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Kingston Maurward Equestrian

Description:

We are a vibrant and growing land-based college, with a beautiful and inspiring campus in Dorchester, Dorset. We specialise in providing a wide range of post-GCSE Equine full-time courses, part-time courses, and apprenticeship to help you grow your career. Kingston Maurward College is graded as a GOOD College by Ofsted. We run open mornings throughout the year for potential students to meet our lecturers, instructors, and horses. Dates and details can be found on our website.

Set in a beautiful 750 acre parkland estate, our equestrian centre offers the very best experience in equitation and education. In addition to our full- and part-time courses, we offer:

  • BHS approved livery yard
  • BHS approved training and exam centre
  • BHS approved facility centre – available for hire (including indoor arena, outdoor arena, and show jumping course)
  • Competition venue (dressage and show jumping, affiliated and unaffiliated)
  • Centre-membership Pony Club for children

Our superb facilities, welcoming atmosphere, and efficient and highly qualified staff will provide you with an exceptional experience.

We offer a range of livery options which are as follows: Working Livery, DIY Livery, Part Livery, and Full Livery with and without exercise. We have permanent stabling for 36 horses, with additional facilities including year-round turnout, a fully alarmed tack room and rug room, horse walker, solarium and shower facility, feed room, and storage for hay and haylage. All livery owners have access to our fantastic facilities and our staff are always on hand to offer guidance and support.

We run BHS training courses for external clients, from Stage 1 up to Stage 4 and Preliminary Teaching training. We are also an approved BHS exam centre. In addition to BHS training, we offer a wide range of part-time courses including clipping, equine first aid, anatomy and dissection.

We provide top-class facilities and services to competitors and clients of all levels. All our facilities are available and can be hired for shows, rallies, and training purposes. We have an international-sized indoor arena with training mirrors and a gel-track surface. Our seating gallery holds 250 people and we also offer a fully stocked canteen. The arena is equipped with competition standard lighting, jump store, judge’s box, PA and sound system, and timing equipment. Our outdoor arena measures 65m x 65m and features an all-weather surface, floodlights, and Duralock portable fencing to separate training/competition areas.

We regularly host affiliated and unaffiliated dressage and show jumping competitions, enabling us to cater for both ends of the competitor spectrum, from young children to professional riders. We provide a professional but relaxing environment, which makes us a very popular competition centre. All our competitions can be entered online via Equo Events. Competitions are held on a Sunday and we also run Clear Round show jumping on the first and second Thursday of each month. Schedules and details of all our events can be found on our website and Facebook page.

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