Newsletters
SPRING NEWSLETTER
Dear Member What a fantastic start to 2019! Two fabulous days in the company of Corrine Bracken and Adam Kemp at the newly refurbished Addington Manor EC. What more could one ask for? Those who rode went from strength to strength and for those of us watching there just weren’t enough pages in the notebook…
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 MoreSpring Newsletter
Dear F&I Member As I sit here in the grip of Storm Emma and De Beast from De East I decided I’ve done enough snow shovelling and I would set about the Spring Newsletter. As usual I am overwhelmed by the continued enthusiasm of our members. After another fabulous two-day Annual Course at Addington Manor…
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 MoreAutumn Newsletter
Dear Member What a fantastic year so far for the Fellow & Instructors Association. Di (our secretary) recently sent me a list of all days organised this year and it makes very good reading. We are a diverse group of people with that common interest – the horse. To just precis the dates, days have…
Read MoreF & I Association Newsletter April 2016
As I start to write this newsletter I realise today is Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday, what a fantastic woman for such a great age, and I understand still riding out in Windsor Great Park. I am lucky enough to be coming across to Royal Windsor Horse Show on Sunday 13th May with my very dear…
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…
Read MoreAutumn Newsletter October 2015
Dear Member, In September 1819 John Keats wrote an Ode beginning ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ and yes here we are again. British Summertime will ended on October 25th and now the days will shorten on that run down, or is it up, to Christmas. The British Horse magazine had articles on winter care…
Read MoreSpring Newsletter
SPRING HAS SPRUNG!! The grass is looking greener, the clocks have changed, garden centres are in full swing telling us to plant the tubs and hanging baskets, and our horses/ponies are busy slipping their coats. Members of The Fellows & Instructors Association who knew Margot Tiffany have been stunned and shocked by the sad news…
Read MoreChairman’s Report, AGM 2015
Good evening members and honoured guests, Mrs Jo Knowles FBHS, Mrs Jennie Loriston-Clarke FBHS, Mrs Lyn Petersen BHS CEO and Mr Nick Turner FBHS. Welcome to the 29th AGM of the BHS F&I Association. Looking back at the proposed dates for 2014 from the minutes I noted that, with very few exceptions, every day was…
Read MoreAutumn Newsletter 2014
Dear Member Summer is but a memory and the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is now past as we tread those long dark days to Christmas, so I felt a Newsletter was needed! The F&I Association has had a busy year with a varied calendar, training days, study days, course walks, days for the…
Read MoreSummer Newsletter 2014
Dear All I have realised that time has marched on and that I’ve not yet sent you any form of correspondence re the F&I Association’s continued successful 2014. Since the Annual Convention many events have been organised by busy people, which have then been coached and attended by many very busy people. Other busy people…
Read MoreChairman’s Report, AGM 2014
Welcome, we now have 206 paid up members this is all due to Judith Murphy. 2013 continued to be a busy year with the great unwashed British Public having a better idea of what horses and their riders can achieve following London 2012. Meanwhile the F&I Association has been equally as busy, especially a small…
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