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Earnsdale Farm
Riding School
Duddon Avenue
Darwen
Lancashire
BB3 OLB

 

 

Mrs Janine Crook, BA (Hons) Education

BHSAI, Int. Stable Management ND(HM).
Yard Manager. First Aider. Deaf translator.
Janine is joint proprietor of Earnsdale
Farm Riding School and has over 30 years
experience in lecturing in horse
management and teaching riding to
career students. She qualified from
Crooklands Riding Establishment with
her BHSAI and then Warwickshire Agricultural
College with a Diploma in Horse Business
Management in 1984.

She also teaches part time at Salford City College where she is a lecturer for BTEC 1st Diploma in Horse Care and BTEC National Diploma in Horse Management. Janine lectures on Monday and Tuesdays at Salford and the rest of the week at Earnsdale Farm.  
She is a qualified NVQ Level 3 Assessor and has recenty gained an Honours Degree in Education.


Miss Jenny Crook, BHSAI
HEAD GIRL

Jenny is Janine's daughter, and another family member to join Earnsdale Farm Riding School. Jenny has ridden ponies since she could walk and has competed in showing and dressage at Pony Club, local showing and national level. Jenny has also hunted with Pendle Forest.

Jenny has competed for many years on her ponies, taking some of them to the Horse of the Year Show and the Royal International at Hickstead. She is also a member of British Dressage and competed her pony, Tyn-y-Cae Gold Kite (Walter) to Medium level. She has been very successful in breaking and schooling horses and bringing on her own horses for competition. Jenny is very good at schooling and improving horses to competition level.

Jenny is seen here competing Vagabonde in the Open Working Hunter Inter-Club Championships, September, 2008
Jenny was also Equitation Champion at the same show. Jenny and Vagabond are starting eventing this year. Jenny has broken 4 year old Absolute and is schooling her at present. She is now competing Abbie in affiliated dressage classes.


for short video clip of Jenny riding Absolute click link below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muTKxgIfafA

 

AMBER KILSHAW
ASSISTANT HEAD GIRL


BHS NVQ Level 2and PTT Teaching Certificate. Amber started her career at Earnsdale and has
completed her 3rd year of training and is now Assistant Head Girl

Amber is enjoying her work and particularly likes teaching tthose with special needs as well as young people and adults

 

Miss Diana Counsell

Diana is another popular member of our teaching team,
taking novice groups and private lessons. Diana has a
quiet, even temperament and is very good with nervous individuals and beginners. Diana completed her BHS NVQ Level 3 in the summer of (2005) and is now working towards her BHS PTT for 2011.

Seen here riding Apollo. 16.2hh chestnut gelding.

Diana has now taken over the organising and teach of the
Centre Pony Club, gaining several extra members since her new approach in September, 2009.
She has also changed the time
for the Pony Club sessions to 11.30 am on Sunday mornings.

 

Miss Domini Baldwin

BHS NVQ Level 2 and PTT Domini has joined Earnsdale's team of dedicated trainee riding instructors.
An ex-student at Earnsdale, Dom is an enthusiastic
member of staff and training for her BHS NVQ 3 Dom is particularly enjoying her teaching of beginners and novice riders as well
as individual Special Needs clients.

 

Miss Vicky Wiggans
BHS NVQ Level 3.
Vicky has trained with Earnsdale for over
three years and is a well established
member of the team
Vicky is kind and considerate and
helps her clients with their confidence. She is very good with nervous children and adults.


 









 

 

 

 

 

 
 

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