Love Horses? Come enjoy our horses and help people with disabilities ride!

Interested in working with people with challenges?

Join our vibrant volunteer community on a beautiful horse farm! Windrush Farm is a therapeutic riding center helping people with all kinds of challenges in their lives. Our mission is to promote confidence, independence and well-being in children and adults with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through therapeutic riding and horse related programs.

Side walkers assist our riders during their lesson, everything from helping them physically on the horse to being a spotter and giving them encouragement and emotional support. They focus on the rider and create enduring relationships with them!

Horse handlers are responsible for bringing our horses down to the arena for the lesson, and leading and managing the horse during the lesson and taking them back to the barn after the lesson. This position requires pervious expierence with horses. Horse handlers will need to learn our horsemanship techniques to keep handling skills consistent for our horses.

Barn Support helps with chores in the barn and getting horses groomed and tacked for classes. This position requires horse experience and volunteers must go through orientation & side walker training, horse handler training, be approved by our Barn Manager, and then once aopproved, go nthrough barn training.

The minimum age for horse handlers is 14.

We typically need volunteers for a minimum of an 1 hour and a half (the length of a class plus a little bit more). Therapeutic classes run Monday through Friday between 8:30- 6:30pm. We rarely have volunteer opportunities on the weekends.

Please email us at volunteer@windrushfarm.org. or sign up at https://www.windrushfarm.org/volunteer-registration/

Thank you for considering us as your volunteer opportunity!

https://www.windrushfarm.org/