Posts by Lea Steed
PODCAST | Finding Hope After Trauma
What happens when the job you’ve dedicated your life to changes you forever? In this honest and powerful conversation, Billy Mac shares his journey from serving as a firefighter to facing the realities of trauma and PTSD – and how he found hope, purpose and healing along the way. This episode is a reminder…
Read MoreIt’s a raffle! Drawn at the Avoca Beach Theatre screening of The Healing
This raffle has been drawn. Congratulations to the winners! Support Horse Aid by buying a raffle ticket! A raffle is to be drawn at our Central Coast community screening of the award winning documentary The Healing, on Wednesday 29 July, Avoca Beach Theatre. Join us for the screening and purchase a ticket in this fantastic…
Read MoreAvoca Community Screening of The Healing
One for our Central Coast supporters….join us for the community screening of the award winning documentary The Healing! Directed by Nick Barkla, The Healing is an award winning one hour, inspiring film about the equine-assisted Horse Aid programs that provide a second chance of life – supporting the health and wellbeing of veterans and first…
Read MoreThank you Wenty Leagues Club!
The 2025 Wenty Leagues’ Annual Melbourne Cup Calcutta supported Horse Aid. Together with Wenty Leagues patrons and management, $35,000 was raised to help give ex-racehorses a new purpose and continue Horse Aid’s programs – providing certainty for early 2026 programs. What a night and what a fantastic outcome! Thank you Wenty Leagues. .
Read MoreBranxton Community Screening of The Healing
For our Hunter Region supporters….you’re invited to attend a community screening of the award winning documentary The Healing in your area! The Healing, directed by Nick Barkla, is a one hour, inspiring film about the equine-assisted Horse Aid programs that provide a second chance of life – supporting the health and wellbeing of veterans and…
Read MoreHorse Aid at the Emergency Services Community Resilience Expo
Horse Aid was represented at the Lake Macquarie and Newcastle Emergency Services and Community Resilience Expo on 25 October, 2025 alongside around 40 other emergency service organisations. Our program participants include many first responders, veterans and at times also family members of our community heroes.
Read MoreSupport Horse Aid – Huskisson Community Screening of The Healing
Join us! What’s a great way to support the work of Horse Aid? Attend a community screening of the award winning documentary The Healing. It’s a one hour, inspiring film about the equine-assisted Horse Aid programs that provide a second chance of life – saving horses and helping heroes. Join us at the iconic Huskisson…
Read MoreCommunity Screening of The Healing in Bowral
What a crowd and what a successful evening on Wednesday 27 August, as the Southern Highlands community and supporters of Horse Aid attended the community screening of the award-winning documentary The Healing, raising funds for Horse Aid programs this year. The audience were visibly moved by the film, which follows the experiences of one cohort…
Read MoreWomen in Service, Past and Present – the theme for Horse Aid fundraiser
The Wollondilly Women In Business group is supporting Horse Aid by holding a fundraising raffle as part of the 2025 International Women’s Day celebrations. Women in Service, Past and Present is the the theme for the 2025 IWD event, a cause close to our heart at Horse Aid. The first prize in the International Women’s…
Read MoreKangaroo Valley Charity Horse Ride a Wonderful Success!
We would like to thank all our friends and supporters who made the 2024 Kangaroo Valley Charity Horse Ride such a wonderful success. Around 65 horses and riders registered which is an incredible turnout! There were so many donations of food and supplies from the Kangaroo Valley community, volunteers donated their time and businesses donated…
Read MoreThank you to Canberra Community Chest 2024
We would like to extend out thanks to Thoroughbred Park for their Canberra Community Chest event 2024. It was a privilege to stand beside the other charities and to be in the running for some much needed funds for our programs. Horse Aid supports serving and ex-serving defence personnel and first responders – our programs…
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