The Horse Course is a world leader in well-evidenced high impact equine-assisted interventions. Having started in prisons, we now run a busy community-based HQ in Weymouth, Dorset, an area of high deprivation, specialising in helping people with complex challenges and needs to achieve proven outcomes. Employing 6 facilitators and 14 horses, we work with young people from 8 years old, families and adults. In Dorset we help over 700 people with each year, and we do not charge the participants – our funding comes from a mix of commissioning and charitable grants/donations.

We also provide Alternative Provision for young people out of education, accredited qualifications, and supported volunteering through our Working Wellies project. Our Non-verbals Toolbox training is a unique approach to emotions and relationships which we offer to professionals and the public in face-to-face workshops or online.

We train and assess others to replicate our programmes and we work hard to support them in setting up their own centres around the UK. Independent centres running our programmes are becoming increasingly busy and more are opening. We monitor their impact data to ensure they are as effective as we are, and provide ongoing training.