why we depend on donations

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

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The high staff-patient ratio, the involvement of horses

and the need to hire equine facilities make

hippotherapy quite costly compared to other

physiotherapy interventions.

Ideally, we would like to make this wonderful and

effective specialist physio-therapy treatment with and

on the horse available to clients who can benefit for

free. We regret that at the moment we are not in a

position to do that, as the NHS does not currently pay

for the cost of hippotherapy.

However, we have chosen different ways in which to

keep the cost of hippotherapy to our clients to a

minimum. First and foremost, we are a charitable not-

for-profit organisation.

We also subsidise our service heavily with our own

time; for example, we do not charge for the time we

spend on the hippotherapy-specific ongoing training of

our horses. Further-more, our clinical specialist

physiotherapist works for less than half of the hourly

rate she would expect to earn in private practice. She

also makes her horses available for hippotherapy for

free.

If we did not charge for the service we provide at the

level we do, we would not be able to provide the

service, and patients could not benefit. This is why we

appeal for sponsorship/donations.

Please click on the links on the left to find out more

about what we seek sponsorship for and how you may

be able to support our work. Alternatively, please