Events

Events
for everyone!

Take part in, or organise, a whole range of charity events to raise money to support our work to help the welfare of animals and nature conservation. See below to find the event for you and how you can get involved or feel free to 'organise your own' and contact us to discuss ideas for hosting your own fundraising activity.

Open Days

ARC opens its doors to the public on a few days throughout the year. On these days everyone gets a chance to meet our retired horses, see our wildflower meadows and enjoy our beautiful gardens and Wedding venue as well as tasting our delicious home made cream teas and cakes. In the future we hope to be open a few days a week.

Horsemanship Clinics

We are lucky at ARC to have worked alongside horse trainer Anna Bonnage for a number of years. Anna runs horsemanship clinics here for our volunteers and the public. They include ‘Herd Behaviour’ and ‘Horse Handling’ days. The clinics are always well attended, interesting and lots of fun.

Walks, Talks & Courses

We have run many different walks, talks and courses each year at ARC including courses on Equine Podiatry, Equine Herbal medicine and animal communication. We also run wildflower walks where people can see the work we are doing in creating a Nature Reserve.

Shows & Fairs

We also do various local Shows, Markets or Equine Fairs. It is a great way for us to sell our donated goods or ARC merchandise including our calendars and cards. It is great to meet people and the ponies always enjoy the extra attention.

Fundraising

ARC holds fundraising events regularly from Bingos, Auctions, Star Gazing suppers to Live music events and quiz’s. If you have any ideas of future fundraising opportunities or would like to assist with these we would love to hear from you.

Festivals

In 2016 ARC hosted a small alternative festival, the site proved to be great for this use as everyone enjoyed their time here. We hope to do more of these in the future.

School Visits & Equine Therapy

Over recent years we have been visited by local schools where the children meet the horses and learn about what we do. We have also been lucky enough to meet some amazing characters who have benefitted from time spent with our horses and have watched how our herds have interacted with them.

Yurts

We were kindly donated a beautiful Mongolian yurt. We use this as our Bridal suite for our weddings as well as a venue to teach and hold classes.

Christmas Time

Christmas is usually a busy time for us, from delivering Santa with our pony and sleigh to the local primary school, to taking part in our local Christmas tree festival. There are plenty of Christmas markets and opportunities for the ponies to dress up.

Volunteer Days

ARC runs on volunteer power! We have many jobs that need group help, these include bagging manure for our Marvellous Manure Days, helping to build our straw bale shelters, planting trees and wildflowers and clearing fields of invasive plants.
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