About Us
The Pony Paddocks is a new, small and relaxed home-based centre in a calm & tranquil environment.
We offer a calming and supportive space for young people, with an array of tailor-made Holistic Learning & Care Farm programmes, sessions & events to suit an extensive variety of needs and requirements.
Holistic Learning is an alternative approach that focuses on all aspects of a persons growth, not just their academic achievements, recognising the importance of their social, emotional, physical and spiritual development.
Care farm programmes are therapeutic programmes that use farming practices to help people with health, social, or educational needs. Care farms can offer a range of activities, including:
●Social interaction
●Skills-building
●Purposeful work
●Therapeutic interactions with animals
●Horticulture
●Forest school activities
●Education and work-based experience
●Equine Assisted Learning
Equine Assisted Learning is a unique and highly effective learning approach.
With a horse, pony or donkey as a teacher, alongside a trained and experienced human facilitator, participants of Equine Assisted Learning will be guided through a journey of learning and understanding via planned and spontaneous experiences.
On a care farm, young people can improve their health and wellbeing or gain certifications and skills. For some young people, care farming can be a path back to mainstream education.