Riding for the Disabled Oakbank in Oakbank, South Australia | Sport & recreation

Riding for the Disabled Oakbank

Locality: Oakbank, South Australia

Address: Shillabeer Rd Oakbank, SA, Australia

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• Non-profit organisation
• Disability service
• Horse riding centre

14.01.2022 Welcome back to all our riders, families and volunteers for Term 2! Our Saturday group was especially lucky with the weather today and had a fantastic first day

13.01.2022 We're excited to celebrate our neurodiverse riders this April for Autism Acceptance Month! Acceptance is about more than just awareness, as it encompasses a more active effort to understand, include and connect with autistic people. We take direction from the autistic community, as it's so important to listen to and respect how actual autistic people (not people speaking for them!) want to be treated, supported and represented. We've consulted with Allie, an autistic adult, ...on putting together this post - we would like to thank her for her guidance and the fantastic graphics and resources she's shared with us RDA supports our autistic riders in many different ways, including (but not limited to!): - Building supportive networks and relationships - Learning and practising communication skills - Developing grip and gross motor skills - Learning left and right directionality - Improving concentration and memory Click through the images to learn a bit more about autism and the autism community!

12.01.2022 We are so excited to welcome Arby to our RDA family! He has settled in beautifully during his trial period, and is already well loved by all our volunteers and riders. We’d like to extend a huge thank you to the Stirling Community Shop for their ongoing support, which has allowed us to purchase a much needed new member of our herd.

11.01.2022 Unfortunately the weather wasn't good for lessons today as we have no covered riding area. However as you can see Wally has been enjoying the weather and his new shelter today. *not so secretly* glad I didn't have to get Wally in lesson ready condition today!

09.01.2022 Whilst we can't run lessons our horses are still 'producing' . Thanks to our volunteers who came out yesterday for our socially distanced poo pick. Although the horses show some interest in the equipment... we are yet to convince them to help clean up after themselves!

09.01.2022 For the last session of the year, our riders went on a Christmas trail ride! Thank you to all our coaches, volunteers, riders and families for all their hard work this year. We wish you all a happy and safe holiday and can’t wait to see everyone back in 2021!

06.01.2022 Yesterday our volunteers did *stacks* of work bringing in over 400 bales of hay from our paddocks. Can you guess which photos are from the start of day (around 8:30am) compared to the end of the day (nearing 5pm)? Thanks to everyone who came and assisted us with a big thanks to Marie for housing the extra hay we couldn't fit in our own shed on site.

06.01.2022 Today we remember and honour the Australian Light Horse Brigade and the Waler horses of World War One. Artwork by Jacqueline Hurley: 'For the Light Horse and Walers, the Poppies Grow'

06.01.2022 We're excited to be able to run lessons again today. We are taking a few extra precuatious to ensure the safety of our volunteers and clients. However our pony Wally has a reminder of our most important rule: Please try to keep at least 1.5m apart (or one "Wally's Width") whenever possible. This is in place for riding the horses in the arena as well as our people on the ground!

04.01.2022 Do you remember that construction work we had going on whilst the horses were away? We would like to share with you our lovely new large horse shelter for our dear ageing pony Wally.