We wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

12 December 2014
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Our Riders, their parents and carers, volunteers, sponsors and friends all gathered at the Ettington Community Centre on Tuesday 9th for our annual Christmas Party.  The tables were laden with food, the music played and we had loads of mulled wine – mostly non-alcoholic!   The Great Barloni performed his tricks much to the amusement of […]

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Shopping at Waitrose – Alcester?

3 December 2014

We have been lucky to be chosen as one of the charities to receive money from Waitrose Alcester this month.  So while you are out doing your Christmas shopping all you have to do is put your green token given at the pay desk into our box by the door and please tell your friends.   […]

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Three cheers for our Trustees!

12 November 2014

Trustees are the people in charge of a charity. They play a vital role, volunteering their time and working together to make important decisions about the charity’s work. Trustees’ Week is an annual event to showcase the great work that trustees do and highlight opportunities for people from all walks of life to get involved […]

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Generous donation from St Peter’s, Kineton

11 November 2014
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We would like to thank the kind parishioners of St Peter’s Church in Kineton who voted to support us as their charity and kindly donated a very generous £1300. We are also looking forward to welcoming some of them who have expressed an interest in volunteering so that they can become actively involved and seeing […]

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Prince Philip Cup winners kind donation

11 November 2014

We would like to thank the Warwickshire Hunt Prince Philip Cup Team for donating some brand new reins and brow bands to our Group. The Pony Club Team have just become Prince Philip Cup CHAMPIONS at the Horse of the Year Show 2014 ! Congratulations to the fabulous mounted games PPC team of Isabella, Jess, […]

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Warwickshire golfers make generous donation

27 October 2014
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A group of golfers and their wives visited Lagos on the Western Algarve at the end of October for a week of golf and sightseeing. At their final dinner and prize giving they gave a generous donation to our RDA Group.  Thank you so much all of you for this kind gesture and we are […]

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Yet another amazing donation from Banbury Lions!

22 October 2014

Our thanks go to the Banbury Lions who have just given us a fabulous donation from the proceeds of their annual Fun Ride around Broughton Castle which they organised in September.  We are so pleased that so many riders came to make it such a success and would like to thank you and all of […]

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Stretton Wives Fellowship talk

22 September 2014

Members of the Stretton on Dunsmore Wives Fellowship welcomed Volunteers, Jill and Donna and volunteer and rider, Jo, to their meeting on 15th September.  The ladies listened to us sharing information about RDA and  giving a description of a year’s activities of the Group.  Jo gave an insight into what riding gives to her and why […]

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Riders join in with Tadmarton Fun Ride

22 September 2014
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Neil and Leo enjoyed a lovely 2 mile ride on 14th September joining in with the Tadmarton Charity Fun Ride at High Meadow Farm.  A very different experience from our normal riding sessions which rider and pony enjoyed immensely especially watching some of the more able riders flying past on their large horses!!  Thank you […]

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Children’s Christmas Party

22 September 2014

The Children’s Christmas Party will take place on 9th December from 4 – 6pm at Ettington Community Centre.  There will be no Adult ride that day and the Children’s sessions will commence at 3.30pm.  

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