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| Tessa Chew: Centre Manager | ||
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Tess is Centre Manager and took
over from Liz Ellis (formerly Potter) who retired in October 2004. Tess is
an RDA Senior
Instructor. |
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| Jane | ||
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Jane
has
recently
joined
the
office
staff.
Her
spare
time
is
mostly
used
up by
her
daughter
Molly,
but
when
she
can
she
enjoys
getting
out
and
about
on her
mountain
or
road
bike.
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| Eve | ||
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Eve Tilston is Volunteer Co-ordinator for the Centre. She is married to Robert and has two girls - Rhian & Ami. At 2008, Rhian has finished her finals at Nottingham University, and is now teaching English in Cobán, Guatemala for 12 months. Younger daughter Ami is studying for her A2's, hoping to be a speech therapist, and Eve is proud to say that Ami was recently badged as an Instructor with our Wednesday evening riders. Eve has lots of horses, some sheep, 1 cat and 2 dogs (one very active). The 3-year old Jack Russell is called Josh, and the 12-year old Border Collie is called Del (Welsh for beautiful). | |
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| Diane | ||
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Diane is our yard manager. She joined the staff in August 2001. She is an AB whip for the Wrexham RDA. Diane holds a BHS AI (Instructor's) Certificate, and an NVQ3. She also holds an RDA Instructor qualification. She has now gained her BHS Stage IV. Diane is also the main vaulting coach at the Centre. | |
| Kiri | ||
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I joined the Centre in October 2002. My interests are competing with my horse Chester at Novice Dressage. I enjoy walking my two dogs Finn & Lola with fiancé Alex who is now a keen rider himself. We have two other horses: George who is a 2-year Cleveland bay, and Dutch who is a 22-year old Welsh part-bred. I am working towards my BHS Stage III. | |
| Ceri | ||
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Ceri joined the staff in August 2007. She has recently gained her BHS Stage 1 in Horse-care and also her RDA Group Instructor's badge. Ceri is a very keen vaulter and is the vaulting coach for the Wednesday afternoon session. Interests are swimming, camping, riding her own horse, shopping(!) and socialising. | |
| Izzy | ||
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Izzy joined us in September 2007. She is gaining great satisfaction from all the challenges the Centre has to offer. Izzy has just achieved her BHS Stage 1 exam and is on her way to reaching her goal of becoming a riding instructor. Izzy has her own Welsh Section A mare called Pridwen, and when not riding horses she enjoys walking her dog Daisy. | |
| Di | ||
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Di joined the staff in May 2007 and works with our Hon. Treasurer and one of our volunteers looking after the day-to-day financial matters at the Centre. Di volunteers with Wrexham Group as a Group Instructor and helper and enjoys the challenges of RDA competitions, especially the Musical Rides – winning the class for Best Juniors in 2008. |
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| Sarah | ||
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Sarah was a part-time groom, taking care of horses and ponies at weekends. | |
| Mal | ||
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Mal joined the Centre staff in October 2000 and took her well-earned retirement from the office towards the end of 2009. Throughout that time Mal was an absolute tower of strength within the Centre dealing in her always polished and charming way with the constant stream of people, telephone calls, e-mails and all kinds of administration handled in the very busy office. She said she had thoroughly enjoyed utilising all the new skills - especially the IT - she acquired at the Centre. She has a son and daughter and 6 grandchildren - so far! Hobbies include riding, hill walking, tennis, theatre and of course grandchildren! | |
| Mandy | ||
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Although we are really sorry that Mandy is no longer a member of staff from 31 March 2008, we are delighted she has realised her ambition of working with police horses and has joined the recently opened Mounted Police Division based at Erddig. However, Mandy will still be instructing the Wrexham Group riders on Tuesday evenings when her new work commitments allow. We all wish her the best of luck. | |
| Ruth | ||
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Ruth has left the horse industry. We wish her well for the future. | |
| Tom | ||
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Tom left us in July 2007 and has moved back to the Birmingham area but we will still see him at Vaulting Competitions. |
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