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Career profile · 12 to 15

Yard Manager

Run a busy yard: horses, people, money and safety, all in good order.

Livery, riding and competition yardsLeading a teamGroom, then head groom first

See this for age 8 to 1116 to 17

A day in the life

  1. Brief the team and allocate jobs
  2. Check horses, health records and feed stock
  3. Meet a new livery client
  4. Order hay, check budgets and invoices
  5. Safety walk round the yard and plan tomorrow

Skills you will need

  • Leadership
  • Planning
  • Money and budgets
  • Health and safety
  • Customer service
  • Problem solving

Skills

The skills this career uses

Longer bars show what matters most for a yard manager at 12 to 15.

Horse careFeeding, grooming, health
Behaviour and handlingReading and handling horses
People and communicationCustomers, teams, teaching
Safety and first aidKeeping people and horses safe
Business and planningMoney, plans, marketing

Your own career card

Soon, when you log in, you can tick your experience, mark courses done and see exactly what to grow next.

Suggested

Your best first courses, for 12 to 15

The three courses that build the most useful skills for this career at your age.

Start here

Plan a Horse Show

Helps with: people and communication, business and planning, safety and first aid.

Coming soon
Then

Design Your Dream Yard

Helps with: horse care, business and planning, safety and first aid.

Coming soon
After that

Feed the Herd

Helps with: horse care, business and planning.

Coming soon

Your route · 12 to 15

Your Develop route

Do these in any order. Only courses for 12 to 15 are shown.

Develop12 to 15
  1. Design Your Dream YardComing soon
  2. Design an Eco-Friendly StableComing soon
  3. Feed the HerdComing soon
  4. The Horse and the Herd LeaderComing soon
  5. Plan a Horse ShowComing soon

After this route

Volunteer at a yard

Coming at 16 to 17At 16 you can start recognised training: 1 UKRS accredited course and 4 more we are checking, plus help getting ready for work.

Next steps

What to do next

Ask a parent or carer first, and choose places that have a safeguarding policy.

Courses marked "UKRS: being checked" are working examples from the UKRS library of more than 50 courses. Each is checked against its exact standard, minimum age and approval before it is offered or described as UKRS accredited. All courses are coming soon.