Team Tutsham Kent
Team Tutsham is a small charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people. Through Equine Assisted Learning, Farm Interventions and our Saddle Club, we bring meaningful interactions through our horses.
When we first needed a small, secure space for our ponies with grass intolerances during the summer, we had no idea how invaluable it would become. With over 60 horses and ponies at the farm, there is almost always one recovering from illness or injury. The round pen has become the perfect solution - allowing horses to graze safely without the risk of overexertion or reinjury.
The mobility of our round pen has been a game changer. We can quickly move it to fresh grass, a shaded area, or even use it as a safe space for our children to handle the horses. It has also become a vital pit stop for rest and recovery before turn-out or whilst waiting for the farrier to arrive!
We are incredibly grateful to Jacquie and The Round Pen Company for their ongoing support. Their round pen has made such a difference to our work, and we truly can’t imagine managing without it now!
Fiona Tothill, Kingsmead Equestrian Surrey
Our round pen journey: When I qualified as a equine assisted facilitator I decided I needed a space to work in, a secure space that gave both horses and humans a degree of autonomy yet they could remain close enough to work together.
I needed a solid, durable structure that would be robust yet could be moved. My search led me to the round pen company. I was pleased with the service and price so felt I didn't need to look any further. When the round pen arrived I was really pleased with the quality and ease of erecting. We chose to put a ground protector mat down ( just a lightweight plastic cover).
The round pen was used for so many different activities from Equine Facilitated lessons, agility, lunging, free schooling and grazing. It has served as an isolation unit for a new addition, a holding pen for a horse with catching issues and rehab turnout.
Buying the round pen was a sound business choice, over the years it has been the winners enclosure and parade ring on our race night, an equine hospital on open day and it was the "water complex" during our Olympics.
We love it so much we extended it, and this gave us more options to divide to help manage a horrendous wet winter. The pen was in such high demand we came to the conclusion that we needed two!
We are so grateful for the recent sponsorship and I know the new pen will help us deliver better care with more choices (encompassing the 3 f''s of friends, forage and freedom).
I highly recommend round pens and I wouldn't look further than the round pen company.
Sarah Hampshire
The round pen has made a huge difference to how I work with my horse. I was scared to go into large spaces with her, she would be looking everywhere. I can work with her in the round pen with no fear of her running off, and when I ride I feel confident that I know she is with me.
Before the round pen I didnt want to ride, I avoided it. Now I enjoy my time with Maisie more than ever.
Susan & Barry Rymill Norfolk
We are both older in years, and have owned horses for the better part of the last 25 years, we originally owned horses in the UK and then we moved to the USA , Tennessee in fact, and our Horse life really took hold. We lived in Tennessee for 13 years and learned so much horsemanship from Cowboys and Horse folks in our local community. We trail rode extensively, camped with our horses and our daughter barrell raced at local rodeo's.
Many more horse owners in the USA use round pens as opposed to lunging, as it enables much more freedom for both horse and human to get a better connection. We used our round pen for so many things, individual or restricted turnout, ground work, desensitization, starting new or young horses, and bonding through sharing a mutual space. A round pen for us, is crucial for all of the above reasons, and now we are getting older, it is a way of working our horses when we cannot ride like we used to. Our horses love going to the Round Pen, and follow us in there, and then look for direction and start to work.
We had no concerns prior to buying a round pen, we were already sold on it, long before we ever actually bought it.
We would recommend round pens to any one, and although horsemanship here is totally different to what we are now used to, we ride western and I have an american breed gaited horse ( the other is a TB x ISH), the connection you can get with them in that contained area is truly amazing.
People here tend to (screaming generalisation) love their arena's and menages, however we would take a round pen every day. We believe that horses have to encounter and understand that when we are controlling their feet we become the leader and this leads to their getting into their minds.
If you cannot control a horse on the ground, you have no business on its back, and we always start out with a halter rather than bridle, and typically work our youngsters in just a saddle and halter, and no other gear.
We would totally recommend The Round Pen Company, and would advise any person thinking of trying a round pen to have 30 mins in one, and see what you can accomplish.
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