The Pony Club at Park Lane Stables

The Pony Club is an international voluntary youth organisation for youngsters interested in ponies and riding. It was founded in England in 1929 and is now represented in 18 countries and has a membership exceeding 100,000.

Park Lane Stables is an official Pony Club Centre where children can learn about horses and pony care as well as improving their riding, all whilst working towards a variety of badges and achievements.

The Pony Club Training structure encourages Members to take tests which enables them to learn progressively about horse and pony care and riding. The tests are taken at recommended ages and are designed with certain objectives in mind.

Badges and achievements which can be gained at Park Lane Stables include:

Mini Achievement Badges 

For those not quite old enough to take Achievement Badges and are designed to instill the basic principles of the main achievement badges topics such as grooming, point of the pony, poisonous plant and birds

Achievement Badges

An advancement on the mini achievement badges and include more advanced topics such as first aid, loading, lungeing and tack cleaning plus non-equine badges such as brid watching and farming

There are lots of other achievements and events for chldren to take part in once they are a Pony Club Member for more details visit the Pony Club site