The 16th annual Centaur Stride walk-a-thon is March 30.

LAKEWOOD — Centaur Stride invites the public to support its 16th annual “Healing with Horses” walk-a-thon on Sunday, March 30, indoors at the Chautauqua Mall in Lakewood from 2 to 3 p.m.

Sign-in is from 1:30 to 2 p.m. in front of Old Navy.

Register for the walk by emailing info@centaurstride.org. There is a $20 registration fee that is waived if more than that is collected from sponsors. A donation sheet will be emailed to upon registration. Money can be turned in at the walk-a-thon. Checks can be made payable to Centaur Stride and can also be sent to Centaur Stride, PO Box 174, Westfield, NY 14787. All money collected will be posted online.

Donations can be made directly on the organization’s Zeffy link at www.zeffy.com/en-US/peer-to-peer/centaur-strides-16th-annual-walk-a-thon. There will be door prizes at the live event, one ticket for each registrant.

The Zeffy online platform is very secure and free for non-profit fundraisers. Choose to opt out of the platform fee, which is automatically preset at 17%. Choose “other” and put in free amount “0”, or whatever you choose to pay as a fee to them for their platform service.

Centaur Stride has 13 therapy horses that are specially trained for riders with various personalities, behaviors, needs and physical conditions. The care for these horses is much more than for the typical one owner horse. Since they do have to be able to switch from one rider to another and one handler to another, they encounter many abnormal and inconsistent cues throughout the day. This must be countered with proper schooling and conditioning to keep reminding them what the normal cues and expectations are. The money raised from the walk-a-thon is for horse care.

Those participating can sponsor a horse, rider, team or form a team. For more information, email Holly.Reslink@centaurstride.org or call the barn at 716-326-4318.