Perry Riding and Driving Group News and Events

News and Events
2010
December (TBC)	Asda Bag Packing
December (TBC)	Group Christmas Lunch
September 12th Fundraising Plant Sale	Hall Farm Nursery www.hallfarmnursery.co.uk are kindly holding another Open Day & Plant Sale in aid of the Perry RDA Group on Sunday 12th September from 10am - 4pm Nick and Christine Foulkes Jones have put on a fantastic day for the past three years now. Some years they even have musicians on the lawn to accompany fantastic home made cakes and scones and a huge raffle. If you possibly can spare the time, please come along and support us. The plants are superb and the cakes aren't bad either. Meanwhile have a good year! . Some pictures from the day will be added here at a later date.
September 2nd	Talk about Hall Farm bid for Chelsea Gold in Kinnerley Village Hall.
August (TBC)	Annual sponsored ride across the Long Mynd
July 17th	Group Open Day
May 31st	Perry Vaulters to attend Lions Fun Day in the Quarry, Shrewsbury
May 25th – May 29th	Chelsea Flower Show: Hall Farm Nursery, one of the Group’s largest sponsors, are displaying an RDA Garden for the 40th Anniversary of the National Riding for the Disabled Association.
May 3rd	Perry Vaulters to attend Myddle Fete.
May 1st	Local Litter Pick
2009
Sunday 13th September Fundraising Plant Sale	Hall Farm Nursery www.hallfarmnursery.co.uk are kindly holding another Open Day & Plant Sale in aid of the Perry RDA Group on Sunday 13th September from 10am - 4pm Nick and Christine Foulkes Jones have put on a fantastic day for the past two years now. Last year they even had musicians on the lawn to accompany fantastic home made cakes and scones and a huge raffle. If you possibly can spare the time, please come along and support us. The plants are superb and the cakes aren't bad either. Meanwhile have a good summer - keep the wellies and the raincoats close to hand! . Some pictures from the day will be added here at a later date.
5th April Dancing with Horses	Held again at Walford College and another huge success, enjoyed by approximately 200 spectators and raising over £3,000 for the Group and the new centre. Some pictures from the day can be seen here.
2008
24th November People's Millions	The Perry Group featured on the ITV Central West Regional evening news programme and the Big Lottery Fund People’s Millions 2008. We were bidding for funding to secure a Mechanical Horse and an Electric Hoist together with a building to house them.
27th July Perry Group Open Day	The Open Day was fabulously hot and we had a good turn out of supporters. There was a display of carriage driving by Jack Shortman and Jaquie Holyoake driving Murphy; a dressage display by Delphine Wise riding Stubbs and a vaulting display by most of the regular vaulters coached by Sam Gant and Holly Dormer using Spanish Heights. Some photos from the day can be seen here
11/12th July RDA National Championships	Held at Hartpury with success enjoyed by the Perry Group competitors. Some photos from the day can be seen here
6th July The Perry Group Family Horse Show	A huge success despite the appalling weather forecast and other high profile horse events being held that day. Thanks go to very generous sponsorship by the companies and individuals and to all others who were kind enough to donate services in kind or reduced costs for the Group - a magnificent effort by all. Many thanks also to Rock House Photography for their generous donation from the event photos sold which can be seen or purchased here
21st May West Mercia Regional Qualifier	Held at Solihull with the Perry Group taking four ponies and all riders went home with a rosette Some photos from the day can be seen here
2007
3rd October Royal Visit	By HRH The Princess Royal at Walford The Perry Group highlight of 2007 !! Some photos from the visit can be seen here and the Autumn newsletter has more details.
8th July Family Horse Show	Held at Lower House Farm, Llanymynech A huge success and will be held on the same weekend again next year. See the Autumn newsletter for more details.
5th May British Vaulting Competition	Held at at Northop College, near Mold. Attended by the Perry Vaulting Team. Placed Third in the Team with a Theme competition and several of the vaulters being placed individually in the exercises on the barrel competition. Notably Jake Thomas who was second in his age group.
29th April Fund raising event	Held at Walford College to raise funds for the Shropshire Special Riding for the Disabled Centre A fantastic afternoon's entertainment was put on by the Group. Demonstrations to music included the RDA ponies showing how fearless they are, Stubbs and Anne Browning did a freestyle dressage to music, Rikki Balshaw rode his Paralympic Freestyle to Music test and answered questions afterwards, two teams of vaulters from the Clwyd Group and from the Perry Group gave an impressive demonstration of their skills on horseback, Carriage Driving volunteers performed a long reining quadrille and Deb Daniels showed her talent at driving her pony Jack through a dressage test and through pairs of cones with balls on the top. In between all of this, two of the Walford College students performed brilliantly inside the pantomime horse showing his paces in a Medium Dressage Test!!