To all friends of Willow Dene Stables Riding School,

I'm writing to ask if you can help at all during this extremely difficult and unprecedented period. All our lives are affected in some way by this dreadful Coronavirus outbreak and I hope you're all managing to stay safe.

Willow Dene Stables is a long established family-run business providing a unique riding experience for both adults and children, including those with special needs. We have 13 horses and usually their upkeep is covered by the income from our lessons. This, of course, has stopped overnight. We will hopefully qualify for support from the Government but this will take a while to come through.

I'm therefore asking if any of you would like to support us during this difficult time. The money raised will go towards continuing to provide the care and maintenance that the horses and stables need.

I appreciate that there is a lot of uncertainty at this time, and fully understand if you can't offer any financial support. I do, however, hope that you will all come back once we're allowed to re-open (and it is safe to do so). We're posting regular updates about how we and the horses are doing so please keep visiting our page and leave us messages about how you're doing!

With thanks to all of you.

Please stay safe.