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BACKGROUND - 66+ Years Young !

Possibly the longest-established Riding Club in the UK (but please tell us if you know otherwise !)  which predates even the BHS and has evolved from a small Members Club to become a premier competition centre with excellent facilities catering for all disciplines at all levels from grass-roots to professional, centred around one of the largest indoor riding arenas in the country.

The Riding Club is a charitably constituted non-profit voluntary Members' Club & CASC managed by a Committee of volunteers who rely heavily on the voluntary assistance of members for stewarding at events, and affiliated to British Riding Clubs (BRC Area 5), British Dressage, British Eventing, British Showjumping and is also a Kennel Club registered venue.

MILESTONES

• Founded on 15th November 1943 with a rented 4-acre field in Whitefields Road, Solihull
• In the 1960's the club moved to a 27-acre site in Tilehouse Green Lane, Knowle
• A decade later that land sold for development of a housing estate christened "The Ridings"
• 1972 the Club relocated to its present 220-acre site in Four Ashes Road, Bentley Heath
• 1995 the first Riding Club in the country to be granted a Sport England lottery award, which provided funding to build the second indoor arena.
• 2003 approved by HMRC to register as a Community Amateur Sports Club (CASC)

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