Horseworld celebrates Discovery

STAFF at Horsworld are celebrating having doubled the number of students attending a ground-breaking project which uses horses to help young people with emotional, behavioural and learning issues.

Discovery courses at the Whitchurch charity, provide first-hand experience of working with horses. Combined with classroom-based studies in numeracy, literacy and art, the courses are available to young people from across the region.
"End-of-year figures show that demand for Discovery has doubled over the last 12 months," said course leader Sharon Howell. 
"In the past year we've had 361 young people attending our courses: averaging more or less one-a-day for the year.
"Many of these young people have been able to return to mainstream schooling after attending Discovery, or have gone on to college courses, something which would previously have been out of the question for these individuals."
But Ms Howell said funding difficulties inhibit the project's further growth.
"Our main current restriction is funding," she said. "There is easily enough demand to fill these courses seven days a week but funding for this has proved to be our main obstacle. 
"In the future we hope we are able to secure enough funding to be able to help everybody who applies for the courses. We're always on the lookout for businesses or individuals to sponsor aspects of the programmes – in doing so, they can help change lives."

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