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During 2021 Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May) plans for a new vital resource to help riders get more support have been revealed.
Mental health charity Riders Minds, which celebrates its first birthday this week, will launch a new text and web chat service in the near future. The charity was founded by the late event rider Matthew Wright and his wife, Victoria, with support from a number of companies, and with the British Grooms Association and Equestrian Employers Association acting as consultants.
Following 38-year-old Matthew’s death on 15 February, supporters donated thousands of pounds to the charity, which has been used to fund the new service.
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Turnout Like the Pros, in the latest webinar from HorseTribe.
Former professional groom Liz Daniels will share her years of experience and inside tips and secrets to successful horse turnout in a webinar this week.
Turnout Like the Pros webinar is among a series being presented by HorseTribe, an initiative of equestrian festival HorseFest. The HorseFest vision is for the festival to live all year round through the HorseTribe community, offering a safe space to ask questions, learn, share experiences and chat with other like-minded people.
Scottish-based Daniels runs her own equestrian marketing and PR company and works for the British Grooms Association as their communications and membership engagement manager.
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Darby Bonomi, PhD
Clinical psychologist and keen horse rider Darby Bonomi is presenting a free, four-week webinar to help riders develop more resilience.
The course starts on February 1, 2021, and offers weekly live webinars with recordings, weekly at-home assignments to guide progress, a private group page to share progress and thoughts with others, and the chance to ask Darby questions directly.
The course is supported by groups including the British Grooms Association, the US Eventing Association, Equestrian Sports New Zealand, and the US Hanoverian Society.
The weekly schedule is:
Week 1 The Foundation: Understanding resilience and its building blocks. Defining what it means to you and how to apply it in riding and life.
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Grooms planning to travel to Europe for work after 1 January have been urged to be aware of key changes that will apply after Brexit as well as implications of the coronavirus.
With no trade deal as yet to apply after Britain’s departure from the EU, and the 31 December leaving date approaching, it looks likely that the European health insurance card (EHIC) will no longer be valid.
This means that from 1 January, Brits will not be eligible for free or very cheap healthcare, as is currently the case for EHIC holders.