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, © 2011
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Equine facilitated
occupational therapy
Dene House Farm is a small complex of fully wheelchair accessible
holiday cottages and a B&B, as well as a very well equipped leisure
complex. It is owned and run by the wonderful Wilson Family, and only
some 20 minutes away from where we practise hippotherapy. Therefore,
it is the ideal place to stay for people who come for residential courses of
hippotherapy.
Henri Plag is an inspiring riding instructor and horse behaviourist/trainer
in Northumberland. She combines Natural Horsemanship principles with
successful German dressage training and is excellent at instructing
everybody to their individual ability and potential.
Heel and Toe is a charity in Spennymoor, Co. Durham, providing free
Conductive Education, a famous Hungarian approach to helping children
with disabilities improve their function and ability.
Marianne Newstead is an occupational therapist who uses horses in
occupational therapy practice - not occupational therapy for horses, but
horses for people. She is particularly interested in how horses can help
young people become more aware of their own behaviour. Marianne is
also a BHS riding instructor and runs own-a-pony days for children. You
can contact Marianne on 07810-511160 or at enquiries@ponyschool.org
This German master saddler specialises in equipment for lungeing,
vaulting and hippotherapy. We are delighted with their hippotherapy roller,
as well as their service and advice when we bought it.
The German Therapeutic Riding Association is a world leader in the field
of the use of horses to benefit human physical, emotional/mental and
social health. Some content of their very informative website is available
in English.
Headway Wearside aims to provide information, support and social
activities for people and families affected by brain injury in the Sunderland
area. Several members of their members came to visit us in October.
