Parkview riding school

17/10/2026

🐴☕🥞 **BREAKFAST WITH A PONY!** 🥞☕🐴

✨ **A magical half-term treat for the whole family!** ✨

This October half-term, why not join us for a very special breakfast at our Riding School Coffee Shop, with some extra special four-legged guests! 🐴💕

Come along and enjoy a delicious breakfast before meeting **Squeak and his pony friends** for a morning full of smiles, cuddles and unforgettable memories! 🥰

📅 **Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd October**
⏰ **9:00am – 10:00am**

🥞 **WHAT'S INCLUDED?** 🥞

☕ **For the grown-ups:**
🥐 A hot or cold drink
🥣 A choice of cereal
🥞 Followed by a delicious pastry or loaded pancakes!

🧃 **For the little ones:**
🥛 A hot drink or refreshing juice
🥣 A choice of cereal
🥐 A pastry or yummy loaded pancakes!

🐴 **BUT THAT'S NOT ALL… THE PONIES ARE COMING TO BREAKFAST!** 🐴

While you're enjoying your breakfast, you'll be treated to a very special **pony visit right to your table!** 💕

Once everyone's had their breakfast, the fun continues with…

🐴 A guided tour of our stables
🥕 A chance to feed some of our lovely ponies
📸 Plenty of photo opportunities with Squeak and his friends
❤️ A wonderful opportunity to make some magical pony memories!

Whether your little one is pony-mad or you're simply looking for something a little different to do together this half-term, **Breakfast with a Pony** is the perfect way to start your day! 🥞🐴

✨ **Spaces are limited, so don't miss out!** ✨

📩 **Message us to find out more or book your table!**

Price per Adult - £15
Price per child - £12
Table of 4 - £48

We can't wait to welcome you for breakfast… and neither can Squeak! 🐴❤️

17/10/2026

🐴🔥 **WEEKEND TOASTIES HAVE ARRIVED!** 🔥🥪

Our new **Horsebox Trailer** is serving up warm, melty goodness every **Saturday & Sunday, 9:30am–2:30pm**!

Choose your favourite:
🥖 **Sourdough Toasties**
🥐 **Toasted Croissants**
🍞 **Toasted Brioche Buns**

Then fill it with:
🧀 Cheese
🍖 Ham
🍅 Tomato
…or mix and match for your perfect combo!

Crispy, gooey, freshly toasted and just the thing for a weekend treat. 🤤

📍 Come and find the Horsebox
🕤 **Saturdays & Sundays | 9:30am–2:30pm**

**Good food. Hot toasties. Happy weekends.** 🐴🥪✨

07/10/2026

October Half Term Pony Care Day!🐴🐎🏇

Our very popular pony care day is online to book. The day is 9am-4pm suitable for children age 6-14yrs of any riding ability from complete beginners to competent riders. Each child rides twice and takes part in stable management activities aswell as joining in lots of pony themed fun and games!
The price for the day is £55 per child.
Book now on ecpro.

15/09/2026

🎉 OUR 2026 FUNDRAISING TOTAL IS IN — AND WE'RE BLOWN AWAY! 🎉

Thank you. Seriously. To every single person who came to 80s at the Stables, cheered on our brave Ba****ck riders, and supported us on JustGiving — you've changed lives.

Here's what YOU helped us raise:

🎸 80s at the Stables — £5,000 of pure 80s magic & live music
🏇 Ba****ck Riders in Paul's lessons — £3,000 of courage & balance
💙 JustGiving supporters — brought us to our final total

TOTAL RAISED: £8,500 ✨

The impact:

💜 £4,512 to Loros Hospice
A local charity delivering free care and support to over 2,500 people across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland every year. LOROS is a lifeline for families in their most difficult moments — providing specialised, compassionate care tailored to each terminally ill patient. Your generosity directly funds these vital services.

🌍 £4,000 to Love Support Unite UK
Supporting vulnerable communities in Malawi. But here's the thing — our young riders learned that when they give, they're helping other kids just like them, half a world away. That's the power of children helping children. That's what real generosity looks like.

This isn't just about fundraising. It's about what happens when a community comes together for something bigger than itself. It's about our kids learning that courage and kindness matter.

Thank you for being part of the Park View family.

See you next year. 🐴💚

13/09/2026

🐴 Our Pony club members have been working hard over the last few months training for competitions and earning achievement badges and last night we came together for an awards night to celebrate their achievements.
A massive well done to all our members 👏 we have been so impressed with how well you have all ridden in your competitions this week! Also a big thankyou to our Pony club parents for your ongoing support!

08/09/2026

🥁🥁🥁 Drum Roll 🐴🐴🐴

In Total, our amazing riders that took on the challenge of riding without a saddle, raised £2614, this is an incredible amount to add to our fundraising events here at Park View!

As promised, the top 3 fundraisers win an own a pony day here at Park View, the 3 winners are as follows......

⭐️Lillie kinch
⭐️koni Rourke
⭐️Paisley Reeves

Well done to everyone, what a team park view effort!

Winners, please see charlie next time you are at your lesson to arrange your prize 🐴❤️🐴❤️🐴❤️

07/09/2026

🐴🐴 The Wait Is Nearly Over 🐴🐴

We will be announcing the top 3 fundraisers tomorrow evening ⭐️⭐️⭐️

If you are still yet to hand in your sponsorship money and want to be in with a chance to own a pony for the day, please donate your money through the just giving page- you can find the link on the original post.

The just giving page will remain open for a few more weeks for anyone who would like to donate.

Thank you to all of our Park View Riders for taking on the challenge of riding without a saddle ❤️❤️

26/08/2026

The Bare Back Challenge!! 🐴🐴🐴

Here is everything you need to know about the challenge.

* we are continuing our fundraising until sun 6th sept- you have until then to do the challenge and collect your donations towards the 2 amazing charities.
* we are fundraising for LOROS and Love Support Unite.
* the top 3 fundraisers will win a prize, they will each own one of our riding school ponies for the day.
* most of the group lessons are taking part in the challenge over the next few weeks, please ask your instructor all about it.
*if you only ride on private lessons you can take part! Just ask your instructor and they will do it on your lesson.
* the sponsor form will be attached to this post, please have it ready to hand in with all donations on or before sept 6th.
* you can also collect the money in and donate through just giving, send it in one payment with the riders name and let me know.
❤️❤️Thank you to all of our riders and their family and friends for supporting us- any further questions please contact Charlie.❤️❤️

Sponsor form -
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:8e64c2a9-da18-46c8-94e8-954f1a50bac1

Just giving Link-

🔗 https://www.justgiving.com/page/charlie-mcdonald-8

Help Charlie Mcdonald raise money to support LOROS, the Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice

26/08/2026

🐴❤️ THE FUNDRAISING CONTINUES AT PARK VIEW! ❤️🐴

First of all, a HUGE thank you to everyone who came along, supported, donated and helped make our 80s at the Stables night such a fantastic success! 🪩🎶

The figures are looking amazing and it appears we raised just over £5,000 on the night! 🎉

We honestly can’t thank you all enough.

But we’re not stopping there… now it’s time for the amazing kids at Park View Riding School to take on their own fundraising challenge! 🐎

Our riders will be taking part in a Ba****ck Riding Challenge, raising as much money as they can for our two fantastic charities:

❤️ LOROS Hospice
❤️ Love Support Unite

And there’s a little extra incentive…

🏆 The TOP 3 fundraisers will each get their OWN HORSE FOR THE DAY at Park View! 🐴✨

So kids — get your family, friends, neighbours, teachers and anyone else you can think of involved and let’s see how much more we can raise!

There are two ways to take part:

👉 print off a sponsorship donation form (on post) or Pick up one from coffee shop/instructor and start collecting sponsors.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:8e64c2a9-da18-46c8-94e8-954f1a50bac1

OR

👉 Set up your own JustGiving fundraising page (link to ours) and share it with friends and family.

IMPORTANT: If you create your own JustGiving page, please make sure it is linked to our main Park View fundraising page so everything raised counts towards our total:

🔗 https://www.justgiving.com/page/charlie-mcdonald-8

Every penny raised will help support these two amazing charities.

We are already so proud of what the Park View community has achieved — now let’s see what our young riders can do! ❤️🐴

LIKE, SHARE & SPONSOR OUR RIDERS!

Let’s keep this amazing fundraising going! 🥰

Help Charlie Mcdonald raise money to support LOROS, the Leicestershire and Rutland Hospice

20/08/2026

80s at the Stables — THIS FRIDAY 21st Aug 🎸

Everything you need for the night:

💜 **It's all for LOROS & Love Support Unite.** LOROS have had to cut inpatient beds from 31 to 20 and slash therapy services by up to half because of a £2m shortfall — this is genuinely needed. LSU do incredible sustainable development work in Malawi and was started by two sisters from Thurcaston. All profits go to these two fantastic charities.

🎟 **Doors 6.30–7.30pm.** Paul & Charlie on the gate for a meet and greet — got your wristband already? Show it, grab your welcome drink, grab your first raffle strip off Paul. Booked online? Give your name, get your wristband and drink. Bringing extra people? Buy on entry in that window — after 7.30, grab tickets at the bar instead.

🎰 **The raffle is stacked this year** — weekend away for 8 in a gorgeous Bakewell cottage, Park View riding vouchers, a garden bench and loads more. Full list pinned up on the night. Strips are £5 — grab a few, it all counts.

📅 **Rough running order:**
6.30–7.30 — doors, welcome drink
~7.30/45 — Forever 80s, first set (45 mins)
8.30 — band break, tunes on the speakers
~9.00 — second live set
9.45 — grab a drink, raffle's coming up
10.00 — raffle draw, top 3 prizes live on stage, rest on the board in the bar
10.15–11.00 — grand finale set, dancing shoes on
Bar closes 11.30pm

🍕 Pizza van all night, from £12. Kids' stand with sweets, crisps & soft drinks. Plenty of soft drinks at the bar too for anyone not drinking — both menus attached below.

🚗 **Parking** — park sensibly, don't block anyone in. If you're 100% driving your car away that night, you're welcome to park on the arena. If it's staying overnight, please don't — we've got lessons on there at 8.30am. Please avoid the road too, plenty of room on site.

🚻 **Toilets** — portacabin by the meet and greet spot, separate ladies' and gents'. Please don't use the cabins or the plants — most of it's our veg garden and we don’t want to get drunk of eating our home grown carrots

🚬 **Smokers** — there's a designated smoking area, please stick to it.

📍 Park View Riding School, Anstey Lane, Thurcaston, LE7 7JA

Can't wait to see you there — don't be shy at the bar or on the raffle; it's all for two brilliant charities!