If you wish to follow a professional career in the horse industry, the quality of facilities and high calibre of staff at our Kirkley Hall campus will give you an excellent start. Our enthusiastic and passionate team lies at the heart of our success in equine studies.

We have a large variety of horses on loan, complemented by a small core of college owned horses. It is also possible for students to bring their own horses to be stabled at nearby livery yards.

Our equine facilities include a 25 horse stable yard, eight horse DIY livery yard for student horses, two 60x30m outdoor all weather arenas and a brand new 50x25m indoor riding arena. Other facilities include a horse walker, weighbridge, solarium, gait analysis facilities, indoor demonstrating barns and a cross country course.

We have two floodlit all-weather surface arenas suitable for dressage and show jumping and a cross country course comprising 12 solid fences and a mixture of portable fences, which considerably enhances our students’ learning environment.

Students will experience a variety of equine related visits and trips and compete in national inter college competitions and our HND students take part in a study tour.

We now offer non-riding routes through all of our equine courses for those with horse experience but with little or no riding experience.

We also offer Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships in Equine. Contact advice.centre@northland.ac.uk or 01670 841200 for more details.