Below you can find news from the region.
2021
September 2021
Congratulations to everyone who qualified to enter the RDA Virtual National Championships this year. If you missed the live streaming, all classes can still be seen on YouTube.
Click on the links below to see the results from all the Classes.
National Champs 2021 Saturday-Results-Sheet
National Champs 2021 Sunday-Results-Sheet
The South Region Magazine is available below. We hope you enjoy it.
SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2021
Cancellation of National Championships
After further deliberation between the organisers and the RDA UK Board of Trustees, and consultation with the wider RDA community, we have sadly decided not to run a face-to-face National Championships this year. There is a letter on MyRDA from Championships Lead, Anne Coney and Chief Executive Ed Bracher, which goes into more detail, so do download and share this with your volunteers and participants. You can find it here: www.myrda.org.uk/runningyourgroup/national-championships/#
Virtual Championships
In better news, we will definitely be holding a ‘Virtual Championships’, which may even allow more riders and drivers to take part. Details of this will be circulated as soon as possible.
If you have any questions about the Championships, please contact Fiona Harris fharris@rda.org.uk
SAD NEWS – We were absolutely devastated to hear the sad news that one of our Region’s wonderful volunteers, Ray died of COVID on 27th January. He was a Volunteer with the Lambourn Group for nine years and many of you will remember him with the South Region Publicity Caravan, which he looked after and ran for five years, between 2015 and 2020, visiting many shows and events around the region, including the National Championships at Hartpury.
2020
A TRIBUTE TO SPECKLES – ONE OF SOUTH REGION’S GREATEST RDA PONIES
TAKE PART (AT HOME!)
RDA UK have Put together some fun activities to download and print to keep you busy while we are unable to ride and drive during the temporary shut down of all RDA activities. We hope you enjoy them.
Colouring In Pony Grooming Kit Wordsearch No. 1 Grooming Kit Wordsearch No. 2 Grooming Kit Wordsearch No. 3 Horse Care 1 Worksheet Horse Care 2 Worksheet RDA Wordsearch Writing Acrostic Poem Writing My RDA Writing RDA Poem
2019
SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER 2019 – 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
GOLDEN GATHERING
South Region gathered together to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of RDA at Abingdon in October.
Around 100 coaches and volunteers had the chance to see the signed pennants from 36 groups in the region and of course the event was also marked with delicious Anniversary Cupcakes; one for each of the groups in the region and a few to spare!
ROYAL WINDSOR HORSE SHOW RDA FANCY DRESS COMPETITION 2019
What a fantastic and colourful spectacle the visitors to the Royal Windsor Horse Show were treated to when the Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) Fancy Dress Competition took place on Thursday sponsored by the Lions Club of Windsor. The theme this year was Countries and each group had obviously worked extremely hard to get the riders and horses dressed up to such a high standard.
Congratulations to the Park Lane Group for their winning ridden entry depicting Wales and to The Stella Hancock Driving Group for their winning Spain entry.
NEW AND EXCITING GRASSROOTS ENDURANCE LEAGUE
For more information – RDA Endurance Grassroots League
CONGRATULATIONS to Felicity Smettem who has been Awarded with Volunteer of the Year 2018 for the South Region. Very well deserved Felicity. Thank you very much for everything you do for the Region.
