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Without our amazing volunteers, we would not be a program! We love our volunteers!
How can you get involved???
We have so many ways that you can help!
YOU CAN:
- Sign up to be a lesson volunteer (leading a horse or side walking)
- Become an “Instructor in Training”
- Assist with Fundraising efforts
- Provide administrative assistance with newsletters and publicity
- Give “sweat equity” to the program by participating in farm maintenance projects
If you have a special talent and would like to become a much valued and needed volunteer, email our volunteer coordinator at
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Do you have a funny story about volunteering, or an experience you would like to share? Please leave your comment below.
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Since you are celebrating your 20th anniversary, I thought I'd share a volunteer story with you. . .
20 years ago, myself, Lorna Whitson, Martha England, and Diane Edwards started Helping Horse. I was responsible for getting it incorporated and getting the tax exempt status. As a small, start up board, we all had to do pretty much everything. I was also the volunteer coordinator/trainer. When I started looking for volunteers, my sister suggested I call her friend who lived in Raleigh. I did, and she and her daughters came to volunteer. She was one of my very first volunteers and her name was Nancy White. Ring a bell? For years, as our program bounced from barn to barn, we all daydreamed of the day when we would have a permanent location of our own. After several years of extremely faithful service, Nancy's schedule and life demands made her unable to volunteer. One day, however, at a Special Olympics event, Nancy just happened to run into one of our riders, Sharon, that she had spent many an evening sidewalking with. It was then that Nancy got the idea to perhaps lease her property to Helping Horse, and you know the rest of the story.
Hope you enjoy having this little piece of the Helping Horse story! I thought many of you may not know it.
best regards,
Juliana West