Community News
October 2020
A Royal visit for Shelley RDA
The Centre has had such an honour bestowed on it: a Covid friendly visit by HRH The Princess Royal, on September 11th. The palace asked if we would mind having her at relatively short notice as she had regretted having to cancel her visit in April.
Shelley swung into action and our Chairman Jan and Lyn worked hard to make the visit a great success. Unusually for a Royal Visit, numbers were strictly limited so priority was given to as many riders as possible and those Coaches who give their time and energy to instruct our riders. All the usual officials from the County, our wonderful sponsors and donors, the regular volunteer army and many other deserving folk had to be left out. As a result the visit concentrated on those 30 people who were there, and of course, the horses. Everyone had a chance to chat with Princess Anne, and she was most interested in the stories she heard. We do have some of our riders back in the saddle at last but it has taken a great deal of organisation. A new approach was needed, riders have to stay in their cars and wait for their hat and boots to be brought to them there, they may not come in the yard at all. A new entrance gate has been set up beside a hand sanitising dispenser and our riders now walk past the dung heap to get round to the mounting block. Lucky them. Our volunteers take on the task of delivering uncontaminated boots and a hat to each rider as he/she arrives, and the parent or carer helps get them dressed. After the ride has finished the carer or parent takes off the things that belong to us here, and places them on the ‘red’ table outside the stable block. That’s where a volunteer collects them for deep cleaning. Then between rides all the tack is disinfected and cleaned by other helpers. Its labour intensive but taking these precautions has allowed us to open up again. Here’s hoping all our readers stay fit and healthy as we reach the Autumn of this most peculiar year. Good luck everybody
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