Chairman’s Report
Chairman’s Report – Annual Course & AGM, Addington 2024
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Read MoreF & I Winter newsletter
Festive greetings to you all! It does not seem two minutes since the last newsletter but yes winter is well and truly here. As always, it’s so important to stay in touch and ensure we keep talking and supporting each other as much as possible. This time of year can be very challenging, especially if…
Read MoreF&I Autumn Newsletter 2023
Dear F&I Member, Well, where does the time go? How have we arrived at the end of September already? I don’t know about you, but I find the year seems to whizz past faster than ever. I guess like so many of you, being super busy, the days merge into weeks and then months and…
Read MoreF&I Summer Newsletter 2023
Sam York FBHS, Chair, 30th June 2023 Dear Members, How on earth is it already the end of June?? With the longest day already gone, summer is in full swing, the hay is ready to be cut and the horsefly season is in full force! I hope you are enjoying the amazing light mornings and…
Read MoreChairman’s Report – Review of the Year
We have had a full and varied year in 2022 with lots of activities and events, please do read the reports and newsletters to remind yourselves of the fantastic F&I year we have had. This year we have felt that our industry has been threatened, mainly due to a few specific incidents that have caught…
Read MoreAutumn 2022 Newsletter from our Chair Sam York FBHS
Wow, what can I say – what an incredible summer we’ve had, so full of events all of which have been fantastic, with such great variety. There really has been something for everyone and all of them encouraging “food for thought”. It’s so important in this tough industry that we can have such a great…
Read MoreCHAIRMAN’S REPORT
It is my pleasure and that of the Committee to welcome you to Keysoe International for this our 35th Anniversary AND the end of the 9-year Reign of Terror as Ann, Vice Chair and myself are due to step down from the Committee, having accomplished 3 X 3 year stints on this Committee. As we…
Read MoreF&I Chairman’s Report Virtual AGM
January 5th 2021 Dear Members Welcome to our first Virtual AGM. As the year 2020 drew to a close suffice to say for us all it was a challenging one and a time we won’t forget. The COVID-19 pandemic threw all our lives into disarray, it limited our social lives, work, travel and so many…
Read MoreCHAIRMAN’S REVIEW of 2019
AGM JANUARY 2020 “Ladies & Gentlemen Once again it is my pleasure to stand in front of you to give the Chairman’s Review of the past year. We have 91 for supper, the biggest number ever. I am in awe of the length & breadth of this professional association’s membership – people who are prepared…
Read MoreF&I SUMMER NEWSLETTER
Well, that’s Ladies Day at Hickstead done and dusted for another year. Not so many of us there this year, but the same amount of fun to be had. Royal Dublin Horse Show has finished with GB winning the Nations Cup on a really awful day, weather wise. So, is it really all downhill till…
Read MoreF&I ASSOCIATION REVUE OF 2018
Honoured Guests 3 New Fellows of the BHS, Ladies & Gentlemen Each year as I stand here to give this revue, I feel that the past 12 months cannot be improved on. But each year they are!!! From the first day of our Annual Course in 2018 with the fabulous Christoph Hess and Chris Bartle…
Read MoreChairman’s Report – AGM – January 3rd, 2018
Ladies & Gentlemen, As I prepared this report a few days ago, I said to myself: well, we have the FaceBook page up and running thanks to Sam Champney Warrener, the web page is kept ticking over by Sally Newcomb, and our F&I days keep getting better and better as well as more and more.…
Read MoreF&I Newsletter Summer 2017
Dear Member I promised myself I wouldn’t say it but I have to “Where has this year gone? It’s now July!” Following the agreement with the BHS to introduce Continual Professional Development (CPD) recognition to more of our days, this year seems to have opened up with an absolute blast of informative and innovative study days. Thank…
Read MoreCHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2017
Having re read my Report for 2016 I noted the last paragraph stated that the 30th Anniversary Year had started with a ‘BANG’ and so it progressed throughout the year with a plethora of days offered across the UK and Ireland. Even though all did not take place the list of those which were held…
Read MoreChairman’s Report 6th January 2016
Good evening ladies & gentlemen and honoured guests, Mrs. Jennie Loriston Clarke, Mr Nick Turner and Mrs Lynn Petersen. This AGM & Dinner is a milestone for the F&I Association as the 30th Anniversary. In my loft I have paperwork going back to the first year I’ve made a start to prepare it for archiving…
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