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Join our private FB Group for more information Welcome to Purton and Cricklade Young Farmers Club!
We are a rural youth organisation for members aged 10-18, but you don't have to be a farmer to be a Young Farmer! We welcome anyone along to any of our meetings, at any point throughout the year. Just let one of our committee know you'd like to come along! From farm tours, industry speakers and training courses to public speaking, cookery and flora art, we cover a huge range of activities and comp
etitions. We usually meet on a Wednesday evening, sometimes at our Club Hut in Purton Stoke, but mostly we are out and about.
2023-2024 Committee:
Chairperson- Lizzy Clarke
Secretary- Ellie Gassor
[email protected]
Lister Wilder has been our main sponsor for 2023/2024 and have kindly invited Purton and Cricklade members to tour their Bibury branch.
Our members will get a fantastic insight into the machinery and services Lister Wilder provides to the agricultural industry.
All members are welcome and new faces are always welcome to all of our meetings just contact us today about getting involved with Young Farmers.
Only 1 week to go to secure your tickets to our annual summer social!!
Tickets must be purchased by Monday 8th July to secure food!!
Ticket and event details can be found on the Summer Social page or scan the QR code
Summer evenings are finally here… come spend an evening with us on Friday 12th July ☀️
Tickets sales will close midnight Monday 8th July so get them now to avoid disappointment
This week we had a farm tour at Woodhill Park Farm kindly hosted by the Gantlett family 🐄 Our members spent a sunny evening learning lots about their Robotic milking system and organic farming methods
Throwback Thursday…. 2018 Summer social was a blast with members coming together to eat and drink to celebrate a fantastic year! 🍻
Reminder you can still buy tickets to this years Summer social ☀️ all details can be found via the events page ➡️ Summer Social
🏆🎉 Well done P&C and Wiltshire YFC!!!
Some fantastic events in store this summer hosted by clubs within Wiltshire YFC…
Of course don’t forget to get your tickets now to our club Summer Social fast approaching on the 12th of July!!! ☀️ 🍻
With the Young Farmers 2024 competition year winding down, we would just like to take a moment to thank local businesses for their generous sponsorship to help provide our members with their stylish club stash 🤩
Our 2024 club sponsors include Lister Wilder Agriculture, P & J Leighfield Agricultural Contractors, LKL Services LTD, Voyce Pullin, HNS Haulage, Milk at Mile Elm, Old Mill Accountancy, Kernon Countryside Consultants, Andrew Wilkins LTD, BP Milling, Drove Farm Vets, Moore Allen & Innocent
A beautiful sunny evening to play rounders and enjoy a BBQ to celebrate the club’s great success at Rally 🏆
We’ve had a brilliant competition year with lots of silverware to show for it! Thank you to all the members and parents who contributed towards rally 🤩
Charity Shoot tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you.
Successful day for Purton and Cricklade at County Stock-judging today with some fantastic results🏆
Well done to all members who competed today!! Whether you placed or not, it truly is the taking part and having fun that counts.
County stock-judging competition this Sunday 4th Feb 🐖🐄🐂🐑🐎
With constant pressure on farmers to match animals to market demands, stock-judging is key for farmers to gain the best returns for their livestock.
This competition gives our members key personal and vocational skills including observation and communication skills 📝
If you are interested in becoming a young farmer, contact one of our committee members.
Remember, you don’t have to be a farmer to be a Young Farmer!!
Thank you to local businesses supporting our Christmas prize Draw! We have lots of exciting prizes for our draw this year including gift cards, floral and art gifts, and plenty of booze 🍾🎄
Come along Wednesday night to our Christmas Quiz at 7:30pm for mulled wine, mince pies and a merry evening 🎅🏼
If you require any raffle tickets please contact Lizzy Clarke on 07387170453. More raffle prizes would be greatly appreciated on the night.
Also, anyone with sold raffle tickets and monies that are unable to attend the event, please ensure you drop them off with someone who will be there or contact us about collecting them so you don’t miss out on some wonderful prizes!
Last nights meeting was a huge success…As a club we managed to wrap and fill 41 Christmas shoe boxes in aid of The HAFGB Ukraine Shoe Box Appeal 🤩 A big thank you to all our junior and senior members as well as organisers and donators for coming together for such a wonderful cause 💙💛
Purton and Cricklade Young Farmers are coming together to bring joy to the hearts of children in Ukraine 💙💛
Wednesday 8th November we will be accepting donations from 7:30pm at the Club Hut, Purton Stoke on behalf of the Humitarian Aid Fund Great Britain.
We are looking for generous donations of toiletries, toys, school supplies, sweets/chocolates and warm pre-loved clothing in good clean condition.
http://hafgb.co.uk/christmas-shoebox-appeal-ukraine
We are looking for generous donations towards our Christmas Draw on the 13th December.
Small businesses, local and National companies welcome!
Donations from your business will be marketed through our social media outlets, whether that be cash donations, vouchers, gifts etc.
Any donations would be gratefully received to help with raising vital funds for our club.
You may contact Lizzy Clarke on 07387170453 to make pick-up arrangements for your donation.
Registered Charity No. 1036961
🌏✈️Are you looking for a 2024 adventure? 🌏✈️
YFC Travel 2024 is officially OPEN for applications and we have some amazing trips on the list this year!
✈️Choose from volunteering trips to Nepal and group travel to Albania or Canada!
🐄There’s working scholarships in New Zealand and Australia.
🇪🇺There’s also a range of European escapes available too, with trips to Estonia and Latvia up for grabs!
Apply before 10 November 2023!
Find all the details online 👉https://www.nfyfc.org.uk/yfc-travel-opportunities
🌟 Ready to Embark on Your 2024 Adventure? 🌏✈️
THIS EVENING Visit and talk at Ramsbury fire station they’re kindly inviting us to the station for what will be a very interesting evening.
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This years SWA weekend is in Weymouth!
Never been before, keen to go? Come to our senior meeting this week, tomorrow from 8pm at The Five Bells, Royal Wootton Bassett to find out more! 🕺
(Bring a coat, we’ll likely be sat out the back of the pub under the patio heaters 🧥)
A brand new YFC event. Bring your friends and enjoy some YFC Christmas shopping.
Chippenham YFC Ploughing Match Sunday 31st October 2021
For entry form (MUST be prebooked - NO bookings will be taken on the day) and more details, please email [email protected] and they will be forwarded to you or contact Mr K Candy 07446679391 or Mrs N Reynolds 07780702573
Young Farmers, old and new, are asked to drink a toast this Sunday, January 31, to the centenary of the first ever calf club in the UK.
The village of Hemyock, Devon, had been preparing a celebration to mark this historic event, forerunner of all Young Farmers’ Clubs, but everything is on hold because of the pandemic.
But it was a hundred years ago this Sunday when nineteen Devon teenagers were given a calf each to raise plus all the information and help which led to huge improvements to the British dairy industry after the First World War.
There was a parade through the village, a luncheon, speeches and the excitement of being forerunners in what would become an international organisation.
The 12 boys and seven girls were each allocated a shorthorn calf and given instruction on the latest agricultural knowledge which led in a very short time to a large increase in milk yields. After six years the local milk factory had doubled its output.
The project was taken up by the Daily Mail and the teenagers were taken to London, touring in an open top bus with Hemyock Calf Club No 1 emblazoned on the side, feted at the Empire and Ideal Home Exhibitions and featured on Pathe News, at the time shown in every cinema in the country.
Soon after that the Government began to encourage similar clubs and some of the Hemyock group were sent to Canada for six months to learn more.
This Sunday should have seen the first of several occasions to celebrate this piece of agricultural history and a year long commemoration to include publication of a book, an exhibition and plans for a commemorative bronze statue of a calf.
All these plans are currently on hold.
The calf club still exists today as the Culm Valley YFC.
More than 130 tinseled-up tractors will trundle through Marlborough, Devizes and the surrounding villages next Sunday (20th).
Tonight is quiz night!🤓
Donate to take part follow the link below let us know once you’ve donated and we’ll send you a link. Grab your own drinks and snacks and we’ll see you on zoom.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/wiltshire-yfc?fbclid=IwAR3KZLQb-wPOeJiPg6jYdxpCypg8_4E2Elxb7hpUZY6VTJs6Kw-dVXaVkHo
A young sheep breeder who has endured a terrible ordeal battling cancer is aiming to raise £10,000 for the hospital and charities that have supported
Wiltshire YFC Newsletter - https://mailchi.mp/a6cf2e5c20b9/wiltshire-yfc-newsletter
a very worthy cause
Open to all members, parents, friends and family!
2 days to go! Entries in for tomorrow night :D
Share with your friends and family :D
COMPETITIONS – as many entries as you want!
- please email 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item along with your recipe card on a word document. Please include your name and club in the email and age/age catagory as on 1st September 2019
Under 9 yrs & under
Junior 10 – 16 yrs old
Intermediate 17 – 21 yrs old
Senior 22 – 26 yrs old
Open 27 & over – Past members, family & friends
As a lot of our members have already put a lot of work and effort into practising and preparing entries in readiness for the Rally (and to give self-isolating members, families and friends something to focus on) we would like you to send photographs and paperwork of your entries into County Office by email to: [email protected]
please write the competition title in the subject line of your email.
to be received anytime from now until noon on Friday 1st May
Competitions:
1.Junior Calf Handler (from the nominated junior member only for each club) A Portfolio (max.4 A4 pages (including front cover) (Calf born on or after 1st Oct 2019) 3 x photographs (Front view, rear view and side view) of Junior Calf handler (presented appropriately) with their haltered Calf
2.Custard Tart from the following recipe (only if you have the ingredients). Max size 30 x 30 cms Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
Text Box: • For the Custard:
• 250ml double cream
• 250ml milk
1 vanilla pod, split
• 1 strip lemon zest
• whole nutmeg
8 egg yolks
• 100g golden caster sugar
For the Pastry:
140g butter
250g plain flour
zest 1 lemon
100g golden caster sugar
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp whole milk
Method:
To make the pastry, rub the butter into the flour with the lemon zest and a pinch of salt until it resembles breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, egg and milk and bring together to form a dough. This can be made 2 days in advance.
On a lightly floured surface, roll the pastry out and use it to line a 20cm tart tin, leave 2cm of pastry hanging over the edge. Chill for 30 mins.
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Line the case with baking beans, bake blind for 20 mins, then remove the beans and continue to cook for a further 20 mins until the base is biscuity. Remove from oven and reduce the temperature to 140C/120C fan/gas 1.
Bring the cream, milk, vanilla pod, lemon zest and a small grating of nutmeg to the boil. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until pale, then pour the hot milk and cream over, beating as you go. Strain custard into a jug, allow to settle for a few mins, then skim off any froth.
Carefully pour the custard into the tart case, grate some more nutmeg over the top and bake for 40 mins or until just set with the very slightest wobble in the middle. Remove from the oven, trim the pastry edges off (away from the filling), then leave to cool completely before serving in slices with a grating more of nutmeg, if you like.
3.6 cup cakes decorated as Circus animals with recipe card. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item along with your recipe card on a word document
4.Photography - 1 x A4, ‘Circus’ (to include 1 junior member and anyone else in your household) To include a ‘witty’ caption and/or Title.
5.A decorated papermache mask. Suitable for a circus. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
6.A Jesters Hat to include 2 photos of member making it & 1 of them wearing it.
7.A hobby horse from any medium. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
8.A Decorated 2 litre empty plastic drinks bottle - ANY THEME Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
9.A4 collage from recycled items. Please provide a list of all items used in the collage. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
10.A musical instrument made from recycled items – explanation of what it is, what it is made from and how you play it. Please send 2 photographs – 1 of you making it and one of the finished item.
11.Carpet Circus - everything to be homemade (including animals – ie Playdoh!) with 4 photographs of member building it. No scale limit.
12.Handwriting - ‘What YFC means to me’. Send photograph of your handwritten meaning.
13.Dress up as a Circus Performer. No premade outfit – anything but clothing items to be used that can be found around your house. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
14.An A4 pencil drawing ‘the view through my window’ – send 2 photographs, 1 of the view and 1 of your drawing.
15.Have a rummage in your drawers/cupboards/scrapbooks and email photographs of 3 YFC photographs that depict what you do and enjoy in your club (with details of club, where, when and what was happening). The older the better!
16.Make and display a freestanding wooden bird table – NOT to circus theme. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
Blue Barrell Challenge – make a useful item from a blue barrell – please explain what it is and what it can be used for. Fixings maybe used + two accessories only. (if already started and you have the materials at home to do this) Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
17.A circus animal made from needle felting. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
18.Handwritten ‘Lonely Hearts’ advert for Rally Chairman Jonny Taylor. Please send a photograph of your hand written advert.
19.Make a ‘clown’ puppet on strings. Please send 2 photographs - 1 of you making the item and 1 of the finished item
Purton Stoke
Swindon
SN54JG
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Only 1 week to go to secure your tickets to our annual summer social!! Tickets must be purchased by Monday 8th July to secure food!! Ticket and event details can be found on the Summer Social page or scan the QR code
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