Could you be a future Trustee?
Could you be a future trustee/Council member of the Suffolk Horse Society? If you are a fully paid up member, then you are eligible. The Council is the Suffolk Horse Society’s governing body, and is responsible for the strategic direction of the Society and monitoring its operations and overall performance. The Society is both a registered charity and a Company Limited by Guarantee, and a Council member is therefore both a charity trustee and a company director. Trustees are the volunteers who lead the charity and decide how it is run. Volunteering as a trustee gives you the opportunity to make a difference at a strategic level and ensure that a charity’s resources are used effectively. You share, with all members of that body, equal responsibility for the charity. As trustees, the Council has a duty to ensure that the charity complies with the governing document, that is, the Articles of Association. These Articles of Association were updated at the 2024 AGM with members giving almost unanimous approval to bringing the Articles up to date. View the current Articles of Association. The Council currently meets six times a year. In addition, Council members are expected to attend the AGM and…
Read moreChristmas Cards and 2025 Calendars
Email – info@suffolkhorsesociety.org.uk or telephone the office – 01394 380643 with your order. **Reduced price** Cards £3 per pack of 5 or 2 packs for £5 plus P&P. A single calendar is £8 plus P&P. Please call the office for stock availability and postage costs. Payment can be made cheque (Suffolk Horse Society) or by card over the telephone.
Read more150th Woodbridge Show – May 6th 2024
The 150th Woodbridge Horse Show was a memorable day and an impressive start to the 2024 show season. To all our members who supported the Show, the Society would like to offer a sincere ‘thank you’ – horses were immaculately turned out, most classes were well attended and competition was fierce, and to all out members who featured in the line-up of prize winners, a very Well Done! Suffolk Horse Society trustee is Cheryl Grover is the 2024 Woodbridge Horse Show President and presented trophies at the end of the Show. The highlight of the day must surely have been Class 15, the ridden heavy horse class, which was a qualifying class for Horse of the Year Show at the NEC, Birmingham in October 2024. Eleven members took part in this memorable class and riders and horses were a credit to the Suffolk Horse Society. A full set of results is available on the Woodbridge Show website, but a summary of the winners is included below: Class 1 – Yearling: Colt, Filly or Gelding – Eyke Athena 28874 (Mr & Mrs J Fleming) Class 2 – Gelding: 2 or 3 years old – Tas Valley Lincoln 9269 (Mr Andrew Wager)…
Read moreCherry’s “Life with Horses”
Cherry Grover and I have both followed Ray Hubbard in giving talks to local Village Hall groups and Women’s Institutes to let them know about the work of the Suffolk Horse Society (SHS) in promoting and preserving the breed. These talks have also encouraged new members and brought some funds for the Society. In the Autumn of 2022, the Covid restrictions on meeting were finally being lifted. We decided that it was time to reinstate the social evenings that have always given members of the Society a chance to meet in a relaxed and non-competitive setting (unlike the show ring!) Cherry has always been a well organised lady, and this is reflected in the way that she carefully collected photographs of her horsey activities from childhood onwards. She went further than this and filed them in albums with brief notes about the setting. They did not include 35mm slides. Having been part of the PowerPoint presentation that I gave to celebrate the end of the National Lottery funded Oral History project, Cherry knew that I could get photographs on to a computer as ‘slides’. I then had the privilege of scanning all her photographs, making ‘slides’, and then deciding with…
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