The Society offers three scholarships each year to help young riders develop their skills, and a number of recognition awards are also made.
Heritage Mountain and Moorland ponies must also be registered with their own breed society.
The BSPS offers a large range of classes for the affiliated show rider or horse.
A Rugby pelham, which, with its separate loose rings imitating the double bridle, is preferred by many as it removes the necessity for a pony to have two bits in its mouth.
The correct dress for riders includes a hat which meets the current approved safety standards, riding jacket (tweed is considered the appropriate jacket for showing Heritage Mountain and Moorland ponies and hunter ponies, with a dark showing jacket for children's riding ponies), shirt and tie or stock, and breeches with long boots or jodhpurs with jodhpur boots.