IN May 2020 Here4Horses, a County Durham-based equine charity, was granted charitable status and a year later to mark the occasion, a dressage competition, hosted by Claire Robinson of Robinson’s Equiteach, was held at Tunstall Farm in Nunthorpe.
With a total of 77 entries, classes ran across both Saturday and Sunday of the May Bank Holiday weekend.
Besides rescuing, rehabilitating and educating the public about the care of horses, this charity works closely with the RSPCA and currently has 40 equines in its care, as well as having helped many more over the last three years.
Chair of trustees Dr Nicola Endersby said that once a horse or pony is taken into the charity's care, Here4Horses will always retain ownership, so even those who move on to new homes can never be sold, or gifted to anyone else.