Useful Contacts

 

CHAIRMAN

Darren Cassie - 07980 540727

 

SECRETARY

 Laura Lambert - 01785 282901

 

TREASURER & MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES

Rita Peace - Tel. 01438 832964

 

HEMLIN EDITOR

Helen Brewis

 

PUBLICITY OFFICER

John Lane  - Tel. 01772 613928

 

WEBSITE

Edward Lambert - 01785 282901

Website design & maintenance by Edward Lambert

 

The NRSF welcomes the following new members who have recently joined:

 

Damon Arrand, Lincs

Tom Moore, Leicester

Lois McLaren, Northumberland

Giles Ellis, Upper Beeding

Mrs P Smith, Huntingdon, Cambs

Adrianne Hills, USA

James Thompson,Cheshire

Lady Acorn Ltd, Warks

Robert Owen, Cornwall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TBC

 

Please contact the Secretary or Chairman if you have a matter that you wish Council to discuss.

MELTON NATIVE BREEDS SHOW & SALE

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOE HENSON TROPHY

 

 

 

 

DAWN DUCE

Traditional Native Breeds - National Show and Sale - Melton Mowbray - 9th/10th September 2016. There is a huge entry of North Ronaldsay sheep at Melton this year. The inspection and show will take place on the Friday, with the sale on the Saturday. (Animals arriving on Saturday will be inspected too). After the interbreed championship, there will be the usual social gathering for drinks and nibbles in conjunction with the Hebridean Sheep Society.

 

Further details and full catalogue online - www.grassroots.co.uk/melton.html

 

 

 

 

 

The Joe Henson Trophy is a new award, presented by Gill and family, in memory of Joe. This replaces the Bitfel Trophy and will be awarded to the Breed Champion at Melton Mowbray Show and Sale.

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly, Dawn Duce died in March. Dawn, together with husband Maurice, a former President of NRSF, founded the Roughland Flock (Number 292 in the Combined Flock Book) in the early days of the rare breeds movement. Each were familiar faces across the show circuit and Dawn in particular a 'larger than life' personality. Her funeral was well attended and rare breeds enthusiasts were plentiful in bidding her farewell.