Greenways Stables

24/02/2025

Not many photos to show for it but we’ve had a fun 1/2 term- and the first few days even brought us some sunshine ☀️
On Tuesday we had a great Pony Club afternoon in the sunshine, with 11 of our Centre members enjoying an afternoon of grooming, riding, making feeds, and helping deliver the feed & haylage to the ponies at the end of the day.
Everyone worked really well as a team and they all earned their Sequence of Footfalls mini achievement badge, along with either a Test or Progressive Award.
Great work everyone 🎉
We hope to run another one of these sessions in the Easter holidays.
The rest of the week included lessons, online dressage test prep & riding, a polework clinic, me assessing some lovely riders in the New Forest (thank goodness for indoor schools as it was a cold, wet day!), a spa afternoon and celebrating LOTS of family birthdays with the help of yet another yummy food board from the wonderful .tea.fairy 🧚‍♀️
Other pics are of the lovely state of Noodles after a few days of rain & mud 🫣 and Louie & Percy the cats doing what they do best- finding random places to get comfy

15/02/2025

🎉We are super excited and proud to have all our approvals boards up on display!

🐴 Greenways Stables is now approved by …. How cool is that?!
🐴This also means that we are now able to offer the fantastic Changing Lives Through Horses, an Equine Facilitated Learning programme which enables young people to develop key skills and use our wonderful horses and ponies to help them with the Key Stage 1 & 2 curriculum.
It’s a really exciting time for us to be able to open up more opportunities to make learning more accessible, inclusive and FUN!

04/02/2025

I watched this video the other day and it was a really good one that opened up a lot of questions and discussions around mental health.
We hope that our "Time to Talk" evening on Friday will give everyone a chance to discuss any worries, concerns, experiences freely with their friends but we also have a dedicated Safeguarding Officer who is always available for those who need to talk in private and in a safe space.

💙 This , we’re encouraging everyone to take a moment to check in on the wellbeing of young equestrians.

Understanding how to keep young people safe while at the yard or out at equestrian events is an important part of helping them feel comfortable and confident.

We can all work together to support young people’s mental wellbeing by being aware of safeguarding risks and signs of abuse or mistreatment,

Watch the Safe to Play film to learn more 👉 https://equestrian.safetoplay.co.uk/

27/01/2025

⚠️Please note that our internet is struggling with the bad weather. We will respond as soon as possible to any messages but it may depend on the signal we have throughout the day.
🐎Stay safe out there everyone, it’s wild!!

25/01/2025

There are a couple of additional slots available in the coming week.
If you missed your ride last week due to difficult, unforeseen circumstances that meant we had to postpone (thank you, great British weather!) please feel free to use your stable cards to book one of these sessions instead!

19/01/2025

If anyone feels that we deserve a nomination for either Riding School or Instructor of the Year, please do go over to the Equestrian Business Awards page and pop in your vote!
www.equestrianbusinessawards.co.uk/nominate

Thank you 🤩

13/01/2025

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Nominate your chosen equestrian professional, business or charity who has gone above and beyond. Self-nominations are also accepted.

13/01/2025

An interesting article on the cost of riding lessons…
I’m not sure where they got their figures from but the benefits of riding and being outdoors and around horses are very good points!

It’s often said that horse riding is the most expensive hobby for kids, but is this really the case? FInd out about the cost of riding lessons here...

07/01/2025

Just going to leave this here should anyone want to nominate us!
There are various categories that you can vote in 🤞😀

Nominate your chosen equestrian professional, business or charity who has gone above and beyond. Self-nominations are also accepted.

04/01/2025

🥶Brrrr it’s chilly out here today.
⚠️Unfortunately our arena is frozen and there is no sun today to get it thawed out- therefore it is unsafe to ride on so we have had to make the decision to cancel lessons.

📲All clients will be contacted about this and those who were due to ride today will be given a stable card to use.
We have some availability for private lessons on Monday (6th) should anyone wish to reschedule for then.

04/01/2025

‘Riding schools are our lifeline,' says Pammy Hutton in her H&H column – 'But who will fight for them?’

Read more via link below

31/12/2024

🎊We’d like to wish you all a very happy and healthy New Year.
🎇Thank you to each & every rider who has walked through the gates at Greenways this year, improved and enjoyed their riding, helped us out on the yard, attended our unmounted sessions, and an extra welcome to our newer clients.
🌌We’ve had a pretty good year and there’s lots to look forward to in 2025 too!
🎆However you are celebrating tonight, have a good one and we look forward to seeing you all very soon in 2025.

26/12/2024

Check out cat no.6 🐾🐾

I hope everyone had a lovely christmas!

Below is a collage of all of our "Cats for Christmas" this year!

Thank you to everyone who took part and submitted an image! It has been a delight to see all of your cats and learn their stories :)

- Chloe 🐈💕

24/12/2024

🔵Some of our Pony Club members had a great day yesterday taking part in the Area 13 Festive Quiz.
🟣2 teams of 4 battled it out against 8 other teams competing in 5 rounds of Pony care-based topics.
🟡Everyone did sooo well and each member got a goody bag, rosette and magazine kindly donated by
👏🏽Well done to the Greenways Rockin’ Robins and the Greenways Christmas Crackers.
The Area 13 Quiz will take place on Sunday 9th March and we will soon be offering all our members the opportunity to make up a team and take part.
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22/12/2024

Horse riding is a form of exercise and aids physical wellbeing – but there are mental health benefits of horse riding too, including reducing anxiety

09/12/2024

🎄You can tell that the big day is getting closer!
🎅🏽The boys are all warm & cosy after this weekend’s terrible weather in their Christmas pyjamas (they’re all trying to convince us that they’ve made the “nice” list and hoping to get some lovely presents 🎁)