About 

GRDA is a self-funded group of the national Riding for Disabled Association. It was founded in 1980, registered as a charity in 1998 and in 2014 became incorporated as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC028676). 

We welcome riders from Inverurie and the surrounding area.

Since 1993, GRDA has operated from a purpose built therapeutic riding centre at Tweeddale, Keithhall, Inverurie, comprising an indoor riding arena, stables and a range of buildings and meeting rooms. There are currently 8 ponies that have been selected because of their kind and placid temperaments that are all firm favourites with the volunteers and participants.

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GRDA does not run conventional riding lessons. Rather, it provides specialist equine therapy designed to impact on the cognitive, behavioural, physical and social skills of riders who have a wide a range of physical and intellectual challenges.
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Sixty volunteers provide help and support for seventeen lessons a week. The riders are taught by qualified coaches. About seventy riders (children and adults) attend the lessons, some privately and some from primary and secondary schools. ​