New Yatt RDA

31/10/2024

Happy Halloween from Milo and his new pumpkin pony friends 🎃👻🐈‍⬛

30/10/2024

Rachel (sister of our Wednesday rider Amelie) brought in these beautiful drawings of our ponies today. We think they are wonderful and will add them to our gallery wall. Thank you Rachel! 🎨 🐴

26/10/2024

Happy Halloween from Harry, Milo and the new pumpkin ponies at the yard! Looking forward to some spooky fun this week in our sessions

24/10/2024

At New Yatt Riding For The Disabled we are looking to recruit and train new Group Coaches (riding instructors) to support us in introducing more weekday sessions to help us reduce our current waiting list.

If you currently volunteer with us and are interested in joining the RDA Coaching Pathway, please speak with your current Group Coach or a Trustee regarding the process to becoming a qualified Coach.

If you are not currently working with RDA and would like to join our group as a volunteer with the view to becoming a Coach, please email [email protected]

More information on the RDA Coaching Pathway can be found on the RDA Website via the links below.

https://www.myrda.org.uk/assets/Coach-in-Training-Flow-Chart.pdf
https://myrda.org.uk/assets/RDA-Coaching-Pathway-New-Visuals.pdf

We are looking for applicants who can commit to a weekly session, are ideally confident and experienced around horses and are good communicators. All training will be provided by our team of coaches with the addition of online courses and RDA training days.

17/10/2024

We need your help! We have managed to extend our Crowdfunding page until 11th November, but we have a long way to go to reach our target! Please like and share the link below to help us raise funds to make the paddocks safer and less dangerous for our ponies and volunteers in the coming winter months. THANK YOU!
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/new-yatt-riding-for-the-disabled-2?_cbrk=67112a0632e70

08/10/2024

Another rainy morning at the yard but we were rewarded with this spectacular rainbow and delicious birthday cake! (Belated celebrations for a Tuesday volunteer.)

You can’t have a rainbow without a little rain… ☔️ 🌈

03/10/2024

Hi there! We’ve registered New Yatt Rda with easyfundraising, which means over 7,000 brands will now donate to us for FREE every time you use easyfundraising to shop with them. These donations will help SO MUCH, so please sign up to support us – it’s completely FREE and doesn’t take long.

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03/10/2024

As many of you who follow us on social media know, we have launched a campaign to raise funds for our hard standing works, which have been essential improvements to the paddocks during all the wet weather.
So far our Crowdfunder has raised over £1000, but we have a long way to go to reach our target of £7500!
Please can you share our Crowdfunder page on your own social media pages or by email to your contacts?
Here is the link below you can just copy and paste it into your own page/email or look on our social media page and "share" the latest post about the Crowdfunder. Every little helps to get the word out - please send to as many of your contacts as you can! Please remember you DO NOT need to make a donation to the crowdfunding organisation you can select "zero" if you wish to just donate to NYRDA.
Crowd funder link
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/new-yatt-riding-for-the-disabled-2

24/09/2024

After all of the rain, blue skies… and muddy ponies!

18/09/2024

Huge congratulations to our Wednesday volunteers for receiving their Long Service Awards today.

Jane A and Joanna B received their 15 year awards, Alison G received her 10 year award and Jane B received her 5 year award. That’s over 10,000 hrs of volunteering between them. Thank you 🙏🏻

17/09/2024

Milo the yard cat, enjoying the September sun.

🐈‍⬛ ☀️ 💚

15/09/2024

One week on from our 40th anniversary event and we couldn’t agree more with this lovely feedback from former volunteer, Jean:

“What an amazing day it was last Sunday! It brought back so many memories and it was wonderful to look back on all those happy days. As someone who started out in the walled garden in the mud it was awesome to see your new faciilties and realise how far the group has come. I will keep up with your activities from Spain and will treasure my rosette.” Jean Joss

Thank you to everyone who has been in-touch over the past week. The feedback has been heartwarming!

As you all (hopefully) know, we have a crowdfunder running to help raise £7,500. If you know of any individuals or businesses who can help us achieve this target, please share the following link with them. Thank you!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/new-yatt-riding-for-the-disabled-2?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADrhvvv47KjX8FeB0BmLFbdaVKwaD&gclid=Cj0KCQjwi5q3BhCiARIsAJCfuZlc6my69EFKX3ccKsENFdNS3l15xWcXrlFsAymwfvg7LU5LelFc3_EaAu1kEALw_wcB

14/09/2024

Some of our volunteers go above and beyond! Scarlett joined us to complete her Gold D of E award then stayed well beyond her one year “stretch” and has been an outstanding team member for our Saturday afternoon team. She is off to Uni this week and we will certainly miss her as will the ponies! Best of luck Scarlett and thank you for all your help with the ponies riders and helping the new volunteers settle in to our routine.
If you think you would like to join our Saturday pm team please email

[email protected]

10/09/2024

Clare, a member of our Tuesday AM volunteer team, who won 1st prize in our 40th Anniversary raffle on Sunday!

Clare’s been in to Blenheim today (after her earlier volunteer stint at the yard) to convert the voucher (very kindly donated by Blenheim Palace) in to an Annual Pass! With thanks to Blenheim for supporting our fundraising. And thanks to everyone who supported the raffle! 🙏🏻🐴💚

10/09/2024

Thank you, thank you, thank you! to everyone who supported the 40th Anniversary Silent Auction. Congratulations to Amanda Moore and Kate Jackson for their winning bids! Here’s the beautiful (prize winning) photo canvas of our very own Splash 👇🏻

Thank you to our Silent Auction lot (prize) donors - Jenny and Jonathan Stowell and Kelly Marks Intelligent Horsemanship. 🙏🏻🐴💚

08/09/2024

🎟️ RAFFLE update! 🎫
Thank you to everyone who has supported our 40th anniversary celebrations, both in person and from afar. If you have purchased a raffle ticket, we have some raffle prizes to be claimed/collected. They are…

🟩 Green ticket, number 295, Mary B: You have won a Pecksniff’s Toiletries Set!
🟨 Yellow ticket, number 954, M&S: You have won a bottle of Champagne kindly donated by Estelle Manor!
🎟️ Pink ticket, number 205, Michael: You have won the Cotswold Wildlife Park tickets! (Kindly donated by Cotswold Wildlife Park.)
🎟️ Pink ticket, number 260, Charlotte C: You have won a Wrendale bag.
🎟️ Pink ticket, number 348, Colin: You have won a Wall Mounted Tea Light Holder, kindly donated by Linda.
And, finally, 🟨 ticket, number 835, Keri L: You have won a set of Woodstock Wind Chimes! Also kindly donated by Linda.

Please DM us, or contact your coach, if this is you! As soon as we can, we will confirm how much the raffle raised.

With HUGE thanks to the following for donating prizes to enable us to fundraise:
Blenheim Palace
Cotswold Wildlife Park
A Blackbird Sang
Estelle Manor
Elizabeth C
Our yard neighbours
Charlbury Garden Centre
Pat K
Linda
And everyone who purchased a raffle ticket! Thank you 🙏🏻🐴💚

08/09/2024

Our Silent Auction is now closed! Thank you to all of the bidders. The winning bids will be announced (at our event) at 4pm. Thank you everyone! 🙏🏻🐴💚

08/09/2024

Big day of celebrations here! As we ready the yard and ponies for our 40th anniversary event, if you are joining us, a few final reminders:
💚 Please car share, if you can, to ease the pressure on our car parking field;
💚 Please bring cash for the raffle as our WiFi is still a little wobbly…
Thank you! 🙏🏻🐴💚

07/09/2024

Less than 24 hours left to place a bid! The silent auction closes at 3.30pm tomorrow (Sunday.) See below 👇🏻

*REMINDER: If you are attending our 40th anniversary event tomorrow, please car share as much as possible and please bring cash for the raffle! Thank you 🙏🏻🐴💚*

06/09/2024

We are looking forward to welcoming our many invited guests to the New Yatt RDA 40th anniversary celebrations on Sunday.

Please try to car share if possible to ease pressure on our parking field and please bring CASH to enter our fabulous raffle!

05/09/2024

Have you placed your bids yet? Our Silent Auction closes at 3.30pm on Sunday. Don't miss out!

Lot 1: Prize winning photo canvas of Splash!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sJoA12IvuCRDkF9mWQiuZ_hDVCPYh41x4j1egzp6ZIY/edit

Lot 2: Intelligent Horsemanship Online Horse Psychology 8 Week Course
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5me2B0NZ05yGIMonfBx_m4z23GiHvz6wbRbvXhvm848_3tA/viewform?usp=send_form

05/09/2024

One of our supporters has an unwanted ticket for the cross country day at Blenheim Horse Trials on Saturday 21st September. The face value of the ticket is £33.60. If anyone would like it for £33, they will donate the funds to New Yatt RDA.
Every donation will go towards our crowdfunding campaign to help provide hard standing in our muddy paddocks

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/new-yatt-riding-for-the-disabled-2?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADrhvvuQm2BUbEdK46Qvdij9tQwQs&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiuC2BhDSARIsALOVfBKnbsDUKi_PHzkeuWSsPYcYpuvY5eut5qO2hcHpI7Ickpf4nsBzzIIaAvNeEALw_wcB

Please DM us for more details about the ticket.
Thank you!

We want to improve our facilities by installing hardstanding around field gates and feeding bins to make it safer for ponies and volunteers.

03/09/2024

Just a couple of short strides away from reaching (and clearing) the £1,000 jump on our New Yatt RDA ‘Fund - Racer’. We’re at £863 with 46 days left! Can you help us reach our £7,500 target? https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/new-yatt-riding-for-the-disabled-2

We (as a registered charity, 1158969) are totally self funded with no government aid, relying entirely on donations. Thank you 🙏🏻 🐴 💚

02/09/2024

01/09/2024

Would you like to undertake a Kelly Marks Intelligent Horsemanship Online Horse Psychology Course? Then place a bid on our silent auction! Lot 2 is a voucher (very kindly donated by Kelly Marks) for this 8 week online course, starting on the evening of Tuesday 1st October. To find out more, and to place your bid, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5me2B0NZ05yGIMonfBx_m4z23GiHvz6wbRbvXhvm848_3tA/viewform

(🤫The current highest bid for this voucher is £50 and it's worth £195!!!)

Thank you for supporting our 40th anniversary fundraising. 🙏🐴💚