Do you need insurance to run a livery yard?

If you have a commercial livery yard, you need to ensure that you are covered for interruption of business due to sickness or other unforeseen circumstances. Furthermore, if you employ staff at your stables, you are required by law to have employers' liability insurance.

Do you need a Licence to run a livery yard?

If clients agree that their horses can be used for lessons in exchange for a reduced livery fee, then it is a working livery arrangement and you will therefore require a riding establishment licence (our blog https://www.isonharrison.co.uk/blog/stable-businesses-licensing-for-riding-schools/ offers useful advice in ...

Do livery yards make money?

With proper planning and management, a livery yard or riding school can be a very profitable and rewarding business.

Do livery yard owners have a duty of care or a responsibility?

In a full livery agreement, the yard owner is primarily responsible for the daily care of the horse. Services vary but tend to include feeding, turnout to grazing and bringing in. The yard usually provides feed, hay and bedding. Therefore, the yard must ensure that they are providing good quality food and grazing.

What type of business is a livery yard?

At a livery yard, horses are housed and cared for in return for payment, but do not belong to the owner of the yard. Depending on the type of livery, you may share responsibility for the care of your horse with the owner.

What insurance do you need for your livery yard?

What insurance do you need for a DIY livery yard?

Public liability insurance as standard

Protecting you if members of the public suffer an injury or property loss or damage at the livery yard.

What do you need to run a livery yard?

Do livery yards charge VAT?

The letting of a stable alone is exempt from VAT, subject to the 'option to tax'. Stabling plus livery might be VAT exempt, only if the stabling is the predominant element. DIY livery is two supplies (of zero-rated feed and exempt or standard-rated stabling) and charges need to be appropriately apportioned.

How much does DIY livery cost UK?

Grass Livery can be expected to cost in the region of £20-£25 per week. DIY Stabled Livery can be expected to cost around £30-£40 per week. Full livery can be expected to cost in the region of £100-£150 per week. Any care of the horse or duties carried out by staff at the livery yard will cost extra.

Who is responsible for fencing at a livery yard?

Livery yard owners bear the responsibility for maintaining borders.

How much does a livery yard cost UK?

Grass Livery can be expected to cost around of £20-£25 per week. DIY Stabled Livery can be expected to cost roughly £30-£40 per week. A full livery service can cost up to £100-£150 per week. Any extra care of the horse or tasks carried out by staff at the livery yard costs extra.

Do livery yards have to pay business rates?

Most non-domestic properties will attract business rates including many, if not most, equestrian businesses. They may also be charged where only part of a building is used for non-domestic purposes.

How many acres per horse for livery yard?

As a general rule, each horse requires approximately 0.5 – 1.0 hectares (or 1.25 to 2.5 acres) of grazing of a suitable quality if no supplementary feeding is being provided. Each donkey requires a minimum of 0.2 – 0.4 hectares (a half to one acre).

Can livery yards use red diesel?

Yes, as this is an agricultural operation, and the end use is not in the contractor's control. However, equine and horse yards are classed as leisure, not agriculture, in terms of fuel use and work carried out in and around the stables and yard must be on fully duty-paid white diesel.

What is the difference between a livery yard and a stable?

Livery is a facility of privately-owned stables that is leased out by yard owners. Specific livery yards are designed for competition horses, brood mares and convalescing horses etc. The majority of yards are for general use and are categorised as Full, Part or DIY.

How much is full livery per month?

For full livery, where all your horse's needs are the responsibility of the livery yard, prices vary enormously. A basic yard might offer £400 per month, but prices in the commuter belt near London can be as much as £800 (around £185 per week).

What do yard owners do in DIY livery?

For someone who wants a small place where they can keep their own horse and make some money from renting the spare stables, then a DIY yard is advisable. You are responsible for the maintenance of the place; they are fully responsible for the horse.

Is full livery worth it?

Full livery provides all care, exercise and necessary tasks on your behalf. Full livery can be standard care or tailored to individual needs, such as competition livery or backing and schooling livery. This is usually the most expensive type of livery.

Does full livery include farrier?

Full livery also includes looking after your horse while the vet and/or farrier visits, but excludes vet fees, any veterinary treatment/aftercare, farrier costs, worming, clipping, trimming, plaiting and dietary supplements.

Is DIY livery a trade?

DIY liveries are normally one trade which forms part of a much larger trade of farming.

Does DIY livery include hay?

Bedding and hay are often not included and the horse owner must purchase these separately either from the yard or by making their own arrangements, although some livery yards may offer DIY stabled livery at a higher price with bedding and hay included.

What is a private livery yard?

A livery yard, livery stable or boarding stable, is a stable where horse owners pay a weekly or monthly fee to keep their horses. A livery or boarding yard is not usually a riding school and the horses are not normally for hire (unless on working livery - see below).

Can I build stables without planning?

Stable block requirements

Common developments and building work that are required for keeping horses include shelters and stables, exercise pens, ménages and vehicle access, all of which require planning permission. Stable blocks have a number of requirements before they are generally accepted.

Can horses run on tarmac?

running on concrete/asphalt is typically discouraged, because "road founder" is a thing that can occur. in a nut shell, it is a type of laminitis that can occur after sudden hoof stress, such as running (cantering, galloping) on a very hard surface.