Paddock Ponies CIC

14/05/2026

Adding to my own learning at Heavy Horse Camp last week with Bandit 🥰

09/03/2026

Low-Cost Counselling Slots Available

You may already know Charlotte - she’s part of our team!

Charlotte is now a Trainee Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, offering low-cost counselling sessions as part of her placement hours. She works in a person-centred way with compassion and acceptance, with a neurodivergence-affirming approach. Sessions are for those aged 16+ and are offered in blocks of 8 sessions, with the opportunity to extend.

If you’re experiencing challenges with work, relationships, loneliness, identity, stress or overwhelm, self-esteem, or are seeking personal growth, you don’t have to do it alone, Charlotte may be able to help.

Placement sessions (Saturday mornings):
09:00–10:00 and 10:30–11:30
£35 per session

Email [email protected] to find out more and to book.

23/02/2026

💗 hoping to support research in the future and adults and young people as much as we can,

Love from the team at Paddock Ponies,
Charlotte, Peanut, Jasper, Bandit, Festella and Lenny! Xx

Research matters because one well-designed study can change practice, improve welfare, and transform lives. Funding research fuels that ripple effect.

10/01/2026

The wonderful Bandit having a good roll in the snow! 🥰

30/12/2025

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Having horses when you’re neurodivergent is basically running a a very high budget wellbeing retreat for yourself without realising it. 🐴🧠

You thought you were buying a horse.
What you actually bought was an external hard drive for your nervous system.

• Routine?
People love to say horses thrive on routine.
Mine thrive on ✨vibes✨.
I turn up at wildly inconsistent times like a feral yard goblin and they’re like,
“Ah yes. This version of you again.” ⏰🧌 We LOVE it.

• Executive dysfunction?
You can ignore emails for weeks.
You will not ignore a horse staring at you like you personally ruined their day because you gave them 3 carrots and they know the 4th is in your pocket. 👁️🌾

• Sensory overload?
Phone = too loud.
People = too loud.
Horse chewing hay = perfect.
Brain finally stops buffering. 📵🌾

• Social energy at zero?
Great. Horses do not do small talk. Ideal.
They will stand with you in silence and call it quality time. 🤝

• Hyperfocus?
You only meant to “quickly check” them for the 4th time today.
It’s now dark, you’re covered in mud, and you’ve started a deep emotional audit of saddle pads and long lost bags of miscellaneous items. 🔦🫠

• Emotional regulation?
Horses sense your internal chaos before you’ve even parked the car.
They don’t judge it.
They just quietly refuse to cooperate until you stop spiralling. Iconic behaviour. 👑

• Masking?
Doesn’t work.
Horse sees straight through it like,
“Please stop pretending you’re fine. I can smell the cortisol.” 👃😐

They don’t care if your life is messy.
They don’t care if you’re late.
They don’t care if you haven’t replied to anyone in your WhatsApp for three days.

They care that you show up.
That you’re kind.
That the hay eventually appears. 🌾💛

It’s not structure.
It’s connection.
And somehow that’s exactly what our brains needed all along.

30/11/2025

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Pony Partnerships CIC: Equine Therapy Derbyshire update;
Our current availability for these part-funded sessions are:

Mondays with Bryony (EFP) (14-25) - 0930-1030 (fortnightly)

Wednesdays with Charlotte (EFL) - 1200-1300
1330-1430

Thursdays with Erika (EFL) - 0900-1000
1030-1130

Fridays with Naomi (EFP) (age 8-25) - 1330-1430 (weekly)
1500-1600 (fortnightly)

Please contact us at info@ponypartnerships to make a referral for 8 part-funded sessions.