males play more than females. As they get older, most females stop playing, or play much less. Whereas males continue to play, just less often. This makes sense as in a herd, males will have to fight for dominance. So the more the play these behaviours, the more practice they have.🐎Herd LifeOverall it seems that the main reason horses play is to help them understand herd life. Whether it be learning the signs to live alongside other horses in the herd or play fighting to learn how to defend your herd against another horse. It also seems that males are more likely to show play fighting behaviours than females.Source: Equipepper.

14/09/2024

⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️
NEW GRADE 2 LESSON
EVERY TUESDAY 6pm
⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️🐴⭐️

13/09/2024

🎉𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗧 𝗘𝗕𝗥𝗖🎉

We offer children’s birthday parties on a Saturday afternoon for one and a half hour sessions. They are prices at £35pp and can include meeting and greeting the ponies, grooming, a short lesson/pony games for everyone (depending upon the experience of the group) and then fun pony games with rosette prizes 🏅

You will have full use of our outdoor pergola to dress in any way you wish to have any party food and cake you choose to bring with you. Suitable for children aged from 4 upwards. Free hat hire included.

Bookable with a small deposit of £40 and remaining balance to be paid on the day.

Drop us a message on Facebook with any enquiries for birthday parties, including the date you are interested in and ages/riding experience of all children ❤️

12/09/2024

👍Don’t forget Yard Hand Academy is back this Saturday!

🐎Our children aged from 7 can attend our Saturday morning sessions from 9.30 till 12pm.

🐎Children over 10 can stay all day Saturday from 9.30-3.30pm

🐎Yard Hand Academy is the perfect fresh air activity for children to learn and socialise with other children with same interests.

🐎These sessions are non ridden and activities will include the children helping out with yard duties, tacking up, untacking, grooming and learning about the care our horses and ponies need.

🐎£17.50 for the Saturday morning session.

🐎£35 for the Saturday full day sessions.

📲Available to book direct by sending us a message!

11/09/2024

🐎You are now able to reserve all lessons direct through ourselves via three methods.

🐴In person at our on-site reception area.
🐴Send us a direct message on Facebook.
🐴 Telephone us on 07904 814764.

📲Any new customers looking to register with us can simply send us a message or call us and our staff will walk you through getting registered to ride and available lesson slots suitable for your rider.

⏰Our reception/messaging replying times are within:

Monday 9-3
Tuesday 9-8
Wednesday 9-8
Thursday 9-8
Friday 9-3

Saturday 9-4
Sunday CLOSED

Lessons are payable in advance via cash or for block bookings you can pay via bank transfer. Lessons will not be confirmed without confirmation of the bank transfer.

Team EBRC 🐎🐎🐎

10/09/2024

👏Due to the success of our riders moving up grades this has opened up brand new availability for beginner lead rein slots. We currently do not have a waiting list to recruit new riders.

🐴All our beginner lead rein lessons are priced at £20 for 30 minute group lessons. The perfect introductory price to introduce your child to horse riding!

🗓️We offer lead rein lessons on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays with our highly qualified staff. We offer free hat hire and have some riding boots available to borrow too, no need to buy any new kit to start.

😀These classes are perfect to join as a complete beginner, simply register via sending us a direct message or call us on 07904 814764. Please share with anyone who may be interested in starting a new outdoor sport for their child!

🐎Team EBRC x

08/09/2024

Sunday lie-in’s in full action!!! 😴

07/09/2024

⭐️Superstar Steve⭐️

We would like to take a moment to thank Steve for all his hard work and dedication from every member of our team.

Steve does so many jobs behind the scenes, he will help anyone who asks him and has worked tirelessly over this Summer to adapt and maintain our site with every single job that has been asked of him.

His dedication to helping disengaged children reach their full potential within our alternative provision has been overwhelming.

Steve… you are one of the best ones. We all appreciate you so much and thank you for putting up with all of us 😉

06/09/2024

❤️Our meet & greet experiences are suitable for our children aged from 2.5 years which act as the perfect opportunity to introduce children from a young age to our ponies, learn how to groom & be safe around them and will build up to a short assisted ride building their confidence to participate in our group beginner lead rein lessons when they are four years old.Drop us a message with an enquiry to reserve a slot 😁😀

28/08/2024

Caption this to win a £10 voucher!! It’s Winston our resident cheeky cat! 🐱

28/08/2024

Private’s available this afternoon
Message quick to secure!

26/08/2024

☀️As the Summer holidays are slowly winding down we wanted to take a minute and say a heart felt THANK YOU to our amazing team at EBRC ❤️

Our summer holiday schedule is always super busy and super challenging for the staff to provide the most amazing experiences and fun for our EBRC children. They sacrifice time with their own families to make our yard the most fun, safe and most importantly AMAZING memory maker for all children and adults who walk onto our yard.

This year has been our best yet for making memories and hearing laughter on the yard!!!

EBRC wouldn’t be what it is without our VILLAGE! We are so proud and grateful to our amazing team. ❤️Thank you Thank you Thank you!!❤️

Our summer holiday pony care schedule is now winding down… however this coming week we are open for privates and group lessons as per our normal schedule so please get yourselves booked into your regular lessons ready for the next year ahead!!

Here’s a little summary of our amazing team…

Nat… defo top grafter❤️
Carly… organisational wizard ❤️
Olivia… friendly and engaging ❤️
Julie… enthusiastic and the fun bringer! ❤️
Kirsty… knowledgeable, kind and the best laugh on the yard! ❤️
Abi… an all rounder just great at everything!

And a special thank you to Jill for her dedication this summer in organising the team and for her support around keeping EBRC the fun and caring place it is renowned for.

And as always, to our top bosses Lynne and Debbie! We love you both. Thank you for supporting us in everything we do.

Can we go for a lie down now… ha ha ha!!! 😝

21/08/2024

🐎🐎🐎We have spaces left this week for evening & Saturday group lessons, alongside some private lesson availability too.

The quickest way to reserve a slot is to drop us a Facebook message 📲

You can request your lesson focus within private lessons if there is a particular skill you’d like to work on and practise.

Our group lessons always have a specific focus which your instructor will explain to you at the beginning of the lesson, we always ensure coaching is fun and engaging!! ❤️