We love hosting groups at Ride High. CSR days give us the chance to share our passion for supporting children in the community and allow businesses the chance to volunteer their time and expertise to a meaningful cause. We’re thrilled at the prospect of welcoming your team to our centre and sharing the life-changing work we do with vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Milton Keynes.
A CSR day at Ride High offers your staff a rewarding and hands-on experience, from transforming or upkeeping our outdoor areas to helping us prepare Christmas presents or materials for creative sessions, every activity directly contributes to the wellbeing of our children.
A typical CSR day at Ride High comprises the following:
We’re happy to work with you to create a day that reflects your values and if you have any specific ideas or skills-to-use in mind.
Yes, we do charge for CSR days. As a charity, we need to cover the overheads of the day to make sure the corporate social responsibility activities you take part in are valuable to the charity’s beneficiaries, first and foremost.
The donation associated with a corporate volunteering day with Ride High covers the wages of the staff who manage and facilitate our volunteering programme. Donations also cover the purchase and maintenance of PPE and other practicalities including materials needed for the day.
The suggested donation is £20 per person, which ensures we can host you safely and effectively while continuing our mission to transform young lives through horses and tailored wellbeing support. We recognise that many companies support CSR costs in different ways such as match-funding, corporate sponsorship, payroll giving and more so we’re happy to discuss how we can work with you on this in alternative ways and are always happy to host CSR days at no cost to companies that have already partnered with us in other areas.
To cover the costs, many companies have organised fundraising activities before the CSR day such as ‘Wear purple for Ride High’, bake sales and sponsored walks. Our team are here to support you and can help businesses with their internal marketing, organisation and fundraising for their CSR days.
We’re happy to work with you to create a day that reflects your values and provides genuine community impact. Let us know your preferred dates, group size, or if you have any specific ideas or skills-to-use in mind.
We also have events throughout the year that your staff may be interested to use their volunteer days or to fundraise for, including: our marathon, cycle challenge, football tournament, clay shoot, sky diving and golf day. It would be brilliant if you had members of staff interested in taking part, raising money for us, or volunteering their time on the day. We couldn’t run these events without our incredible volunteers, so all support is welcome.
Take a look at our upcoming opportunities for CSR days.
If you would like to discuss or book one of the following opportunities as an individual, group or a company, contact Joanna: volunteermanager@ridehigh.org
Events Based CSRs | Children’s team CSRs | Yard Based CSRs |
Join us for a Halloween CSR – We need help putting our decorations up (early October date can be flexible) and would love a group that can come and run an activity with our staff for some of our children, this could be things like pumpkin carving! Contact Joanna to discuss. | Join us to set up our Halloween trail! Similar to our Easter trail, we decorate the local area for a themed ride. We’d love to welcome a group of 4-6 volunteers that can help to put up the decorations for the trail and take down the decorations in the charity house on the same day. Date: 30th October Timing: 10-2pm (but can be flexible) Number of volunteers: 4-6 (can be flexible on this) |
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Sunday 30th November, join us to decorate the yard for Christmas! Help our horses and ponies to decorate. Time and number of volunteers can be flexible. |
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Join us at the end of November or early in December to decorate for Christmas! Our children love seeing the festive spirit come alive and feeling the Christmas cheer. Date, time and number of volunteers can be flexible. | What goes up, must come down, including all of our Christmas decorations. Join us towards the end of December or early January when our lessons have finished to take down the Christmas decorations, sweep away the cobwebs and huddle in the tack room with hot chocolates and leather rags for tack cleaning. Number of volunteers needed: 4-6 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date: 29th or 30th December Timing: 3-4 hours. |
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Come and help us set up for the annual Ride High Ball. We would love to host a team of 10 volunteers that can help with moving and setting up decorations, adding chair covers and other physical tasks. Number of volunteers needed: 10 Location: The Leonardo Hotel, MK Date: Saturday 31st January Timing: 2-3 hours. | Visit the Ride High site while our horses take a week off for a well-deserved holiday! This is the perfect time for us to clean up the yard, take down the Christmas decorations, sweep away the cobwebs and huddle in the tack room with hot chocolates and leather rags for tack cleaning. Number of volunteers needed: 4-6 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date: Monday 5th or Tuesday 6th January Timing: 2-4 hours |
Currently no opportunities available.
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In March we hold our annual Cheltenham Preview Night. We would love donations such as hampers or gifts that we can use in our fundraising auction. We also need some volunteers at the event who can help with registration, running the auction and other logistical jobs. Number of volunteers needed: 5 (4 already registered) Location: Horwood House Date: 6th March Timing: from 5pm | Would you be able to contribute 2-4 hours on a Sunday in March – we’re looking for small groups or individuals that can come and support with gardening, weeding and painting fences as the weather improves again. |
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| During the Easter holidays, we run an annual Easter trail in Loughton for our riders and local community to enjoy. We need helping set up for the Easter trail and Easter Egg hunt activity. Number of volunteers needed: 5 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date and Time TBD: Contact Joanna for info. |
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On the 4th May, we look forward to the MK Marathon! Ride High mans a water station which is always a fantastic opportunity to enjoy the atmosphere of the event and cheer on all the runners. Team one: morning shift – 12 volunteers from 7:30am to noon, setting up the water station (lifting and moving the boxes of waters) and then handing them out with cheers and encouragement! Team two: 10 volunteers from noon to 4pm to hand out the waters and clear the station afterwards. Location: exact location TBD closer to the event. The 13th May is our Ride High Charity Football Tournament. This brings two opportunities to get involved! Your workplace may have some aspiring footballers that would like to get involved by forming a team of 10 for our 7 aside matches. There is a £500 registration fee for each team and the fun day is not just a chance to raise funds for a fantastic cause but also network with other companies and enjoy some friendly competition wrapped up with a BBQ included at the end of the day. We have spaces for 12 teams this year. To support the event, we are also looking for: 3-4 volunteers Date: 13th May Location: Sports Central, MK Time: from 1:30pm Get in touch for more info! Additionally, if you are a registered or aspiring referee, we’d love to hear from you! | May is the perfect time for a spring clean, the weather is usually nicer and we start looking forward to those long summer days on the yard! We’d love to welcome a group with 5-10 volunteers to help with cleaning tack, jet-washing and disinfecting our well-used trailers and sprucing up the yard. Number of volunteers needed: 5-10 Location: Ride High Site Date and Time: Flexible! Contact Joanna to arrange |
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On Sunday 14th June – Our annual RIDE MK event is back and brings with it two opportunities to get involved. On Friday 12th June, we are looking for a group of 12-15 volunteers to help us put up gazebos, thread medals, string bunting and prepare the site. On Sunday 14th June we are looking for volunteers to help with marshalling and manning stations on the routes as well supporting with registration. We would love groups of 5 and are particularly interested in hearing from energetic, enthusiastic people that can contribute to the experience, cheering on participants in children’s and adults’ races. If your business would be interested in having a stall at our on-site fair, please get in touch. | June is the perfect time for us to put in some work on our gardens. If you are a budding gardener or just have a team willing to put in a bit of hard work doing some weeding, raking, mowing, pruning and general garden clean up, get in touch! We have a charity house garden and sensory garden to maintain so all help is welcomed. Number of volunteers needed: 5-15 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date and Time: Flexible! Contact Joanna to arrange |
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Summer is the perfect time for us to put in some work on our gardens. If you are a budding gardener or just have a team willing to put in a bit of hard work doing some weeding, raking, mowing, pruning and general garden clean up, get in touch! Number of volunteers needed: 5-15 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date and Time: Flexible! Contact Joanna to arrange |
Currently no opportunities available.
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The first week of September sees our horses going for their annual summer holiday! Our wonderful ponies all take to the fields to enjoy a well-earned break and (hopefully) some sunshine. While the horses are out, we use the week to clear out, jetwash and repaint all the stables and then prepare them all again with fresh bedding ready for their return. We are looking for teams of 10-15 volunteers that can work on the project on consecutive days. The start of the week is taking out the old bedding to the muck heaps, jetwashing and brushing down the stables. Later in the week is mainly painting! Number of volunteers needed: 10-15 Location: Ride High Equestrian Centre Date and Time: First week of September (Mon 31st August onward). Wednesday 2nd September already booked. Contact Joanna to arrange |
If you’d like more information on CSR opportunities contact Joanna at volunteermanager@ridehigh.org
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