LONDON & SOUTHERN COUNTIES B.S. NEWS – April 2018 - by
Rupert Redden, Publicity Officer
The Society held its AGM on 18th February at its usual venue
in Smallfield, Surrey. The Society’s Chairman, Ghalib
Al-Nasser, opened the meeting and welcomed all those who
attended. A minute’s silence was observed for those members
who had recently passed away, namely Barry Wiseman, Vic
Springett, Frank Sains and Denis Ball.
Speakers for the day were Sandra & James Gillan with James
giving a power point presentation on how they got involved
in the hobby from 2009 with his dad doing the aviary
rebuilds and mum helping with the birds; to a top class
Intermediate partnership winning many awards on the show
bench that included many best in shows. Their ultimate win
was when they were crowned World Champion in 2015 at the
B.S. Club Show when they were only novices. They showed
pictures of various birds brought in from top breeders in
this country such as Alex & David Woan, Gren & Pat Norris,
the Luke partnership and the Bowkers. They showed photos of
their pairings with results which showed the progressive
improvement to becoming World Champions!
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Tony Jeffrey, the outgoing president with Sandra & James
Gillan
It was a very informative presentation, also answering
questioned from their feeding habits to their stock control,
also on their acquisitions/outcrosses and blood lines they
stressed that they were careful to bring in the correct
features required to improve the stud. Members present
showed their appreciation for an interesting power point
presentation that had lots of useful commentary and was
enjoyed by all.
At the AGM that followed the presentation Officers elected
for 2018 were as follows: David Harmer, president; Tony
Cash, president elect & secretary; Malcolm Parsons,
subscription secretary; Paul Tiller, treasurer; James Folly,
patronage secretary and Ghalib Al-Nasser & Rupert Redden
joint Newsletter editors. The general committee to consist
of all above and Tony Jeffrey, Jim Lawrie, Peter Merritt,
David Rafis, David Rice, Richard Tessier & Tony Wilkinson.
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David Harmer receiving the Presidential Chain of Office from
the outgoing President Tony Jeffrey
Tony Jeffrey, the outgoing president, was called upon to
present the Blue Riband and Chelfers Awards to their
winners. The Blue Riband cup was won by the Ellis & Mathews
partnership while the Chelfers Awards were won by Ellis &
Mathews (champion), P & S Stevens (intermediate), Mark
Bannister (novice), Graham Paine (beginner) & Millie Roberts
(junior).
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Tony Jeffrey presenting Graham Paine with his
beginner Chelfers Award |
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Ghalib Al-Nasser presenting Peter & Sandra Stevens
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Tony Jeffrey awarded The President’s Trophy to the Society’s
patronage secretary James Folly for all his work for the
Society and his local club.
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Tony Jeffrey awarding the President’s Trophy to James Folly,
the Society’s patronage secretary
The Society also awarded two of its members the Silver Star
namely Martin Frost and Malcolm Parsons for their work over
many years to many local clubs.
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Tony Jeffrey with the Silver Star holders Malcolm Parsons &
Martin Frost
Ghalib Al-Nasser, shows organiser, informed the meeting that
judges booked for the Society’s combined Specialist & Rare
Variety Show & Young Stock Show on 14th July are Graham
Barton & Roger Carr. For the Area Show on 14th October
judges booked are Bob Francis, Dave Game, Gary Hale, Tony
Pope and Christian Bach (Germany). The Inter-Club
Competition will be held on 11th November with a
presentation in the morning by Trevor Terheege followed by
lunch then judging the inter-club competition. The Chairman
also informed members that the Society’s website
www.landscbs.org.uk was updated with a fresh look.
The meeting was brought to a close with the Chairman
thanking everyone for attending and to James & Sandra Gillan
for their presentation.
At the committee meeting that followed the AGM Ghalib
Al-Nasser was re-elected chairman and shows organiser with
Paul Tiller vice chairman and Rupert Redden & Ghalib
Al-Nasser as joint publicity officers. The shows committee
was re-elected again as Ghalib & Janice Al-Nasser, James
Folly, Tony Jeffrey, Malcolm Parsons, Paul Tiller & Brian
Scott. The Silver Star committee to consist of Ghalib
Al-Nasser, Tony Cash, David Rafis, Richard Tessier & Paul
Tiller.
Subscriptions can be sent to the subscription secretary
Malcolm Parsons (46 Melrose Avenue, Worthing, West Sussex
BN13 1NX). The rates are single £13, partnership at same
address £15, other partnership £13 each, OAP & disabled £8
and junior £6.
For more information about the Society please contact the
secretary Tony Cash on 01329 231554 or
tony@southern-heating.co.uk or visit the Society’s
website on
www.landscbs.org.uk
Chairman’s Message – February 2018
No doubt most of you are in the middle of the breeding
season and I wish you every success that you deserve. With
us it is a very disappointing season so far with many pairs
having clear rounds, a few hens have died and few did not
lay and only 15 chicks rung by end of January. However,
apart from these setbacks no doubt a few of you would have
also experienced the problem of ring delivery this year. I
must admit with all my years in the hobby since 1971 this is
the first time that I have heard of such problems with the
ring manufacturer so I feel for those members who have been
affected by this long delay.
We had a successful year last year with 3 successful events
staged by your Council. The SRVOS/YSS was reported in the
August Newsletter and with this Newsletter you will see the
results of the area show (October) and the Inter-Club
Competition (November). Both events had an international
flavour to it whereby we had a fancier from the USA, Greg
Arena, attending the show and joining our society and for
the November event we had Maarten Heylen, a successful
fancier and judge from Belgium, attending as our guest
speaker and judge and he had Bob Wilson (USA) accompanying
him for the trip. It was very pleasing to listen to Maarten
explaining to the attendees his method of breeding, feeding
and showing.
For me the year was marred by the passing away of two good
friends namely Barry Wiseman (October) and Vic Springett
(November). Vic, with his late wife Doreen, were my mentors
when I started in the hobby back in 1971 in Southend on Sea.
They taught me all I needed to know about show management,
both in the office and on the floor, and it was an
acceptable joke that I was their surrogate son. Barry was a
great gentleman and friend to many and a very successful
exhibitor. Only recently I heard of the passing of Frank
Sains who was a founder member of Mid Essex BS. Our
condolences are extended to their families.
Our society website had a face lift recently when we engaged
Terry Tuxford to do the job for us. We extend a special
THANK YOU to Tony Cash who looked after the website for
the past few years and was also our Newsletter Editor until
recently when he vacated both posts. Thank you Tony for a
job well done.
We have invited the World Champions Sandra & James Gillan
to be our guest speakers at the AGM to be held on
Sunday 18th February so I hope that many of
you will attend and make their trip from Norwich worthwhile.
See you at our first event of the year.
Ghalib Al-Nasser, Chairman
Future Events
SRVOS/YSS Saturday 14th
July 2018
Area Show Sunday 14th October 2018
Inter-Club Sunday 11th November 2018
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