Thank you to everyone who supported our Race night on Saturday. A great time was had by one and all and we are delighted to report that we raised an absolutely whopping £2000 which will pay for 100 rides and lots of smiles this summer term. THANK YOU !
Thank you ! Your amazing generosity at our third Dogs & Daffs Day along with donations and sponsorships raised over £5,300. We are absolutely thrilled with this, it will enable us to pay for a special extra wide saddle for each of our 2 new Highland Ponies and subsidise the costs of all therapeutic rides for our disabled riders for 1 month. All the lovely photographs taken on the day are available to buy by clicking on this link: Glamorous Event Photography We look forward to seeing you next year !
Saturday 29th April 2017 at Welwyn Civic Centre at 7pm. By popular demand this fun event involving reeling wooden horses in on pulleys is returning. A great night out for friends and family with fish and chip supper and paying bar. To book your place contact Amanda Morrall on 07765-255530 or email: amandamorrall67@hotmail.com All funds raised go to Digswell Place Group RDA. You could be a winner!
Last year's fund raising and donations enabled Digswell Place RDA to provide more than 1500 rides to disabled children and adults. Contributions from riders (a little over £14,000) covered less than a third of the cost of keeping the ponies and horses. Based on the costs for the last academic year Digswell Place RDA needs to raise £31,500 from fundraising and donations to pay for the day to day expenses of keeping the ponies and horses and maintaining the pasture, fences etc. so for every ride provided the charity needs to raise over £20. The recent generous donations from Panshanger Football Club, Welwyn Rotary Club and the Childwick Trust will fund the shortfall for 2 riders for the whole school [...]
We have had an amazing summer and hope you did to ! Please see our latest newsletter detailing what has been happening : Summer Newsletter 2016
A huge thank you to the fantastic Roche ladies for choosing Digswell Place to spend a day volunteering as part of a Roche incentive to support and promote the benefits of volunteering and also do some offsite team building. They were blessed with glorious sunshine and all did an amazing job painting the three new field shelters with wood preserver as well as finishing off the stables and starting the hay barn ? We are hugely appreciative as it is a job we just wouldn't have got round to otherwise and it makes all the difference as the buildings will last a lot longer having been painted with wood preserver. THANK YOU !!!
Congratulations to three of our riders on our Monday afternoon session who have achieved their Endeavour award. Our three riders set their own ‘goals’ and 'challenges' to work towards in order to achieve the Endeavour certificate and badge. Samantha and Stuart’s goal was to be able to groom their horses. Ryan’s goal was to learn to ride so he could go for a long walk in the woods. A fantastic achievement and well done to riders, ponies, volunteers and coaches !
What an amazing achievement ! A huge thank you to the lovely volunteers from Black Horse Asset Finance for spending an entire day helping us paint our new stables with wood protector. It was an ambitious and slightly daunting project and the team worked extremely hard and we are very grateful for all their good humour and fantastic help. We would also like to thank Richard from the Crown Decorating Centre in Welwyn Garden City as he supplied the Sadolin wood protector and brushes at an excellent discount. We couldn't have done it without you all !!! THANK YOU
Most Handsome Dog ! Huge thanks to all our donors, supporters, volunteers & friends of Digswell Place RDA Group who helped make Dogs & Daffs 2016 such a successful event. We are absolutely delighted that your kind donations and sponsorship total around £4500 including gift aid & will enable us to pay for a Field Shelter for our ponies and 10 new riding hats. Please click here for more Dogs & Daffs Photos at the Stable Yard at Hatfield House. Happy Helpers The Winners, the Judges, the Helpers ! Photos courtesy of Clare Smith, Mrs Mugshot Photography
Digswell Place Group RDA is very grateful for an extremely generous donation from the Hornbeams Society which has enabled us to replace 10 stables which were nearly 50 years old with brand new stables from Prime Stables. Clearing out the old stables All the groundworks were completed by A. Veasey and the design of the new stables was customised to provide natural light, increased shelter, substantially better guttering, and level entrances; which all make the stables more accessible and comfortable for ponies, helpers and riders. Demolished ! We have also been able to modernise the toilet into a fully functional disabled facility as well as improve the drainage on the yard. This has been [...]