Typical full livery cost in Hants/Surrey/Sussex?

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Can anyone advise what typical full livery cost might be?

I'm thinking of offering livery and curious as to what the going rates are in the south east!

(It would help if you could also describe what the full livery roughly includes?)

Thanks folks :cool:
 
You'll hopefully get a lot of replies - but the answers will vary. Its a wide geographical area!

In north / east Surrey you 'll pay anything from about £350 per month going seriously upward the closer you get to London. I would expect that to include all care as a minimum - turn out, bring in, rug changes, muck out, preare feeds and feed. But at the lower end you would have to buy feed / bedding on top. A nearby yard charges over £1,000pm but bedding and feed is included as is lunging or putting the horse on the walker. (Riding is extra) The facilities the yard can offer also make a difference - so flood lit school, decent jumps, hot wash, walker etc all put the price up. If the yard is also a competition venue that too puts the price up.

It is terribly local through - go across the A3 and out a bit even full livery drops.
 
I am in the SW not SE but you would not get full livery for under £400 per month around here, most yards will be around £5-600 for a fairly basic livery with at least an outdoor school for clients to use, with a few offering more extensive facilities easily charging near £1k a month because there are less yards with top end facilities in the area, to my mind the yard should provide bedding and hay as a minimum, feed on top is fair enough as it can be hard to suit everyone, I provide a basic feed and the owner buys in supplements/ extras as required.
 
I was in the Surrey area about 3 years ago.
Livery varies. One yard close to Windsor was £575.00 no exercise included but everything else. Very little turnout so moved.
Yard 2 was £550.00 and further towards Bracknell/Reading. The turnout was a bit better there but the YO started charging extras for everything. So bringing a horse in for the farrier would Be charged, she also tried to charge extra for Bank Holidays 🙄. It got a bit annoying in the end. I found out from liveries after I left that she hiked her prices up, got more horses in and reduced turnout so lots of people left. I think she rented the yard and was struggling to make it pay. There was always a higher demand for places everywhere I enquired though.
Luckily I relocated to the West Country where livery is a lot cheaper.
 
Around here upwards of £500-600pcm plus for decent facilities ie an outdoor school basic 7 day livery no grooming or riding.

Even DIY round here starts at around £175 to £225 with an outdoor school no services or forage etc. provided.
 
You should also look at what your costs and liabilities are, rent, business rates, maintenance costs, staffing, extras such as muckheap removal etc. I have seen it before where people have started a yard as a means to playing with their ponies rather than as a business and this often backfires as the profits are low, work is very hard and you don't get much time to ride your own (or even want to ride them after mucking and turning out x horses in the morning).
Unless you have a mortgage free property and do all the work yourself, i wouldn't expect full livery to be less than £500 or so pcm (and that to include basic feed/bedding, turnout, change of rugs, picking out feet and attending to vet, farriers etc, but not grooming/riding.) That's only £16/day ish, including facilities. Much less and i would be concerned how much care my horse actually got, or how quickly prices would rise if a new yard. (unless very lucky of course).
 
I’m on part livery (Feed, bedding and care no riding) on Sussex, Surrey Border very close to Gatwick airport. I pay 370.
Depending on facilities massively changes the price round here. A yard up the road is 495 with a tiny indoor and a bit of off road hacking, another the other side of town tiny arena but a small xc course and badly maintained paddocks 410.
Turnout in my area is pretty rubbish so realistically they are only out may-November as we are clay!
 
NW Surrey, any full livery yard with good facilities, you'd get no change for under £600 at a minimum.
Include exercise or work, and you'll be looking at between £700 to 800 pcm. Add on comp fees and transport etc, budget £1000 pcm and you ought to have change
 
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