Volunteers needed to help at the new Dartmoor Pony Visitor Centre

Broad range of volunteering opportunities, for people of all ages, with or without pony skills.

Efforts to keep healthy numbers of traditional Dartmoor ponies on the moor have taken another step forward with the opening of a new visitor centre at the National Trust’s Parke estate, near Bovey Tracey on the edge of Dartmoor.

With its indoor pony pens and comfortable classroom, the new centre provides an accessible, all-weather shop window for various activities designed to promote the traditional Dartmoor pony. Run by the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT), the centre is open to all, who are welcome to visit and learn more about the ponies and the issues affecting their survival on Dartmoor. You can even ‘adopt’ one of the resident ponies.

We urgently need volunteers to help with organising and resourcing public access days and assisting with the general running and admin of the centre, as well as our many other activities, which include pony training, school visits, development courses for special needs pupils and training for conservation grazing managers.

Contact:  Dru Butterfield:  01626 355314 / 07890372709

or Clare Stanton: 07885 699802 for DPHT, website:   www.dpht.co.uk

or: Catherine Maddern, 01647 434111 / 07767463344 for National Trust

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