helping at a riding school

At the RDA centre I help at, volunteers get a one hour lesson for every day they help. Helping involves leading, sidewalking, helping with haynets, mucking out, tacking up, catching ponies, grooming, everything really .

make sure you find out from the school itself before you start. As a kid, i worked every weekend from 7 am, but my dad still had to pay for me to ride - and there are still places like this.
 
I used to help at a riding school every Saturday, there was me and 1 other girl about the same age that used to help regularly (i.e. every week). We tacked up, got ponies ready for lessons, led beginners in lessons, mucked out etc all the normal jobs, then in the afternoons sorted the liveries out as the instructors who normally did them were normally teaching all day. Got maybe a 30 min ride every other week in return at a push (and I still paid full price for my lessons for which I was normally late as I was busy on the yard!), but did it more for the enjoyment and I learnt a lot there.
 
I work at a riding school for Forces personnel and their families, and my duties are teaching lessons, escorting out hacks, taking payments, a little paperwork, looking after the horses and I help run the pony club at weekends. My perks are being paid to ride my own horse, free admission to our local forestry, having my horse and all my tack and stuff secured within the marine barracks where we are based!! Love my job and wouldn't change it for the world!!
 
A few years back now i worked at riding schools, the perks were a helpers lesson if you worked the whole day. We did everything from mucking out, poo picking, filling haynets and water buckets ect to leading the ponies on begginers lessons and tacking up, rugs and grooming.

I would say its definatly worth trying a few different places and seeing which one you get on at or which one has what you are after :D
 
at the riding school i just help out for fun.
It just includes
-mucking out
-washing ponies
-feeding
-turning out & in
-sweeping the yard etc.

I just get a free lesson even if it isnt much i just like the expierence :D
 
shysmum said:
make sure you find out from the school itself before you start. As a kid, i worked every weekend from 7 am, but my dad still had to pay for me to ride - and there are still places like this.
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yeah i'm at one like that now so i'm curious to see what perks everyone else gets cos i barely get anything even though i work my guts off
 
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