Does equestrian vaulting work as a form of therapy?
Totally, the parents will tell you, in a big way. The therapy committee of the Borders General Hospital sends us youngsters and they come and see them with us and we talk about it and refer them. Some of them come for a period of time and when they’ve achieved their goals and they’re getting on well in the playground, they’ll send others for their place. But all the time these children are also beginning to integrate with others so a lot of them will go on and join mainstream, some of them won’t because they’ve decided another sport is the one for them. There is no hard and fast rule. You can come in at any level and leave at any level but we can serve from the very, very disabled right up to those that are going international with the same horse, the same resources which is powerful. Do you have to run Equibuddy like a business? Well it’s definitely a charity that runs as a business, I think all charities now have to really look and see what they’re doing. And we are very lucky that w
