Five-year plan to save Unicorn Centre in works

A FIVE-year plan is being drawn up to secure the long-term future of Middlesbrough's Riding for the Disabled Unicorn Centre (RDA), just weeks after the charity was set to permanently close.

- By ESTHER HALLIGAN Reporter

Members of the Riding for the Disabled Unicorn Centre in Hemlington, which has launched a plan aiming to secure its long-term future

The Centre, based at Stainton Way, Hemlington, has provided disabled and impaired people the opportunity to improve their physical and mental wellbeing through education and fun with horses, since it was opened in 1998.

The plan to secure its future includes the launch of a Friends of the Unicorn Friends Facebook group, encouraging local groups and organisations to adopt the charity for fundraising events and donations to help meet annual rising running costs.

It also includes more transparency over what donations are used for and a clear strategic financial plan to help it overcome rising costs, the cost-of-living crisis and other challenges which initially put its future in jeopardy last month.