Park Palace Ponies is a unique horse riding school in inner-city Liverpool Run as a social enterprise by a group of Liverpool volunteers with a passion for all things horses, Park Palace Ponies first opened in May 2017 as a six-month pilot and action research project in partnership with the British Equestrian Federation supported by the Mayor of Liverpool. Their aim was, and still is, to make horses more accessible to all so that the benefits, both physically and mentally, that spending time with horses brings can be felt by all. Located in the Dingle, only a mile from Liverpool’s city centre, they offer free introductory riding lessons and a learn-to-ride course to any child aged between 4 and 12 who lives within the city of Liverpool. The riding school is based on the corner of Mill Street and Park Street, in the Dingle, on a patch of grass previously used as a dumping site. The riding lessons take place in the old Park Palace of Varieties building, a theatre opened in 1893 which boasts many of its original features, including an ornate ceiling. You may also spot the ponies trotting down Mill Street every morning to their grazing field on the Park Hill Allotment site.