ABERDEEN RIDING CLUB - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Administrative Staff Member
- Office Supervisor / Management
Ali has been a club member for over twelve years and now heads up our reception team. Ali has a degree in Management from the Robert Gordon University and was heavily involved in the relocation project to Anguston, supporting Sally with the admin side and making sure nothing was forgotten. Following a few months of travelling in 2017, Ali returned to ARC to take up a full-time post as Office Supervisor, running the admin side of the business. Ali has her own horse, Spring, who lives on the livery yard.
Ali has been a club member for over twelve years and now heads up our reception team. Ali has a degree in Management from the Robert Gordon University and was heavily involved in the relocation project to Anguston, supporting Sally with the admin side and making sure nothing was forgotten. Following a few months of travelling in 2017, Ali returned to ARC to take up a full-time post as Office Supervisor, running the admin side of the business. Ali has her own horse, Spring, who lives on the livery yard.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Staff Member
Ellis is a training student with us, who works on the livery yard. Ellis joined us when she left school as she was keen to find a position with horses where she could continue to train and learn. Ellis is excellent at handling all the livery horses and is very thorough with their care. Ellis keeps her horse, Cyrus, at the club.
Grace is the newest member of the team. Grace works part-time in reception and does some cover work around her school studies. Grace has been involved with the club for a number of years as she learned to ride as a beginner at ARC and now has her own horse, Jimbles, who lives on the livery yard.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive Director and Club Assistant Manager
Job Titles:
- Executive Director and Club Manager
Sally did her initial equine training at a dressage yard in Portugal aged 16, then returned to the UK to do her BHS Qualifications at a local riding school. In 2003, Sally led the project for ARC to relocate to new premises at Oldfold Farm, resulting in ARC becoming the first UK fully not for profit equestrian centre. Sally coaches all standards of lesson, private and group and has overall responsibility for all operational activity at ARC. With a strong drive to increase accessibility to horses for everyone, it was Sally's vision that resulted in ARC becoming an Accessibility Mark Centre and she has also done further qualifications with RDA coaching and the BHS to qualify to deliver sessions for RDA groups and participants who are accessing horses as a form of therapy. Sally also delivers our educational sessions, providing training and interactive sessions on everything from horse behaviour to equine business management and is one of the lecturers for the provision of SRUC HNC/D in Equine Studies. Sally has also volunteered as a trustee for the British Horse Society since 2019 and is currently the Chairperson of the organisation.