Ebony’s Blog Life at The Shelley Centre At last the sun!
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For however short a time, let’s enjoy the blue sky and the welcome warmth in the stable yard. My photos this month show boys from Chalk Hill School in Sudbury enjoying their Thursday morning at the Centre. You’ll see they like chatting to the horses’ heads. Funnily enough none of the lads is keen to pick hooves, groom, or sweep up poos whilst visiting us! Part of their therapy is to learn responsibility, gentleness around the ponies, good manners and listening skills. No swearing allowed, always thank the helpers and your own horse after a ride and of course if you don’t listen to instructions you can come a big cropper. Their Coach and our chairman, Jan, stands no nonsense and she and her team thoroughly enjoy helping these boys to a better attitude and building confidence in their own abilities. When all six boys turn up it’s a great ride to watch. I like seeing six of our live herd in the arena together, with competent riders aboard, no side walkers, and Jan putting them through their paces. One photo shows the whole ride setting out to enjoy a road hack, something our able bodied riders enjoy enormously. Shelley is such a great place to spend time in; even though I never get out of my ‘room’ I hear all about it and can guess our lads enjoy being out of the arena for a change. So do their mounts! Out on the roads we have to have our volunteers dressed in high viz jackets, obviously. At this time of year that’s no problem, but in high summer something about the jackets attracts black flies, and they get covered in the little perrishers. So Spring weather is just perfect for us all. Don’t forget we have 11 animals here all producing a wonderful by-product for gardeners, and if you’d like some for your compost heap, you know where we are! Bring your own bucket, and make a small donation to the Centre and the horses will keep on producing: win win! Well, behind all the fun for our clients there is the vast body of volunteer work that keeps us all going. The fundraising team would like you to join it on Saturday April 25th for a ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ charity quiz night at Polstead Village Hall. Tickets, which include supper, available from Chris Southgate on 58aldham@gmail.com for £15 and you can now pay on-line! See, we are moving with the times at last. Forward planning has to be a part of corporate enterprise, even here, so we’d love to welcome anybody with board room expertise to meet our trustees and discover if there could be a role for you here. I, Ebony, would personally welcome you. Website: www. shelleyrda.com Telephone: 01473 824172
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A fundraising event was held on Wednesday 5th February 2020 at the Café Masala, Hall Street, Long Melford, Sudbury, Suffolk.CO10 9HZ. The total monies raised was £257.00 This event was organized by Abdul Shahid (Shah) proprietor of the CAFÉ` MASALA and Ray Cook poppy appeal organiser for Long Melford and District. This lunch was to held to recognize the British Commonwealth and all allied forces of religion, colour and creed who lost members of their armed forces in both world wars and other conflicts since. This was Shah’s idea to remember all nationalities that lost citizens in conflict. This was the first one of this type of event that we have held and we are hoping to hold more events like this in the future. We would like to thank every one who supported this event, shops and businesses that gave raffle prizes.
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