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THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTRE

Therapeutic Recreation and Riding Programs
for children and adults with mental health, physical
or developmental challenges

“NO HOUR OF LIFE IS WASTED THAT IS SPENT IN THE SADDLE.”

~ Winston Churchill

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Welcome to Hinchinbrook Farm

A non-profit organization whose prime objective is to provide a therapeutic horse back riding program to support the physical mental and emotional well-being of persons with disabilities. Its main clients are families with autism.

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This is the only facility of the 2 riding locations registered with the Nova Scotia Equestrian Federation that provides therapeutic riding, using very close contact between client and horse as a partner to bring the autistic child into the exterior world as often these children are very insular and removed from the outside environment.

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Birthday Parties

You can PAINT a Horse at a Hinchinbrook Birthday Party!

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Volunteers Welcome

Free skills training.

Great opportunity to work with
horses and people.

Must be 14+: youth and adults welcome.

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T-Touch™

Therapy FOR the horses!

“MMMM. that feels good!”

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Summer Students 2024

​​Hinchinbrook is able to hire these wonderful students through a Nova Scotia Grant and CDA Service grants.

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Left to Right:
Brook Power, Jillian Bryson and
Jaime Collicutt are the three
summer students at Hinchinbrook.

Mission Statement

Hinchinbrook Farm Society is a Canadian Registered Charity offering recognized  therapeutic recreation and riding programs in a pastoral farm setting to children and adults with mental health, or physical or developmental  challenges.  Participants are referred for therapy by psychiatrists, paediatricians and family doctors.  Individual and family group programs run year round in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia.

Programs

The Hinchinbrook Farm Society is a non-profit organization whose prime objective is to provide a therapeutic horse back riding program to support the physical mental and emotional well-being of persons with disabilities. Its main clients are families with autism.

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There are two main programs at Hinchinbrook.  One is individual Therapeutic Riding and the other is a recreation-based and extremely varied series of activities we call “Ther-a-play Playdates” that is family-centred and usually includes several families recreating together.

Corporate Donors

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The Windsor Foundation, Halifax

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The Shapiro Family Foundation

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J & W Murphy Foundation

We also would like to thank St. John Ambulance and Emera for choosing Hinchinbrook Farm and offering us free First Aid and Mental Health First Aid Training in 2019.

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Partners in the 2020 Sport Fund Grant for a new therapeutic saddle include:

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Hinchinbrook Farm Society is pleased to work with the Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage to develop and promote programs for the disabled members of our community.

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​2021 Special Sponsor:

Rick Lagina and The Mystery of Oak Island (Oak Island Treasures)

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