New British Falconers Club Region (Shropshire) [Archive]

Dave Whitt

15-09-2009, 09:21 PM

A new region of the British Falconers Club has been formed, The West Mid & Borders Region will be holding it’s first meeting on the Friday 25th September at The Red Lion, Holyhead Road, Wellington, Telford, Shropshire. The pub is located 1/3 of a mile from M54 Junction 7 making it very easily accessible from all the surrounding areas. It has a totally private function room, large beer garden, ample parking, large public bar and food is available until 9 p.m. The meeting will start at 8pm and is open to anyone who wishes to attend.
The monthly meetings will start from Friday 6th November and will be held on the first Friday of the month from this date onwards. Several people have been contacted about giving talks and lectures at the meetings. The committee will be endeavoring to get a very active and busy calendar holding plenty of field meets for both longwings and shortwings throughout the season.
If you are interested in becoming involved with this new region but are unable to attend then please feel free to contact myself.

Dave Whittingham

Martyn

15-09-2009, 09:27 PM

Thanks for informing us Dave. I knew it was on the cards, but nobody at the club has officially announced this.
All the best for the future, if I can help in any way, get in touch

Martyn

Dave Whitt

15-09-2009, 09:39 PM

Thanks Martyn,
I hope the two regions will be able to help each other out maybe some inter regional field meets later in the season ?
Dave

Tony James

15-09-2009, 10:07 PM

Well done.

Historically, Shropshire has always been home to some good falconers, so with a little enthusiasm to get things off the ground I think you could be on to a winner.

Best wishes,

Tony.

Dave Whitt

15-09-2009, 10:13 PM

Thanks Tony, everyone involved has put in a lot of time and effort and are willing to put in a lot more, I hope we have a good show on the night so we can establish what people want from the region.

Dave

Martyn

15-09-2009, 10:17 PM

Thanks Martyn,
I hope the two regions will be able to help each other out maybe some inter regional field meets later in the season ?
Dave

No probs

Greg

15-09-2009, 10:18 PM

Well done.

Historically, Shropshire has always been home to some good falconers, so with a little enthusiasm to get things off the ground I think you could be on to a winner.

Best wishes,

Tony.

You must be right Tony I started there back in the 60's!
Greg

Tony James

15-09-2009, 10:20 PM

You must be right Tony I started there back in the 60's!
Greg

I rest my case:lol:

Tony James

15-09-2009, 10:25 PM

Thanks Tony, everyone involved has put in a lot of time and effort and are willing to put in a lot more, I hope we have a good show on the night so we can establish what people want from the region.

Dave

I hope you all make a great success of things Dave, which, with a little support from regional members I'm sure you will.

Best wishes,

Tony.

Dave Whitt

16-09-2009, 11:39 AM

If you are interested in attending the first meeting please post or drop me pm just for numbers that would be great.

Dave

K.Massey

16-09-2009, 11:57 AM

Too late to have a presance at the Midland game fair Dave?

Good luck

Kev

Dave Whitt

16-09-2009, 12:25 PM

Hi

Hoping to have inbformation on BFC stand.

Cheers

Dave

Tony James

16-09-2009, 03:28 PM

Hi

Hoping to have inbformation on BFC stand.

Cheers

Dave

Hi Dave,

I think I'm right in saying that the BFC will be at the Midland Game Fair, with Dave Aldred and others on the stand.
All other regions have there own stand, specific to that region, and I'm sure one could be organised for you to use at regional functions etc. --- I guess you'll be sending a regional rep to the next council meeting where it could be dealt with if you wish.

Best wishes,

Tony.

LanczSpringer

16-09-2009, 05:39 PM

A new region of the British Falconers Club has been formed, The West Mid & Borders Region will be holding it’s first meeting on the Friday 25th September at The Red Lion, Holyhead Road, Wellington, Telford, Shropshire. The pub is located 1/3 of a mile from M54 Junction 7 making it very easily accessible from all the surrounding areas. It has a totally private function room, large beer garden, ample parking, large public bar and food is available until 9 p.m. The meeting will start at 8pm and is open to anyone who wishes to attend.
The monthly meetings will start from Friday 6th November and will be held on the first Friday of the month from this date onwards. Several people have been contacted about giving talks and lectures at the meetings. The committee will be endeavoring to get a very active and busy calendar holding plenty of field meets for both longwings and shortwings throughout the season.
If you are interested in becoming involved with this new region but are unable to attend then please feel free to contact myself.

Dave Whittingham

Best of luck Dave et al,

There seems to have been some interest from Shropshire falconers to get a club going again so it looks like the potential members are there.

I'd would have liked to have been there but I'm already busy that weekend.

Anthony

Dave Whitt

18-09-2009, 07:33 AM

Best of luck Dave et al,

There seems to have been some interest from Shropshire falconers to get a club going again so it looks like the potential members are there.

I'd would have liked to have been there but I'm already busy that weekend.

Anthony

Cheers, there are a lot of falconers in the area however not many are BFC members, probabally due to the fact there is no local region with any luck a few of them will want to join.

Dave

Ranewalker

23-09-2009, 12:59 AM

Great news.......

Pete Smith

23-09-2009, 08:45 PM

Dave,
From the "chinese whispers" sounds like there's going to be a good turn out.
Ill be bringing a few copies of Y2K to sell on the night.

Cheers Pete.

Tony James

23-09-2009, 08:47 PM

Dave,
From the "chinese whispers" sounds like there's going to be a good turn out.
Ill be bringing a few copies of Y2K to sell on the night.

Cheers Pete.

Oh that's great Pete, scare them all off why don't you :lol:

GameHawker

23-09-2009, 11:04 PM

Dave,
From the "chinese whispers" sounds like there's going to be a good turn out.
Ill be bringing a few copies of Y2K to sell on the night.

Cheers Pete.

Pete, Got some cash for you see you on Friday.

Carl

Dave Whitt

24-09-2009, 08:41 AM

Dave,
From the "chinese whispers" sounds like there's going to be a good turn out.
Ill be bringing a few copies of Y2K to sell on the night.

Cheers Pete.

Pete,
That sounds like a good idea, some people may not know what it is about so you could always give us a talk :supz:

Dave

Ben C

24-09-2009, 08:49 AM

Thank god it's on a Friday as well.......these mid week ones put me right off.

Can you join there?

Ranewalker

24-09-2009, 10:04 AM

Thank god it's on a Friday as well.......these mid week ones put me right off.

Can you join there?

I believe this is correct Ben..
I must agree with the Friday 'timing' lol- who, is to thank?:lol:

You have One crazy signature!!? lol

Pete Smith

24-09-2009, 06:38 PM

Don't hold your breath waiting. :yawinkle:

Pete,
That sounds like a good idea, some people may not know what it is about so you could always give us a talk :supz:

Dave

Stu Bailey

24-09-2009, 06:42 PM

could you pm me the postcode,if possible,dont think its on the letter i got..

thanks..

Pete Smith

24-09-2009, 09:53 PM

Pete, Got some cash for you see you on Friday.

Carl

I'll book securicor!
Cheers Pete.

Dave Whitt

25-09-2009, 07:37 AM

Thank god it's on a Friday as well.......these mid week ones put me right off.

Can you join there?

Hi Ben,

Hope to see you there, membership pack will be at every meeting for anyone wishing to join.

Dave

Ben C

25-09-2009, 08:17 AM

Hi Ben,

Hope to see you there, membership pack will be at every meeting for anyone wishing to join.

Dave

What kind of speakers have you got lined up Dave?

Pete Smith

27-09-2009, 06:29 PM

Dave,
Congrat's ref the 1st meeting.....not bad for a starter, can remember the start of the Shropshire hawking club years ago with 5 of us attending....30 off for the 1st event can't be bad.

Pete.

Dave Whitt

27-09-2009, 07:43 PM

Thanks Pete,
I was not expecting as many people as we got, we had a further 6 people send appologies as they could not attend but will be available for the next meeting on the 6th November, we also had three people joined the BFC on the night which was better than we expected.
I would like to thank Martyn Stanley and the other members of the Midland region for donating £400 from their region to help get us started. The commitee will be working hard between now and teh 6th to get some speakers booked and hopefully some dates for field meets sorted.
Thanks to all who attended for their support, if anyone has any suggestion on speakers that they have seen in the past or would like to see then please let us know.

Dave

Dave Whitt

03-11-2009, 05:01 PM

Just to let you all know the next meeting is this Friday 6th November at the same location, the meeting will start at 8pm Steve Halsall is kindly giving us a short talk.

Dave

Dave Whitt

10-11-2009, 07:37 AM

Thanks to everyone who attended last Friday another good turn out, another three member have now joined the club and our region, several field meets have been organised on some excellent land. There are now some very interesting guest speakers are booked for next year.
Anyone interesed in coming along the next monthly meeting is Friday 4th December.

Dave