Love Horses? Come Help People with Special Needs Ride!

Interested in helping with people with challenges learn to ride? Join our vibrant volunteer community on a beautiful horse farm! Windrush Farm is a therapeutic riding center helping people with all kinds of challenges in their lives. Our mission is to promote confidence, independence and well-being in children and adults with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through therapeutic riding and horse related programs For information on summer volunteering, please see our other posting We primarily need side walkers and horse handlers to assist in classes, but also need help with tack cleaning, grounds work, trail clearing, data entry and fundraising. Side walkers assist our riders during their lesson, everything from helping them physically stay on the horse to giving them encouragement and emotional support. They focus on the rider and create enduring relationships with them! Horse handlers MUST have experience working with horses. HHs are responsible for bringing our horses down to the arena, then leading and managing the horse during the lesson. Horse handlers will need to learn our horsemanship techniques to keep handling skills consistent for our horses. The minimum age for volunteering is 14. Volunteers must live or be staying at a local address. Volunteers must be able to keep up with a horse at a walk and a trot. We typically need volunteers during the school year for 1 hour classes Monday through Friday between 8:30- 6:00pm. If you can't commit to a regular time each week, we always need subs! Please email us at volunteer@windrushfarm.org. Thank you for considering us as your volunteer opportunity! https://www.windrushfarm.org/