London Cat Club
Exhibitors please note that the following Classes at the London Cat Club Show on 11 June 2005 will be judged by Mrs Celia Leighton and NOT as printed in the Schedule.
Classes 509, 540, 563, 672, 701, 714, 752, 756, 783, 794, 802, 805, 809, 873 and 925.
Schedules have been sent to all Members. Any further requests, please send a large SAE to 168 Effra Road, London SW19 8QA, or visit our website - www.londoncatclub.org - to download a schedule and entry form.
Maria Chapman, Show Manager
Chocolate Series Cat Club
The Chocolate Series Cat Club will be holding its AGM on 24 April 2005 at the Wythall Village Hall, Alchester Road, Wythall, Nr Birmingham, commencing at 2pm. This will be an important meeting with regard to the future of the Club, so would Members please make an effort to attend.
Agendas and the minutes have been sent to last year’s Members, anyone who has not received theirs, please let me know asap.
Will Members please also note that subscriptions became due on 1 January 2005, and if they are not paid by the date of the AGM they will cease to be Members. Subscriptions are to be sent to the Club’s Treasurer, Mrs J. Maybank, 94 Blacklands, East Malling, Maidstone, Kent ME19 6DS. Rates are £5 single and £8 joint membership.
Marian Catt, Hon Secretary
Lakeland & District Cat Club
Free Schedules - The Lakeland & District Cat Club is trying to be more environmentally friendly. Have you access to the web? Do you have e-mail? The Club has this year’s Schedule and entry form on their web page - www.lakeland-districtcatclub.com
The Schedule is in PDF format which can be run on Adobe reader. If you do not have Adobe you can link to a free download from the show page.
The cat show is to be held on 18 June, and the closing date is 10 May. The show is at Kendal Leisure Centre, Cumbria.
Please note, we cannot accept entries online at the moment, so you will have to use snail mail. We recommend you send a SAE with your entry for the show.
We are offering £100 prize for BIS Pedigree and £50 BIS HP. We are offering the new classes for the Imperials and Kittens are now accepted at 14 weeks.
Entry Fee - Increases have been put on hold.
Stall Hire - Last year’s stallholders have been given privileged right until 1 April. We have space available to people interested in renting space. The space left is limited, any enquiries must be to Mr Irving on 01229 432187.
Club News - The Club is trying to become more environmentally friendly. One of the proposals is to send the Club’s magazine out to its Members by e-mail. Any Members interested in this service, please contact our Secretary at shemac@ btinternet.com with your details.
Exhibitors, please note the following Judge Changes for our show on 18 June 2005.
Class 60 Black/Chocolate Smoke Kitten is NOT now being judged by Mrs Tokens. This class will now be judged by Mrs Fisher. Sorry for any inconvenience.
M. Kavanagh (Mr), Asst. Show Manager
Exotic Shorthair Cat Society
The final date for copy for our Summer Newsletter is 1 May 2005. Please send any information you would like including to me at Far Hilltop Farm, Blagill, Alston, Cumbria CA9 3NB or e-mail me at Erriseask@aol.com
Adverts are priced at £5 for a quarter page. You can also send copy/adverts for our Christmas Journal. Adverts for the Christmas Journal are priced at £10 for a full page advert plus £1 per photo.
Jerry Munroe, Editor ESCS Journal
Oriental Cat Association
Would everyone who received show trophies at the OCA Show 2004, please return them to me at 18 Cypress Court, Great Dunmow, Essex CM6 1ZA. Tel. 01371 859668, by 1 June 2005.
You may return them via the Club Table at Bedford & District Cat Club Show or Breed 32 Cat Association Show, or by any Committee Member, or you may send them directly to me at the address above. Please return the trophies in a clean condition and with any labels attached.
John Bunch, Cup Secretary
Edinburgh & East of Scotland Cat Club
We now have a website, which can be accessed via www.edinburgh-cats.co.uk
Information is available there on Show 2004 with a report, results and photographs. There is also advice on how to get the Schedule for Show 2005. Denise Lindsay, who devised it, assures me that she will regularly update it.
At the AGM held on Sunday, 3 April at Edinburgh University, the Committee remained unchanged as the retiring Members were re-elected.
Ian H. Morrison, Hon Secretary
Somerset Cat Club
The AGM was held on Sunday, 20 March at West Monkton Village Hall.
The Officers, Committee and Delegates are as follows: John Cleese (Patron), Prof. T. Gryffydd-Jones (President), Mrs A. Pike (Vice-President), John Robinson (Chairman - co-opted), Carla Pilkington (Hon Secretary), Jim McLeod (Hon Treasurer & GCCF Delegate), Elaine Robinson (Show Manager), Sandie McLeod (Membership Secretary & GCCF Delegate), Gail Pascoe (Kitten List & Website Hoster), Lorraine Cooke (Club Stall & Welfare), Sylvia Rose (Show Support).
The AGM was well attended, as usual there was a plentiful supply of cakes and sandwiches co- ordinated by Sylvia Rose and a successful raffle drawn. A big thank you to all Members who donated either food or prizes.
Our Annual Championship Show will be held on Saturday, 4 June at Thornbury Leisure Centre. Schedules are available by sending a large (A4) SAE to Elaine Robinson, 5 Liskeard Way, Freshbrook, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 8NF. Tel. 01793 484004.
The Trophy Tea Party will be held on Sunday, 24 July 2005. This enormously successful event is always well attended, so please put this date in your diary. Further details will be published as they become available.
Carla Pilkington (Mrs), Hon Secretary
Bedford & District Cat Club
Exhibitors please note that Mrs Perkins is unfortunately unable to attend the Bedford & District Cat Club Show tomorrow, 23 April 2005 at Wood Green Animal Centre, Godmanchester, Cambs, so the following Judge Changes have been made.
Mrs Hickey will now judge Open Classes 29, 85, 107 and Misc. Class 143.
Mrs C. Jones will judge Open Classes 470 and 497.
Mrs G. Neale will judge Grand Class 4.
Mrs C. de Martino will judge Open Classes 76 and 100 and Misc. Class 123.
Mr G. Martin will judge Misc. Class 125.
Mrs C. Dugdale will judge Club Class 266.
Dr P. Holmes will judge Club Class 292.
Other Non Open Class changes made to ease loadings are: Mr Butler, Class 790; Mrs Brooks, Class 781; Mrs Codd, Classes 710, 724 and 726; Mrs Denny, Class 708; Mrs Dugdale, Classes 225 and 246; Mrs G. Neale, Classes 127 and 144; Mrs Edwards, Class 406; Mrs Fisher, Classes 230, 405 and 414; Mrs C. Jones, Class 701; Mrs J. Jones, Class 677; Mrs Reed, Classes 689, 699 and 777; Mrs N. Rolls, Class 670 and Mrs Wilding, Class 683.
Linda Ward, Hon Secretary
Midshires Siamese Cat Association
The Club AGM will be held at 2.30pm on Sunday, 1 May at The Oddfellows Hall, 6 Clarence Terrace, Leamington Spa. It will be followed by light refreshments.
Club subscriptions became due on 1 January. Please send to our Treasurer, Miss J. Heale, 22 St Andrews Drive, Perton, Staffordshire WV6 7YJ. Rates are £4 single, £7 joint. The Officers and Committee Members of the Club look forward to seeing you at the AGM and wish you all the best at your future shows.
Gillian Mason, Hon Secretary
Blue Persian Cat Society
The AGM of the Blue Persian Cat Society will be held at 2pm on Sunday, 8 May at the Downend Folk Association (Lincombe Barn), Downend, Bristol. Following the meeting there will be a cream tea and a chance for ‘cat chat’.
We look forward to seeing old friends and new.
Gail Miller, Hon Secretary
Teesside Cat Club
Members of the Teesside Cat Club are hereby notified that annual club subscriptions become due on 1 August.
These are to be forwarded to the Membership Secretary, Mr Steven Price, 45 Lakemore, Peterlee, Co. Durham SR8 1DZ. Rates are: Adults £4.50, Pensioners and Children of 16 and under £2.50. Joint £6.50, Joint Pensioners £3.50.
Paula Robinson (Mrs), Hon Secretary
Birman Cat Club
Our AGM will be taking place on Sunday, 24 April at the Oliver Bird Hall in Solihull at 2pm.
We will be holding a bric-a-brac stall and cake stall for Club funds, also a raffle and sale of Club merchandise. We will also have some of our kittening boxes, exclusive to the Birman Cat Club, on sale. There will be a limited amount, so if you wish to reserve a box please contact me on Tel. 01628 670522 asap.
Wendy McQuilkin, Hon Secretary
Cumberland Cat Club
The Club held its AGM on Saturday, 2 April. Thank you to those who attended. I hope you enjoyed your afternoon.
Would Members please note that the Treasurer/ Membership Secretary is now Miss Jennifer Maddrell, 113 Powis Road, Ashton, Preston, Lancashire PR2 1AE. Subscriptions are due on 1 July 2005.
Should any Member require information relating to the Club, I can be reached by telephone on 0191 243 2937 (evenings).
Sandra Murthwaite, Hon Secretary
United Chinchilla Association
The AGM of the United Chinchilla Association will be held on 1 May 2005, at 2pm, at Colesgrove Farm, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Herts. And all paid-up Members are invited to attend.
The meeting will be followed by light refreshments and time for a chat, and we look forward to seeing all of you then.
Gloria Neale (Mrs), Hon Secretary
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Birman BAC
At the recent meeting of the Birman BAC on 27 February 2005, the following Officers were elected for 2005:
Chairman - Mr J. Hansson; Vice-Chairman - Mrs A. Gregory; Secretary - Mrs S. Rainbow-Ockwell; Treasurer - Ms P. Knight.
Please note my contact details for reports and correspondence is as follows: Mrs S. Rainbow-Ockwell, Brambles, Kings Lane, Longcot, Faringdon, Oxfordshire SN7 7TZ. Tel. 01793 783351. Email: sally@aspirata.com
I am happy to receive reports via e-mail and will acknowledge receipt. However, please send a paper copy of any other letters as these need to be signed.
The next Birman BAC meting will be held on Sunday, 14 August 2005. All paperwork for that meeting needs to reach me by 8 July 2005, to allow circulation to the representatives prior to the meeting.
Details of the next Birman Seminar are as follows: It will be held on Sunday, 3 July 2005 at Wheathampstead Village Hall, Wheathampstead, Herts with vetting-in at 12 noon and start time 12.30pm. Topics are: ‘What is a Massive Birman’, ‘When is a Tabby a Tabby’, ‘Do’s & Don’ts of Stewarding/Handling’. Tickets (£8.00) will be available from Jane Tackley. Further details will be published shortly.
Sally Rainbow-Ockwell, Secretary
The Tonkinese BAC
The TBAC proposes that all kittens born of back-cross matings after 31 December 2006 (or earlier if agreed), and their descendants, shall be registered on the Reference Register.
The TBAC is holding an Open Meeting to discuss the proposal. Members of the Tonkinese Breed Club and Tonkinese Cat Club have been informed. The meeting will be held on Sunday, 15 May from 12.30pm at St Mary’s Church Hall, Winnersh, Berkshire. It would be helpful if you informed the Hon Secretary at 12 Robin Hood Lane, Winnersh, Berks RG41 5LX. Tel. 0118 961 9444 or e-mail tbc.uk@ntlworld.com if you expect to attend the meeting.
If you have any queries or are unable to attend but wish to make a point in writing, please send them to the address above.
Linda Vousden (Mrs), Hon Secretary
Asian Group BAC
The next meeting of the Asian BAC will be held on 12 June 2005. Please ensure that all items for the Agenda, including show reports, etc., are with me by 30 April 2005. My address is 43 Sunnyside Road, Chilwell, Notts NG9 4FG.
Jane L. Francis Wilson, Acting Hon Secretary
Exotic BAC
The Exotic BAC’s Seminar will be held on Sunday, 12 June 2005, at Mappleborough Green Village Hall.
The Seminar will commence with lunch at 12 noon, and there will be a talk by Rosemary Fisher on “Tabbies”, with discussion of the new colours which will shortly be gaining Championship Status (Silver Tabby & White).
The cost is £7 per person (cheques payable to Exotic Shorthaire Breed Advisory Committee) - please apply with SAE to me at The Old Post Office, Cottam, Retford, Notts DN22 0EZ. Anyone wishing to bring cats should also inform me of the details.
Naomi Johnson, Secretary
