They provide thousands of voluntary hours each week, grooming and leading horses to provide an outlet for Cowra's disabled through horse riding.
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On Sunday the organisation, Cowra Riding for Disabled, was rewarded for its efforts when named as Cowra's Community Group of the Year.
Recieving the award, on behalf of his members, the group's president David Hawkins pointed out that while he was at the award ceremony dressed in a shirt and tie other members were at Bunnings selling sausage sandwiches to continue their fundraising.
"I am very humbled by this," he said.
"RDA is a fantastic group, last year we had 5555 community hours put in, all volunteers, caring for horses, looking after the kids.
"It's a very very special experience, I just can't tell you what it means when you see the kids get on the horses and the faces.
"To see the freedom they get when they get on the horses is just indescribable," he said.
Cowra Riding for the Disabled (RDA) has been operating in Cowra since 1993.
They currently have 40 children registered in the program, and hold activities every Wednesday with students from five local schools during school terms.
The volunteers care for 14 horses for use in the program.
Without stables at the event venue, each of these horses must be kept off-site and transported to the Showground Pony Club paddocks every Wednesday.
The Cowra Family History Group, Cowra Business Chamber and Woodstock Show Society were also named as finalists in the award category.
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