A developing learning resource focused on the point of intersection between a person and a horse. This resource is designed to support learning through observation of the horse's responses before contact, noticing changes in one's own pace, attention and intention, and reflecting on how these shifts affect the interaction.

Eat Sleep Ride delivers trustee and board development through structured, horse-led experiential learning. Set on an off-grid, solar-powered site in the Scottish Borders, our sessions support trustees, boards, and senior leaders to understand how leadership, responsibility, and decision-making actually operate under pressure.

Pitching, vulnerability & momentum On Thursday, our founder pitched Herd Dynamics at Barclays Eagle Lab – Scale Eagles, reaching the final 10 from over 100 entries. While we didn't take the funding on the night, the conversations that followed mattered most — with new connections, interest, and real momentum around building sustainable income to support the charity work we deliver through Eat Sleep Ride.

Eat Sleep Ride is delivering a monthly programme of free youth arts workshops for children and young people aged 5–21, running from March to September. The programme offers inclusive, accessible creative activities inspired by horses and nature, designed to build confidence, creativity and self-expression. Sessions are welcoming for all abilities, and family members are welcome.

We're actively preparing Eat Sleep Ride and our experiences for the travel trade, with bookable listings now live on GetYourGuide, Viator, ClassBento, and Upiria. These platforms allow visitors, groups and corporate clients to discover and book our equine- and nature-based experiences directly, while helping us test demand, pricing and accessibility across different audiences.

Eat Sleep Ride is looking for new trustees to join our board as we continue to grow as a registered charity. Based in the Scottish Borders, Eat Sleep Ride works with young people, families and communities through horses, nature and learning. Our programmes support wellbeing, confidence and leadership while also developing innovative environmental projects such as biofuel and community growing.

Our 2025 Impact Report shares the story of how Eat Sleep Ride continues to transform lives through horses, nature, and community. From youth leadership and volunteering to equine rehabilitation, environmental sustainability and wellbeing programmes, the report highlights the people, partnerships and progress shaping our work across the Scottish Borders and beyond.

Shared leadership sounds collaborative and progressive, but in reality it is often slower, more uncomfortable and far more demanding than traditional control-based leadership. In this article for Brainz Magazine, Danielle McKinnon explores how horses, neuroscience and leadership theory reveal a deeper truth about leadership: real collaboration requires emotional regulation, psychological safety, financial clarity and strong governance. Drawing on her work through Eat Sleep Ride and the Herd Dynamics leadership programmes, Danielle explains why leaders must learn to read stress signals, share responsibility and balance embodied awareness with structural accountability.