Digswell Place

Our 9th Dogs and Daffs event held at Hatfield Park was enjoyed by everyone and even though it was a bit chilly we raised an amazing c£9000 We really couldn’t do it without the support of our fantastic RDA team working alongside the Army cadets and Hatfield Park staff, it’s such a huge team effort, thank you all. Please click here to access the photo gallery courtesy of WynnDogPhotography

June Update. Amber continues to steadily improve with her rehab and is now enjoying having a graze in the field and getting out and about a bit more. She's beginning to have  little trot - still a long way to go to get back to full fitness but good progress so far Thank you so much to everyone who donated to Ambers Go Fund Me. With your generous donations we reached our target and a bit more and Amber is now happily back at the yard with her friend and at the start of her rehab. Amber is one of our most popular and loved ponies at Digswell Place. Amber is [...]

Thank you so much to St Albans & District Rotary for their generous donation of £7200 raised from their recent swimathon. The cheque was presented by Rotary members and the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire.

For our 50th celebrations we welcomed a special guest -HRH Princess Anne, Patron of RDA. She started the visit by meeting core, long standing members of the Digswell Place team and was shown a board taking you through 50 years of history of the stables and horses. This was followed by a tour of the yard to meet ponies, minders and volunteers. Some of our riders did a fantastic display and HRH Princess Anne presented a number of riders with 50th Anniversary rosettes. Finally she unveiled a plaque and cut a fabulous 50th cake before being presented with a lovely posy and 50th anniversary horseshoe [...]

After a recent bequest it meant we could get some much needed rehabilitation massage therapy for our ponies. After all the hard work they do this is essential for their wellbeing. The therapist released lots of tension and afterwards they had much better posture and appeared very relaxed.