Our Holiday Clubs
Following on from the success of our weekend Sanctuary Club, we are delighted to be offering Junior and Senior Summer Clubs during the easter and summer holidays.
If you would like to learn more about horse welfare and understand more about our methods of rehabilitating rescued horses, then this is the club for you! Plus, you will have a lot of fun along the way!
We are offering a number of separate weeks throughout the easter and summer holidays - for juniors (aged 8 - 11 years) and for seniors (aged 11 - 15 years). Each club booking consists of five sessions over the course of 1 week. Depending on which course you are booking, morning sessions start at 9:30am and finish at 12:00 noon and afternoon sessions start at 1:00pm and finish at 3:30pm.
Over the five sessions, you will have the opportunity to have hands-on experience and get to know our herds. We will be covering topics relating both horse care and the natural environment - please see details of content below. We don't ride our horses at Mane Chance - instead you will form relationships by working with them on their level, so no previous experience is required!
This is a wonderful way to not only learn about what we do, but to contribute to looking after our horses that have gone through so much in the past and their home - you will be part of their care and helping them to trust people again.
More importantly, you will have a lot of fun doing it!
Typical Junior Content:
- Basic horse care
- Daily healthchecks including heart rate and pulse measuring
- Headcollaring, leading and grooming
- Walking our smaller ponies
- Mindfulness (calmness) with the horses
- 5 domains of animal welfare
- Horse passports and scanning of microchips
- Signs of good and ill health
- Pond dipping
- Maintenance of our bug village
- Working on hedgerows
Typical Senior Content:
- Advanced horse care including body scoring and weighing of horses
- Daily healthchecks including heart rate and pulse measuring
- Headcollaring, leading, grooming and hoof picking
- Walking our larger horses (or smaller ones if preferred!)
- Mindfulness with the horses
- 5 domains of animal welfare
- Signs of good and ill health
- Horse passports, scanning or microchips and recording of vaccinations
- Clicker training
- Making and using enrichment activities for the horses
- Designing an obstacle course and leading the horses through it
Prices and how to book:
Courses of sessions must be booked and paid for in advance - the fee covers five sessions in the same week - dates cannot be swapped (due to health and safety ratios).
The cost of each set of 5 sessions is £125 per child (working out at just £25 per session).
The following dates are available for booking - please click on the week you wish to book to be taken to the booking page.
Easter Courses
Junior Course (ages 8 - 11 years) - sold out
Senior Course (ages 11 - 15 years) - sold out
Summer Courses
Junior Course (ages 8 - 11 years):
Monday 29th July - Friday 2nd August - 9:30am - 12:00 noon
Senior Course (ages 11 - 15 years):
Monday 5th August - Friday 9th August - 9:30am - 12:00 noon
Please note: once booked, sessions cannot be refunded due to non-attendance or transferred to another course (we are restricted on numbers due to health and safety protocols).
Our horses and team look forward to welcoming you.
