LFYFC 2021/2022 Yearbook

LANCASHIREYOUNG FARMERS2022 YEARBOOK

Welcome Officials

County Official Reports

County President Report

County Chairman Report

County Vice Chairman Report

County Manager Report

Finance Officer Report

Committee Reports

Competition Committee Report

Social Committee Report

Training Report Trustees Report

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Staff Management Report Regional Reports Bowland Region North Lancs Region Pennine Region South West Region Club Reports Bilsborrow Bury

2021/22 in Pictures Chipping Chorley Clitheroe Croft Longridge Pendle Parbold Rainford Samlesbury Slaidburn Turton Vale O'Lune Winmarleigh

Northern Area Northern Area Committee Report Northern Area Field Day 2022 Significant Events County Rally Chairmans Challenge Matches, Catches & Hatches National Young Farmers Report from NFYFC President 36 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 46 47 48 50 51 52 55 56 58 59 60 61 62 68 69

Hello and welcome to the 2021 2022 Lancashire Young Farmers Yearbook

After so long since the last yearbook, we were incredibly excited to be able to put this together It is a great way to see what we have been up to from a County level but also from a regional and club level

Thank you to all the committees, regions and clubs for getting on board and providing an update on what you have been up to for the last 12 months It is amazing to see so many successes across the county, and to see that we have not only recovered but are thriving!

Thank you to all our sponsors over the last year and to all those that have placed an advert in this book Without your support, we couldn't plan and organise the competitions and events that we put on for our member and we couldn't of produced this book

As county officials, we are all incredibly proud of the success of the county this last year, of you the members and family and friends that support each and every one of us

COUNTY OFFICIALS

PRESIDENT JOHN NEARY CHIPPING YFC COUNTY CHAIRMAN HAZEL STANSFIELD CLITHEROE YFC

COUNTY OFFICE MANAGER CAISHA TYLER

VICE CHAIRMAN ED CLARKE VALE YFC

FINANCE OFFICER LAURA RIMMER RAINFORD YFC

COMMITTEE OFFICIALS

COMPETITIONS

CHAIRMAN RACHEL GARNER PARBOLD YFC SECRETARY ED CLARKE VALE YFC SOCIAL CHAIRMAN DAVID HARTLEY VALE YFC SECRETARY ABIGAIL STANSFIELD CLITHEROE YFC

STAFF MANAGEMENT

CHAIRMAN PAUL MORRIS SECRETARY KATHRYN WRYGHT

TRAINING

CHAIRMAN DAVID HARTLEY VALE YFC SECRETARY REBECCA DALE RAINFORD YFC

TRUSTEES CHAIRMAN GREG FITTON SECRETARY JESSICA WHITWELL

COUNTYOFFICE

Lancashire Federation of Young farmers clubs, Ribblesdale Centre, Lincoln way, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 1QD

COUNTY OFFICIAL REPORTS

Before l started writing this report, l had a little trip down memory lane and had a look through some of the old yearbooks from around thirty years ago

They were a great sources of inspiration but mostly it brought back some fond memories, mostly of when I had hair and the dodgiest moustache ever!

I am pleased that the initiative from the County Chair has brought the yearbook back to life It is a great record of members achievements over the year and a record to look back on in future years and think, "did l use to dress like that" or "why did l have a mullet? "

I do hope that Young Farmers will continue producing a yearbook year on year to catalogue all the achievements of members and include a club photo of every club so we can look back in fondness at members and friends who went on the YFC journey with us

Over recent years we have been modernising YFC, our communication methods and financial accounting systems are all online and a YFC app, that members can use to access bYFC resources and if you want to buy a ticket for an event, that is also

online on Ticketebo This is what the members want in the 21st century and if you don't keep up to date you will get left behind

As a federation, we have bounced back well following the Covid Pandemic

Membership number have increased to well over 800, a huge increase on our pre pandemic numbers It just goes to show that Young Farmers is going from strength to strength

To move forward, retain and even improve on these numbers, we have to listen to our members and provide them with a varied and exciting programme of events on the educational, training, sports and social fronts, keeping standards high and maintaining the feel good factor That’s what will being members back, time and time again

I am proud to be your President and l will do everything l can make sure you have the time of your lives in YFC

John Neary President

Federation Ithasbeenan supporters of the Lancashire

Hello members and Chairman for the 2021 2022 membership year As a federation, we have bounced back tremendously well post pandemic and I am so proud to have been part of it absolute honour to be your County

It has been a pleasure working with Caisha to create this yearbook My partner Neil, ex County Chairman of Cumbria YFC, brought home the 2021/22 Cumbria yearbook and stated that Cumbria is far superior to Lancashire We all know that this simply isn’t true, so the initial idea of bringing back the yearbook became a reality and so here we are!

even foam parties It has been a joy to be able to attend your events, connect with your members and celebrate with you It is amazing to see that membership numbers across the county, are back to where they were before the AGMs were cancelled;

When I took on the role as County Chairman in December 2021, I had a goals and visions as to where I would like the federation to be I wanted to connect with the members and make their voices heard, no matter where they come from within the county My main focus has been to help clubs ‘find their feet again’ following the pandemic and to help increase membership numbers

I am so pleased to say that the federation is back in full swing with every club in the county having weekly meetings, competing in county competitions, and doing what they do best, having social events! We have seen bingo nights, presentation night, dinner dances and

just to name a few

MoooHundred Club members have doubled in the last 6 months, which is positive to see If you are not already signed up, joining information can be found on the last page! Thanks to the funding from the MooHundred Club, a training grant from RYT and a donation from the Gornall Family, we have been able to provide Club Officer training, Mental Health training and First Aid training at no cost to the attendees

We have also seen plenty of curve modules being delivered t see these opport

I want to take this opportunity to thank my partner, Neil, for supporting me throughout the year, I couldn't have done it without him

A few highlights f County Dinner become County everyone suppo have the first pos a sell out I must Area competition incredibly well i think I’ll ever forgive Samlesbury YFC for making me play hockey feeling as rough as I did and in boat shoes and jeans

Also, my mum & dad and rest of my family and friends, who have been there to help whenever I have called upon them Thank you to my mum & Abs, who have never said no whenever I’ve needed a babysitter to allow me to attend a meeting! Thank you to everyone who is close to me who has supported me in my role, I will forever be grateful

I honestly struggle to put into words how incredible it has been being Lancashire’s County Chairman, and if anyone is thinking of doing the role it is something I would definitely recommend I know that it’s something I will look back on in years to come and be so glad I did it I’ve been truly lucky to have a fantastic team to work with, I won’t individually name them as you can see them on the official’s page, but they all have a major role to play one way or another in making the Federation run smoothly, and they have done a splendid job this last year

For me personally, the best day of the year must be County Rally hosted by Southwest region, a fantastic day was had by all members Though I was slightly disappointed to see County President, oooJohnny Neary, getting away without ooo being thrown in the water from the ooooo obstacle course and end up wet ooooooo through like Ed and I did He ooooooooo must watch his back next year!

Once again thank you for electing me to be your County Chairman and I hope to see the Federation continue to thrive for the future.

Hazel Stansfield County Chairman 2021 2022

saying that something had come up and Lancashire would need an extra Vice Chair I didn't realise that the 'someth would become a regular attendee of YFC I received a Snapchat from Haze Well, it's been emotional

thing to happen in Chipping since Johnny Neary's birth 21 years ago More and more social events followed, some very memorable nights others slightly fuzzy

It only seems like yesterday, th

12 months later and it’s been a fair rod there’s been late nights, early mornin crying, laughing and more visits to the pe station than I could care to count

There’s been some incredible times, with some incredible people I’ve especially enjoyed attending all the competitions, and it’s been eye opening, whether it’s learning h h h i i d t hing H at N

I can’t write a yearbook report without touching on the most Northerly club in Lancashire I’m incredibly proud to see my beloved Vale O’ Lune thrive this year, under the meetings

As many of you know, the social side of YFC is where I’m most at home, and it’s been an incredible year for that There’s been good times, and bad decisions aplenty Shindig in the Showfield seems like an awfully long time ago, but it’s a good place to start The first do back after Covid and it definitely felt like everyone had been waiting two years for it A strong contingent from Cumbria boosted our numbers to full capacity, and it seemed like the most significant

The highlight for me must go to Parbold for their Foam Party Reborn I’m still scarred now I don’t think my trainers will ever recover As one of the only sober people in the room, it was an incredible sight, 300 or more Young Farmers covered in foam, singing Nelly the Elephant like you were trying to wake the dead. I originally thought working behind the bar would be an easy way to keep clean and dry, I was very wrong I’d like to thank the various members who went out of their way to make sure they covered me in foam/drinks/water, they clearly did it out of love

The list of people to thank for helping me this year is pretty much endless but here’s some of the main ones Firstly, to my mum and dad, both ex LFYFC members, thanks oo for pushing me in this role and offering oooo me advice and help so often ooooooo Secondly to my boss, Dave, ooooooooo thanks for letting me skive off oooooooooo work early to attend meetings ooooooooooo and comps Also, thanks ooooooooooooo for not firing me for ooooooooooooooo spending more

time on the phone doing YFC stuff than actually working

Next to Mr Worldwide, DHTT, cheers for being my constant companion at meetings, Dave and for offering me more help than you could ever know Thank you for being tee total and therefore my taxi

Finally, to the real Boss Hazel you’ve done a fantastic job, it’s been a pleasure to be your Vice Chairman for the last 12 months Thanks for all the midnight phone calls when you’re on Hen Dos Thanks for not quite killing me with your driving, I know it’s been close I am incredibly proud to call you a friend Finally, I’d just like to say how brilliant it is to be a part of Lancashire I truly believe this is the greatest county in the country

EdClarke

ViceCountyChairman 20212022

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It has been a pleasure to working in Football and Private Education, it has been a huge learning curve for me, like learning a whole new language most days! I have thoroughly twelve months After coming from

enjoyed my first year in the role and canno fully express my appreciation for the warm welcome that I have received from you all

I was appointed into this role as you, th members, wanted to take the federatio online, to come away from a paper base office and to further improve our processe and to grow Throughout this last year, I hav worked on making this happen

We have a new website, a LFYFC App, online membership form, entry forms and store, just to name a few I am pleased to say that this has all taken place a lot sooner than expected and that has only been possible with your help The changes have been k i id d braced, allowing us to n

pleased to say that thi greatest number of e federation has had in at least six years! In 2017 Lancashire Young Farmers had 843 active members, over the years that followed this begin to steadily

decrease In 2020, due to the pandemic, member numbers dropped dramatically to 582 and then 488 in 2021 Thankfully, due to all the hard work that has been put in by County Officials, Club Officials, and you the members, this year, we are finishing in excess of 870 members

almost 20 years Before writing my report, I browsed through some of the previous yearbooks for inspiration They were less than helpful in terms of my report, however, I did have a giggle at some of the 90s hairstyles and questionable outfits! It has been really interesting to see just how much the federation has changed over the last 30 years but the one thing that has remained the same, is the passion of the members As a member lead organisation, the successes of the federation are ultimately down to you

When I first started, Mick Handley was County Chair and with no official office manager in post at the time, my induction and training was down to Mick A daunting task, I am sure But Mick did a grand job, had lots of patience and makes a good brew

Our meeting on my first day, was however cut short as it was perfect sheep shearing weather At that point, I did wonder what on earth I had gotten myself into I really enjoyed working with Mick for the first couple of months, putting new processes in place and starting the new membership year When he explained that the County Chair changes every year, I did have a mini panic at first but I was excited to work with Hazel going forward

Mental health is of such huge importance, even more so with the events of the last couple of years It is something that has an impact on most of us, whether it is direct, with our own mental health or that of family or friends, being able to spot the signs or open up to someone could just save a life

Hazel and I have continued to move the federation forward, with huge success I am pleased to have been able to assist Hazel with carrying out her goals and visions whilst in role as County Chair We have a great working relationship, Hazel has always been at the end of the phone if needed her and has continued to support me with my goals, targets and visions for the office

I have had great fun working with the competitions committee and have learned just how competitive young farmers really are Especially when it comes to TOW! My first County Rally went well, a little chaotic to get your head around but I enjoyed the day, despite being pooped on by a pigeon I am

however, still none the wiser as to what a H oo Raised Growler or Yorkshire Brack are?!

oooo I am excited about the future of t ooooooo federation, especially our n oooooooo partnership with CANW

Lastly, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the staff management committee, having no background in farming or agriculture, it was a huge risk taking me on, but I do feel that the risk has paid off I have continually been supported by Paul Morris, and have been made to feel welcome and appreciated, something that goes a long way for employees and their wellbeing I have finally been able to sleep on a Sunday night, which is not something I have had in previous roles with the dread of a Monday morning!

Once again, thank you for welcoming me into the young farmers family

My door is always open CaishaTyler CountyOfficeManager

Well, what a year we have

had for our first full face to face

yearafterCOVID!

It's been great to have a full year of social events again, thanks go to the social committee for adding some new ideas such as Junior Shindig, into the mix

It's fantastic to have something on offer for every member in the county Please support these events and the social committee in the future to ensure their success can continue!

As a county we have ridden the tough times of covid out well in a financial sense This is thanks to grants and a bounce back in membership numbers this year Our reserves are now looking healthy again and thanks must go out to all of you for joining, re joining, and promoting young farmers in your clubs

Remember there are funds available to help you The training fund can award money towards training courses and the training committee are using some of these funds to organise courses across the county so please support them by attending

The jubilee fund helps with travel, previous recipients of grants have used it towards NFYFC international travel, but other types of travel will also be considered You can apply for these funds via the office by submitting information about your trip or course but please allow time for applications to be considered and don't leave them until the last minute!

We have had a very exciting year in the finance department of LFYFC After the member survey, we have been working hard to modernise our accounting systems and work towards more paperless approach We have appointed new auditors, switched bank accounts, and implemented accounting software

All these changes are helping us to improve financial reporting, work in a more paperless way and be fully compliant with charity commission requirements Thanks must go to Caisha for all her hard work going to and fro with the various banks etc to ensure all these changes have been made successfully

I'm looking forward to the next financial year when hopefully we will be able to reap the rewards of all the challenges and changes!

LauraRimmer FinanceOfficer

COMMITTEE REPORTS

The term “Big boots to fill”

Claire seemed to achieve a fairly full competition calendar, during a pandemic, with serenity and calmness And to be fair this year started out in a similar fashion, with the will never be more apt than

office as Competition Secretary.

The next major event in the comps wasn’t until March, with Rural Skills day This was the first big competition day in the county since the pandemic and safe to say that was alot of panicking behind the scenes Trying to get hold of a crosscut saw at short notice turned out to be extremely difficult, however the day ran well and it was great to see clubs out in force, with the day ending with Vale O’ Lune taking home the silverware

Public Speaking and Sports competitions

These were held shortly after the competitions AGM, whereby the new committee officers were voted in; Rachel Garner as Chairman, and Ed Clarke as secretary

This first competition ran smoothly, mainly down to the fact Claire had organised it before retiring as secretary, but also down to the low numbers entered It must be said however, that it was inspirational to watch Dave Hartley attempt to referee the Dodgeball competition having trained by watc followingClaireRowlandsoninto

Another big competition was Stockman of the Year, kindly hosted by the Forshaw Family at Littletown Again it was good to see such a strong turn out after 2 years off The quality of Stockjudging was high, with the Shorrock Brothers taking home top places in both senior and junior

There have been a variety of smaller competitions along the way, with Horse Stockjudging held at Red Earth, which was an education for Ed as he thought all horses were the same Also Clay Pigeon shooting at Blackpool Sporting Clays, where we discovered that there are very few sharpshooter in the county Sheep Shearing was another interesting night, and I still have absolutely no idea how the scoring works Looking a forward and we have another busy year of comps, starting with Swimming, Debate and Live and Carcass in October, so keep your eyes peeled!

SOCIAL COMMITTEE

We started the year still riding high from the incredible success of the Shindig in the Showfield Our first social, post pandemic, and we really made up for the lost time! We reached capacity within a matter of weeks of the tickets becoming live and had a waiting list for any cancellations We even had our neighbouring counties in attendance

It was a fantastic night, with Disco Jackers keeping us entertained and an ample supply of fluids

The first social event of the 2021 22 membership year was our annual Christmas Carol Concert It was nice to see some of our older members, Vice Presidents, and Honorary Life Member in attendance

Although we did raise some funds from the event, the decision has been made that going forward, rather than host our own carol concert, we would like to reserve our resources and instead help to grow and develop the concert of our local RABI The connection we have with RABI is incredibly important to us and we would like to keep it strong

Immediately following Hazel’s election into the role of County Chairman, we began planning the County Ball With the extended break, rebranding of the county office and the exponential growth of the federation, we decided it was time to give the County Dinner Dance a facelift and thus the County Ball was O born

We had amazing support from not only the members that bought tickets, but also all the companies that sponsored a table and the headline sponsor, Brent Stansfield Cattle Foot Trimming Thanks to all your support, we were able to not only cover the costs of the event, but also raise funds to go back into county to allow us to continue arranging these fantastic events

We had an unforgettable night, great entertainment, some interesting speeches, and some fantastic raffle prizes In true Young Farmers style, the bar staff couldn’t keep up with us The evenings event was beautifully captured by Kirk Lowe Photography, although there were definitely a few things that didn’t need to be captured!

At the time of preparing this report, the committee are in the process of planning the next Shindig in the Showfield! After last year’s success, we are really excited for the evening

We started the 2021/22

The evening saw current role holders, ex role holder and future role holders coming together for an evening of learning and idea sharing year with a Club Officer

We covered a range of topics such as, member recruitment, programme planning officer responsibilities and safeguarding The night was a great success, with role holders having the opportunity to learn from those that have been there before, gaining valuable skills to run a successful club for their members We are looking forward to our next training evening to prepare the new role holders for the year ahead

This year, we had the opportunity for Dairy Judging training kindly delivered by Richard & Barbara Lucas on behalf of Lancashire Holstein Club A fantastic day of training, demonstrations and helpful advice to trainingnight,generouslyhosted

The committee have been working hard behind the scenes, to plan and arrange first aid training With special thanks to the Gornall family for their generous donation, we will be able to fully fund this life saving training that will take place in the new membership year

As a county, we have recently partnered with CANW to help to support our members with their mental health This new partnership will allow us to provide training to all our county officials, committee officials, region and club role holders and members Mental health is of such huge importance, whether it’s being able to spot the signs in ourselves or being able to safely support a loved one and as a county, we are so proud to be able to champion this in the coming year

The training committee has been headed up by chairman, David Hartley of Vale O’Lune and secretary, Rebecca Dale of Rainford.

We are looking forward to continuing the training and development opportunities by NFU Skelmersdale

ItwasaThursdaynightsomewhereinthedepthsofthepandemicwhen JonnyNearycalledmeandaskedifIwouldbeatrusteeforLancashireYFC AfterstartingYFCsome30yearspreviousandhavingsomegreatexperiences, itwasanimmenseprivilegetobeaskedandhavetheabilitytoputsomething backintoYFC Aftermorethan12monthsof“Teamsmeetings”andsomepretty lowpointsforbothYFCandthegeneralpopulationwestartedtoseesomelightat theendofthetunnellatein2021onlytohavea“falsestart”withrestrictionsbeing tightenedand“normal”YFClifefeelingasfarawayasever WithournewChairHazeland ViceEdtogetherwithCaishaintheoffice,coupledwiththerelaxationofrestrictionsinearly 2022,itreallyfeltlikeLancashireYFCwasbouncingbacktolevelsofnormalitywehadnot seenforovertwoyears

InJan2022itwasapleasuretotakeuptheroleofchairofLancashireYFCtrustees Wealso appointedtwonewtrusteeswhichwerewelcomedtotheteam AndrewHoldenfromNapthens SolicitorsandAndreaGardenerfromMyerscoughCollegebringabreadthofknowledgeandexperience thatshouldkeepthefederationonthestraightandnarrowforthenextfewyears

Oneofthemajorprojectsthatthetrusteeshavebeenworkingonisupdatingthecountyconstitution Although thismaynotbethemostexcitingsubjectitisanecessarygroupofdocumentsthatmakesurethecountyis functioningcorrectlyandlegally Itishopedthisupdatedconstitutionwillbeadoptedlaterin2022

Ifthelast12monthshasshownmeanythingitisalthoughYFChasmany“traditions”andformalitiesitalsohas theabilitytoadapttothemember’sneeds Theintroductionofnewtechnologyie,onlineshop,cardpayments andonlineconferencefacilitiesarejustoneexampleofhowthefederationisadaptingtohelpmembers

It'samazingtoseethebouncebackinmembernumbers,whichwasextremelyevidentatthisyear’scounty rally Seeingthefederationdoingwhatitdoesbestandencouragingmembersyoungandoldtogetinvolved isacredittoallinvolved

AtoneofmyfirstmeetingswhenIstartedYFCagedonly13or14oneofthecountyofficialstoldmeatYFC yougetoutwhatyouputin Itisgreattoseesomanymemberssteppingupand“puttingin”toYFCatclub, regional, county, Northern Area, and National level This commitment should help Lancashire YFC go from strengthtostrengthoverthenextfewyears!

GregFitton

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REGION REPORTS

The region comprises a total of six clubs across Northeast Lancashire Sincluding amlesbury, Clitheroe, Bolton by Bowland, region of Lancashire Young

Farmers clubs for 47 years, with Bowland Region has been

indoor sports competition with members competing in a variety of games including darts, pool, connect four and twister Pendle YFC took home a very well deserved win

Regional meetings are usually held on the first Thursday of each month at Waddington Social club with representatives from each of the six clubs coming together to discuss upcoming events and competitions

Our 2021 AGM was held on the 4th of October where new officers were elected by members with Neil Hodkinson being elected as Chairman, Robert Spencer as Secretary and Grace Ashworth as Treasurer Members voted Graham Young to continue his role as President of the region, given the fantastic support he has provided the region over the difficult Covid period

April saw the annual Regional Rally competition kindly organised by Pendle YFC and hosted at Gisburn Auction Mart It was good to see that despite the 2022 rally being the first in three years due to Covid, members were out in force to represent their respective clubs in static competitions, stock judging and the greatly anticipated boat race amongst others A good entry was seen from all clubs across all competitions and members did their clubs proud Pendle again

Members dusted off their suits and dresses and enjoyed a Black Tie event, that included a three course meal, live band and of course plenty of drinking and dancing For the first Bowland Ball, it’s safe to say it was a resounding success

Bowland Region is looking forward to hosting the Bowland Ball’ again in 2022 on the 14th October following the success of last year’s event Further details are to follow but if last year’s ball is anything to go by it is set to be a night to remember the region celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2020 (mid Covid) Chipping, Slaidburn and Pendle

On the 11th of March members from all clubs within the region enjoyed the annual

a quieter time in the YFC diary, Bowland YFC members are going to be kept busy with the regional stockman competition being held on the 25th August as well as the regional car treasure hunt and regional quiz coming up before September

Well, what can we say? The cream always rises to the top

The best region proudly sitting at the top end of the Red Rose County

The North Lancs region was formed in March 2022, combining the Wyre Lune region with the Fylde region Wyre Lune had two clubs, Winmarleigh and Vale Fylde had Bilsborro and Longridge The two former regio already held the regional rally together so t m t e c

The region meets on the first Thursday of every month We alternate between The Fleece Inn, Dolphinholme and Old Nells, Bilsborrow to make it more accessible for members, due to the vast area that the region covers

Initially, Wyre the reins w Secretary, To and Presiden first AGM as oo 2022 a oooo be ooooo clubs in the region

It has been a busy schedule both for the region and the four clubs, both in the competitions and the social side Our regional rally was held in April at Lancaster Mart with the full range of tions Vale O Lune YFC came out on he overall winners of the day County s soon after in May, and was well d by our region, entering the majority petitions with Tug of war as a firm e Winmarleigh YFC had the junior, nd mens team qualify for Northern eld Day Bilsborrow had their ladies alify and a great day was had by all!

vents are very well supported by our Vale O’ Lune hosted their Welly Ball in uly and Winmarleigh’s hosted their ight Do late July! Plans are in place gional do, so keep your eyes out for details being released soon!

Pennine is the smallest region to make up Lancashire Lancashire Young Farmers with just two clubs making up the region, Bury YFC & Turton YFC

The region is headed up by Chairman,

James Davies, Secretary, Amy Phillips, Treasurer, James Davies and President, Katie Delaney

Although small, we are still mighty, and this was proved at County Rally With entries to almost all competitions, and some excellent results from the members, Pennine came away with 10 trophies including Top Region Overall! A huge achievement, one that we are all incredibly proud of

Bury YFC recently attended the Bury & District Agricultural show, representing not only themselves and the region but also

We have enjoyed regional meetings, with the two clubs coming together to enjoy a f lk d l d L

amazing achievement for their pilot run from a younger member club

With only two clubs, that are very much involved with each other, Pennine region meetings are more sparce than the other regions but when we do get together, we meet on a Tuesday at the Duckworth Arms, 8pm

We are excited to see what the next year brings and hoping to retain our Top Region title at the next County Rally! Other regions, watch out!

South West region is made up of Rainford, Chorley, Parbold and Croft Young Farmers Clubs We meet on the first Thursday, bi monthly at a variety of venues across South West

The region has been going for many years, but unfortunately, all clubs took a hit in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic Together, we have all worked exceptionally hard over the last year to make a remarkable comeback, not just meeting the numbers but well and truly exceeding them!

The highlight of the year for all clubs has to be County Rally, it was the first one post pandemic and South West had the honour of organising and hosting the day

Since 2021, each club has hosted many successful events including Rainford’s Dyno

Night, Croft’s Bongo’s Bingo, Chorley’s Pre Harvest Hoe Down, the Regional Rally, County Rally and the annual Dinner Dances Parbold’s annual foam party also made a return in July 2022 after six years, a fantastic event that received amazing support from not only the regions members, but the members across the county

As a region we came second in top region for mixed classes, third in top region in floral art and third in top region in NA junior classes. We saw successes from our members individually, with many placings achieved and further qualifying to represent Lancashire at Northern Area It was fantastic to see so many etting involved hanks to the huge success of our Comedy ght, we are excited to announce that it will be coming back in October! As a region, our goal for the next year is to bring the clubs together more, giving members the opportunity to get to know each other, have more experiences and get the most out of Young Farmers We hope to have a bigger representation in County competitions, b h

CLUB REPORTS

Bilsborrow YFC is enjoying

hats on and spent the evening at our secretary’s farm Thanks to Lanes Farm Vets, we had an anatomy drawing lesson on the side of a dairy cow

At the start of the year, Bilsborrow was pa Fylde Region but over this past year we h merged to become part of the newly formed North Lancs Region which now consists of four clubs We meet weekly on Monday evenings at Bilsborrow Village Hall and fortnightly during the busy summer months We currently have over 60 active members, with our oldest member being 27 and our youngest being 11

We started this year, with nine members taking on the the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge, they completed the 24 mile challenge over the dales tallest peaks in w

At the beginning of March, we were the only club in the county to their 77th year as a club, with chairman, Victoria Bracken, secretary, Jenny Bretherton, tre James Bracken, and President Graham Billington who have all held role on the committee for 2+ years

Following our AGM in October, the club started to grow, with over 50 members enjoy an evening at Red Rose Bowling Since then, the club has gone from strength to strength with regular, well attended meetings In November the club put their animal science

At the County AGM in November our Chairman, Victoria, was awarded the County Promoter Award for all her hard work and excellent promotion of Lancashire Young Farmers An amazing achievement In December, we brought back the annual Fur and Feather evening at Bilsborrow Village Hall, thanks to an evening of Whist and Dominoes we raised £425 for club funds On Sunday 9th January, eight members attended St Hilda’s church, Bilsborrow for the special 75th anniversary of Plough Sunday Members carried the plough into the church, followed by one member having the honour of giving a reading

In February we held a couple of meetings with our neighbouring club, Longridge It was a great opportunity for members to socialise with other clubs and included a meeting hosted by the Forshaw family at Little Town Dairy farm

take both a senior (Victoria Bracken, Rosie Sutcliffe, and Jenny Bretherton) and junior team (Victoria Clarke, Elsa Metcalf, and Pierce McShannon) to the semi final of the county quiz Unfortunately neither team made it t ll p

As North Lancs Region, we placed third overall

In June, our ladies Tug of War team and Jenny’s senior Baking, headed up to Darlington, to represent Lancashire at Northern Area

March saw the return of the Muck Haul, the muck was kindly donated by the Catterall family and was delivered as far as Broughton to Garstang raising £962 for the clubs fun In April, we hosted an Easter Egg Bingo w a fantastic turnout of over 150 attend from local clubs Chipping, Winmarleigh Longridge and the friends and family Bilsborrow club members Thanks to generous donation of raffle prizes, we rai over £1095 for the club. At the end of A we had a great turnout of members regional rally which was held at Lanca Auction Mart We came away with so fantastic results, placing our club as third the region

May saw a great number of memb ooocompete at County rally, many of oooo for the first time with Th oooooooSanderson placing first for ooooooo Dairy Stock Judging, J ooooooooo Bretherton placing seco ooooooooooo senior Baking and our oooooooooooooo Tug of War team p ooooooooooooooo second

Over our summer programme, we have enjoyed being outdoors come rain or shine to attend several farm walks and games nights We are now sporting some new burgundy club clothing kindly sponsored by Willow Farm Embroidery, Malpas Tractors, Caecilian and MTS trailer

excited to see what the new year brings, i l di th t h it lk h ll !

Bury Young Farmers has

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Our President is Sue Davies, Chairman, Peter Davies, Secretary, Ana Haworth and Treasurer, James Davies We Monday night at 7:45pm in & around Bury or meet every at our clubroom at Holcombe Harriers Kennels in Tottington

In September 2021, we were finally able to return to face to face meetings following the pandemic The new year started with some new faces joining us and we got them stuck right in with a variety of exciting meetings including, stock judging, debate practise, Bingo, a tour of Birch Farm Ice Cream, a trip through Blackpool illuminations, flower arranging, ice skating, turkey plucking and line dancing!

Our biggest highlights of the year have to be, 14 of our members competing in Live & Carcass with 3 qualifying to represent Lancashire at the English Winter Fayre An amazing achievement for our small club!

We have seen an influx in new, keen junior members this year which is really exciting as a club Providing an interesting and varied club programme, will help to ensure that we retain these new members, encourage more to join and mould the younger generation into club leaders!

A successful Chinese Auction raised over £300 for club funds followed by huge success at County Rally As a club, we competed in more than half of the day’s competitions coming away with three trophies and 10 trophies as Pennine Region Bury’s cookery team placing first was an amazing result for the club, they will go on to represent Lancashire at the National finals in September and they will be joined by junior flower arranging, who also placed first at County Rally

Finally, we recently attended the Bury & District Agricultural Show The day was a great success for us, we sold drinks and cakes and held a number of activities including, strong man, dunk tank, lucky dip and feeding the farm animals The total raised was £675, a fantastic amount for club funds

e have some exciting things on the horizon luding, the wedding of Miriam Fish and Michael Meadows in September, the birth of Alice Hadcroft and Sam Wood’s twin boys due in August and our 80th Dinner Dance!

We are looking forward to the new membership year, seeing more new face and even more exciting meetings!

Bolton by Bowland has grown nicely over the years, with plenty of keen young farmers joining us and even more so since the Covid 19 pandemic; we now have around 45 members who meet every Monday evening, 7 45pm at Bolton by Bowland Village Hall

Current Officers are as follows: Presidents Peter & Chairman Levi Nicholson, S Foster/Annabelle Robinson a len Armer/Lucy Armer

Bolton by Bowland YFC has been around for 76 years and has always been well supported by the local community, as we always like to help where possible On an annual basis, we make donations to the local church and war memorial committee and recently members helped to clean and tidy up the church church grounds We also take part in the village’s annual ‘Open Gardens’ weekend and create a flower arrangement for villagers to view this years’ theme was ‘Prince Phillip’

As part of our club programme, we try to accommodate members’ requests and organise meetings to suit everyone; this year we have had a wide variety of meetings consisting of lots of stock judging practice through to talks from the Farmers Guardian, LLM Farm Vets, BY BOWLAND

Mick Handley (previous LFYFC Chairman) and oo charities like RABI Most recently we visited oooo Hoof Count near Garstang & Ben Shaw ooooo Training at Burnley, walked up Pendle ooooooo Hill and attended a few farm walks ooooooooo around the Ribble Valley

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Regional Game Night, County Rally and Northern Area with ng had ors e Y e ba io ev er as cal s b ur b ork Bonfire Night this is nd supported by local we always have the ial event at Clitheroe Auction Mart which proves to be a success every year; we have clubs from all over the county and Yorkshire Federation attending this uck Race is m the local

In September this year before our new officers are elected, we are hosting our annual ‘Dinner Dance’ for our members and families to attend to celebrate the achievements we have made this year this is something we are looking forward too as due to Covid 19 we haven’t been able to celebrate for a couple of years, so will be great to get everyone together again!

As a club we are lucky to have so much support from the advisory team and we always look forward to see new members join, everyone do their best in competitions, attend social events and getting the best from Young Farmers

senior member Jack Wallbank taking first place overall in the senior class

active club of around 40 plus, Chipping Young Farmers

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Our meetings are varied and interesting and

try to ensure there is something for everyone We get involved in everything Young

have recently recruited some new members and it is great to see that we are continually growing and improving as a club We enjoy all aspects of YFC life We have a good set of officers who lead the club, supported by a great advisory committee and, of course, our fantastic members

Chipping Young Farmers was formed in February 1945 The very first minute book starts with the first eld on resent er was

Our meetings are held at 7:45pm on Mondays at Chipping village The 2021 AGM saw Georgia Moon elected as Chairman, Lucie Atkinson as Secretary and Treasurer, Rachel Hardman The President is Sam Hardman who has proudly been our President for 10 years

Our meetings have included pumpkin carving, stock judging, a games night in the Tilly’s, crazy golf, Easter bingo and a visit to Hoof Count We even got into the festive spirit with our annual carolling around the village and surrounding farms We have also enjoyed a lot of interesting speakers over the year

November was a busy month for us, our Secretary and Vice Secretary qualified through to the stock judging finals down in Staffordshire at the English Winter Fair This proved to be a very enjoyable experience We also held our coffee morning which saw lots of locals popping in for a coffee and a cake! There was a raffle and bric a brac, with all proceeds going to Chipping club funds and Ronald McDonald House We finished the month with our bowling team placing first at county and

We started off 2022 with first place in Brains Trust and first place in Public Speaking at county, qualifying members to represent Lancashire at Northern Area Well done all ! February saw us hold our annual family

bingo night, thanks to a great turn out, we raised £755 for club funds and Ronald Macdonald House

As a club, Ronald Macdonald House is our chosen charity It is close to the hearts of Chipping’s members thanks to the amazing support they provided to one of our senior members when her daughter was born premature

March started with our junior quiz team winning at County, followed by our annual muck haul, with money raised again going to Ronald Macdonald House At the County Dairy Eliminators, two of our intermediate members had great success, placing second and third Chipping saw success at Bowland Region rally with several of our members qualifying through to County Rally in May, where we went on to achieve third place overall Our men’s Tug of War and 4x4 Tug of War teams both qualified to represent the county at Northern Area We saw members do well in the stock judging and craft competitions

We had great achievement at Northern Area, with the men’s Tug of War team qualifying through to the National finals later in the summer

Chipping plan to host Bowland Region’s social event this year, possibly in the form of a pub crawl inAugust All in all we have had a memorable year and have all enjoyed some normality following the pandemic Thanks to all who help with the running of the club and to all who support Chipping Young Farmers and we look forward to continuing to go from strength to strength!

We have a fantastic programmes secretary, who make sure that the programme is jam packed throughout the year, catering for all members of all ages We ave enjoyed, farm lk f h lk d s

Post Covid, our club has doubled in members who are all keen and enthusiastic to get involved with all activities and events, helping our club thrive this past year We have a great mixture of junior, intermediate and senior members that keep the club pushing forward

We recently held our annual summer festival kindly hosted by the Woodcock family After a two year gap, the event come back with vengeance, with our largest ever attendance of 400! Thanks to the support the event received, we have made a donation of £1000 to Macmillan Cancer Support, a charity that is at the heart of the club and it’s members

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has to be the recent swimming pool and games night that we held on the hottest day oo of the year! We had a great turn out and ooo was amazing to see everyone laughi oooo and enjoying themselves W oooooooo thoroughly enjoyed finishing oooooooooo 2021 with our Christmas me oooooooooo and Secret Santa evenin

We look forward to the new year ahead and we can’t thank our club committee, members, and parents enough for their help and support along the way, we wouldn’t be able to do it without them We would also like to thank all of ours sponsors who have supported the club, helping to clothe all our members

Chorley Young Farmers meet every Monday evening, breaking for two weeks over Christmas and observing bank holidays

We currently have over 75 members, tremendously post pandemic

goingintoour78thyearasaclub has had a fantastic year! We are Clitheroe Young Farmers strength, bouncing back and are going from strength to making us the third biggest club in county!

In September 2021, at the start of the membership year we elected Robert Redmayne as our club chairman, Charlotte Walling as our secretary, Fred Wrathall as president and Michael Hoyle as our club president We meet every Wednesday night at Pendleton Village Hall

Throughout the year we have had a wide range of meetings in our programme including Stock Judging, Pottery Painting, Farm Walks, and our ever growing and incredibly popular Slip ‘N Slide’ hi h i l i before we breakup for

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the county debate competition, our members, Abigail Stansfield & Joe Aspin represented the club at the National Finals for Farm Safety and secured first place A massive achievement for them both Clitheroe quiz team had great success at county with our juniors reaching the semi finals and seniors coming second overall Sticking with county competitions we had success at the Public Speaking and Sports competitions, with our cheerleading team taking first place, Dodgeball team coming third, Hazel & Abigail Stansfield coming first & second in senior and intermediate Member of the Year and Meg Goring also placing first in situations vacant

As a club we have once again, had a successful year in terms of fundraising, with our chosen charity for the year being Field Nurse In December 2021 we held our second Christmas Tractor Run, which was even bigger and better than ever before We had over 120 tractors taking part, raising the profile of our cub, promoting YFC and raising an incredible £8000!

In April 2022 we had our Annual Muck Haul, were members pulled together and we sold muck round Clitheroe and surrounding villages, another successful event raising over £2000 We held our first ever Oktoberfest, which also raised a substantial amount for club, all together, over the year we have raised over £12,000 for the club and Field Nurse, something we are incredibly proud of

Regional and County Rally was a massive highlight for our members with various members placing in a range of competitions We came third at Regional Rally and fourth at County Rally, with a selection of members through to represent the club at Northern Area We had great success at the county Clay Pigeon Shooting with Charlie Weare & Henry Rumboll placing in the top 3, followed by Charlie going to National The county Sheep Shearing trophy also made its way back to Clitheroe YFC with Richard Lancaster winning overall

As we look into the new 2022/23 membership year, we are looking to have Oktoberfest again at Gisburn Auction and of course the Clitheroe YFC Christmas Tractor Run We hope the coming year will be as successful as the previous one

This is the first full year back after the pandemic and it was great one! As a smaller club it was a positive start in September with an influx of new members ranging in age from 15 24 We had a variety of excellent meetings such as: talks off the R A B I, a tour of Merseyside’s Mounted Police Section and a tour of Ollie Harrison’s Farm!

Croft took top spot at this which was a nice end to the evening after all the effort that the members put in!

Once competitions got underway, we had plenty of entries for the quiz, debate and many more Some notable results include: Joe Daintith coming 3rd in the clay pigeon shooting at county and the debate team coming 2nd at county The biggest success for Croft was the cube exhibit which went all the way to Northern Area representing Lancashire A A huge well done to: Charlotte Littler, Becky Sackfield, Jess Sackfield and Natalie Hassall!

A particular mention goes to the Valentine’s Day speed dating with a twist meeting, were old and new members got to know each other; club of the year judges loved this and resulted in Croft winning South West region club of the year! Thank you Charlotte Littler for organising them all!

This year, the club has been lead by chairwoman, Becky Sackfield, secretary, Georgia Littler, treasurer, Natalie Halsall and president, Frank Lightfoot

oo A big event for Croft was hosting ooo the South West regions, regional rally ooooo which was held a little different this ooooooo year, all statics were held on a ooooooooo Monday night and it was well ooooooooooo attended by everyone!

There’s also been many club fundraisers and charity efforts, hosted by Croft throughout the year including: Annual Muck Haul, Bingo Bonanza, Croft Carnival, Annual Dinner Dance and Samaritans Shoebox Appeal

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around 30 members The club is is currently a small club, with Longridge Young Farmers

ead by chairman, Henry Gornall,

secretary, Katie Eastham, treasurer, Sarah Berry and president, Paul Rowland

The club meets on Mondays with a variety of

activities including 'in' meetings at Goosnargh and Whittingham Social Club and 'out' meetings at local farms, demonstrations, and talks We recently enjoyed a tour around Massey Feeds at Walton Le Dale, members said ‘it was a very interesting tour around Massey feeds, we got to look around the mills and the warehouses and see the processing of the feed and packing’ We were kindly gifted Massey Feed hats which was a great bonus that members loved!

Shepherds Huts gave us a talk about their business, hand making shepherd huts and all the other amazing work that they do Shepherds Huts have also kindly sponsored Longridge YFC’s club clothing, we are incredibly grateful for their generosity

As a club, we have many highlights this year including placing second in our first ever junior Tug of War at County Rally! Both the club leaders and members where incredibly proud of this achievement and the members are looking forward to more Tug of War competitions throughout the year

As a club, we are involved in he Longridge Agricultural Show each year, our members help with the set up of the event itself, setting up sheep pens, show rings, and marques We also have a stand at the show, to represent Longridge Young Farmers and all that we do, we host games and competitions such as dunk tank, strong man and guessing how many balloons are in our tractor We use information boards and leaflets to spread the word about young farmers, what it means the be involved and all the amazing things that you can do as a member

in Longridge, Goosnargh, Grimsargh and Ribchester We raised funds for the club and made a donation to Goonargh and Whittingham Social Club for renovations Members all mucked in to bag up 25kg proven muck bags and distributed to all those that had placed an order and supported the club.

we meeting at Old Nells in Bilsborrow to plan competitions, dos and to catch up on whats happening tin the region It’s a great opportunity for the clubs to come together, to share their resources and become the top region in the county!

As a club, we have had a fantastic year and are really exciting to see what 2022/23 brings!

Pendle Young Farmers is extremely proud of how successful successful the past year has been with now over 50 members signed up; we have continued to meet every Monday, during term time, at 7:30pm, with home meetings held at Barley Village Hall

In October we had our AGM where we saw role holders standing down and new roles being taken on Jack Pickup became Chairman, Bethany Duerden became Secretary, Mandy Clarkson became Treasurer and Mark Hartley stayed on again as our President

Since then, our club has had many successes that we are incredibly proud of October 2021 saw three of our members compete in Live & Carcass judging, with all members qualifying through to national at the English Winter fair Freddie placed third in intermediate Beef and joint second in pairs for Beef & Lamb We then had another three members compete in the regional Member of the Year where we came second in the seniors, second in intermediate and first in juniors, an amazing achievement! Junior member Robert qualified through to county and fbagged irst place again!

Next came the regional indoor games night, we had entries for every competition, coming out in full force and topping the leader board Another achievement for our club, was not only successfully hosting the Bowland Regional Rally but coming out on top yet again, as the regional rally winners A huge success!

One of our greatest moments must be, ooStockman of the Year with Pendle oooocoming home with both the overall ooooo and senior Stockman of Year! Senior ooooo member, Bob Hargreaves then ooooooo went on to place third at county ooooooooo Sheep Shearing, securing a ooooooooo place at Northern Area

Throughout the year we always try and ensure that members have a wide range of meetings to enjoy Some of our meeting highlights from the past year are, visiting Ninja Warrior & Hoof Count, going to the Driving Range, a Self Defence lesson and a joint walk up Pendle Hill with Slaidburn YFC The club’s favourite was visiting Brindle Distillery

For us, the most important thing that we do is our best Even if we aren’t experts or win all the prizes, we do our best and have an amazing time We have competed in a variety of events, including county Bowling, Debate, Quiz and Dairy Eliminator Although we didn’t get placed, we were there, tried our hardest and had fun!

As well as competing in as much as we can, we support our region, our county, and other counties where possible, by attending their social events For example, we sold many tickets for the Christmas Cracker, we attended Hazel’s excellent Chairman’s Challenge where we helped to fundraise for charity, and we supported county by getting the most members signed up to the MooHundred Club

Looking to the future, we are planning more fundraising event, starting with a stand the Trawden show Spreading the word about young farmers, sharing our experiences, and encouraging new members We are keen to take on some bigger challenges too, such as the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, where we are hoping to raise funds for Lymes Disease UK A charity very close to the heart of Pendle after one of our members unfortunately, became ill with the disease following a tick bite

Our goal is to put a positive spin on this unfortunate illness, to raise awareness about the seriousness of the disease and raise funds to support the research into it

ooo Parbold Young Farmers forms ooooo part of South West region and was ooooo established in 1967 with Neil Cowell oo running as Club Chairman

o The club meets every Wednesday at Charity Farm in Wrightington with regional meetings also held monthly in rotational club locations, to discuss upcoming events, meeting ideas and any important information regarding the federation

September 2021 saw little change to the club from the previous year with Ollie Collins remaining as Club Chair and Kathryn Ryding as Secretary

This was due to the events that followed Covid 19 which meant that meetings and events were limited

This year, Club Officers goal was to make this first year back, on to remember and I think it's safe to say, we have done just that!

We started off our year with new members night which brought many younger members to the club who still actively attend meetings today Currently, we have 60 members with 30 attending meetings on a weekly basis

money for the club following a difficult few years We had a record total of 76 entries and received positive feedback with many wanting it to return the following year T e a t R e l s c l a l b r a k d M l w t L e r t o t a e t r m s a N w

year due to the closing of our usual venue 6 days before the event was meant to take place

Originally, the date was set for 19th February although our wonderful secretary was soon able to find a new venue at The Bolton

run at D&C Wrennalls with the hope of raising more

Whites Hotel and reorganise the dinner for19th March

The dinner remained a success with 260 people attending and many crediting the new venue, asking to return next year

The County Rally this year was hosted by Antony Ollerton who is a previous Parbold member and whilst many of our members are not competition keen, competing members placed well with a 1st in dairy stock judging, 3rd in junior novelty judging and 3rd in junior baking to name a few

Meeting highlights over the year have been the annual stock judging nights in preparation for rally day, games nights which have brought the club much closer together, pumpkin carving and several educational meetings to Ribble Vets and Massey Feeds to name a couple

Speakers at meetings over the year have included the Farmers Guardian, Chloe Calderbank Dressage, Rural Crime Taskforce and Gary Davies who shared his advice for new members on his young farmers experience

The club is looking forward to hosting their annual Slip 'n’ Slide at the Garners family farm in the upcoming weeks which marks the end of the young farmers year and is an extremely popular meeting with members

Finally, moving on to our last and stand out event of the year for the club was the resurrection of the Parbold YFC Foam Party last held on 25th June 2016

The foam party has always been a popular do with members far and wide with many looking forward to its return and with the tough years we faced through Coronavirus, it only seemed right to start it off again with a bang

Again, the do was very kindly held at Jane and George Ollerton’s Family Farm on Saturday 2nd July with over 300 tickets sold

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Hi all! We are the one oooooooooooooooooo and only Rainford Young ooooooooooooooooo Farmers Club!

ooooooooooo We are a close knit group of 34 oooooooooo members, some new and some old, ooooooo with ages ranging from 13 to 30

ooo We meet every Monday evening for our ooooweekly meeting, as well as getting involved in oo plenty of social events and competitions We enjoy a variety of activities for our Monday night meetings, including tours of local agricultural businesses, interesting talks and of course, the

occasional muck about gamesnights

Our club year started in September, when we werepleasedtoresume in person meetings followingthepandemic

We held our Annual General Meeting in October, where our new committee was elected; David Bradshaw as President, Matthew Webster as Chairman, Megan Reed as Secretary, Abigail Fantin as Treasurer and Rebecca Dale as Vice Chairman, to name a few

Shortly after, we held a new members night, which saw over 10 new members joining our club

In November we attended our local bonfire with our coconut shy, raising hundreds of pounds This was followed by our dinner dance at Lancashire Manor, the event was a huge success with over 150 tickets being sold maybe we can give Parbold a run for their money after all!

Our annual Christmas meal and bingo night were held in DecemberAt the meal we all had the pleasure of meeting our newest ‘member’, Alice Banks, at only 3 weeksold

threatened our weekly meetings once again, and unfortunately, we had to cancel our Annual Quiz Night, however we promise to bring it back next year, bigger and better than ever!

Over the course of the winte and spring, we entered many county competitions, including Bowling, Quiz heats 1,2&3,Rural Skills Day and County Rally We have yet to win anything, but as we always say at Rainford, it’s the taking part that counts!

In February our Annual Dyno Night was back, for the first time since 2019 We received more support than we go have ever dreamed of! Following the success of this, and our other fundraising events, we subsidised a new batch of club clothing to give ourselves a pat on the back for all our efforts!

We continued the fundraising into Spring and Summer, attending numerous events with our coconut shy, including Open Farm Sunday and Bickerstock Festival We have made the most of the light nights, attending plenty of Do’s and going on tours of some really impressive farms

We will be ending the year with lots of familiar faces, some new faces and some members having travelled to the other side of the world

Here’s to an amazing 2021 22 year and let’s hope we can carrying on smashing it next year!

Samlesbury Young Farmers was established in 1936, we meet every Monday during the winter and bi weekly in the summer

Our ‘in’ meetings take place at Samlesbury Memorial Hall on Cuerdale Lane

We have a range of meetings to keep all members entertained such as farm visits, talks from agricultural companies and local charities We recently enjoyed a visit from Field Nurses who gave a talk and first aid advice

Samlesbury ex chairman Rob Gerrard and his soon to be wife, Charlotte Gosney hosted and family bingo night in aid of Northwest Air Ambulance We had a fantastic night with plenty of attendees, all supporting this fantastic cause

We have seen a drastic increase in membership numbers with plenty of younger members attending meetings regularly and getting involved with competitions

As a club, we have seen great success within competitions, most recently with our men’s dodgeball team who qualified to represent Lancashire and the Northern Area at National finals, even after dos the night before! We have some fantastic stock judgers, including Erin who has placed at many competitions in beef and Will who always places high in dairy.

Other popular meetings we have included rounders, trampolining, and a visit to Electricity North West

A huge highlight for our club this year has oodefinitely been our Rodeo Romance do, ooo which we hosted at the Samlesbury ooooo memorial hall in February The night ooooooo was a huge success, very oooooooo enjoyable and thanks to the oooooooooo incredible support that we oooooooooooo o received, we raised just ooooooooooooo under £3000 for club ooooooooooooooooo funds! We are so oooooooooooooooooo. grateful for your ooooooooooooooooooo support

A fantastic year has been had and we are looking forward to see what’s next for Samlesbury Young Farmers

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Club formed in back in 1934, Slaidburn Young Farmers and we are looking forward to our 90th anniversary in the not too distant future a wonderful 85 years back in 2019

We held our Annual General Meeting in September, whereby we elected our new club officers for the 2021/22 membership year Anna Robinson was elected as club chairman, Ella Mason as club secretary and Rob Spenser was elected as our club treasurer With the support and wisdom that Heather and Neville Harrison offer, the club voted to re elect the, as president for another year

Slaidburn eagerly began to adjust back to pre Covid life, gone were the Zoom and outdoor meetings and instead we were finally able to meet face to face at Slaidburn Village Hall again, welcoming new members and guest speakers As a club, we were excited to hear the news that our former chairman, Jennie Towler was now engaged to fellow member, Stuart Hartley r a t

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team placed a very impressive third Rob Walker went on to place second at County Sheepdog Trials in October, followed by Anna, Mick and Harry taking on County Carcass Judging in November Harry was successfully awarded second place in the U21s and in the U28s, Mick placed and respectable third and Anna an impressive joint first Harry’s success at County Carcass Judging qualified him to represent Lancashire at National, where he placed second in the Intermediate Lamb and Beef, with Pendle member, Freddie

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n end with the county A ng hosted at Slaidburn V town of the in 2020/21 Chairman and Slaidburn member, Mick Handley As a club, we had great success with the club achieving the ‘Top Club Involvement’ award and our treasurer, Rob achieving the ‘Speaker of the Night’ award Thanks to Jennie, Andrew and Kirsty

December started hugely successful with the team winning the debate competition again, maintaining their winning streak We went on to secure sponsorship from Horner Shearing and Bowland Bio Energy, enabling us to create and release a branded, quarter zip fleece

The new year began with our annual presentation evening and the one and only, Winter Blues Do which was again, a huge success Slaidburn was awarded ‘Regional Club of the Year’ in February and our Junior B quiz team successfully made it through to the County Quiz finals Our member, William placed second at Northern Area Situations Vacant and went on to represent Lancashire at National level where after a very tight competition, he places fifth with only five points below first place

We ended a glorious May with a donation to Field Nurse, thanking them for all their hard work at our Do and Anna placing third at Stockman of the Year, narrowly beaten to second by Isaac June saw Sheep Shearing and Dairy Eliminator, with Stuart placing second at county Sheep Shearing and Lucy placing first in the Dairy Eliminator The month closed with a trip to Northern Area, Anna and Will B placing third in Stock Judging, Stuart placing first in Hand Shearing and Anna, Hannah, Isaac and Sarah placing third in Farm Machinery

Lambing season came round resulting in a quiet March for us, although we did have time to attend Rural Skills Day and come away with a very tidy third place overall We went on to try our hand at Horse Judging in April, fairing better than expected with Anna, oHannah and Ella placing After finally ooorecovering from AGM, we took on ooooo County Rally, winning not only the oooooo Stock Judging trophy but also oooooooo taking the Top Club in the ooooooooo County award Our proudest ooooooooooo moment of the year

Slaidburn has had some fantastic meetings this year, the highlights have to be; walking alpacas at Woodend Farm, moseying around dairy cows at Suddels Farm Alston, flower arranging tutorials at the village hall and talks on genetics and from Punk to Bee Keeping After a quiet couple of years, we have thoroughly enjoyed our joint club meetings, a chance to socialise with the other clubs in the county We had an adventurous climb up Pendle Hill with Pendle YFC and a wander around Whittingham Hall Farm with Longridge YFC

We are really looking forward to our local show, The Hodder Valley making a comeback and potentially taking on the Three Peaks Challenge for charity.

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Turton Young Farmers club and attending on a weekly basis, giving us the highest membership we have had in over 10 years! number of new faces joining the

We meet weekly on a Wednesday in our home location, The Barlow Institute Edgworth at 7 30pm

Our current membership majority is juniors with a few older members The members all work well together getting involved in ensuring the club runs well and all help in arranging meetings for each week and provide ideas of future meetings

Turton YFC has been going now for around 35 years and forms part of Pennine region alongside Bury YFC

This year, members took part in Rural Skills D D d th C t R ll Th

Thermalite Block Carving, Auctioneering, Nail Bashing, Maracas making and the Obstacle Course which as a club, we were so proud of! It was lovely to see all members getting involved and having a go, with the support of their families they even had a go at competitions they have never done before!

Turton had 3 members representing Lancashire at Northern Area, they thoroughly enjoyed the day and the opportunity, gaining valuable experience for future years to come!

Bury Motor Services and Laycock Heavy Haulage kindly sponsored the club, providing us with funds to be able to give our members, club branded jumpers to wear to represent Turton at future competitions We are truly grateful for their support

We have enjoyed our weekly meetings with a varied programme of events, from stock judging to pumpkin carving, with some highlights being a farm safety talk, a visit to Wallbanks for a valuation night, a hoof ming talk, arm wrestling and a visit with n Mountain Rescue who are our en charity for our 2nd Annual Christmas or Tour which we are holding in mber 2022

all, the club has had a great year and ope it continues for many years to e, members have joined, made riends and learnt a lot from ind meeting hosts om the opportunities have had n 2022/2023!

The story of Vale O’ Lune YFC started in 1945, closing briefly in 1999 but reopening again in 2004 Since then, Vale O’ Lune has gone from strengthtostrengthandcurrentlyboastsbeingthe b m

Thisyearhasbeenthe comebackofValeo’Lune,with ajam packedprogrammetomake upforthelosttime!Shirts,tiesand suedebootswereoutinforcewhen ValeO’LunemembersWillC,WillBand EdClarke,claimedvictoryoverClitheroein theQuizfinal

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This year we’ve had some very exciting meetings including a sheep shearing demonstration, which even allowed members to have a go themselves, a big Christmas feast which filled two pubs and tours around the likes of Massey Feeds and Carrs Billington

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ooooo This year ten Vale O’ Lune members ar oooooo attempting to carry a log weighing ooooooo 90kg up Hellvelyn to raise money ooooooooo for the Farming Community ooooooooooooo Network

Anotherbigwinthisyear wasvictoryatRuralSkills Dayforthefirsttime!Two fencingteamswent head to head,andsmaller membersprovedtheir worthwhenitcameto handlingpedaltractors

A successful muck haul in ers coming out in force with forks, sandwiches, and vintagetractors

To celebrate 75 years of Vale O’ Lune, the annual nnerdancecamebackandbetter Hostedatthe obe Arena in Morecambe, members past and esentcametogethertocelebratetheclub Guest eaker, Ricky Hutchinson provided some estionable jokes, while Dave Hartley provided me questionable dance moves The 75th year lebrations continued with the annual Welly Ball, with 650 in attendance from all around Lancashire and beyond Paul Chuckle made a star appearance and helped the club to raise a record amount of money for the club and for Alzheimer’s

Winmarleigh Young Farmers

has been around for 69 years

We meet every Monday evening

September to June and bi weekly from June to August at Winmarleigh Village Hall

Our current top table is made up of our Chairman, Freddie Hewitt, Secretary, Lucy Smith, Treasurer, Heather Jenkinson, and President John Bradshaw

We are part of the newly formed North Lancs region which is made up of our 3 neighbouring clubs, Vale O Lune, Bilsborrow Longridge

marleigh Young Farmers are nitely known for being a very iable club We are always elling up and down the nty supporting other club’s social events

Winmarleigh’s two main fundraisers are our annual Christmas Bingo and the Traffic

Light Do Our annual Christmas Bingo is usually held on the first Monday in Decembe at Winmarleigh Village Hall which always has a great turn out from other clubs across the county We are very lucky to have lots of local businesses who support our event with donations for prizes We thank you all for your continued support

Pre Covid, Winmarleigh brought back the Traffic Light Do

With it's success, this year we have a change of venue to make sure it will be bigger and better than before

This year Winmarleigh have taken part in many competitions Stock Judging, Quiz and Tug of War to name a few, with our junior quiz team qualifying for the finals Winmarleigh have taken a great interest in tug of war over the past few years, where all three teams qualified for Northern Area Field Day Tom Hull a past chairman will be

year, and we will be hosting a dinner dance to celebrate!

Keep your eyes peeled for information coming soon

NORTHERN AREA

OOOOOOOO It has come around to that OOOOOOO time in the YFC calendar where OOOOO Lancashire have taken on the OOO Office Holder roles for the Northern OO Area Committee in 2021/22 (with the OO last time being back in 2015) and what O a year it has been so far!

The Northern Area Committee is made up of the seven counties in the North of England: Cumbria, County Durham, East Riding of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Isle of Man (IOM), Northumberland, and Yorkshire, and we are the biggest area within NFYFC England & Wales

Let me introduce you to our Lancashire Team for the year;

NA President Pamela Fawcett (ex County President and Samlesbury YFC Member)

NA Chairman Mick Handley (ex County Chairman and Slaidburn YFC Member)

NA Secretary Claire Rowlandson (ex County Competitions Secretary and Samlesbury YFC Member)

NA Treasurer Nicola Winterbottom (ex Bowland Region Treasurer and Samlesbury YFC Member)

Following on from Covid 19and the multiple lockdowns in 2020/21, the way the Northern Area Committee was run had to change with the times, and Zoom meetings became something of a norm

NORTHERN AREA COMMITTEE

As Lancashire took over the reins of Office Holders from Yorkshire, it was proposed to continue utilising Zoom for some of our meetings to help reduce travel for members, but also make it more accessible for the likes of IOM to attend

As a committee we now meet six times a year; three weeks before and three weeks after each NFYFC Council Meeting, and the AGM is held in October with County Durham n It n A & 2 e, h st ti e h e m s c g, Cheerleading, Pantomime and Sports competitions

Congratulations to Cumbria A who secured the first place spot for Top County over the weekend, and well done to Lancashire members William Leeming and

Meg Goring who placed second & third in Intermediate Situations Vacant, Hazel Stansfield who placed third in Senior Member of the Year and the Samlesbury Male Dodgeball Team who battled their way to second place in a very competitive game!

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Moving forward into the summer months, Yorkshire FYFC hosted a jam packed NA Field Day at Darlington Auction Mart, on 25th June Members took part in everything from

stock judging the usual beef and sheep, to the more obscure guinea pigs and alpacas, as well as sheep shearing, tractor handling, farm machinery skills, baking items such as Yorkshire Growlers, Cube Exhibits, Tug of War and much, much more

The Yorkshire A Team was out in force on the day and came away with first place Top County, but it was also great to see a strong group of members who travelled across from IOM to take part in this year’s competitions

Notable mentions must go to some of our Lancashire Team, including Rob Flaherty for coming first in the Open Digger Handling Challenge, Hazel Stansfield & Tom Gardner

Stuart Hartley placing winning first in Vintage Tractor Handling,

first at Hand Sheep Shearing and the mighty Wimmarleigh Team for winning the Boat Race in record time!

In between the big events, we’ve also visited the majority of counties within Northern Area at either their AGMs or Executive Meetings, and what a great opportunity to see how other counties operate (even if it sometimes meant battling blizzards up and down the A59/M1)

Coming up we still have the NA Stockman of the Year Competition on 23rd July at Darlington Auction Mart, hosted by County Durham FYFC, and we (Lancashire) are now starting preparations to host NA Field Day 2023 and who knows, if we all put our minds (and competitive sides) to it, we could stand a good chance at walking away with the Top Overall County trophy next year!

Mick Handley NA Chairman Claire Rowlandson NA Secretary

NORTHERN AREA FIELD DAY 2022

ooooooooo This year the organizing ooooooooo committee was the Yorkshire ooooo Federation of Young Farmers' ooooIO Clubs and it was held at OOOOOHambleton, Darlington by kind OOOpermission of Darlington Farmers' OOAuction Mart

The seven Counties which make up the Northern Area County Durham, Cumbria, East Riding of Yorkshire, Isle of Man, Lancashire, Northumberland and Yorkshire had a total of thirteen teams participating, so there was plenty of activity all day, with a total of forty six classes to compete in A selection of the competitions included stock judging, floral art, tug of war, sheep shearing, thermolite block carving, cookery, farm safety, auctioneering, arts and crafts and vintage tractor and trailer handling Unfortunately, the pig judging had to be cancelled at the very last minute due to a movement license issue

To stage the Northern Area Field Day on this scale entails an enormous amount of hard work and many months of planning to ensure as much as possible the day runs smoothly, and members enjoy themselves It makes all the difference when the weather stays fine too, which it did until the last competition, when the tug of war was nearing completion The awards/presentation ceremony, planned for outside, had then to be moved to inside the cattle arena

It was pleasing to see such a high level of entries and all at an exceptionally high standard

The Lancashire members did extremely well on the day and received a very credible nineteen individual prize cards! Qualifying members go forward to represent their Counties and the Northern Area at the National finals

Without the help and encouragement of judges, stewards, scorers, livestock providers, equipment providers, the Field Day would be a non event, these people are highly valued. It really was a pleasure to attend the Field Day and partake in the prize giving alongside Mick Handley (Northern Area Chairman) and Ed Bentley (Yorkshire Federation County Chairman), and also to enjoy lunch in the Award winning Dot's cafe, with such wonderful company

Congratulations to all the Lancashire members who took part, and below you can see the top seven results for the Northern Area Earl of Derby Trophy

1st Yorkshire A 442 pts 2nd Cumbria A 418 pts 3rd Yorkshire B 413 pts

4th County Durham 404 pts 5th Lancashire A 392 pts 6th Cumbria B 349 pts

7th Lancashire B 334 pts

Pamela Fawcett NA President

SIGNIFICANT EVENTS

ooooooooooooo After two very long oooooooooooooo years away, this year ooooooooooo saw the in person return oooooooo of our annual County Rally

ooooooo. A fantastic day that brings all our ooooo clubs and members together, to oooo compete in a number of exciting oooo competitions

o County Rally 2022 was successfully hosted by South West Region, with special thanks Anthony Ollerton for hosting the event at farm and to Ayrefield Farm for hosting Stockjudging competitions

A special mention must go to Slaidburn YFC, the overall club winners and to our smallest region, Pennine Thanks to their members entering every competition on the day, and with the successes in those competitions, Pennine Region bagged a whopping 10 trophies on the day, including the Overall Top Region trophy An amazing achievement and one that they should be incredibly proud of, we certainly are!

The day saw a fantastic turn out of members, with every club in the county having numerous representatives present, an absolute pleasure to see! Members enjoyed a range of competitions including, Stockjudging, Tug of War, Cookery, Obstacle Course and Auctioneering, to name just a few

Thanks to the successes of those that compete and place 1st and 2nd in their respective competitions, Lancashire had a fantastic representation at Na Field Day! A huge congratulations to all those that took part, and to those that qualified further to head to the National Finals!

Thank to South West Region for hosting, to the steward, judges and to our members that made the day such a success! Congratulations to all those that placed and all those that headed home with silverware!

As I start to write this, looking back at my chairman’s challenge, I am honestly overwhelmed by the support the 4 x 4 tug of war day received It was fantastic to see past and present members come together to support ELHT&Me, a fantastic charity that is very close to my heart

I chose this charity because all funds go directly to Burnley NICU & Placenta Clinic Those who know me, will know when I was pregnant, I spent a lot of time in and out of the clinic due to having issues with my daughter Popp growing, and developing enough Fortu thanks to the fantastic support of the clin the 18th of September 2021, Poppy arrive the world fit and healthy and without need be admitted to NICU Unfortunately the

The day raised over £1000 and I cannot thank everyone enough who helped organise the day, and what a day it was! A massive thankyou to all the tug of war teamsfor entering, and well done to YankmeDoodle for coming 1st, Chipping 2nd & Lancashire Dream Team 3rd!

up of myself, County Vice Chairman Ed, County President Johnny Neary, County Comps Chairman Rachel Garner, Rob Flaherty Past County Chair, Pam Stansfield, Amy Phillips & Neil Curr the wannabe Lancashire man

O Unfortunately, we only managed to come OOO 3rd, being beaten by the almighty Chipping

A Special mention must also go to the best County President we could ask for, John Neary! All round legend and hero who played a massive part of the day coming together The Stansfield Family & Neil for all the help before the day and on the day Anthony Cowell for the use of a generator to power the one & only Disco Jackers who did a top job of keeping us entertained all day Gazegill Organics, for use of the trailer to stage the DJ & John Hartley for use of his trailer to get the all important fuel for the day, beer

Thanks Meg, chewy, Debs, Stephen, Mick, William the tow judge & everyone else for all the help on the day!

It’s one I’ll never forget Hazel Stansfield County Chairman

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF YOUNG FARMERS CLUBS

It was an honour to be elected as your President for a second year even if I did have to experience another online election due to pandemic restrictions

Despite not being able to see you all in person at this year’s Annual General Meeting, I still enjoyed chairing the event and hearing some lively debate from YFC members And such great news that you voted to extend the upper membership age by another two years even longer for people to enjoy the benefits of YFC

Being your President has extended my time in YFC just that little bit longer too, which I am extremely grateful for and especially so during the 90th year of our national federation

There are so many stories, like mine, from people whose lives have been transformed over the past nine decades, thanks to the skills and friendships they gained in YFC Long may that continue

As we look ahead, the industry faces huge challenges with changes in agricultural policy, new international trade deals and the climate change debate YFC gives the next generation the chance to get their voices heard on these issues, and I hope you all grab those opportunities with both hands Your future in agriculture counts on it

ooooo The pandemic has cast a shadow ooooo over all our lives and many of you oooooooo will have faced your own ooooooo. personal battles or tragedies ooooooooo throughout this difficult ooooooooooo period

Living remotely in rural locations has only exacerbated loneliness during lockdowns and made us all realise the importance of our YFC get togethers.

Well done to all those clubs and counties that moved activities to an online format during lockdowns, your time and creativity was a huge support to many And a big pat on the back to all those who have organised safe meetings again for their members and are encouraging more people to join (or re join) the organisation Your hard work will ensure YFC remains a constant in our lives

It is reassuring to see competition finals and training are happening in person again, social events and fundraisers are being organised, and more people are appreciating all that YFC has to offer

NFYFC might be 90, but its enthusiasm for supporting and developing rural young people has never wavered since it first began in 1932

Let’s all play our part in making YFC even bigger and better this membership year and protecting what we love for future generations

Nigel Owens MBE

NFYFC President 2021 22