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A local not-for-profit project based in Tameside. Also offering workshop for all the community

With the help of our ponies & nature, we help people build confidence, develop life skills, improve emotional wellbeing, and overcome some of lifes challenges.

03/11/2026

Muddy ponies are happy ponies 🐴 🙌 🥰

02/11/2026

Please think of our ponies when lighting fireworks this week. 🐴🎆

With Bonfire Night approaching, we're asking our local community to please be mindful of the horses and ponies living in the fields at The Wild Mane Project.

Our ponies live outdoors 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and the fields are their home.

We understand that people want to enjoy fireworks, but we're asking that you please do not light or aim fireworks in the direction of our fields.

Fireworks can be extremely frightening for horses, and sudden loud bangs and flashes can cause them to panic, potentially resulting in serious injuries.

Please also be mindful of where fireworks and their debris may land, as this can be dangerous for our ponies and other wildlife.

A little consideration can make a big difference to the animals living around you.

Thank you from everyone at The Wild Mane Project, including our ponies. 🐴🎇

Obviously, I have AI dazzled one of our images, Esmeray would not be this calm around fireworks 🐴🙌

31/10/2026

What an amazing photo of Monty, taken by Darrell Robinson this morning.

The fantastic residents boardering The Wild Mane Project are a residents committee called 'The Friends Of The Horses Field'. The photos they take are brilliant 👏

Thank you for watching over our fur-therapists while we are not there 🥰🐴

30/10/2026

You never know who you're going to meet here.

Emma is the Spider queen 🕷👸 at Wild Mane and can tell you all about spiders.

One of the Wild Child Mums found This little one 🕷

28/10/2026

🌳 The wild child Club is on this Sunday

🌳 Outdoor activities and skills
🐴 Pony care and activities
❤️ Small Group
🦡 Learn about local Wildlife
🏞 Conservation activities

🌟 A different activity each week 🌟

📆 Every Sunday at 1pm
📍Dane Bank Horses Field
💷 £9 per child
🌐 Places must be booked

🔗 https://www.wildmane.org.uk/book-online

20/10/2026

🐴❤️ Small donations can make a big difference! 🥰

We've set up a Crowdfunder to help us develop our therapeutic riding provision, improve the safety and security of our land and protect our ponies. 🥰🐴🌳

We're also raising funds to help children, young people and adults access our programmes when funding isn't available.

If everyone who saw this post donated just £5, those small donations could soon add up to something incredible!

💚 Can you help us reach our goal?

👇 Read our story, donate or simply share our fundraiser:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-our-ponies

🌟 If Crowdfunder ask for a tip and you don't want to leave one, just enter £0 🌟

Thank you for supporting The Wild Mane Project! 🐴❤️

29/09/2026

Ponies, nature, wildlife, conservation & science.

Every week a new activity involving at least one of those areas.

📆 Thursday at 12pm
📍 Dane Bank, Denton
💷 Sessions £10 per child
👇 Booking in the comments

Children need to be 5 years old to handle ponies, but are welcome to join in all of the other activities.

22/09/2026

This Thursday, our Home Education group are starting something new at The Wild Mane Project 🔨🌱

We’re beginning work on our new Outdoor Science & Creative Area, and we want our Home Ed children and young people to help us create it.

There’ll be designing, measuring, planning, making, building, painting and sign making, with plenty of room for their own ideas too.

This isn’t something we’re building for them. We want them involved in creating a space they’ll actually use for science experiments, investigations and creative projects over the coming months and years.

Suitable for different ages and abilities, everyone can get stuck in in their own way.

📅 Thursday
⏰ 12pm
📍 The Wild Mane Project, Dane Bank, Denton, Manchester. M34.

Book Online via our website. Booking link in the comments 👇

16/09/2026

🐴 Bring Equine-Based Programmes Into Your Provision 🌳

Schools, Alternative Provisions and PRUs already do a huge amount to support their pupils, but one setting cannot always provide every intervention or environment a young person needs.

The Wild Mane Project can become an additional part of that provision. 🐴🌳🐾

We provide 1:1 programmes combining work with our ponies, nature, wilderness living skills, outdoor learning and therapeutic approaches. Each programme is built around the individual pupil, their identified needs, what they are working towards and the support already around them.

🌳 If your setting already provides Forest School, we can focus more heavily on equine-based work. If a pupil needs support around anxiety, emotional regulation, engagement, communication or self-esteem, we can build their programme around those needs.

We already work alongside schools and local services, so our provision can sit alongside education and other support already in place.

🏫 Schools, APs & PRUs — talk to us about building targeted 1:1 provision around the needs of your pupils, using our ponies, nature, wilderness skills and therapeutic approaches.

❤ Parents & carers — if you think this could be a useful part of your child’s provision, speak to their school, SEND team or the professionals supporting them about The Wild Mane Project.

Sometimes it isn’t about finding one provision that does everything. It is about bringing the right support together around the young person 🐾

https://www.wildmane.org.uk/
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Address

Thornley Lane South
Hyde
M342FG

Website

https://www.wildmane.org.uk/

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