The Great Western Harness Club
2008 Committee Members
President
Tom Pettifer 01363 866579
Chairman & Course Designer
Mark Ingham 01752 851640
Vice Chairman Website & Juniors
James Campbell 01752 830221
Secretary & Club Shop
Maxine Ingham 01752 851640
Training
Ann Sheldrake 01566 86483
Treasurer & Membership Secretary
Marita Wakeham 01822 840573
Health & Safety
Liz McQueen 01822 840703
Publicity
Edmund Kirwan 01566 772428
Stewards Secretary
Kate Fincham-Powell 01626 866257
Jennifer Collie 01822 840074
To contact committee members by e-mail gwharnessclub@hotmail.co.uk
Committee Meeting Dates : 12/3/08 , 14/5/08, 9/7/08, 10/9/08.
Houghton Saddlery in Launceston and Tom Willcocks Equestrian Supplies in Plympton have both offered GWHC members discount when shopping in their shops. We are unsure how much is being offered at Houghton but 10% off is being offered at Tom Willcocks. Just let the sales assistant know that you are a club member.
We have received a letter from the air ambulance thanking the club for the £45 donation from the Easter Hall Park raffle. The committee has decided to hold a raffle at one of our club events each year solely for this worthy cause as it cost 2.2 million a year to keep both Devon air ambulances in the air, a huge sum of money I’m sure you’ll agree.
John Horne and Helen Cobbold are both standing down at next years AGM, do you know of anyone who might like to joins us or would you yourself? Contact a committee member for more details. At the last meeting we co-opted Jennifer Collie onto the committee, we welcome Jennifer and think she will be a great asset to our club. For those of you who don’t know Jennifer she can quite often be seen out helping Penny Bragg or back stepping for Anne Briggs at events.
Do you have an email address? If you are a member of the club, one of our regular stewards or helpers, or maybe you’d just like to kept informed of future club events? If you have an email address please email it to markmax@perrymeade.freeserve.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list and we can then keep you up to date with all the club news and events.
Don’t forget our end of season supper on the 3rd November at The Holne Park Hotel with Bob Elliot as our after dinner speaker, tickets are £20 a head. Contact Maxine Ingham for more details on 01752 851640. We have some excellent raffle prizes for the night but if you’d like to bring one along all will be very gratefully received!
Newsletter. In view of current postage and production costs and the fact that we are struggling at times to fill the newsletter with current articles, we are going to send out our bi-monthly newsletter by email (words only) and place a full copy with more pictures on the web site. A hard copy will be posted out in December with voting/AGM/rule changes etc in it. By having everyone’s email address it will be very easy for us to update the membership with any changes/ events or news that are happening while still relevant. You should receive a telephone call over the next week or so from one of our committee to check your email address, if you do not for some reason you can email your address to markmax@perrymeade.freeserve.co.uk For those of you who do not have a computer you will still receive your copy by post.
Committee News August 2007
2008 Committee. We have some spaces on the GWHC committee next year, would you or someone you know like to join us? If so we would love to hear from you and any ideas you may have. Contact a committee member if you are interested.
2008 Dates.
AGM. 16th February. Clyst St Mary village Hall.
Taster Day. 6th April at Easter Hall Park.
Fun Training Day or Weekend. 10th and 11th May at Easter Hall Park.
Newnham Park One [ 5th] and Two Day Event. 4th and 5th July.
Easter Hall Park Two Day Event. 9th and 10th August.
Newsletter.
Don’t forget it’s your newsletter and we try hard to fill it for you but all articles are very gratefully received, it makes it much more interesting if we can read about what our members have been up to!!
Committee News 13 June 2007
Southern Area Championships, 29th/30th September
The White Horse Harness Club have taken on the running of the Southern Area Championships as The David Broome Centre has been triple booked! As this event is now going to be run alongside the WHHC event and is a huge undertaking, the White Horse have asked if the GWHC could send an obstacle party up to Rockbourne on the 30th September. Could anyone that would like to help please get in touch with Maxine Ingham on 01752 851640
Taster day.
The day was a huge success with over 50 people attending. If you know anyone who may be interested we hope to make this an annual event.
Event Check lists.
There will be in future a series of check sheets available for event organisers, chief stewards etc which we hope will be of help to those of you running and helping at events. We hope that they will be a useful back–up to ensure that [ hopefully] nothing gets forgotten!
Get Well Soon.
The committee would like to send it’s warmest wishes to both Peggy Pickwold and Di Stamp who have been unwell. We understand that they are now both feeling much better.
New Classes.
There will be a Dressage and Cones only class on Saturday and a Marathon/Obstacle only class on the Sunday at Easter Hall Park this year. Hayes Barton will also run a Dressage and Cones only class at their one day event.
Fenix/Killerton Cups and Trophies.
If you have a trophy from one of these events PLEASE could you return them to Maxine Ingham so that they can be given out at other events.
Stewards.
If you have stewarded for the club please could you let Marita Wakeham have your email address. Please send to the following address marita@hewton.co.uk
COMMITTEE NEWS April 2007
Killerton 1 Day and Fenix 2 Day Events.As Killerton and Fenix Events are not running this year the committee felt it would be a good idea to redistribute the trophies to our other club events. If you have a trophy from one of these events could you please let Maxine Ingham know.
Killerton Drive???Although due to a change in National Trust policy we cannot hold our one day event at Killerton this year, they would love the club to hold a drive there. Can you help organise this or do you know anyone who may be able to help us? Please give Mark a call if you can help in any way.
25th Anniversary Year 2008.Next year is our clubs 25th anniversary and we are asking members for ideas on how we can celebrate. If you have any ideas please pass them on to any committee member.
Newsletter.Please support the brilliant job that James and Mary-Jane Campbell are doing with both the website and the newsletter by sending in your write-ups about anything you think will be of interest. All items will be very gratefully received!
Exciting News!Gina Albright, our extremely efficient ex club secretary has recently become engaged to Peter Gordon. We wish them both every happiness in the future. Should they require a horse and carriage for their wedding I’m sure that one of our members could help!
Club Shop.The club shop has new stock for the summer and lots of discounted items- look out for the GWHC banner at events, the shop will be nearby!
Taster Day.This will be held at Easter Hall Park on the 13th May. If you know anyone who is interested in leaning to drive, then this is the day for them. Contact Maxine Ingham or Gail Palmer.
Southern Area Championships.Newnham Park, Easter Hall Park are all qualifying events for the Southern Area Championships on the 29th and 30th of September 2007.
COMMITTEE NEWS March 2007
At the AGM Trisha Luxton stood down along with Sue Joll and Shirley-May Yard, to be replaced by Liz McQueen, Edmund Kirwan and Maxine Ingham, there is still one vacancy should anyone wish to join us!There has been a bit of a reshuffle, Mark Ingham is now Chairman, John Horne has stood down as vice to be replaced by Gail Palmer who is also in charge of Training. John is still our Health and Safety man! Kate Fincham-Powell carries on with Stewards but now shares the job with Liz McQueen. Edmund is in charge of Publicity, Marita, Helen and James’s jobs remain the same and Maxine Ingham takes over as secretary and is still doing the club shop. Although Sue is not on the committee any more she is going to carry on with Newsletter Advertising, so she is your point of contact if you would like to advertise in our newsletter, Shirley-May is another who hasn’t quite escaped, she is organising a Taster/Starter Day hopefully at Bicton with Mark Broadbent, we have a lot of new names through our stand at the Equine Fair so hope to encourage lots of new members to the club.
Killerton. Due to the National Trust change of policy re. staffing of outside events there will sadly be no Killerton for this year. There is a small possibility we could return in the future but only time will tell.
Fenix Fun Day. Due to the impending sale of Fenix we are unable to secure any dates for this season at this moment in time. Mark Broadbent has said if he and the club have a weekend free at the same time we are very welcome the