Claire Robinson, the much-loved driving college owner, charity trustee, and long-standing British Horse Society (BHS) volunteer died on 17 August, elderly 56, from most cancers.
Omit Robinson grew up in Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees. She began driving as a kid, and her equestrian occupation started when she began serving to out at Tunstall Using Faculty as a teen.
Omit Robinson used to be self-employed right through maximum of her lifestyles, and used to be recognized to be a “wholly hands-on occupation lady”. In 2008 she based the BHS-approved driving college Robinson’s Equi Train, the place loads of folks made their first reference to horses below her tutelage.
She began volunteering as a welfare adviser with the BHS in 1998, and in 2019 changed into BHS Cleveland chair. In 2014 she won a BHS welfare award, and a fundraising award in 2016. Thru her welfare paintings, over time Omit Robinson took in rescue horses and ponies, and frolicked rehabilitating them prior to discovering them lifelong houses. This type of ponies, Hunky Dory, went directly to win on the Horse of the 12 months Display in 2018.
Omit Robinson used to be an enormous supporter of the Using for the Disabled Affiliation (RDA), and taught on the RDA Unicorn Centre. She later shaped the Stokesley RDA workforce, and delivered classes from her driving college. She used to be a member of the RDA Yorkshire and Cleveland regional committee, and used to be very supportive of native teams and coaches.
Her lifelong passion in equine welfare ended in her changing into a trustee with charity Here4Horses. Omit Robinson’s pals described her as “innately benevolent”, with an “remarkable talent to unite others in reinforce of needy reasons”. Her “small however mighty” workforce raised nearly £10,000 for Here4Horses, and different fundraising efforts incorporated elevating greater than £10,000 for the Cleveland department of the Motor Neurone Illness Affiliation, and round £30,000 for the RDA.
“There in reality don’t seem to be sufficient superlatives to explain this exceptional woman,” stated Omit Robinson’s pals.
She is survived by way of her son David, daughter-in-law Jen, and granddaughter Freya.
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