Last year's World Horse Welfare Garden Gates at 20ab were a little stark - surely you can design something a bit more creative than this for Sense!
Each year Badminton Horse Trials chooses one charity to give its full support to and usually they alternate between an equestrian based cause and a human benefiting charity. This year the official charity for the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials is Sense; a British charity that supports and campaigned for children and adults who are deafblind*.
One of the perks of being the official charity for the event is that Sense will have naming rights for a cross country fence at the big event and they are running a competition for the design of their fence. The competition is open to everyone and the winners will get to see their jump in person at Badminton as they win free entry for themselves and their family to the event (sadly, if you’re attending from Australia, you’ll have to pay your own airfares!)
You simply download a pack from the Sense website and let your creative juices flow! The fence Judging Criteria are simple;
- It is fun, creative and eye catching
- The design has some relevance to Sense and the work that we do
- The horse has to be able to jump over it (or through it)
- The fence is solid and no parts can fall off if they are hit
- Competition closes March 9th 2015
The judging will take place in March and then the fence will be built by the famous Willis Brothers, Badminton’s cross country course builders.
We figure that people of all ages would enjoy this but there are Teacher and Parent packs available for those who particularly want to get their young children involved.
We’re looking forward to seeing the Sense fence when we’re reporting from Badminton this year!
* Deafblindness is a combination of both sight and hearing difficulties. Some of these people are completely deaf and blind, but others have some remaining use of one or both senses. Most of what we learn about the world comes through our ears and eyes, so deafblind people can often face problems with communication, access to information and mobility. People can be born deafblind, or become deafblind through illness, accident or in older age. Some people we support also have a single-sensory impairment with additional disabilities. There are currently around 250,000 deafblind people in the UK.
