MBE for horse sport development award winner
Riding schoolhouse operator Ros Spearing has been named on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, which recognises outstanding achievement together with service across the UK.
Spearing, who was the FEI Development Award winner inwards 2010, is founder together with manager of the Ebony Horse Club.
Spearing has been awarded an MBE, which rewards “an achievement or service inwards or to the community which is outstanding inwards its champaign together with has delivered a sustained together with existent deportment on which stands out equally an illustration to others.” She received the honour for “services to immature people inwards southward London”.
Since 1996, the Ebony Horse Club has given youngsters from ane of London’s around deprived boroughs the conduct chances to ride together with acquire fundamental social skills. In Dec 2010, a calendar month afterward receiving the FEI Development Award, the gild announced that, next its eight-year fundraising effort, it had raised the £1.4 meg necessary to realise Spearing’s long-harboured dream of edifice an equestrian middle on Ebony’s doorstep inwards Brixton. Spearing had for years dealt amongst the logistics of transporting gild members to riding schools across London.
The British Equestrian Federation has supported the Ebony Horse Club through its Olympic legacy projection Hoof.
“I conduct hold accepted this abide by on behalf of everyone who has helped brand the dream a reality,” Spearing said. “We currently conduct hold 120 Brixton children riding a calendar week together with this is ready to maintain rise over the side past times side year. In September, 4 immature people volition last studying for Btecs [British vocational qualifications] inwards Equus caballus attention at Plumpton College inwards East Sussex. We conduct hold good together with really set Brixton on the map for Equus caballus riding!”
Spearing received the FEI Development Award 2010 from FEI President HRH Princess Haya at a ceremony inwards Chinese Taipei that closed the FEI General Assembly.
FEI Secretary General Ingmar De Vos said: “The FEI is proud together with delighted that Ros Spearing has received this honour for her function amongst the Ebony Horse Club. Her MBE is a well-deserved acknowledgement of her conclusion together with commitment together with her wishing to ameliorate the lives of immature people inwards her community past times offering them an choice to the streets. We conduct hold met to a greater extent than or less of the immature people who conduct hold benefited from learning to ride together with taking attention of horses through the Ebony Horse Club together with are aware of simply how much it has meant to them together with their families.”
The FEI Development Award rewards an private or organisation that demonstrates dedication together with science inwards taking equestrianism to a wider public.
Nominations for this year’s Development Award are opened upwardly until 31 July at www.feiawards.org.
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