Most volunteers commit to the same day for a 2 to 4 hour shift during the school year.  We work from the end of Aug through May,  Mon - Thur from 7am - 7:30pm.  

All new volunteers will complete the general orientation training and can then be scheduled for Barn Skills Training. Barn skills is more detailed training on RED's procedures for safety, barn chores, horse care and daily operations.  Once the Barn Skills Training is complete you can move on to Lead Volunteer and/or Side Walker Training.

Please let us know ALL your options for your general availability to volunteer. Once you complete the orientation we will confirm a regular weekly shift time.

If you can not volunteer weekly, there are more options below in "Special Projects"

Please let us know all your preferences for helping us at RED Arena each week. Once you complete your orientation and barn training you can add other roles.

If you can not volunteer regularly during the week or you would also like to help with other projects, we have lots of options!  You do not need to attend orientation to volunteer for these. And they are great options for if you'd like to enlist your family, friends, coworkers, church group or club to help.

Maintenance: Volunteers are needed to help with spreading mulch on the trails, creating new trails, clearing brush or rocks and various other tasks on Sat or Sunday for 2-4 hours, typically every other month.  

Theme Packs:  Your group can collect and donate 100 craft packs for our participants to complete. For ex: a foam cut out of a horse/heart/flower that can be decorated with yarn/pipe cleaners and beads to make a bracelet/necklace/ornament. We can provide samples and more info.

Trail or Seasonal Theme: Groups can create a new permanent activity on the trail. For ex: wooden cut outs of animals/charters. We can provide more info.

Marketing, fundraising, social media, press releases, newsletters... if this is your strength, please help us!!

There's also Round-Up, Horse Camp and Horse conditioning info below.

Please let us know your interest in any of these and we will email you more info.

Round-Up is our annual horse show and largest fundraiser.  It kicks off Friday night with silent auction, free wine & spirit tastings, raffles and adult games while our adult participants also compete in a trail competition. Saturday starts with a 5k/10k hill country trail run followed by our kids horse show, silent auction, kid games, raffles, and BBQ.

It takes over 200 volunteers to make this great event even better each year. We hope we can count on your help!  You can sign up now and we'll email you again as it gets closer with more details and to confirm.

Summer camp volunteers help as a 'buddy' to camp participants as well as with barn chores.  Camps are each week in June and July , Mon-Fri from 8am - 1pm in Dripping Springs.  To volunteer for camp you must commit to coming each day Mon - Fri for that week.  You can volunteer for just one week or more than one week.  If you are not a current volunteer you will need to orient and interview by the end of May to be a summer camp volunteer.  

Volunteers help with riding horses on Friday trail rides and/or Monday training.  Orientation and barn training must be completed as well as an interview and riding demo with our equine director to be approved for this team.