Digswell Place

Thankyousomuchtoeveryonewhodonated Thanks 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 unfortunately injured and needs surgery, followed by 6 months rehab. The lovely vets at the Royal Veterinary College will take very good care of her however the operation will cost approx £4000. Digswell Place RDA relies mainly on donations and fundraising to deliver subsidised therapeutic rides for our participants. Amber always makes her riders smile and [...]

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.

We are pleased to announce that Dogs and Daffs 2023 raised an outstanding £9800 Many thanks to the Team and all those who attended this great day to help us raise this amount  

Well done to the team  for making this such a successful event! Heartfelt thanks to our extremely generous donors in these difficult financial times Thank you from all of us at Digswell Place RDA