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Horse Power for Ability is the trade name of Horses for Health CLG. We are a not-for-profit organisation. Chair: Dr Dorothee Debuse

Registered office: Heather Lodge, Edlingham, Alnwick, Northumberland, NE66 2BL, UK. Tel: 01665-574727

“Life equals movement and movement equals life.”

We provide a specialist physiotherapy service in Northumberland

using horses to help people with movement disorders by

enhancing their movement experience and movement ability.

Hippotherapy (from Greek hippos = horse) is a specialist physiotherapy intervention that

makes use of the movement impulses of a walking horse to correct and improve movement

in the person on horseback. Research has shown that hippotherapy is particularly

beneficial for people with neurological disorders that affects their ability to move.

We provide a hippotherapy service to children and adults with a range of movement

disorders. Our chair and lead physiotherapist has extensive research and personal

experience of cerebral palsy and hippotherapy. This makes Horse Power for Ability unique

in the UK, probably world-wide.

NEWS:

Vallum Farm, on the Military Road some 5 miles West of Heddon

on the Wall, hosted a Family Fun Day on Sunday, 18th July in aid

of Horse Power for Ability. This was to generate funds that will

alllow us to give more patients access to hippotherapy. And raise

funds we did! Thanks to the tremendous suspport of Vicky and

Peter, and lots of other businesses and/or individuals who offered

their services, goods and time on the day, and all the visitors who

came to support us, we raised just over £2000! The weather was

kind to us, and I think everybody who came had a good time.

1000 thanks everybody for your support!