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COURSE DATES & FEES
Dates for 2025 :
SUMMER TERM:
8th. May, 2025 - 24th. July, 2025
WINTER TERM: 4th.
September, 2025 - 20th. November, 2025
Charity Night -
Thursday, 27th. November, 2025.
Class Fees & Membership:
Main Classes: £48-00 per Term (12
weeks)
Puppy Class: £25 per term
Club Membership (mandatory) £5-00 single
or Junior (under 15yrs) £2.00 per year
All fees payable in advance by
cash or cheque
The Bronze class
on Thursdays, starting at 7 pm lasting 45 minutes
Silver will start at
7-45 pm to 8-30 and Gold will start at 8-30pm to 9-30.
There will be one Advanced Obedience class on Fridays
starting at 9-00pm for anyone that has reached Novice
standard. Please contact Jacky Saunders for details
TRAINING COURSES (Three per Year)
Thursday
Puppy Foundation Class (6-30 pm)
Bronze (7-00pm)
Silver (7-45 pm)
Gold (8-30 pm)
Friday
(Advance only)
Puppy
Foundation:
Up to 6 months of age.
·
Looking after your new puppy
·
Socialisation
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Basic Obedience
Bronze:
Teaching dogs walk to heel
on lead.
Recalls.
Teaching dogs to sit and down stay in one position.
Silver:
Teaching Heel on Lead.
Heel Free.
Recalls.
Retrieving and staying in a sit and down position for
a longer time.
Gold:
The same lessons as
Beginners, but to a higher standard.
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Maureen Fitzgibbons -
Maureen has been club Treasurer for over thirty years,
and has been the regular Puppy Class trainer since
1998 she has
attended
specialist courses with the Academy of Modern Dog
Training. Maureen with her dogs have been
involved in both obedience competition and breed
showing. With Husband Fred, they
currently own a Standard Poodle and one miniature.
Pauline Burtenshaw
- Pauline is the Club Chairman and has been with the Club since 1983 and has been
a trainer since 1987. She has trained two of her Flat
coated Retrievers from Pre-beginners through to A Class
standard.
Kim Brown
- Kim has been with the club for many years and is now the
clubs Media Secretary, looking after the Clubs Facebook page
as an administrator. Technically she is still the
Clubs Show secretary, although the Annual Show has been held
over since Covid and there are no plans to start again. She
owns two French Bulldogs.
Chris Wittington:
Chris is also a long serving member of the club, having been
a committee member and was also a previous Show secretary
for three years in 2010.
Helen Sargent - Helen has been with the club
for many years, becoming a Committee member in March
2012. She is well known as the Good Citizens co-ordinator.
She started as a trainer as an assistant in 2015, and taking
her own class in 2020. Helen has a cross breed called Felix.
Standby
Trainers
Hilary Sykes
-
The
present Club Secretary , a role she has held since 2002,
Hilary qualified as a trainer in 2007 and currently has a
Jack Russell x called Daisy and Eli a Border Collie x
Jacky Saunders -
Another of the clubs long standing members, Jacky has an
immense amount of experience in Dog training and has
attended specialist courses
with the Academy of Modern Dog Training. She is also one of
the areas most successful Obedience competitors gaining
numerous local and national awards with her Golden
Retrievers .
Sue Weller
- Sue has been a club
member for 38 years and a trainer for almost 30 years.
She has
attended specialist courses with the Academy of Modern
Dog Training
and is
also a Kennel Club accredited Trainer.
She owns a Bearded collie cross.
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