New President Elected

The recent Annual General Meeting and Executive Committee Meeting saw the election of the Association’s 87th President, Harry Todhunter.

The meeting expressed thanks to outgoing President, Steve Owbridge, whose Presidency saw the Association carry on with it’s charitable donations despite the difficulties imposed by Covid. Although stepping down as President, Steve is remaining on the Executive Committee and he wished Harry best wishes as his successor.

Second Sponsored Defibrillator

Angela Sutherby, Treasurer, and Steve Owbridge, President with our latest donation

We are delighted to have been able to donate our second defibrillator to the hamlet of Kiplingcotes which lies on the Hudson Way, a popular walking, cycling and horse riding route that links Beverley and Market Weighton. It is gratifying to hear that this defibrillator has already been put to good use proving what an extremely worthwhile initiative this is for us to support.

We are currently liaising with a local parish council regarding the siting of our third defibrillator and we would welcome suggestions for suitable sites for our fourth and subsequent defibrillators. Please let us know if you are aware of a location that may be appropriate.

Annual Dinner 2021

The Executive Committee would like to say a big thank you to all the host companies who helped make this year’s event such a success. Not unexpectedly, numbers were down on previous years but there were still over 200 guests attending who welcomed the chance to socialise once again.  The weeks leading up to the dinner saw much deliberation over whether to proceed or not but the positive feedback we have received has fully justified the decision that was taken to proceed with the dinner.

The event was run on a less formal basis than usual with no comedian or after dinner speaker.  Our President, Steve Owbridge made an excellent job of his first dinner speech with top table guest Sally Conner, Regional Manager of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (R.A.B.I.), proposing the toast to the Association.

Our thanks go to The Bonus Arena, ED & F Man and the DoubleTree by Hilton for kindly donating such wonderful prizes and to all the guests who generously supported the draw which raised £2050 for our charity pot. The Association was once again able to present a cheque to Sally Connor for £2000 for which she thanked everyone on behalf of the R.A.B.I. and the farming community that they support.

We were once again extremely grateful to Mark Feight from IAG for hosting the afternoon seminar. Our thanks go to the hotel who provided us with the relevant technology to hold the seminar online when it became clear that Mark would not be able to attend in person. Although the attendance numbers were not as high as we would have liked we hope those who did attend found it interesting and productive.

A selection of photographs from the dinner are on the website, if you would like to purchase any copies contact Will @ nighthawkshoots@gmail.com

Annual Golf Tournament

After the cancellation of the 2020 event and the postponement of the 2021 event the Annual Golf Tournament finally took place on Thursday 29th July.  In a week that brought mixed weather and flash flooding we were lucky to have a dry and mostly sunny day on which to hold our first fund raising event for almost 2 years which we are delighted to say was once again a great success.

To give us the best chance of holding the competition with the ongoing uncertainties, the usual shotgun start was changed to set tee times and an ongoing barbeque replaced the usual sit down post tournament meal. With sixteen teams taking part, numbers were only slightly down on the previous event and everyone appeared to have an enjoyable, if not entirely successful afternoon.

Our thanks go to all the club staff for ensuring that the course was in such good condition and for Wes and his team for providing such delicious food over several hours.

Unfortunately, the absence of a massed gathering at the end of play meant that a formal prize giving was not possible.  The majority of the successful participants had left by the time Executive Committee member Mark Woodall presented a cheque to Claire Crosby from the Hull branch of the children’s charity KIDS, www.kids.org.uk/yorkshire-humber, thanks to the generous support of the raffle and golf entry donations.  

The overall winners of the tournament, the team from Unigloves UK, were still on site and were duly presented with their prizes. With a winning score of 94, congratulations go to Paul Gibbons, Andrew Roantree, Ian Grey and Alan Colquhoun

The runners up where the team from Eric Lusby Properties with a score of 89. Well done Eric Lusby, Brian Hancock, Matthew Hancock and Jerry Neilson.

Third place went to Mike Krebbs, Tim Harding, Bill Wilcox and Steve Mews from Ferriby Recycling who scored 86.

The HCFTA trophy, which is presented to the highest placed member of the Association was won this year by the team from Thomas Mawer Ltd, Rob Mackay, Jonathan Stansfield, Ash Burdock and Charlie I’Anson.

Additional prizes were given for nearest the pin and longest drive and our congratulations go to the following winners.

Nearest the pin                 Hole 3                   Mark Jenkins

Hole 6                   Tim Bradshaw

Hole 9                   Dave Walton

Hole 13                 Dave Beecroft

Hole 17                 Ian Jeffrey

Longest Drive                   Hole 10                 Steve Gibbons

 

Charitable Donations

Despite the lack of fund raising events we are continuing to support a diverse range of charities, both large and small, local and national. Our most recent recipients are Andy’s Man Club, Bundles of Joy, Humber Rescue, Krabe UK and RABI.

Please let us know if you are aware of a charity that we could help. Details should be sent to info@hcfta.co.uk and a donation will be discussed at the next Executive Committee meeting.