Coaching Conference

The Pony Club Online Coaching Conference 2025 – Thursday 6th February

‘The FUNdamentals of Pony Club Coaching’

 

Get your ticket on an early bird rate for just £22.50 – but hurry, this offer ends on 15th January at midnight when ticket prices will increase! 🎟️

 

This is the perfect opportunity for coaches at all levels to refine their skills, learn new strategies, and enhance their connection with riders and ponies. Plus, attending this conference will count as your virtual CPD requirement! 📚

 

Can’t make it on the night? No worries! If you grab your ticket now, you’ll receive an automatic recording so you won’t miss out on any valuable insights. 🎥

 

Don’t miss your chance to join us for this exciting and informative event! 🌟

 

👉 Grab your Early Bird ticket today here

 

The Pony Club Coaching Conference has been approved as a BHS CPD event worth 3 CPD points. BHS Accredited Professionals can provide feedback and update CPD points through completing the following form

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Meet the Speakers

Pippa Funnell MBE 

British Olympic rider who is based near Dorking in Surrey, is a former three-time winner of Badminton and former European Champion. Pippa is one of the world’s most successful riders and a long-standing member of the British team. She first competed at Badminton in 1988 and etched her name into the eventing history books when in 2003 she became the first winner of the Rolex Grand Slam (for consecutive wins at Kentucky, Badminton and Burghley).

She has won team Olympic silver medals in Athens (2004) and Sydney (2000) and was crowned European Champion in 1999 and 2001. As a result she was voted the 2003 Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year and was in the top five of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. In 2005 Pippa received an MBE.

Pippa is a patron of the charity World Horse Welfare and a mentor and trainer for The Wesko (formerly Windrush) Equestrian Foundation.

 

ROLY OWERS OBE MA MSc VetMB MRCVS

Roly joined World Horse Welfare as Chief Executive in January 2008. He already knew the charity well, having led its fundraising and communication teams from 1999 to 2003.

Roly qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University in 1992. Having spent a short time with the Blue Cross, he joined the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, which included a posting as the Veterinary Officer at the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment in London. After the army, he initially joined the ILPH (now World Horse Welfare) until 2003, when he left to take up the post of Development Director at the Perse School in Cambridge. He returned to World Horse Welfare as Chief Executive in 2008.

Since then Roly has played an active role on the steering group of the British Horse Council and helped establish the Equine Disease Coalition, of which he is Chair. He is currently the Treasurer for the British Equine Veterinary Association, Chair of the International Coalition for Animal Welfare (ICFAW) and on the Management Board of the European Horse Network. He regularly represents the charity at national and international events.

Amelia Morris-Payne 

Amelia has been a coach and volunteer both in Branch/Centres and Centrally since 1987. In her numerous roles over the years, she is a valued coach/volunteer, her passion and energy is infectious and she always has a smile on her face. The Pony Club is her life, and she lives and breathes its daily. She has a great love for Centre members, giving them opportunities to enjoy learning and training and has led a Pony Club Centre group for over 20 years.

Amelia started coaching for her childhood branch the Atherstone in 1987 with eventing being her first love having ridden twice for Great Britain in the Pony (Bronze medal) and Junior Europeans.

Having dyslexia, learning has never come easy to Amelia, she came late to qualifications and gained her Pony Club UKCC level 2, then went on to pass her UKCC level 3 in the first group of PC coaches to achieve this qualification, which she is very proud to achieve. Amelia values the opportunities the Pony Club has given her; she was the first Pony Club coach to do the National Development Programme for Coaching Excellence run under British Equestrian.

Amelia delivers amazing Horse and Pony Care activities for member in an errorless learning style of coaching which is fun, interactive and play learning, her CPD which she has taken around the Pony Club Area’s for the past 5 years which helps coaches to deliver this subject in a more fun and interactive way to members. With a focus on enjoying horsemanship, her moto is fun learning for the benefit of the rider and horse.

Horse and Pony Care/Quiz/Art competitions have all grown under Amelia’s leadership and vision, forming a committee and taking the role of Horsemanship Chairman. For the past 4 years Amelia has been UK Team Manager for the Pony Club International Alliance Quiz team, winning online in 2023 and led the team to Kentucky USA in 2024 where they again came home victorious.

Need more information?

Please see the contact details to the right.

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Training
T: 02476 698300 E: training@pcuk.org