South Buckinghamshire Riding for the Disabled Association is a UK charity (registered charity number 1073721) promoting the aims of the Riding for the Disabled Association Incorporating Carriage Driving (registered charity number 244108), by providing people with the opportunity to ride to benefit their health and well-being in the south Buckinghamshire area.

Riding is widely recognised as an excellent form of therapy - building self-confidence, improving concentration and, at the same time, providing recreation, education and sport.

We have over 100 disabled riders, ranging in age from two to past retirement, who use the Group's facilities on a regular basis. Our riders are private individuals, children attending special schools, and teenagers and adults from residential homes and day training centres.

The instructors at South Bucks RDA Group, in partnership with physiotherapists and all our other volunteers, work with riders who have a variety of disabilities. These include: learning difficulties, cerebral palsy, spina bifida, paraplegia, rheumatoid arthritis, Down's syndrome, epilepsy, deafness, blindness and limb amputation.

All of the Group's riders are encouraged to achieve - whether this be sitting up for a count of 10, competing at regional, national and international levels, or taking proficiency tests in riding and stable management.

All who attend South Bucks RDA Group get great pleasure from riding and just being with horses; as well as benefiting from learning experiences and friendship in safe and supportive surroundings.

News from Beijing - News from Beijing - News from Beijing

Thursday 11 September 2008: The best possible news just in from Beijing - Group rider, Sophie Christiansen, riding the Para Dressage Training Trust's Lambrusco III, has won Gold in the Individual Freestyle Test.

Sophie's win is the perfect end to a Paralympic Games which have seen the British Equestrian Squad dominate the medals with five Golds and Five Silvers: Team Gold for Sophie, Lee Pearson, Anne Dunham and Simon Laurens, plus two Individual Golds for Lee, Individual Gold plus Silver each for Sophie and Anne, plus Silver for Simon and British Squad colleagues Felicity Coulthard and Ricky Balshaw.

Find out more in this Special Report from the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games.

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