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Strength and Learning Through Horses is a London based charity delivering equine therapy and alternative education programmes to young people aged 5-25.

We aim to improve wellbeing, educational prospects and help young people thrive.

16/10/2025

Grateful to have the support of behind our Charity and mission. Their premium products make them such a respected heritage brand…popular with grassroots, amateurs all the way through to elite levels of the equestrian community. Thank you to the whole team for the support 🙏🏻

15/10/2025

Thank you Racing Together for sharing insights from our CEO, Rosie Bensley

13/10/2025

Delighted to share that we now have the Learning Outside the Classroom badge 🙌

Congratulations to Strength & Learning Through Horses

Find out more about the LOtC Quality Badge and how it could help your organisation drive school bookings by developing safe and high quality learning learning programmes

https://www.lotc.org.uk/providers/lotc-quality-badge-2/

12/10/2025

Huge well done to Laura for completing her fundraiser in eight and a half hours and to everyone who donated. A super achievement 🙌🏻

19/08/2025

How horses and humans react to one another’s body language, and how this mutual responsivity is reflected on by young people and / or therapy staff is still a source of continued fascination and learning for us.

14/08/2025

In 2023 - 2024 as a result of attending a SLTH Therapy or Education programme:

90% of young people said they had more confidence in their abilities

75% said their communication skills had improved

90% said their teamwork skills had improved

200 young people achieved a qualification

Overall our work empowered 455 vulnerable young people to make positive changes in their lives and we have big ambitions to reach and support even more..

11/08/2025

The bond between human and horse can never be underestimated and we are grateful for our herd and what they do for our young people 🫶🏻

25/07/2025

Any gardeners out there that would like to give us a hand this weekend?

11/07/2025

Our cofounder is running £10k this weekend in 30 degree heat to raise money to ensure we can continue to provide support for young people through the holidays. Please do consider sharing or donating. The holidays can be a challenging time for many young people with their usual routine and support systems unavailable so it’s really important we can continue to provide support for those most in need.

Do you want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money in aid of Strength and Learning T… Rosie Bensley needs your support for Horses helping people

10/07/2025

Seeking teenagers with free time on Monday 14th July!

07/07/2025

We are recruiting!

Seeking a Mental Health and Wellbeing Team Leader to manage the day to day operation of our therapeutic services.

For full details and to apply, click the link:

Strength and Learning Through Horses

03/07/2025

Teamwork is a key skill young people learn at SLTH and they learn it from the horses. The horses live together on the track as one big herd and so they model healthy relationships for young people to learn from.

Sometimes the horses don’t get on with one another and our therapists help young people think about when this happens in human relationships.

And sometimes relationships in the herd involve collaboration and teamwork such as these guys today working together to keep the flies at bay from each other’s faces.

Whatever relationships the horses are demonstrating it’s often easier for young people to learn from them than to learn from people. Looking at equine bodies to understand the impact of energy and emotions on one another is simpler than unpicking the complexities of human interactions which involve a lot of verbal communication.

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Greengates Stables, Mays Lane

EN52AQ

Website

http://strengthandlearningthroughhorses.org/, https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/home-our-horses

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At our dedicated stables in Edgware, North London, we see between 250 and 300 young people each year, helping them to overcome mental health, learning disability or behavioural challenges through working with horses on our Equine Therapy, Education and Work Experience programmes. We also run an After School Club and hold day camps in school holidays.

Last year, 52% of our clients had Special Educational Needs and 46% had either current or past Safeguarding involvement. With our help, 89% said that their confidence had increased and 82% felt that their communication skills had improved.

Mohammed is a typical success story:

“Mohammed has been attending an education course this term with his school. Mohammed has an autism diagnosis, various mental health diagnoses and a registered physical disability. At school his anxiety was crippling him, he wasn't attending classes and had no relationships with other students. On his first day with us his school staff and other students all treated Mohammed as though he was less capable than the others due to his disability and anxiety. The teachers jumped to help him and give him support before he'd had a chance to attempt a task himself and the students did things for him instead of waiting and letting Mohammed have a go. Mohammed accepted this help in a withdrawn and depressed way without any protest.