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About the Pony Club
The Pony Club is an international voluntary youth organisation for youngsters interested in ponies and riding.
It was founded in England in 1929 and is now represented in 18 countries and has a membership exceeding 110,477.
The Pony Club was granted independent charitable status on 1st January 1997. It is the largest association of riders in the world.
A majority of the most successful riders in all disciplines of British equestrian competition have been Members of The Pony Club.
The objectives are:
- to encourage young people to ride and to learn to enjoy all kinds of sport connected with horses and riding
- to give instruction in riding and horsemastership and to educate Members to look after and to take proper care of their animal
- to promote the highest ideals of sportsmanship, citizenship and loyalty to create strength of character and self-discipline
Membership is available to children until the end of The Pony Club Year or the Centre Membership Subscription Year, whichever is relevant, in which they become 21 years old.
The Pony Club Office is at Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, from where The Pony Club is managed by a permanent staff responsible to the governing body - Council. The Pony Club Council consists of up to fifteen Members appointed by the Council, up to six co-opted Members, selected from time to time for their special expertise, and one elected representative from each Pony Club Area. Area Representatives serve for a term of three years and co-opted Members, Chairman of Committees serve for 2 years.
Volunteers are the backbone of The Pony Club.
Find out how the Pony Club came to be and how it has changed over its 75 year history.
The Pony Club UK is split into 19 regions known as Areas each with numerous Branches and Centres within them.
