This course provides good all round coverage of a variety of aspects of the management aspects of running a livery yard. The course aims to ensure that students are aware of all related legal and financial requirements associated with running a yard, as well as providing general business management skills including marketing, staff management, establishing a target market and attracting the right clients. Used alonside the Levels 1 & 2 long courses, this course provides those wishing to open their own livery yards with the skills and knowledge which it is expected will be required for the new Livery Yard Licensing. Licensing for all types of yard including DIY, is expected to be introduced by law in the forseeable future.
Course delivery
The course offers free tutor support and approximately 25-30 hours of study time - depending on student input. Assignments and research projects are integral to this course.
A recommended reading list is supplied on enrolment.
On completion of the course, send in your assignments for checking by your tutor. You will be awarded a Lingfield Equine Certificate on successful completion of your final assignment.
Post
Postal courses: will be sent within 7 - 10 days of receipt of the enrolment form. Prices include delivery to UK mainland addresses.
Email
Email courses: are, as a rule, sent within 24 - 48 hours on weekdays. Course material is exactly the same as the postal course and is sent by e attachment. You may of course print the material.
Email courses are much quicker and far more flexible. You can have the course on your computer as well as on paper, you can send it to your work address to work on in your lunch hour, as well as working at home. You can even put it on your laptop and take it on holiday! Research and assignments can be worked on at any time in the same way.
Enrol
Course Fees:
- via E.mail £129
- via Post £159
If paying by credit or debit card, please enrol online, otherwise please print the enrolment form and send it in with your cheque
Syllabus
- Explanation & descriptive terms for livery
- Welfare bill - new guidelines for livery yards
- Licensing & gaining a licence.
- Types of livery available
- Qualities required for success
- Locations and locating premises
- Facilities
- Setting up a business
- Money matters
- Legal matters
- Marketing, advertising and attracting clients
- Managing the yard
The Team
Hannah Haskew is the main author of this course and is also the course tutor.
Hannah is based in Derbyshire, she will check your work and help you to complete the course.
Hannah worked for many years on a wide variety of yards, from livery yards and riding schools,
to competition yards. She gained an Honour degree in Equine Science which included business
management and was awarded the accolade of student of the year. She now runs her own successful
animal physiotherapy business, and designed a website for her business: www.animal-therapy.co.uk.
Paula Clements is the second contributor to the course material. Paula previously ran a riding
stables in Sussex and a livery yard in Surrey and has worked as a freelance instructor at a variety
of stables and approved Riding Schools throughout Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Prior to becoming becoming
involved with distance learning, Paula presented a series of lecture courses on equine care and
management in Sussex and Surrey. Some of the students who attended those courses ultimately benefited by
making a career change and venturing into the equine industry on a professional basis, running their own
livery yards, trekking centres and riding schools.