Volunteering at the Barn
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We have opportunities for current students to get more hands-on experience with the horses and equestrian business. We feel these opportunities are an important part of the development of confident and capable equestrians.
These opportunities are available for current students that have at minimum completed our 10-week Introductory Program, or, similar number of hours of instruction in camps or other programs. This is because we need students to have a certain understanding for safety. When students first start volunteering, staff do spend quite of bit time with students, making sure that they comfortable with their tasks and capable of doing them safely. These tasks might include catching horses, grooming and tacking the horses up, leading horses in birthdays, picking poop, cleaning stalls, sweeping, cleaning tack and feeding horses grain and medicines. We do offer current* students a free trail ride or fun event for every 6 hours of volunteer hours accumulated. Practice rides can also be used for fun events like jump nights, polocrosse or other fun events priced at the practice ride rate (currently $56). Students must sign up for the hours on ECPro in order for the office to track them, or, they must have emailed their hours/attendance to the office. At the end of the month, tokens will be given to accounts for those with enough accumulated hours. Please note, in order to redeem volunteer hours for fun events or practice rides, students need to be enrolled in the current EDP session and have permission from their coach to do the fun event or practice ride. Students must use volunteer tokens with 60 days of receiving them or they are forfeit. *Special rate for winter holiday experience volunteering: every 2 pony ride shifts earn a practice ride or fun event *Special rate for summer camps: 2 groups lessons during the week of volunteering *Current means the student has taken a program/session or camp within the past 3 months. If a student has not taken a program or session with the barn in the past 3 months, their safety training may be out of date and we ask that you put a pause on volunteering until you are able to enroll again. *Students with many accumulated volunteer hours cannot do more than 2 practice rides between lessons |
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Coach Mentorship Program
We have a coach training program for ages 14 to 55 who want to become a coach in the equestrian industry! This work experience program includes hands on weekly lesson planning and supervised coaching experience, with the potential to be hired once you are completed! See our Coach Mentorship Program page for more details!
Volunteer Expectations and Rules
All volunteers and their parents are expected to read and sign our Junior Coach and Volunteer Professionalism and Expectations guidelines, in order to ensure clear understanding of what is expected by volunteers and the barn for volunteer opportunities. The fillable PDF can be emailed to us at [email protected].
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