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New Zealand Riding for the Disabled is a registered charity and the only internationally affiliated and recognised therapeutic horse-riding provider in New Zealand. We provide an accessible and meaningful participatory experience for riders.
Our individually tailored, goal-based riding sessions build emotional and physical strength and resilience and enhance and improve capability and capacity in our riders. They are delivered throughout New Zealand by our team of highly trained and trusted specialists who enable and support riders and their extended whanau. We are recommended by medical professionals including physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
At Riding for the Disabled, we celebrate every individual's unique abilities and focus on building capability, capacity and strength beyond the perceived limitations. The riders learn to move, adapt and succeed. This leads to a stronger sense of self that translates beyond the arena and into homes, schools and communities.
Our participants say RDA activity is the main way of accessing physical exercise that improves core strength, balance and coordination. The riders learn communication skills that in turn enhance confidence levels, relationship building, that can help to combat loneliness.
Riding for the Disabled is not pony rides in paddocks. We offer so much more. Our qualified specialist teams work with riders and their whanau to create goal-based programmes specific to each person's unique abilities and designed to build their capability and capacity.
We have been operating in New Zealand for more than 60 years.
Our Patron is HRH, The Princess Royal, Princess Anne.
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