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Grand barn dance, hog roast and 21st birthday party, SATURDAY, 9 JULY 2022

Grand barn dance, hog roast and 21st birthday party, SATURDAY, 9 JULY 2022

Marcus Bicknell

SATURDAY, 9 JULY 2022 AT 19:00
Grand barn dance, hog roast and 21st birthday party
Drink, dine and dance with the Hodgemoor Riding Association
Flexmore Farm, Bottrells Lane entrance, Chalfont St Giles HP8 4NT.

You are invited to a big party to celebrate the creation of our Association in 2001 and the contribution everyone in the riding community has made to creating such an extraordinary outdoor facility and community spirit.Just £20 per person to include merriment, hog roast, live band The Austin 7 with popular cover music. Costs underwritten by your Hodgemoor Riding Association

Drinks and alcohol sold for cash on the night; no bring-your-own please. Covered barn, tables and chairs provided. We invite you to have lots of fun but please drink responsibly and respect Stephen and Vicky Hind’s very kind use of their barn and facilities to us. Music ends 11pm, doors close midnight. We will be raising money for Cancer Research and a Charity supporting a teaching hospital in India due to band donating their fee.

Bookings are now open for any number of tickets and for tables of 10. Please email Francesca at francesca_jones@hotmail.com with your name, phone number, email address, the number of tickets, the names of the guests and whether you would like the vegetarian option. For a table of 10, please pay £200, without which we are not holding a table for you. To pay, please transfer to Hodgemoor Riding Association at Barclays Bank 90054410 sort code 20-02-06. Put your family name and PARTY as the reference please. Bank transfer is our preference; otherwise you can pay by PayPal to info@hodgemoor.org.uk.

RESULTS – Hodgemoor Dressage at Oldefields 6 March 2022

Marcus Bicknell

We are pleased to publish the results of today’s dressage and to congratulate the class winners Charlotte Bodega age 13 (twice), Sadie Braybrook age 10 (twice), Vicky Smalley, Annie Tatevossian and Jaimi Roehrig (twice). Click on the link here for all the scores and placings in MS Excel.

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The event was beautifully organised by Shona Fraser and Jacqui Roehrig in the capable company of a large team of helpers at Oldefields and dressage judge Dawn Fleming. We thank everyone for their help and participation.

I have updated the series standings and you can download them at the following MS Excel link. We have three classes each with two sections and the current leaders are Charlotte Bodega, Nicky West, Mia Okuyama, Jaimi Roehrig, Lucy Butler and Charlotte Fleming. The scoring was initially a plain average of scores including zeroes (for an event at which a rider did not compete) but that would have un-necessarily marked down a good rider who cannot do every event. We have therefore established rankings on the average of the the points the rider scored when they competed plus a 1 percentage point bonus to incentivise riders to compete in as many rounds as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact me with comments or errors… marcus@bicknell.com.

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Roll on next Sunday at Austens; there are spaces available in all three classes and you can use the entry form at the following link…

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Equestrian property for sale near Birmingham

Marcus Bicknell

Long term member Kate Baptista thought of us all when she found out her father is going to downsize; “He has a lovely property near Birmingham and I thought maybe it would be perfect for someone thinking of relocating. I’d move myself if my family were more inclined. “

5 bedroom farmhouse with 10 acres located Warwickshire / Staffordshire border

stables, tack room and manege

Brick barn with planning for 4 bed conversion

Planning for further 2 detached properties

Close to motorway network, NEC, HS2 and Birmingham airport

Contact kate.baptista@gmail.com for more information.

The Hodgemoor Winter Dressage Series: further 5 events

Marcus Bicknell

The Hodgemoor Winter Dressage Series December 2021 to April 2022. The Hodgemoor Riding Association, in cooperation with local yards, presents a fund-raising series of 7 dressage events (the first 2 were in December, results at www.hodgemoor.org.uk News) for adult and younger riders hacking to the events. Two events having taken place in December, the further 5 events are as follows. The tests for each are on the newly-issues entry form. Note the Covid restrictions below.

There is plenty of space for competitors in all five events. Please help us promote them by printing out our A4 poster and displaying it your yard for others to see… hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_A4_poster_Feb2022

Sunday 6th March at Oldefields
Sunday 13th March at Grove Farm
Sunday 27th March at Highclere
Sunday 10th April at Austens Farm.
Sunday 24th April at Widmer Equestrian

The entry form with the new dates is at https://hodgemoor.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hodgemoor_winter_dressage_series_2021-2_entry_form-rev-27Jan.docx

Although the UK Government has relaxed Covid restrictions, we wish to protect our community and livery staff from the virus. It is a condition of entry that you respect the following requirements:

No-one should come to an event if they are testing positive or have covid-like symptoms.

Enquiries to hodgemoor.events@gmail.com

Health & Safety and Safeguarding

Health & Safety and Safeguarding

Marcus Bicknell

The Hodgemoor Riding Association takes its reponsibilities seriously, especially when your health and your safety is concerned (safety in the woods, safety on the roads, cyclists, motor-bikes and quads etc). We are not a registered charity (which would impose onerous cost, tax and regulatory issues); we are a Charitable Unincorporated Association under the United Kingdom’s 2011 Charities Act. Nonetheless, as part of our self-imposed corporate governance, we voluntarily publish our annual accounts, AGM minutes, agreement with Forestry England etc., which you can see at https://hodgemoor.org.uk/downloads/.

Our committee member resonsible for Health & Safety and Safeguarding, Dawn Fleming, has completed four policy statements and we publish them here, links below, and on the documents page of this web site. If you are involved in helping at our events, the documents are obligatory reading.

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Risk Assessments have been done for the Hodgemoor Winter Dressage events currently running, tailored to each event, and Dawn has prepared the generic ones for publication here.

We thank Dawn warmly for this work.

Marcus Bicknell, Chairman, Hodgemoor Riding Association.
16 December 2021 updated 31 January 2022

30,000 page hits on Hodgemoor web site since 2012

Marcus Bicknell

Total Traffic

Total Page Hits 30,882
Total Unique Visitors 23,304
Statistics Start Date January 19, 2012
 
Day Of Week       Visitors        Percent of Visits
Sunday                 5,378        17.41%
Monday               4,657        15.08%
Tuesday               4,400        14.25%
Wednesday          4,057       13.14%
Thursday              3,896        12.62%
Friday                   4,090       13.24%
Saturday              4,404       14.26%
Total:                 30,882

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The Hodgemoor Winter Dressage Series – December 2021 to April 2022

Marcus Bicknell

The Hodgemoor Riding Association, in cooperation with local yards, presents a fund-raising series of seven dressage events for adult and younger riders hacking to the events.

Sunday 12th December at Waylands (Fancy dress awards) – see results on this web site

Sunday 19th December at Manor Farm (Fancy dress awards) – see results on this web site

Sunday 20th February at Austens Farm.

Sunday 6th March at Oldefields

Sunday 13th March at Grove Farm

Sunday 27th March at Highclere

Sunday 24th April at Widmer Equestrian

You can enter any of the first three events from today 13 November up to four days before each event using the entry form linked here:

Entry form in MS Word which you can fill out and return by email, or

Entry form in pdf which you can print out and return by post

The entry form states “All competitors must hack to the event, i.e. it’s a series for riders local to Hodgemoor. Horsebox or trailer parking is not provided as most of the yards do not have winter facilities.” Your committee was keen to provide events in winter when there are few others, even though members whose yard is too far away might not be able to compete… if you are one of these, we offer you our commiserations and remind you that Riding Out With Hodgemoor (see Facebook for dates) and the Hodgemoor Le Trec (Easter Monday) are available to box to.

The Hodgemoor Winter Dressage Series permits the some relaxation of rules on attire because of hacking to the event(s), winter weather and the equipment available to new young riders. Safety equipment like helmets must be conform to British Dressage security standards. Please read our pdf note at hodgemoor_attire_winter_dressage