RDA NSW Tall Timbers Centre in Box Hill | Sport & recreation

RDA NSW Tall Timbers Centre

Locality: Box Hill

Phone: +61 2 9679 1246

Address: 125 Old Pitt Town Road 2765 Box Hill, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.talltimbers.rdansw.org.au

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25.01.2022 We have Volunteers, horses, participants and programs but none of these would come together to do what we do without our Coaches! Last week with thanks to one of our supporters our Coaches went on a Christmas Hat parade as a thank you day! We had some games along the way, got back to nature fruit picking and lunch in the trees! Thank you to each of our Coaches who contribute to our programs. We are so grateful for the passion and commitment you bring to our Centre! Have a relaxing summer break, looking forward to having you all back on deck in 2021!

25.01.2022 Those elves have been at it again...check it out before they disappear! Happy Christmas from the Team at Tall Timbers. Thank you for your support. https://elfyourself.com?mId=234545

25.01.2022 PSST.......Tomorrow is a big day for RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers......Don't forget to check out our FB post tomorrow.....save the date for 4th Aug@7pm

25.01.2022 Happy 27th birthday to this superstar! We are so lucky that you found your way to us & we hope you know how many smiles you create on a daily basis. Happy Birthday Karoo!

24.01.2022 Are you coming to our FREE Zoom Horses' Birthday party tomorrow night??? Make sure you register in advance at the link below to reserve your space....... When: Aug 4, 2020 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney ... Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZ0qde-pqDItGdSfwSTT4FMHnFc6vGT5u

24.01.2022 Our Garden and Property Volunteers have been doing a great job to find the Colour underneath the Weeds! Next week we are looking forward to welcoming back more of our Horse and Program Volunteers for more COVIDSafe training and preparations for the future return of programs. In the meantime stay safe and well, get tested and stay home if you are unwell. ... Take care everyone xx See more

22.01.2022 Our yard names have had a revamp & new ones done for those who didnt have one yet. Thank you Kerry, they look amazing & the ponies think theyre pretty cool too!

22.01.2022 There is only 4 days until the Horses Birthday...... We remember the days we could sing happy birthday with our horses and give them a birthday cake from our Participants...... We remember the days we held a Horses Birthday Lunch, chatted with our friends, played games and bought raffle tickets to raise money for our their Birthday presents........ This year it is all new........So......in 1 weeks time we are hosting a Zoom Birthday party for our horse team..... You will get to see our Annual Horses Birthday Video so register at the link on the event page by clicking the tickets button to come along from the comfort and safety of your own home! We would love to see you to celebrate the contribution they make to our programs and wish them all a very Happy Birthday! Tuesday 4th August @ 7pm on Zoom!

20.01.2022 Whipping, trimming, digging, weeding, mowing, planting, watering, building, fencing, cleaning....... There is a lot of work and we would be lost without our volunteers that help with our maintenance around the property. Many thanks to Paul, Florien, Matt, Burnie, Lindsay, Gai, Flo, Fran, Pip, Trish and Karen for spending time keeping our gardens and property neat, tidy and safe.

20.01.2022 10yrs ago today we took a drive to pick up a very special girl... we took a chance on a scrawny little 8yr old mare & who knew how that ugly duckling would grow into the gorgeous girl she is today! Happy Gotchya Day Daphne! Wed be lost without you

20.01.2022 Jack. You were more of a behind the scenes kinda guy, the kind of guy everyone wants in their corner. Slow & steady was your motto & graceful may not have been your style but your eyes were kind & your heart was made of gold. You hated the rain - the way you ran as fast as you could to the shelter at the first drop always got a laugh - but you loved both your 2 & 4 legged friends. Your patience & acceptance was what made you so good at your job, you dealt everything from riders mounting behind the saddle to unexpected exclamations from your anxious & excited riders... The yards will be be much quieter without your expectant chatter hoping that its your turn to go back to your paddock. Wherever you are I hope the grass is green & the fences are few & far between... RIP beautiful boy, you will be missed

18.01.2022 OMG!!! Bunnings BBQ's are back and today is the day!!!! We feel so honoured to be part of it again Thank you to Bunnings Rouse Hill for inviting us to be part of the first weekend back. Our team are set up and ready to go with new procedures to get used to but overall we are looking forward to being out and about in our local community, Come on down, have snag and grab a drink for breakfast, lunch or a sneaky snack!

18.01.2022 Oh what a week! Behind the scenes the horses have been checking out the property view from the Sensory Garden and of course our Occupational Therapists are continuing with Telehealth consultations! We have also been busy with Volunteer Virtual Catch ups and delivering some online quizzes and videos for our participants (get in touch if you missed your email to get the link).... Never a dull moment, we are all well too!

18.01.2022 Apollo and Bailey just wanted to say Hi.....Thinking of all our Participants, Volunteers and Supporters and looking forward to the day we will be back to doing what we love

17.01.2022 Our beautiful and kind Volunteers have finished our Rainbow of Kindness for b kinder day! We have had a great week reconnecting www.flyhighbillie.org #bkinder #kindness #billie #rdatalltimbers #connecting https://www.facebook.com/Flyhighbillie/

17.01.2022 Help us meet our Fundraising targets by playing with Play for Purpose....Ticket sales close 17th July 2020. Each year our hardworking Volunteers target $30,000 to help support funding our programs and this year we need our online supporters to fundraise and support us! Tickets are $10 and $5 from each ticket will support our Centre programs. There are some great prizes: 1st Prize: $250,000 Cashable Gold... 2nd Prize: $15,000 Travel Club Voucher 3rd Prize: $10,000 Myer Shopping Spree 4th Prize: $5,000 JB HI-FI Voucher 5th Prize: $1,000 BCF Voucher 6th - 25th Prizes: $500 Red Balloon e-Gift Voucher 26th - 45th Prizes: $100 JB HI-FI e-Gift Voucher 46th - 395th Prizes: $20 Woolworths WISH e-Gift Card Never before have our raffles had access to such great prizes!!!! Thanks for buying a ticket, sharing this post, championing our cause and keeping our Centre in your News Feed! Buy a ticket here: https://playforpurpose.com.au/riding-for-disabled-tall-timb See more

16.01.2022 Are you coming to our FREE Zoom Horses Birthday party tomorrow night??? Make sure you register in advance at the link below to reserve your space....... When: Aug 4, 2020 07:00 PM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney ... Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZ0qde-pqDItGdSfwSTT4FMHnFc6vGT5u

16.01.2022 The Easter Bunny came! The Easter Bunny came! The human has told us we cant eat ALL the chocolate at once, we think shes a spoil sport! Stay safe everyone

16.01.2022 So Nugget just came sulking to me because he stuck his nose in an ants nest... Goodbye 2020, it’s been a wild ride! While it is easy to say we are glad the year is over there are many things we can be proud of ourselves for, first & foremost for adapting to change & getting participants back through the gates & allowing our amazing horses to work their magic It wasn’t perfect, but we dug deep & to the best of our ability & that’s all we can ask for. So bring on 2021, hopefully with less restrictions, less ants nests, & many more smiles Happy New Year everyone!

16.01.2022 Are you looking to meet some new people? Does spending some time in the spring morning weather sound good? Why not join our Friday morning Garden Club? You can do all that, chat about all things green and colourful as well as help create a safe and welcoming environment for everyone in our Sensory garden! If this sounds like you then register at the link on our event page and we look forward to welcoming you to our Centre

16.01.2022 The Social Distance Wave! We used to do hot potato to learn about focus, timing, hand eye coordination and team work! COVID made us think outside the square to help us to continue developing these skills! Loved having these riders at the centre this week for their first ever ride

16.01.2022 Busy, Busy, Busy......Great to have some life back in the place! Our existing Volunteers have been participating in COVIDSafe training this week which will get us closer to getting back to doing what we love! The next step is getting the place spic and span, thanks to those that helped with our working bee :) Stay tuned for next weeks steps in our recovery plan!

15.01.2022 Buy a ticket and support the Centre. $5 from every ticket comes directly to the Centre..... https://playforpurpose.com.au/riding-for-disabled-tall-timb

15.01.2022 Only 9 more days to have some fun Playing for Purpose with RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers Centre.....help support our programs that help to develop abilities in our participants. Buy your tickets now, wouldnt it be nice if we sold the winning ticket for the $250,000 Cashable Gold First Prize!

15.01.2022 Over the next 2 weeks we will be congratulating our Participants on their achievements in 2020, it may have been a short program but it was so great to have some of them back! Lots of happy faces today!

13.01.2022 We will remember them, lest we forget.

13.01.2022 Karoo and Annie, two of our lovely characters, thought they would pop up and say "Hi". We have been enjoying the recent beautiful spring weather, although not so much todays installment.... If anyone is keen to pop in and help us with our gardens on Friday mornings, for an hour or two, send us and email Spring has certainly sprung!!!

13.01.2022 Thank you to Natalie, Maddy and Bianca, our Occupational Therapists who have helped us with our CommBank Grassroots grant over the last 3 years. We are so grateful for your contribution and support and we are very proud of the project. This project also incorporated our placement partnership with ACU Occupational Therapy faculty to develop program resources and training for our Coaches on lesson and activity planning.

13.01.2022 Happy Monday everyone!

13.01.2022 Saying goodbye is never easy, but a 15yr relationship is hard to give up. Ozzy spent half of his life teaching his human peers how to live in the moment, to laugh, to trust, to be resilient & above all to love. He even taught a few of his equine peers these things too, there wasn’t another horse he couldn’t be friends be with! While he did enjoy a short retirement he had worked in all of our programs at some point & this pony took a piece of many of our hearts with him when he crossed that rainbow bridge RIP Little Spotty One, you may be gone but you will never be forgotten

12.01.2022 HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! If you would like to join our Zoom party for the horses and see the behind the scenes antics of the Tall Timbers Horse team head over to our events page and get your free ticket, look forward to seeing you online on Tuesday 4th August @ 7pm.

12.01.2022 PSST.......Tomorrow is a big day for RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers......Dont forget to check out our FB post tomorrow.....save the date for 4th Aug@7pm

12.01.2022 National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australia's annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nations volunteers. This year it takes place from Monday 18 May to Sunday 24 May with the theme, Changing Communities. Changing Lives. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, hope to see you all again soon. #NVW2020 #waveforvolunteers

12.01.2022 Why not add Bunnings to your Christmas Shopping! Our Bunnings Team will be at Rouse Hill on Saturday serving up snags and drinks! So come on down and wish them a Merry Christmas! Thanks to the Bunnings team for your dedication all year and taking time out of your Christmas preparations and for our last fundraiser for the year. ... Photos: Pre and Post COVID

11.01.2022 Do you know someone that loves whipper snipping? What about a keen gardener that would love some fresh air? We need some help to prepare for our summer break and as they say, many hands make light work!!! Our volunteers chip away at our maintenance all year and we would love to give them some time off during the festive season to enjoy it with their families so we thought one last big day of mowing, cutting, snipping will be a great way to finish off the year. Register on the event tab below, hope to see you then

10.01.2022 Wishing all the awesome mother figures in our community a very special day filled with love & laughter

09.01.2022 National Volunteer Week (NVW) is Australias annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nations volunteers. This year it takes place from Monday 18 May to Sunday 24 May with the theme, Changing Communities. Changing Lives. Thank you to our wonderful volunteers, hope to see you all again soon. #NVW2020 #waveforvolunteers

08.01.2022 The reopening has been slow but steady in Term 3, we haven't been able to accommodate everyone who was part of our 2020 program but welcoming back, schools and Senses and Fun life skills in Term 4 has been great. We are working on a great 2021 in a new normal COVIDSafe way!

08.01.2022 Thank you for your service. Lest we forget xx

08.01.2022 The Hills Charity Gala Ball was unable to go ahead this year with COVID-19 restrictions so instead a small gathering of past recipients and supporters were invited for a special dinner. Thank you Raj, Hannah, Mag and team for your ongoing support to the community and congratulations on 20 years of Bivianos Dural. Kerry and Nicole were invited to represent Riding for the Disabled Tall Timbers Centre and had the pleasure of enjoying a delicious dinner in great company.

07.01.2022 2020 is the year of online! Our Occupational therapy is online, our Volunteer Catch ups are online and now our fundraising is going online! We are launching our Play for Purpose raffle as our major fundraising initiative this year. https://playforpurpose.com.au//riding-for-disabled-tall-ti Thanks in advance for supporting us x

07.01.2022 The ponies have been asking, youve been asking and weve been planning. GUESS WHAT???? From Monday 22nd we will be welcoming back our Volunteers to undertake COVIDSafe Procedure training in preparation for resuming our programs!!!!... Our COVIDSafe plan is underpinned by RDA(NSW) COVIDSafe and Ready Guidelines which we will be meeting through a staged return in conjunction with a capacity assessment based on the availability of Coaches and Volunteers. It may be some time before we are back to full capacity with concurrent programs operating onsite and we appreciate everyones patience and trust that with the safety of our Staff, Volunteers and Participants in mind we are working busily behind the scenes to increase our capacity as soon as it is safe to do so. Our Existing Volunteers should have received an email about the upcoming training sessions, if you have missed it send us an email for the info. Our Coaches will be working hard to contact everyone who has been registered as a participant in our 2020 programs, we hope to have been in contact with everyone to discuss program plans by the end of July. All enquiries regarding recommencement of programs should be emailed to [email protected] All Visitors to our Centre need to have a pre booked appointment, please contact the office to make an appointment. Thank you for your patience, looking forward to seeing you soon

07.01.2022 Keep COVIDSafe Sydney..... looking forward to the possibilities of Term 4! Here are some pics of some of the things that keep us heading in the right direction and action from behind the scenes. Have a great weekend everyone, if you are up for some reading this weekend, while enjoying the spring sunshine, checkout our website and latest newsletter!

07.01.2022 Thank you to Dural Pony Club members for fundraising during 2019 to buy some gifts for our horses! Such a lovely surprise

07.01.2022 It's not too late to register for our Free Zoom Birthday party which is on TONIGHT! Click on the event link and follow the ticket link to register. Register in advance to ensure you get a spot . Look forward to seeing you tonight.

06.01.2022 Its not too late to register for our Free Zoom Birthday party which is on TONIGHT! Click on the event link and follow the ticket link to register. Register in advance to ensure you get a spot . Look forward to seeing you tonight.

06.01.2022 Thank you to Bivianos for supporting Riding for the Disabled Assoc NSW Tall Timbers Centre and other worthy recipients with The Hills Annual Charity Gala Ball over the past eight years. Congratulations your 20th anniversary.

06.01.2022 Hi everyone! I know the buzz words at the moment are social distancing but thats not really my style... I love rubbing my face, grooming my paddock mate, making new friends & basically being in your pocket. Being kind in these crazy times is really important, be kind to yourself & be kind to each other, we will get through this! Luv Ozzy

06.01.2022 The Tall Timbers' Times November 2020 edition - https://mailchi.mp//the-tall-timbers-times-november-2020-e

05.01.2022 Welcome to 2021! We hope you enjoy our ride this year. ****Oops we spoke too soon. No BBQ at Bunnings this Saturday - stay safe and COVID free everyone x we will let you know about our next one**** To kick off the year we have our first Bunnings BBQ fundraiser this coming Saturday (fingers crossed). This will be our 3rd BBQ following the Bunnings COVID procedures so the team knows the drill. ... If you can't assist, we look forward to serving you a great snag sambo and drink Thanks for your support.

05.01.2022 We love achievements and this week behind the scenes we achieved so much!!!! We have been getting in touch with some of our Participants, recommencing some of our programs (where possible under strict conditions), COVID training for returning Volunteers, paddock renovations. mowing, whippersnipping, gardening, cleaning, Horse training, New Volunteer Inductions, Uni placements starting, meeting with local Business owners and our first ever HORSES BIRTHDAY ZOOM PARTY!!!!! Ther...e is so much more to come, looking forward to getting in touch with more participants next week and cant wait to share their achievements as they return to programs during August. Thank you to everyone who gives their little bit to support our Centre we couldnt achieve what we do without you.

05.01.2022 Happy Christmas from all the horses at RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers Centre.

02.01.2022 There is only 4 days until the Horses' Birthday...... We remember the days we could sing happy birthday with our horses and give them a birthday cake from our Participants...... We remember the days we held a Horses' Birthday Lunch, chatted with our friends, played games and bought raffle tickets to raise money for our their Birthday presents........ This year it is all new........So......in 1 weeks time we are hosting a Zoom Birthday party for our horse team..... You will get to see our Annual Horses' Birthday Video so register at the link on the event page by clicking the tickets button to come along from the comfort and safety of your own home! We would love to see you to celebrate the contribution they make to our programs and wish them all a very Happy Birthday! Tuesday 4th August @ 7pm on Zoom!

02.01.2022 We have had some wonderful feedback from our Occupational Therapy Clients, being a new program at the Centre its always nice to hear that it is having a positive effect in families lives. Our Centre been an NDIS provider since its inception in NSW and now with, our NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission Quality Audit complete, we are excited to announce we are now able to offer NDIS Participants more flexibility to utilise their plans at RDA(NSW) Tall Timbers Centre. Our Re...gistration groups have been updated and now include: 0106 Assist-Life Stage, Transition 0116 Innov Community Participation 0117 Development-Life Skills 0118 Early Childhood Supports 0125 Participate Community 0128 Therapeutic Supports 0136 Group/Centre Activities Our Occupational Therapists have increased their availability and are able to commence discussing how we can help your family with your therapy needs using Telehelath. Contact us know to get the ball rolling. Our Equine programs are currently on a break and we look forward to welcoming everyone back as soon as our COVIDSafe plans are finalised to keep our Staff, Volunteers and Participants safe. Take care!

02.01.2022 Lovely winters day for getting back into Volunteer and Horse training in a COVIDSafe way!

01.01.2022 How to instantly become the most unpopular person on the planet - tell the ponies theyre fat then shove worming paste down their throats! I do have to say its rare to have one try & worm themselves

01.01.2022 As we welcome back our Volunteers we are going to build a Rainbow of Kindness for b kinder day. Be kind to yourself and others www.flyhighbillie.org #bkinder #kindness #billie #rdatalltimbers #connecting