Regional Aberdeen Angus Cattle Society Clubs

There are Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society clubs all over the UK and Ireland. These clubs meet regularly, hold farm visits and take part in visits to other herds. It can be a great social network for new breeders so click on your region and see what's going on.

Scotland
- Borders
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mrs Sian Sharp
  
  Address – Ashlea, Main Street, Berwickshire, TD11 3QT, Scotland
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01361 882027
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07918 672157
  
  E-mail- shop@bordersfayre.com
- Central Scotland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Miss Clare McGowan
  
  Address – Incheoch Farms, Alyth, Blairgowrie, Perthshire PH11 8HJ
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01575 560 236
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07752 337 548
  
  E-mail – inchislaangus@hotmail.co.uk
  
  Diary Dates
  
  Saturday 2nd June: North of Scotland YDP Workshop at Alex Davies, Lumphanan
  
  Sunday 10th June: Stockjudging at Mr Russell Taylor, Moncur at 2pm
  
  Sunday 22nd July: Farm visit to Balgay, Inchture courtesy of Mr Ian Graham 10.30am
  
  Saturday 11th August: CSAAC YDP workshop at McLaren Family, Netherton
  
  Sunday 12th August: Border Club YDP workshop with Fraser Cormack at Stickle Heaton
  
  Saturday 18th August: Joint Farm visit with North East club to Balmachie courtesy of the Lascelles
  
  Monday 12th November: AGM at 7.30pm in Redhouse Hotel Coupar Angus. Guest speakers: Ms Alison Rennie, CHAS, Rachel House, Kinross and Mr John Elliot (Snr), Rawburn.
  
  Friday 14th December: Christmas meal at Strathmore Golf Centre, Alyth 7pm for 7.30pm. Strictly a first come first served basis.
- North East Scotland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Eddie Gillanders
  
  Address – 11 Sunnyside Gardens, Drumoak, by Banchory, Aberdeenshire AB31 5EZ
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01330 811616
  
  Fax – 01330 811616
  
  E-mail – eddie.gillanders@btopenworld.com
  
  Diary Dates
  
  RUBY ANNIVERSARY TOUR
  
  “Early bird” bookings for the club’s Ruby Anniversary tour are beginning to trickle in with firm bookings from England, Wales and Ireland and enquiries so far from Canada, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark and Estonia.
  
  The tour will take place over the week-end of Thursday, October 4 to Monday, October 8, and will take in visits to 16 leading herds in the North-east of Scotland.
  
  There’s plenty of time – deadline for bookings is May 31 – but early booking is strongly advised to ensure accommodation in the Thistle Aberdeen Airport Hotel where the tour will be headquartered.
  
  Full details of the tour programme, which includes a booking form, can be accessed on the web site or e-mail Eddie Gillanders at eddie.gillanders@btopenworld.com who will be pleased to mail out a programme to you. However, all members should have received a programme with the Review.
  
  An optional alternative programme is being developed for ladies who may not want to spend the whole week-end viewing cattle. Details later.
  
  We have also secured a major sponsor (to be announced shortly) which will enable us to add a number of “extras” to make it an even more exciting and fun-filled week-end.
  
  Make sure you are there! It will be a week-end not to be missed! Keep an eye on this web site in the coming months for updates to the programme.
  
  RUBY ANNIVERSARY SALE
  
  A feature of the Ruby Anniversary week-end will be a sale of select Aberdeen-Angus females of all ages which will be conducted by Aberdeen and Northern Marts at Thainstone Centre, Inverurie, on the afternoon of Saturday, October 6.
  
  Please note that this sale is open, subject to veterinary conditions, to herds from throughout the UK and Ireland and is not restricted to herds from within the club area.
  
  Entry is limited to three entries per herd and all entries will be subject to on-farm inspection to ensure a high standard.
  
  Please advise Eddie Gillanders at eddie.gillanders@btopenworld.com if you wish to have cattle considered for this sale.
  
  HERD BOOK ANNIVERSARY
  
  Next year is the 150^th anniversary of the publication of Volume 1 of what was then the Polled Cattle Herd Book and, at the request of the Society, a celebration of this important milestone in the breed’s history has been incorporated into the Ruby Anniversary tour programme. This will include the unveiling of a plaque on the morning of Friday, October 5, at the building in Banff which housed the Society’s first office. More details later.
  
  SUMMER SHOW DATES, 2011
  
  July 7 – Fettercairn
  
  July 14 – Echt
  
  July 21 – New Deer
  
  July 28 – Banchory
  
  August 6 – Turriff
  
  August 11 – Tarland
  
  August 13 – Keith
  
  Please note that the compulsory show for the club’s Herd of the Year award will be Turriff and also that Keith Show will be a qualifying show for the Society’s Walkers Shortbread Show Herd of the Year award.
  
  BLACK BEAUTY BONANZA
  
  A date for your diary. The Black Beauty Bonanza will be held at Thainstone Centre on Saturday, November 24.
  
  PHILIP STRATHDEE
  
  Congratulations to Philip Strathdee who will be making a visit to New Zealand later this year following his success in winning the senior award at the finals of the Youth Development Programme in Ireland. Philip has been a keen participant in the YDP for many years and his success is well deserved. He has been a member of the club since he was a boy and represents junior members on the club committee. A profile of Philip can be viewed elsewhere on the web site
- North Scotland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mrs Anne-Marie Munro
  
  Address – Balaldie Farm, Fearn, Ross-Shire, IV20 1TN
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01862 871379
  
  Fax – 01862 871379
  
  E-mail – mail@balaldie.com
  
  Website – http://www.highlandangus.co.uk
- South West Scotland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary - Helen Brown
  
  Address - Laigh Drumdow, Turnberry, Ayrshire KA26 9LR
  
  Telephone (Home) - 01655 331279
  
  Mobile – 07714 932077
  
  Email – swsaberdeenangus@hotmail.co.uk
England
- East England
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mrs Tracey Jeary
  
  Address – Hawthorn Farm, High Road, Briston, Norfolk NR24 2JQ
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01263 862734
  
  Email – duncanjeary246@btinternet.com
- Midlands
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mrs S. C. Bown
  
  Address – 191 Oliver Road, Kirk Hallam, Ilkeston, Derbyshire DE7 4JW
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01159 322612
  
  E-mail – sue-bown@dale-abbey.fsnet.co.uk
- North East England
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mr Victor Dobson
  
  Address – Water End Farm, Holme-on-Spalding Moor, York, East Yorkshire, YO43 4HB
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01430 860537
  
  Fax – 01430 860388
  
  E-mail – waterend.angus@zen.co.uk
  
  Website – www.northeastaberdeenangusclub.com
- North West England (PENWAC)
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Mrs M Hamnett
  
  Address – Upper Waterside Farm, Disley, Nr Stockport, Cheshire SK12 2HJ
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01663 767877
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07866 124078
  
  E-mail – olivham@btinternet.com
- Solway
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Chairman – Giles Lane
  
  Address – Raeburnhead, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Lockerbie, DG11 3BA
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07977 228750
  
  E-mail – lanegiles@hotmail.com
  
  Secretary – Carole Stephens
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07919 684017
  
  E-mail – carole.l.stephens@btinternet.com
  
  Treasurer – Lesley Acton
  
  Address – Bradley Farm, Bardon Mill, Hexham, NE47 7AG
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01434 344261
  
  E-mail – j.acton2@btinternet.com
- South East England
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – M Spooner, Esq
  
  Address – Honeysuckle Cottage, Kingwood, Henley, Oxon RG9 5NT
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01491 628637
  
  E-mail – kingwoodangus@aol.com
- South West England
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Miss Gayle Bersey
  
  Address – Perdredda, 47 Morview Road, Widegates, Nr Looe, Cornwall PL13 1QE
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01503 240478
  
  E-mail – gayle@bersey.fslife.co.uk
  
  Website – www.aberdeenangus-swenglandclub.co.uk
- West Mercia and Wales
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Chairman – Jeremy Price
  
  Address – Oakchurch Farm, Staunton On Wye, Hereford, HR4 7NE
  
  Telephone (Home) – (01981) 500038
  
  Vice Chair – Callum Hillhouse
  
  Address – Woodston Manor, Tenbury Wells, Worcs, WR15 8JG
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01584 884657
  
  Secretary – Angela Robertson
  
  Address – Nightingale Farm, Bishampton, Pershore, Worcs. WR10 2NH
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01386 462001
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07887 556167
  
  E-mail – angrobo@hotmail.com
  
  Website – http://www.wmangus.co.uk
Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Chairman – John Blackburn
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07510 863717
  
  Secretary – Gail Matchett
  
  Address – 43 Cloncarrish Road, Birches, Portadown, Co Armagh, N Ireland. BT62 1RN
  
  Telephone (Home) – (028) 38852302
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07732 126273
  
  E-mail – niaberdeenangusclub@googlemail.com
Wales
- West Mercia and Wales
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Chairman – Jeremy Price
  
  Address – Oakchurch Farm, Staunton On Wye, Hereford, HR4 7NE
  
  Telephone (Home) – (01981) 500038
  
  Vice Chair – Callum Hillhouse
  
  Address – Woodston Manor, Tenbury Wells, Worcs, WR15 8JG
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01584 884657
  
  Secretary – Angela Robertson
  
  Address – Nightingale Farm, Bishampton, Pershore, Worcs. WR10 2NH
  
  Telephone (Home) – 01386 462001
  
  Telephone (Mobile) – 07887 556167
  
  E-mail – angrobo@hotmail.com
  
  Website – http://www.wmangus.co.uk
Ireland
- Connaught and Leinster
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary -Shane McKiernan
  
  Address – Drumcrow, Corlesmore, County Cavan, Ireland
  
  Telephone Home (00353) 49 43 37250; Mobile (00353) 87 2264271
  
  Email – claaclub@hotmail.com
  
  Diary Date:
  
  25th May 2012: Club meeting at Lakeside Manor, Virginia.
- Munster
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Eustace Burke Esq
  
  Address – Ballyginnane, Carrigaline, Co Cork, Rep of Ireland
  
  Telephone (Home) – (021) 4329394
  
  Email – acebur@aircom.net
- South East Ireland
  
  Please contact the local Club Secretary to find out more on this club
  
  Secretary – Josephine Byrne
  
  Address – Tomriland, Annamoe, Bray, Co Wicklow, Rep of Ireland
  
  Telephone (Home) – (0404) 45215
  
  Email – jobyrnetomriland@yahoo.ie