Personal Development through horsemanship
HorseBack UK inspires positive change, encourages confidence and self-esteem, and promotes recovery in an individual. Using horsemanship and outdoor activities, we deliver nationally accredited personal development and wellbeing programmes which offer our participants new coping strategies, life skills and the tools to build resilience.
HorseBack UK is a charity set up to empower service personnel and veterans suffering from life-changing injuries and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and to aid them on their road to recovery.
The success of the first five years of courses for military personnel has allowed HorseBack UK to extend its remit and is now able to focus on the wider community.
Teenagers participate in a 15-day SQA Level 4 Certificate in Personal Development Through Horsemanship.
Over the past three years HorseBack UK has established a unique leadership and team building experience.
In the late summer of 2020 whilst chaos and fear reigned due to the COVID 19 pandemic Jock wanted to help those who had specifically been affected by it within the NHS and Care Home Systems.
We deliver the Team Programme, a twelve week course for young people between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five.
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🐎 🇬🇧 🏴 Week 9 and plenty to be proud of!
Under the watchful eye and direction of Taff Teague the Programme Lead, our HorseBack UK Youth Development Programme, delivered in partnership with The King's Trust, enters week 9 today after a physically demanding week 8 residential.
Last week saw our young people tackle navigation, hill walking and cycling, culminating in a cross country mountain bike expedition through the mountains. 🚵♂️🏔️
The learning didn’t stop at their accommodation. Budgeting, buying food, taking turns to cook and clean, and preparing lunches were all part of the challenge. Sharing an unfamiliar living space meant learning to compromise, take responsibility and look out for one another.
And this Wednesday, they’re going military style! 🪖 They’ll be camping out under bivis with sleeping bags and roll mats, with military issued rations for their scran!
They’re taking on this challenge as a charity fundraiser and have already raised an amazing £2,900! 👏 If you’d like to support their efforts with a donation, the link is in the comments below. 💚
This week, they’ll also complete their Level 4 Personal Development Through Horsemanship phase while finishing their Dùthchas Award in conservation. 🌿
By the end of the 12 week programme, they will leave with:
🎓 Level 4 HBUK Personal Development Through Horsemanship Certificate (SQA)
🎓 Level 3 King’s Trust Personal Development and Employability Certificate (SQA)
🌿 Cairngorm Dùthchas Gold Award in conservation
🧠 Training in the 12 Decider Skills for managing stress and anxiety
Alongside those achievements, they’re building confidence, independence and practical skills to take into their next chapter.
We’re incredibly proud of you all. As our Course Director Jason Hare says “Just keep going team, one foot in front of the other, there is no such thing as can’t!”💚
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Still a couple of places for the course starting in the New Year.
We are really excited to offer this qualification to those already working in equine assisted services, as well as anyone looking to take their first steps into this rewarding field.
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🫡 25 years of service
Comrades remembered. Sacrifice never forgotten.
Today, HorseBack UK’s Course Director, Jason Hare, attended Crathie Kirk for the laying up of the old Colours of 45 Commando Royal Marines.
For Jay, a former Royal Marines Commando who served with 45, this was deeply personal. He stood on parade on Plymouth Hoe in 2001 when these very Colours were presented alongside those of 40 and 42 Commando by HRH Prince Philip, then Captain General Royal Marines, on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Twenty-five years later, they have reached their resting place.
Crathie Kirk, just outside Balmoral, is where the Royal Family worship when staying at the estate. With its foundation stone laid by Queen Victoria in 1893, it provides a fitting setting for this moment of remembrance.
Colours are consecrated ceremonial flags representing a unit’s history, honour and loyalty to the Crown. Once rallying points in battle, they embody the service and sacrifice of generations of Royal Marines.
Today, above all, was about the people who served beneath them. Those who fell in battle and never returned to their families. Those who came home with severe, life-changing physical injuries. Those carrying psychological wounds, often unseen, whose struggles continue long after operations have ended. And the families who have borne so much alongside them.
For Jay and many others present, these memories have names and faces. The passing of 25 years does nothing to diminish their significance.
The Royal Marines Colour Party, as one would expect, looked exceptionally smart, as did members of the Royal Marines Association’s East of Scotland, Highland and Grampian branches. Their bearing, turnout and pride did the Corps, the veteran community, and the occasion proud.
Reverend Kenneth MacKenzie, alongside 45 Commando’s Padre, made the service poignant, thought provoking and special. With the Commanding Officer’s and Regimental Sergeant Major‘s stirring words adding to a deeply moving occasion.
With new Colours presented in June by His Majesty King Charles III, the current Captain General Royal Marines, the old Colours are now entrusted to Crathie Kirk. The duty to remember those who served beneath them remains with us all.
Per Mare, Per Terram.
Lest we forget.
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