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Will the HPA copy the coalition? I was shocked to read in Herbert Spencer’s article that the HPA has been supporting higher handicapped professional British players with discretionary payments in recent years.
In line with the attitude of our new coalition government to disclose the remuneration of the fat cats in the civil service what chance the HPA making a full disclosure of the amounts and recipients of the slush fund?
Name and address supplied
HPA chief executive David Woodd responds:The details of the grants were not only given willingly to Herbert Spencer by me but they have also been covered at the November Council meetings and are included in the minutes which are circulated to all clubs. The money has come to date
from the Audi sponsorship but the Stewards have agreed that it would be acceptable to use money from Cartier International Day if necessary. It is HPA policy that money from subscriptions, affiliation fees, umpiring and passports is used to run the office. Any fines are paid to the Polo Charity and the money from Cartier is used for development and overseas teams with any surplus being donated to the Polo Charity. The above is stated annually at the Council Meeting along with the budget for the income and expenditure which ties in with the above. The HPA does not have a slush fund and with the exception of the
18 July 2010
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Aspiring artists blossom at Guards On the last two Bank Holiday Mondays, I have run cartoon workshops in the clubhouse at Guards Polo Club during the afternoons. These were aimed to give parents a little free time and to encourage the artistic talents of members’ children. The workshops have proved to be a great success and it was difficult to pick a couple of winners from each age group. Amongst the older children, Sofia Cicchine aged nine and a budding chap called Oliver were the prize-winners. Oliver drew a fab Labrador dog using perspective and an open mouth with teeth and Sofia proved a talented young artist, completing more than four drawings. In the middle age group, Isabella Seabridge, aged seven (whose drawing is pictured) and a boy named Victor were both very focused and produced fabulous drawings. I originally gave them an example of two horses playing football in World Cup strip, and they followed this lead to create their own imaginative pieces. Victor drew a wonderful dragon playing football and Isabella illustrated a lovely pony with a pink noseband. The player on the ground in the picture may well have had something to do with an incident in a Queen’s Cup game that day, and the entertainment provided by all the teams on the grounds at Guards earlier that day proved very inspiring for all the aspiring Picassos and Emins of the future.
Kate Scurfield Ewhurst,Surrey
Editor’s note: We hope that Isabella’s work,as well as Kate’s brilliant cartoons on this very Letters page, will inspire artists of all ages!
The writer of the letter of the month wins a bottle of La Chamiza Argentine red wine
HPA office staff, all Stewards and Committee members carry out their jobs in their own time and at their own expense which, when you take into account flights and accommodation when supporting the England team overseas or attending FIP meetings, or coming to London for meetings from Yorkshire and beyond, can be considerable. Would that the country had been run in the same way that the HPA is run!
Editor’s note:PT last wrote about the HPA bursaries in a late 2008 issue, when they were first introduced.See the Nov/Dec 2008 issue,page 6,for more.
Good luck to all our England teams this month!
Anthem was an insult The International Test Match between England and South Africa at Cowdray Park was a marvellous game, with great horsemanship, tension and
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