We need your support to protect you and the horses in your life.
It’s set to be a momentous week for equestrian safety, with a Westminster Hall debate on horse and rider road safety taking place next Wednesday 14 January.
Introduced by MP Lee Dillon and titled ‘Horse and Rider Road Safety’, this debate aims to raise awareness of near-misses, serious injuries and fatalities, and to explore practical steps to improve safety for all equestrians.
This event comes as we also celebrate the announcement of a second reading of a new Bill — the Road Traffic (Horse and Rider Safety) Bill, also introduced by MP Lee Dillon, on Friday 16 January. If passed, it could help save lives and prevent countless collisions involving horses on the roads.
In May, we partnered with Project EDWARD (Every Day Without a Road Death) to highlight what it’s really like to be a horse or rider navigating traffic. Our ride from Lambourn to Windsor, joined by MP Lee Dillon, helped raise awareness around the Highway Code guidance and the need for safer driving behaviour around horses.
We’re thrilled to see that it’s led to these significant events, which both present a great opportunity to highlight practical measures to protect riders and horses.
We’re now asking you to write to your MP (through letter or email), urging them to support the Bill and attend the debate on 14 January. To make it easy, we’ve included a template below that you can copy, personalise and send.
Every message counts. The more MPs hear from us, the greater the chance that we’ll see promising change towards protecting horses, riders and drivers.