Announcements

2012 SCDA A.G.M

The 2012 A.G.M date looks like being Saturday 25th February, the venue will likely be the Blair Drummond Hall as in previous years, confirmation of these details and formal notice will follow shortly.

Northern Club CLinic

The Northern Clinic is at The Craven College, Gargrave Road, Skipton. BD23 1UX. On Saturday 24th March. Arrival from 9.30 for a 10 am start. There are no catering facilities here, but we can arrange a kettle for tea/coffee etc., The facilitators are:- Sarah Garnet - Judges, Carol Meredith - Course Designers, Jeannie Lane - Technical Delegates. Cost to BHDTA members will be £10 - non-members will be £15. There will be information packs available for each Club Candidate attending. To Book a place visit the BHDTA Website.

Horses Help Heroes Talk

At 2PM on Sunday 29th January Richard Lanni, Ewan and Jane MacInnes will be giving a talk on their experience of the "epic non-stop drive from Land's End to John O'Groats". The talk is being held at the Finavon Hotel, by Forfar, DD8 3QE. Tickets cost £10 in advance or £12 on the door, for booking and more details contact Heather Gow on 01307 462437 or email gow@pitscandly.plus.com

SCDA Membership 2012

Membership for the 2012 season is now open. All current and prospective members should download and return the Membership form to the Secretary at your earliest convenience.

Click Here to download the 2012 Membership form.

Scorers - A Training Clinic - postponed until Feb 2012

Those of you at the conference will remember the good news that Mike McCutcheon and Vic Kusin, with the assistance of Zoe Ross, will be offering training in the driving trials scoring system for the benefit of any member, or member's friend, who is interested in this vital aspect of the sport of carriage driving trials.

The venue is the Blackford Hotel, Blackford, on the A9 about ten miles south of Perth, New Date T.B.A and the event will start at 10.30 am, with coffee etc available for everyone from 10 am.

The presentation and hands-on exercises should last about 4 hours - a sandwich lunch will be provided, courtesy of SCDA. If you can bring a laptop for you to use, that will be very helpful.

Mike and Vic will be concentrating on the Lineart system which SCDA has invested in and which Zoe has used so successfully at many Club events and of course at BHDTA National events as well. It is the preferred scoring system for SCDA, and has the advantage that it enables us to put scores up on the website quickly.

Please let the secretary know whether you will be coming along so that Mike can plan the numbers.

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