LATEST NEWS
(last updated
Friday, 06 September 2019)
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ADVANCE NOTICE : Summer Driving Camp 2020
AREA SHOW 2019 : Results now available
NEW FOREST WEEKEND : Amended ENTRY FORM now available
NEW EVENT : Sun 24th Nov - 'Lorenzo & His Horses'
RISK ASSESSMENTS : Legal Obligations
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RISK ASSESSMENTS
The Forestry Commission have asked for a Risk Assessment for Driving Weekend
this year, but in fact, it applies to all the BDS Drives in the Forest for the
period Monday, 23rd to Sunday, 29th September. We are
obliged by this Risk Assessment that all participants have ready access to both
the assessed risk (available <HERE>)
and to the BDS Safety Guidelines, which have been available <HERE>
since 2017. The Area would be grateful if all participants would make time
available to scrutinise both documents before the drives.
In Particular,
the Safety Guidelines require an able groom(s) to be with the turnout in order
to control the horse(s) by their head whenever the driver mounts or dismounts.
Violation of this guideline invalidates the driver's own insurance.
More significantly, if the Drive
Organiser knowingly allows this to happen without resolving the violation, the
insurances of all participants become invalid.
NEW
FOREST WEEKEND
Due to circumstances beyond our control concerning the catering for the Saturday
evening social, there are now meal choices to be made. Please download this new
form, and discard any copies you may already have downloaded of the previous
form. Thank you.
Click <HERE>
for details.
SUMMER DRIVING CAMP 2020 :
This year's Summer Driving Camp was so successful that we are
doing it all again next year! The date is 10th – 12th July
2020, and if you think you may like to come, please call Sam Searle on
07883 538591 asap
to register your interest.
SUPPORT FOR CHARITIES :
Hampshire BDS supports several Charity Organisations, mainly through collections
at drives, but also from raffles, such as at the Area Show where a percentage of
the money raised is donated to the Driving for the Disabled Association.
Terry Newman collects for Naomi House Children’s Hospice
from his New Year’s Day and Bluebell Drives, and Georgina Burrows
organises the West Wellow Friends of Cancer Research for the Anderwood BBQ Drive
and Beaulieu Road in September.
Sally Edgar sent the following message: ‘I presented a
cheque to the Princess Anne neonatal unit a while back for £1,000.00 which was
on behalf of Lymington Growmore Club. When I did my Spider Drive last year , the
collection was for the neonatal unit , we raised £96.00 , so I gave them a
cheque on behalf of the BDS ... a very worthy cause I think , they were
delighted. Grateful thanks to all the BDS members who contributed’.
We also donated to the British Animal Rescue and Trauma Care Association after
the talk by co-founder Jim Green in March organised by Sue Kennedy, and we
support the Air Ambulance whenever we can.
A big thank you to everyone for your continued generosity.
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