Huge congratulations to Aoife for completing the London Marathon 2025 in just over 4 hours 15 minutes, plus raising £2,000 for BRDA and over £2,200 for RDA UK. We are so appreciative of all Aoife's efforts and the generosity of her supporters.

A huge thank you to our amazing volunteers who have all worked so hard over the first half of term since Christmas coping with pony challenges and the cold, wind, rain and mud to bring smiles and many hours of therapeutic riding and carriage driving for our participants.

All proceeds from the 2025 Mayor's Quiz Night will be shared between the Mayor's two charities: Bradbourne RDA and Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our 2024 Knole Park Fundraising Ride.

Fantastic official photos from LRG Photography are available to view and purchase here.

And the organiser's report can be read here.

SEVENOAKS MAYOR CHOOSES BRADBOURNE RDA

Thank you to everyone who got involved in our first virtual balloon race - we had 37 balloons entered in the Easter Race, taking on over 900 balloons from multiple charities across the UK.

Incredibly, the winner of the whole race was a Bradbourne RDA balloon that travelled 138.8km from Mexico City! Congratulations to Lee, one of our coaches, who named his balloon in honour of our dearly missed horse, Finn. We like to think dear Finn was influencing the balloon's flight from above. 

Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of our quiz night. The event was a sell-out and raised the fantastic sum of almost £450 towards pony care.

Thank you to everyone who supported the Captain’s Charity Day from sponsors and prize donors to players and everyone who bid on the auction and bought raffle prizes, and particularly to Myles the Captain who led an amazing year of fundraising despite all the restrictions.

We are registered with Easyfundraising which means you can raise FREE donations for us every time you shop online.  Over 4,000 shops and sites will donate to us when you use Easyfundraising to shop with them – at no extra cost to yourself.  It only takes a moment to sign up and tick for reminders here.

We were delighted to be successful in our applications for funding support from the Coronavirus Community Support Fund, distributed by The National Lottery Community Fund, and the Sport England Community Emergency Fund, and for the contribution from the KCC Combined Members Grant to help us feed and care for our ponies while closed during spring and summer.

The Group has now achieved the Quality Mark from the Charity Excellence Framework through which ongoing health checks of the charity’s quality systems and governance will be assessed.

Bradbourne Group Riding for the Disabled Association has been awarded Best Disability Sports Centre – Kent in the SME News Southern Enterprise Awards 2020.  The judges highlighted the Group had ‘demonstrated excellence, commitment, and dedication even in the face of uncertainty, and after overcoming such disruption, we believe more than ever, should be recognised.’

Recent research has shown that volunteering with RDA has huge mental and physical benefits for volunteers as well as participants.

Why not get in touch and find out for yourself?