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Communities For Horses (CFH) is a registered charity founded in 2017. It was set up in order to continue the innovative and pioneering outreach work of a recently closed organisation called Communities Horse and Pony Scheme (CHAPS), which had been funded by the National Lottery.
Our team includes former CHAPS’s outreach officer, Lisa Lanfear, and other members of the previous team.
We work in partnership with local authorities and other organisations to deliver projects and approaches which address the root causes of equine welfare issues.
Community Grazing Project
Our unique education programmes are tailored to meet the needs of horse owners in the deprived areas in which we work.
The main topics that we cover are:
By improving the equine handling and knowledge of horse owners, we also motivate them to learn new skills and improve their self-confidence. Previous work has shown that this can have far-reaching benefits: stronger “soft skills” and even improved performance back in school. Many of the horse owners we support are children or young adults under 25. In some cases, they have special educational needs which schools are often not well equipped to deal with. For this reason, our educational programmes are designed to serve as a good complement for either school education or home schooling and have proven very effective for children with special educational needs such as ADHD, Dyslexia and similar learning disabilities.
Case Study: A difficult child, an encouraging change
Read more about Communities For Horses and the national curriculum.
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