equine news
BGA launches ‘Grooms Minds’ project
Mental Health is a subject which many people are still not keen to talk about, but with an increasing number of grooms, riders and employers contacting the BGA for help and advice, it is clear that this is a real issue within the industry. Being happy and content in the workplace is vital to an individual’s wellbeing and efficient team working. The Grooms Minds project aims to identify the specific issues associated with mental health within the industry, allowing the BGA to raise awareness of these issues and then focus on and develop within this area. This work will include employees, employers and those who are self-employed.
One former groom who has been badly affected by these issues, and who doesn’t wish to be named added, “Being a groom was my dream career
and I enjoyed every aspect of it. Grooms are expected to be conscientious and a bit OCD so I was proud to have these qualities. I didn’t feel I could talk to anyone because I was angry and disappointed with myself. I hope that the Grooms Minds project will help employers and grooms themselves be more alert to their mental wellbeing.” The first step in this important project is to discover how widespread the issues are and so the BGA is urging that all grooms take part in a quick survey, which is 100% anonymous.
https://www.surveymonkey.
co.uk/r/groomsmindssurvey The result of the survey will then allow phase two of the project and the development of resources available specifically for grooms. As part of the project the BGA has signed up to the Sport and Recreation Alliance Mental Health Charter.
Wold Top Brewery comes out on top
Farming businesses from across Britain were recently honoured at the Rural Business Awards 2017 ceremony where the winners were presented with their awards by Jules Hudson from the BBC Escape to the Country programme.
Wold Top Brewery, from Yorkshire, was crowned winner in the CLA-sponsored Outstanding Rural Diversification Project after facing falling income streams by diversifying into brewing and weddings.
Photo by SEH Photography
Give a home to Betty & Dodge
Handmade from English Oak with a cast iron dog’s tail, these are a fun, yet practical way of keeping your best friend’s lead or leads tidy and to hand and can be personalised with your dog name(s). Each one is sealed with beeswax and come with two holes pre- drilled, along with screws. Betty & Dodge make a range of products all using English-grown oak, and each one is handmade to order ensuring that every product is different and uniquely individual - no two pieces of oak are ever the same. RRP: from £25.00. Keyrings, plant labels and so much more can be found at
www.bettyanddodge.co.uk
Equine Page 4
The Brewery is based on the 600-acre farm high on the Yorkshire Wolds where the Mellor family has been farming for generations. With revenue from traditional income streams falling in the early 2000s, the family first diversified into brewing - profiting from the fact that the area boasts some of the best land for growing barley in Europe. Next came a specialist bottling business to service the brewery and the final diversification business is a wedding and events venue, Muddy Souls Events, that takes advantage of the stunning rural location, National Garden Scheme garden and, now, home- brewed beer to create a very unique experience! Tom Mellor from Wold Top Brewery said, “We’ve had a great experience participating in the Rural Business Awards and to come out with a prize really is the icing on the cake.” Runners-up in diversification: Mini Explorers Nursery from Northallerton run by Stephanie Pybus, Britain’s only farm school nursery based on the family’s 260-acre arable farm. Highly commended for diversification: Yorkshire’s Flowers from the Farm Ltd – a
national not-for-profit network helping small land-owners make income by growing and selling flowers and Knitsley Farm Shop from County Durham – set up to ensure the survival of the small family farm which is now being run by the sixth generation – and now including a bakery, butchery and pie production unit making 70,000 pies a year. Runners-up for Rural Innovation of the Year: The Wellbeing Farm from Lancashire run by Celia Gaze. A successful rustic wedding venue, weekend café plus cookery school business created from a neglected sheep farm.
Other RBA Winners include: Champion of Champions & Best Rural Tourism Business: Hoe Grange Holidays, Matlock, Derbyshire; Best Rural Start- up: Herdy Sheep, Leeds, West Yorkshire. Best Rural Creative or Media-based Business: Farm Creative, Preston, Lancashire: Social Enterprise / Community Project of the Year: Rhubarb Farm Cic, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire: Rural Employer of the Year & Best Rural Food & Drink Business: T Soanes & Son Poultry, Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire.
The RBAs are the brainchild of Leicestershire businesswomen Anna Price and Jemma Clifford, who wanted to showcase the wealth of entrepreneurial talent in rural areas of Britain – a sector of the economy they felt was all-too-often overlooked in favour of large city-based firms. The awards are organised by rural businesses for rural businesses and judged by people who understand the rural sector, which is growing rapidly and employs in excess of 3.4 million people in more than 600,000 businesses across the UK.
Walkies 4 Hook
www.theequinesite.co.uk
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64
