President: HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
Patron: Ronke Phillips, Jay Rayner, Valerie Shawcross CBE

Ebony Horse Club closes during August. We will check emails and phone messages intermittently, please bear with us during the summer holidays.

Ebony has a Marathon runner and he needs your support!

Craig Williamson, our London Marathon man, finished the Marathon in 3:04:26! A really incredible achievement. Well done, Craig!! Hope he's now having a well earned rest.

There's still a chance to show your support for Craig and Ebony by visiting his sponsorship page which will be live until the end of July. Honestly, every little bit does make a difference.

CraigWilliamsEbonyFundRaiserPage

A big thank you to Craig for an amazing result and to everyone who has shown their support so far.

Did you know? All marathons commemorate the run of the soldier Pheidippides from a battlefield at the site of the town of Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C. Pheidippides delivered the momentous message "Niki!" ("victory"), then collapsed and died! If only he had found a horse...

Ebony on the BBC - April 2010

Ebony's young riders featured on the BBC News in April in a report which highlighted Hoof's investment in projects that expand access to horse riding for inner city children, like Ebony Horse Club. Follow the link here to see the report. The riding school featured is Kingston Riding Centre where our advanced riders have lessons.

To see the clip, click here

Funding for the Riding Centre announced - Dec 2009

Last month, Ebony received some really great news. It was announced on 17 December that Hoof - the Olympic legacy fund for equestrian sport - would be giving up to £200,000 towards the build of our riding centre. This now takes our overall funds raised so far to £400,000.

Please read below for further information about Hoof and its Olympic legacy plans.

17th December 2009

Hoof, the Olympic legacy project to the London 2012 Games, set up by the British Equestrian Federation, today outlines its plans for the next three years, to make horses more accessible to all Londoners.

Hoof was awarded £750,000 funding by Sport England this year for a three year campaign which will centre on;

• A campaign to make riding in London more accessible to all regardless of social or financial status
• A schools riding programme to provide opportunities for children to experience the pleasures and benefits of riding for the first time, which will be led by the British Horse Society
• A series of investments to provide new as well as improve existing facilities for riding in the city
• Representing the view of the equestrian community within London to ensure that all the benefits of equestrian sport, being at the centre of the games in 2012, are maximized

"Hoof will support the Ebony Horse Club with up to £200,000 of capital investment. Ebony is a leading light in equestrian charity work in London, bringing life skills and personal achievement through horse riding and care, to some of the most disadvantaged children and young people growing up in deprived communities in Brixton's Coldharbour Ward. The new facility, which requires significant fundraising in addition to the Hoof investment, will enable the horse club to expand the number of children it can support enabling many more young people to enjoy the unique positive attributes that working with horses brings."

Rose Spearing, Development Director of the Ebony Horse Club welcomed the move;

"The BEF, through Hoof, is taking the lead in the horse world in reaching out in a major way to urban youth and in doing so, showcasing the unique contribution that horses can make to the lives of individuals and communities."