AVOID. This is no place for vulnerable children or animals
Awful place. Horses are slapped,struck with riding crops to make them 'canter' and trot multiple times a day, whipped and yelled at by staff to the point of disengagement, all in front of children who are suffering mental health, learning difficulties or who come from traumatic backgrounds. Children are visibly uncomfortable seeing the horses struck, even asking volunteers for ' reassurance', volunteer turnover is high with reports of them feeling unsupported and left to their own devices after little training. Staff are mostly unfriendly, which is not surprising considering the way that they treat the animals. There are far better ways to support vulnerable children, this organisation is detrimental to children's wellbeing in both the short term and the long run. Would give this a zero out of 5 if I could.