Elisabeth Svendsen Trust

We are looking to recruit a permanent, full time Groom/Centre Assistant at our centre in Manchester. Our centre is situated near to the residential area of Abbey Hey and around 150 children with special needs and disabilities from 20 local schools in the city and surrounding areas benefit from donkey riding therapy at this centre each week.

Edward is five years old and started attending EST Leeds in September 2008. He rides on a weekly basis with three other children from Yeadon's Westfield Infant School. Edward has been referred to the Centre as a 'selective mute' and on entering school in September would not communicate in school. Since attending the Centre with his class mates on open days and coming along to the Saturday Club, Edward has begun to talk to adults and his peers.

A Sidmouth-based donkey riding charity for children with special needs and disabilities is calling on the fun loving public to adopt a donkey this Valentine's Day to help raise vital funds for its cause.

The centre is one of five located around the country run by The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys charity (EST), which provides riding therapy to over 750 children from locals schools and hospices every week.

On Friday 22nd January from 11am Carl Hopkins, who recently starred in Channel 4’s The Secret Millionaire, will be making a special visit to a donkey riding charity for children with special needs in Eccup, Leeds.

Carl is hoping his visit will help promote the PartiesAroundtheWorld.co.uk (PAW) website which has recently named The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children and Donkeys as its final charity cause.

Following on from the success of Alex, Tom and Leigh of Stones Solicitors in Exeter in raising over £700 for EST, the Family and Children team came along to a Christmas party to join in the fun.

The three solicitors took part in a sponsored beard shave in December and having got used to their newly-smooth faces, also volunteered to come along to a Christmas party at EST Sidmouth and help out. Whether they bargained on dressing up as elves and snowmen or not is a different matter!