Stepney Bank Stables

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Stepney Bank Stables, Newcastle’s Inner City Community Horse Project is unique. Opened in 1992 we are the only such project in the country. We started with only 2 donkeys and now has around 20 horses and ponies

Originally established in 1992 by the City Farm Byker we became an independent organisation in 1999 and a registered charitable company shortly afterwards.

The aim of the Project is to use the horse as a tool , to motivate, educate and pass on key social skills. Despite being a strange concept this has proven an effective, long term method of reaching disadvantaged and hard to reach groups. Through doing this we have enabled many individuals from deprived backgrounds to develop new interests and gain self-esteem to a level where they can seek further training or employment.

The Stables has managed to grow and survive despite never having had any long term core funding until February 2004! Our survival has depended upon income from rides, and the generosity of the public and local grant givers and charitable trusts. Without this, and the commitment and support of our volunteers, Stepney Bank Stables would have ceased to exist.