Charissa has an extensive background in Marketing & Tourism, and experience in website development. She has owned and/or operated her own businesses in the past. Charissa uses her experience and skills to ensure the business runs smoothly and that our staff and clients are supported. She loves all animals and feels lucky to work in such a beautiful environment. She is passionate about staff well-being and looks after TVEC’s Human Resources, including Workplace Health and Safety. She also helps with keeping our website and social media pages updated.

Dangwah holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a major in General Management and has experience internationally as an HR officer and executive assistant. Dangwah is responsible for accounts and payroll for TVEC, with the very important job of ensuring our bills and staff get paid!

Horses are Cindy’s passion, having ridden and cared for them for most of her life. She comes from a background of leading trail rides and holds a Riding Instructor Diploma. She is also close to completing a Certificate III in Performance Horse.

All facets of horse care are important to Cindy, especially being able to connect and understand each individual horse to enhance their health and mental well-being. After discovering her daughter’s pony was a scrambler back in 2014 and desperate to find a solution to this traumatic problem, hours of research saw her find John Chatterton Affiliative Horsemanship. She contacted John who personally came and solved the pony’s scrambling problem in a very short time. She decided then that this incredible training method was the one that resonated with her and with John has her mentor, has been studying and practicing this method ever since.

John’s method is based on affiliative horsemanship and creating a bond with your horse by becoming the horse’s comfort zone rather than the usual dominant leadership methods widely practised. John Chatterton’s Ten Steps can be used on any horse, including foals and starting youngsters. It can be used to solve many problems that people encounter; including but not limited to horses that:

• are hard to catch
• are not able to stand still
• are pushy, nippy and hard to lead
• are scared of sprays
• have hose and floating problems

Horses are her passion and she now uses this ten step training method to start, retrain and help many horses of all ages, stages and life experiences.

Steve has been involved with horses and animals all his life. He has owned many different types of horses with his family having been involved with racehorses and trotters and to this day his family still owns racehorses.

Steve also has experience in dairy farming, and rodeos and was an operations manager in the mines.

Steve works with the horses here at TVEC as well as being our all round farm guy.