Events and Training 2010
NEWS: Training courses in 2010 will be charged at the reduced rate of £100 per person. The Committee agreed to this reduction to make our excellent programme of interesting and varied training more available and affordable for members.
2010 Annual General Meeting was on Saturday 15th May at 6.00pm. hosted by Richard and Tricia Branscombe at their farm near Mere in Wiltshire. The committee was re elected and reports received. More in Latest News.
Natural Horsemanship. This course will be organised and run by Richard Branscombe. It will be held held over the weekend of 7th and 8th August 2010 at Richard's farm. There will be opportunities to bring horses and also to come as a spectator. Different rates will apply and there will be a limit on the number of horses. Anyone wishing to bring a horse must apply to Richard in the first instance. A maximum of 6 to 8 horses and handlers will be allowed at a charge of £100 each. Spectators will be charged £50 each.
BHL Competitions 2010. Results? <<click here>>
Selecting and Starting a Young Horse. This training course will again be organised and run by Richard Branscombe. This will be held at Richard's farm again and will be over the weekend of 9th and 10th October 2010. More details in the newsletter. Charged at £100 per participant.
Courses to come: Buying standing timber and working steep sites. This is a course we will be running in the autumn organised and tutored by Simon Lenihan.
Training opportunites listed below, click on PDF:
Woodland Heritage is proud to announce this unique three-day training course.
An innovative new course linking ‘tree growers with wood users’, to broaden horizons and raise awareness by educating participants from the forest through to the workshop and beyond….
Supported by knowledgeable practitioners and eminent speakers from the industry,
Whitney Sawmill & Joinery Workshop
Whitney-on-Wye, Herefordshire
Based in the woodland, timber yard, sawmill and joinery workshop.
Numbers will be restricted to enable a ‘hands on’ and highly interactive approach, ensuring a learning opportunity of enduring quality.
Some subsidised places will be available to deserving and committed individuals.
For further information and an application form please contact:
Woodland Heritage
PO Box 168, Haslemere
Surrey
GU27 1XQ
Tel: 01428 652159
enquiries@woodlandheritage.org.uk www.woodlandheritage.org.uk
Patron HRH The Prince of Wales
Registered charity No: 1041611
We were delighted to host the FECTU Annual General Meeting in March.
Take a look at the blogs by Jean-Leo Dugast:
September 23rd to 24th will see us back at the APF forestry show.
This time it will be held again at Cannock Chase and we will be amongst some large pine on the inside of the Demonstration Circuit between markers 1150 and 1200. Come for a brew.
For more information <<click here>>
'Seeing is Believing"
In addition to our usual training events and Progress events, the BHL was active in demonstrating horse extraction on working sites.
In May, June, July and October 2008 we took part in the Borders Festival of the Horse and other festivals and shows in Scotland. Held at various venues in the Scottish Borders and in Lothian, we demonstrated horse logging on working sites.
We also demonstrated horse logging at a very special invitation only event in July in Cornwall hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchy of Cornwall Woodlands.
This is part of a wider programme our Patron is organising to use horses in the Duchy Woodlands, evaluate the cost effectiveness of their use and demonstrate the effectiveness of their work.
For more information <<click here>>
Future Events
The British Festival of the Working Horse.
The BHL is organising a major working horse festival and celebration over the weekend of 7th, 8th and 9th September 2012.
This will feature horses working, demonstrating, competing and performing over two full days at a venue to be announced.
Planning has started so put the dates in your 2012 diary. Venue will be Windsor Great Park. A superb venue, great for the European visitors and their horses arriving by ferry and also great for those flying in to Heathrow or Gatwick. Pretty handy for the British Teams being well placed for access from the motorway network.
There will be horses from all over Europe as well as British teams.
All horses will be doing something - there will be none showing in hand or simply on show. We will have horse logging, farming, working in silviculture, working in the vines and the orchards, urban work, driving and all other aspects of horse work as well as ring events and horse spectacles.
A true working demonstration of the varied roles that horses perform now and will do in the future.
Absolutely not to be missed!
<<click here>> for more information
The BHL is launching a new venture at its Progress Events and other get togethers.
A harness/equipment and other tools 'Bring and Buy'.
If you have any items of equipment you want to sell, bring them along
for potential buyers to see.
Items can be notified on the web site and in the newsletter (useful
for larger items).
HRH The Prince of Wales presenting the BHLWMA Trophy in 2007. 2009 results? <<click here>>. Ready for the next entry? Closing date end of September 2010 and covers the period 2008 to 2010.
Troupe Jehol
Ploughing with a pair of stallions
Chariot Racing