Lausanne (SUI), 19 June 2012 – HM Queen Elizabeth II has named FEI Development Award winner 2010 Ros Spearing on her Birthday Honours List, which recognises outstanding achievement and service across the UK.

Ros Spearing, founder and director of the Ebony Horse Club, is one of more than a thousand recipients of the prestigious awards, which range from knighthoods to MBEs. Spearing has been awarded an MBE, which rewards “an achievement or service in or to the community which is outstanding in its field and has delivered a sustained and real impact which stands out as an example to others.” She received the honour for “services to young people in south London”.

Since 1996, the Ebony Horse Club has given youngsters from one of London’s most deprived boroughs the chance to ride and learn key social skills. In December 2010, a month after receiving the FEI Development Award, the club announced that, following its eight-year fundraising effort, it had raised the 1.4 million pounds necessary to realise Spearing’s long-harboured dream of building an equestrian centre on Ebony’s doorstep in Brixton. Spearing had for years dealt with the logistics of transporting club members to riding schools across London.

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