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What’s on
Please find below a list of some meetings and event’s scheduled from January to early April. As always, please check before attending any event. Please take a look at the NVS website “Events” section for up- to-date and additional information and Zoom talk booking facilities.
2025
Local to
Type
Description
Speaker
Location
Start time
06/01 Midlands Meeting Committee Meeting N/A Zoom 10.30am
07/01
National
Talk
Growing Exhibition Potatoes Book via the NVS website
Owain Roberts
Zoom
7.30pm
14/01 National Meeting Trustee Meeting N/A Zoom 7.00pm
21/01
National
Talk
Growing veg. in a Polytunnel Book via the NVS website
Sandra Hall
Zoom
7.00pm
27/01
East Yorkshire DA
Meeting & talk
Annual General meeting, followed by talk “There’s something fishy going on here”
Paul Neve
Beverly Conservative Club, Wylies Road, Beverley, HU17 7AP
7.30pm
28/01
Irish DA
Meeting
Committee Meeting
N/A
Zoom
7.30pm
04/02 National Talk Growing Exhibition Stump Carrots Mark Perry Zoom 7.30pm Book via the NVS website
18/02
National
Talk
Growing Broad Beans Book via the NVS website
Jim Pearson
Zoom
7.30pm
01/03
Irish DA
Event
Irish Members Spring Seminar
Meet & Great, refreshments, plant sales, various presentations, membership renewal & 200 club and merchandise, see website
Various
Moore Hall, South Roscommon N37 HT68
12.00 noon till 5.00pm
04/03
National
Talk
Growing for Glory – A beginners guide to entering your first vegetable show or branch Championships show.
Book via the NVS website
Raymond Higgins
Zoom
7.30pm
08/03
Midlands
Meeting & Talk
Annual General Meeting
Tea & Coffee and light refreshments will be available on arrival.
Talk and Raffle after the AGM
TBC
Minster Lovell Hut, Burford Road, Minster Lovell, Oxon OX29 OSH
10.30 for a 10.45 start
18/03
Kent DA
Meeting & Talk
Annual General Meeting
Followed by a look back at the National Championships at Ardingly
TBC
Bridge Village Hall, 28 High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, CT4 5JZ
7.30pm
18/03 National Talk Growing Cucumbers and Tomatoes Simon Zoom 7.30pm Book via the NVS website Smith
30/03
Dundee & East of Scotland DA
Meeting & Talk
Annual General Meeting
Followed by talk on Growing for Showing in a small garden
TBC
Craigie Road Allotment Society Hall, Old Craigie Road, Dundee DD4 7HX
2.00pm
08/04 National Meeting Trustee Meeting N/A Zoom 7.00pm
09/04
Kent DA
Talk
Talk - The Kitchen Garden
Steve Edney
Bridge Village Hall, 28 High Street, Bridge, Canterbury, CT4 5JZ
7.30pm
Qualified Judges for 2024
We are delighted to report that we have 17 newly qualified judges this year.
With the increased flexibility for where and when we hold the exams, this has helped our branches organise additional theory exams throughout the year and hold a practical exam at a more suitable time ensuring sufficient quantity and quality
of vegetables available for the Practical exams across the country. This also allows candidates to sit the theory exam and practical exam on different dates.
Our new Judges for 2024 are from
Ireland – Zara Evans , Michael Burke, Michael Connolly, George McCulloch, Trevor Stevenson, and Patrick Thornton.
Wales – Marie Cluett, Edwin Hughes, Jack Jones, Gareth Morris, Michele Thomas, and Richard Williams,
Northern England – Mark Brown, Keith Chambers, Alan Godfrey, Olive Peel and Bill Procter.
Congratulations to you all and we hope you enjoy any new judging appointments
you take on next year as you continue to gain experience in this important role.
We would also like to sincerely thank and encourage all our candidates who have sat the exams, some who have already sat
either the theory and/or practical exam this year and who are working to further increase their experience so that they too can become qualified in both in the near future.
Thank you and good luck.
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