Spotlight on Multi-Discipline Clubs: Jimboomba Equine Carriage Club (JECC)

Jimboomba Equine Carriage Club (JECC) is affiliated with Equestrian Australia and now located in Crestmead in QLD and is primarily a club for drivers of all ages and abilities with horses and ponies of all sizes and breeds. The club focuses on having fun, social driving, education, long reining, fun competitions, driven dressage, cones, show driving and obstacle driving whilst the priority is the welfare of the horse or pony.

After the devastating floods of February 2022, which destroyed the Jimboomba grounds, JECC moved to Park Ridge Pony Club facilities located at Crestmead. After a 30-year lease at the Jimboomba grounds, a yearly hire agreement was negotiated with Park Ridge Pony Club and this has now become our permanent home.  

Due to decreasing pony club memberships and increased costs among several other clubs who also used the Pony Club grounds an agreement was entered into to merge JECC, Park Ridge Pony Club and the Working Equitation Group into a multi disciplined group that encompasses a wider range of equestrian activities. 

January 2025 saw the transition come to fruition and the formation of a new ‘super equestrian group’ that will rebrand with a new name (yet to be decided).

The new committee has a dedicated and capable team whose collective goal is to build a club that offers a variety of equestrian disciplines. 

The advantages of the Park Ridge Pony Club merging with the (EA) Equestrian Australia groups by Affiliation has brought about an increase in membership numbers for all three groups. The benefit of increased membership has also offered the new group the opportunity for advice and forward planning assistance by the Logan City Council for development of the grounds to upgrade the lighting (approx.$100k) and re-build the cross-country course ($130k). 

The cross-country funds have already been processed and the portable obstacles ordered. The upgrade to the cross-country course is expected to further increase the interest in membership and opportunities to host more competitions.  

The future for Driving this year will be mainly social and we hope to attract some more energetic people to the club in the future that can assist us to organise and run some Club and EA level competitions. We are fortunate to have one of the only EA Level 2 Driving coaches in Queensland as a member to assist us at our club days.