Wanganui Riding for the Disabled helps children to increase their body strength and confidence through riding and now the organisation is on a quest to be self-reliant through self-funding.
Volunteers' co-ordinator Kate Jaunay said ideally up to 300 people donating $1 a day would help Riding for the Disabled (RDA) pay salaries to a couple of people.
There is a call on the volunteers to be everything to the organisation, which was selling their own families short, she said.
Mrs Jaunay said a call on funds from the many organisations in the community that required assistance and the money RDA received from Lotteries was down to a quarter of what the group previously received.
"We have had a lot of help from people in the community and there's more to do," Mrs Jaunay said.