Newsletter.
South West of England
Aberdeen Angus Club.
May 2010
Summer is well underway with the first
of our ‘big’ shows already behind us. An excellent number of Angus cattle were
forward at Devon County Show and I hope it will be the same throughout the
year. Congratulations to Colin & Joan Hutchings for winning Breed Champion
and Irwin and Dilys Rowe for winning Female and Reserve Breed Champion.
At the recent AGM in April members
approved the Constitution with a few minor amendments. We welcomed Lisa Davey
to the Committee and Claire Jones as the new Chairman or should I be
politically correct and say Chair person!
Below is a list of the committee
members with contact details and year of retirement:
Claire
Jones: 01884 34981. ejones669@btopenworld.com
2011
Chris
Gleeson: 01803 873395. the
gleesons@tiscali.co.uk
2011
Ruth Gay:
01398 361225.
2012
Gary
Passmore: 01935 841517. garypassmore@hotmail.co.uk 2012
Colin
Hutchings: 01398 371100
2013
Lisa
Davey: 01566 86049 / 07973 343831. allaburyangus@aol.com 2013
Gill
Quinn continues as Treasurer (01823 490718. hammer.quinn@btconnect.com)
and me as Secretary (Gayle Bersey 01503 240478 gayle@bersey.fslife.co.uk )
I’m
sure you will all join the Committee in thanking Bob Quantrill for all his hard
work on the committee and in his time as
Chairman.
The
Committee has invited Mary Smallwood to become an Honorary Member of the Club
& Committee in recognition of her many years of support for the Club and
the Angus breed. Mary has not been so well lately and it was great to see her
back with us again at the Jones’ open day and Devon County. Mary has accepted
this invitation.
Don’t forget to come and see us at our
stand at Royal Cornwall. The Society’s President, Paul Jeenes and the Society’s Vice
President, Albert de Cogan from the Republic of Ireland will be there on
Thursday 10th June, so there will be a chance to meet with them and
have afternoon tea at 3pm on the stand, everyone welcome.
2010 sees the Clubs biennial Herd Competition.
It has been decided that this year the competition will be judged over the last
two weeks in September. The judge has been confirmed as Richard Ashenden from
the Shendar herd in Dorset. Rich has been associated with Angus for many years
and now currently shows for Colin Hutchings. Once the entries are in, Richard
will contact you to make arrangements for his visit. It is hoped that this
arrangement will work out better for everyone involved. The competition will otherwise follow the same format as previously:
small, medium and large classes, entries will be split when all have been
received to make sure there are even classes. Only pedigree cows will be
eligible. There will also be classes for the Best Stock Bull, Best group of
2010 calves by the same sire and best 2010 bull calf and best 2010 heifer calf.
An entry form is enclosed; please send it back to me by 30th
June.
The results will be announced at the
Lunch that will be held on 28th November at Tiverton (a date for
your diary)
Lastly, the SW Beef Event is moving to
Exeter Market this year and will be held in September. We are in need of some
good Angus cross beef cattle to go on our stand. They do need to be TB tested
but the Club is willing to pay for this. If anyone thinks they may have
something suitable then please let me know asap.
South West of England Aberdeen Angus Club
Newsletter, Spring 2010.
Rob Wills of UK Sires has given us the opportunity to visit their Bull Stud at Tigley, Dartington, South Devon, TQ9 6DP. This will take place on Tuesday 13th April at 6.30pm. Rob will provide us with some refreshments so I need to let him know numbers by the 9th. If you wish to attend then please let me know before this date.
Rob has also asked that all attendees wear clothes that have NOT been in contact with farm animals.
Spring means it must be time for the AGM and this year it will be held on Thursday 22nd April, 7.30pm at North Curry Pavillion, near Taunton. I have enclosed the minutes from last year along with a copy of the proposed constitution, incorporating a complaints procedure, drawn up by the Committee as requested at last years AGM.
The AGM should not take more than half an hour and then we are delighted to have the Society’s President, Paul Jeenes to speak to us afterwards. After the speaker we will have a shared supper so please bring a plate of something (buffet style, sandwiches, cake etc) If anyone wishes to become a Member of our Committee please let me know before the meeting.
The show season is just around the corner and we will be having our stands at Devon County, Bath & West and Royal Cornwall. Therefore I am looking for ‘cattle for sale’ to go on my list that I hand out to all perspective customers that inquire. We do get several inquiries so it is worth letting me know! This year the stand at Bath & West will be in one of the rooms at the side of the cattle building. We are always in need of Members to man the stand; this is not a difficult job as all you have to do is have a friendly chat with the public! Let me know if you think you can help.
Don’t forget the sales at Sedgemoor on the Thursday 8th April (catalogues contact 01278 410278) and
Bristol on Saturday 10th April (catalogue contact McCartneys on 01905 769770)
Hopefully there is something of interest for everyone this summer so we hope to meet up with you all at some of these events and we hope to have another Herd Visit in the Autumn, as well as the herd competition. Don’t forget if you have cattle for sale, let me know.
SOUTH WEST of ENGLAND
ABERDEEN ANGUS CLUB
www.aberdeenangus-swenglandclub.co.uk
Newsletter – February 2010.
Let me start off with an apology for the tardiness of the first newsletter of the year. We always have a committee meeting to discuss the year’s events before writing to you all and due to the inclement weather conditions this meeting was held up!
Second most important item is subs time, so if you wish to be a Member of our Club in 2010 could you please fill in the enclosed form and send to me with a cheque for £15, my address is on the form. Anyone paying by Direct Debit need only send back the form if their details have changed.
This letter is being sent to all Society Members, but only those paying a Club subscription will receive future communications.
Quickly I will just roundup previous news! November saw our Dinner held in conjunction with the SW Limousin Club. A big thanks to Colin & Joan Hutchings who worked really hard on this event. Although the numbers in attendance weren’t great, the food and company made for an enjoyable evening and with an Auction, we even managed to raise £900 to be split between the two Clubs and the Devon Air Ambulance. We also organised a really good Calf Show at Bristol with a tremendous entry forward on the day. Thanks to all involved in making this event a huge success.
So now onto 2010, it may only be February but it has already been a tremendous time for the South West Club. At the recent Society AGM one of our Members, Paul Jeenes was voted in as the President. This is a great honour and I know Paul will do a fantastic job. Also at the meeting, Ed Jones was voted onto Council, he will join Mark Pilcher who is already in attendance and the South West will certainly be well represented in Scotland now!
Events for 2010:
28th March: Sunday Lunch Social at Cullompton! Ed & Claire Jones have kindly offered to show us around the Rull Herd, which has been extremely successful in the last few years. There will also be some fun competitions and a hot Sunday Lunch, 11.30 onwards.
Please let me know on 01503 240478 if you wish to attend. (At least a week in advance)
Sales in 2010:
The Angus Society Show & Sales at Bristol have been confirmed as 10th April anyone interested in buying or selling should contact McCartneys on 01905 769770. (Clive Roads)
South West Multi Breed Sale, Sedgemoor Market on 7th April. Contact Robert Venner on 01278 410278
Other events are still in the planning stage, the AGM in April and the biennial Herd Competition will run this year and the Luncheon will make a reappearance too.
Don’t forget that each year I like to compile a list of ‘CATTLE FOR SALE’ in the area, these lists will be available at the shows, will be on our website and I will send to anyone who inquires. If you have any cattle for sale it would be worth your while to let me know so hopefully we will be able to supply the demand that there is for Angus cattle. Please also let me know when you sell them so that I can take them off the list and then I am not giving out dated information.
Don’t forget to visit our website (address above) as it is regularly updated with all the news and reviews, show results, cattle for sale etc. If you are a Member and do not want your information on there you will have to let me know.
We look forward to meeting you at our events in 2010.
www.aberdeenangus-swenglandclub.co.uk
Newsletter – February 2010.
Let me start off with an apology for the tardiness of the first newsletter of the year. We always have a committee meeting to discuss the year’s events before writing to you all and due to the inclement weather conditions this meeting was held up!
Second most important item is subs time, so if you wish to be a Member of our Club in 2010 could you please fill in the enclosed form and send to me with a cheque for £15, my address is on the form. Anyone paying by Direct Debit need only send back the form if their details have changed.
This letter is being sent to all Society Members, but only those paying a Club subscription will receive future communications.
Quickly I will just roundup previous news! November saw our Dinner held in conjunction with the SW Limousin Club. A big thanks to Colin & Joan Hutchings who worked really hard on this event. Although the numbers in attendance weren’t great, the food and company made for an enjoyable evening and with an Auction, we even managed to raise £900 to be split between the two Clubs and the Devon Air Ambulance. We also organised a really good Calf Show at Bristol with a tremendous entry forward on the day. Thanks to all involved in making this event a huge success.
So now onto 2010, it may only be February but it has already been a tremendous time for the South West Club. At the recent Society AGM one of our Members, Paul Jeenes was voted in as the President. This is a great honour and I know Paul will do a fantastic job. Also at the meeting, Ed Jones was voted onto Council, he will join Mark Pilcher who is already in attendance and the South West will certainly be well represented in Scotland now!
Events for 2010:
28th March: Sunday Lunch Social at Cullompton! Ed & Claire Jones have kindly offered to show us around the Rull Herd, which has been extremely successful in the last few years. There will also be some fun competitions and a hot Sunday Lunch, 11.30 onwards.
Please let me know on 01503 240478 if you wish to attend. (At least a week in advance)
Sales in 2010:
The Angus Society Show & Sales at Bristol have been confirmed as 10th April anyone interested in buying or selling should contact McCartneys on 01905 769770. (Clive Roads)
South West Multi Breed Sale, Sedgemoor Market on 7th April. Contact Robert Venner on 01278 410278
Other events are still in the planning stage, the AGM in April and the biennial Herd Competition will run this year and the Luncheon will make a reappearance too.
Don’t forget that each year I like to compile a list of ‘CATTLE FOR SALE’ in the area, these lists will be available at the shows, will be on our website and I will send to anyone who inquires. If you have any cattle for sale it would be worth your while to let me know so hopefully we will be able to supply the demand that there is for Angus cattle. Please also let me know when you sell them so that I can take them off the list and then I am not giving out dated information.
Don’t forget to visit our website (address above) as it is regularly updated with all the news and reviews, show results, cattle for sale etc. If you are a Member and do not want your information on there you will have to let me know.
We look forward to meeting you at our events in 2010.