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2025 Dates for your Diaries

We have lots planned for 2025 - so we hope you will come and support these events and please tell friends or old members what is going on and invite them along - we need to increase our membership numbers in order to make meetings viable and enable the club to continue.

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Tuesday 11th February - Post Budget Inheritance Tax changes and how they may affect us

Followed by the AGM

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Rod Cordingley (Bsc FRICS FAAV) of Stephensons Rural

Rod is a YAA committee member and will be advising us on aspects of Valuation for IHT

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Richard Hall (Equity Partner/Director) and Terry Ogden (Senior Tax Manager) from Walter Dawson & Son Accountants - will guide us through the Tax implications of these changes for the family farm

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This will be held at The Parsonage with a 2 course lunch and coffee

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Booking for this event will go live next week, members are allowed to bring guests.

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Tuesday 22nd April (late afternoon time TBC)

Visit to Yorkshire Heart Vineyard and Brewery

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We will have a tour of the Yorkshire Heart Brewery and Vineyard, at Nun Monkton   

(between York and Harrogate) including wine and beer tasting, followed with an evening meal.

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Wednesday 11th June @4pm followed by a pub supper.

Visit to Sand Hutton Growers T/A Herbs unlimited

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​By kind permission of Philip Dodd we will be taken on a tour of the herb farm operation, then go for supper at a local pub - full details to follow

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Wednesday17th September,

A full day visit to Longley Farm and Tyers Hall Farm

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We are invited by Jimmy Dickinson to visit the Longly Farm Dairy in the morning, then after lunch move on to Tyres Hall Farm, Ardsley in the Afternoon 

More details to follow 

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November/ December a Christmas Lunch with Guest Speaker

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Details to follow

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Happy New Year and best wishes for 2025

HECK Visit - 9th October 2024

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On a Wet and windy Wednesday our group met up at Kirklington for a very interesting and entertaining tour of the Heck Sausage Factory.  

Heck is a family company founded in 2013 by Debbie and Andrew Keeble which now has a £25 million turnover supplying all the multiple retailers.  This was an amazing opportunity to visit the modern £3.5 million factory to see how these wonderful sausages are made, and to hear their story to success. 

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Andrew Keeble was a very congenial and informative host, and our gracious thanks go our to all the staff at heck who could not have been more helpful to us.

We were welcomed into the boardroom for an introduction to the facts and figures of the sausage industry which demonstrated Heck’s dominance of the premium sausage market in the UK.   Once we were all appropriately suited and booted, for hygiene and health and safety, it was off to the factory for a full tour.    We were able to see the ingredients at the start of the process, and the speed at which the sausages are made, cut and packed is mesmerizing. The production machines mix, fill the sausage casings, cut the sausages, pack them, and get them ready to send to customers.

After the tour we all met up in the tasting kitchen.   Heck products are tested every day.   We were all given a comment sheet and three products, the 97% port sausage, the chicken Rasher, and the Halloween sausage, presented for our scrutiny –  everyone enjoyed this part!   Each member left with a very generous gift of Heck sausages to take home.

Afterwards we had lunch at Thirsk Auction Market café, Jackie and her team had very kindly reserved us a table, members chose their own lunch – which it was agreed was all very tasty, especially the treacle tart.

A very successful mornings work.

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By Heck the YAA are off to ... 

See the Events page and Members check your emails for more information.

or contact Sarah on sarah@jhmcc.co.uk

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Visit Wednesday 9th October 9.30am at HECK

Advance booking of your place is essential​

Charity Donation August 2024

In August we sent a donation to RABI(Yorkshire Region) and the Farming Community Network of £750 each to help support farming families in our region.

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New Committee Members 2024

We would like to announce that the following members have joined the YAA committee to help us keep the club alive and organise future events:

Rod Cordingley

Andrew Harrison

Richard Burniston

Stephen Prest

We are delighted to have them join the committee and there are many plans being made, first for an October outing, hopefully followed by a Christmas lunch in December and more visits in 2025.  Keep an eye on your emails and on the website Events Page

YAA PROGRAMME 2023

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The Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers January Lunch - CANCELLED

Tuesday 17th January 2023

The Parsonage Hotel, Escrick, York, YO19 6LF

Guest Speaker Innes Thompson - CEO - ADA

Booking now open - See events page

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The Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers AGM and Lunch

Tuesday February 21st

The Parsonage Hotel, Escrick, York, YO19 6LF

Guest Speaker Sally Conor - RABI - Regional Manager for the North East

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The Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers Summer Visit

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Summer Visit Success June 2022
 

We had a very successful summer visit, it was a beautiful sunny day and we headed off to an Albonwise Farm at Low Mowthorpe where the Farm Manager Will Jones showed us around the Potato Storage facilities for their seed potatoes, which were very impressive, with various build adaptations put in to ensure the very sensitive and rare chalk stream that runs past the farm is not put at risk from any pollutants or surface run off from the Yard.

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We followed this with a lovely lunch at Sledmere House.

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After lunch James Fenwick, the Sledmere Farm Manager took us out on Tractors and Trailers into the Deer Park, where we were able to get up close and personal with the Deer, it was Calving season and the park was full of Hinds and their Calves, it was a really lovely afternoon and the glorious weather made it even better.

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Many thanks go to our hosts who gave up their time to show us round, Will Jones at Low Mowthorpe and James Fenwick at Sledmere.

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Supporting Norton College School Farm

In the summer we were approached by Norton College and asked for a donation to assist them to open the school farm again. This was closed in 2014 and the new Head Teacher is wishing to re-open this facility to benefit all of the children, those from Farms and those from the Town who don't get access to animals.

 We felt this was a very worthy cause, which meets our aims to promote agriculture, and we agreed to send a £500 donation.

We received a lovely response from the Assistant Head Mr Stones

On Monday 27th June we received notification from Yorkshire Agricultural Adventurers (YAA) that we had been awarded a £500 grant to support our farm re-opening. Thank you to the YAA as well as many other businesses and individuals for supporting this very worthwhile project. 

Mr Stones.

 

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We donated £1000 to Yorkshire RABI in January 2022 to help support the local farming community

GREETINGS

ADD A WARM MESSAGE TO WELCOME VISITORS

CONTACT US

Sarah Foster, Hon Secretary

T: 01977 672069

E: sarah@jhmcc.co.uk

We would like offer our sincerest thanks to the Frank Parkinson Agricultural Trust and the Yorkshire Agricultural Society for their generous grant towards the making of this website. 

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