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Amanda Hill, National Secretary, BFBA,
The Forge, Avenue B, 10th Street, NAC, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire CV8 2LG. Telephone: 024 7669 6595
Fax: 024 7669 6708 Email BFBA HQ

BFBA Head Office
The Head Office of the Association is currently open five days a week 9am - 5pm and staffed by the National Administrator, Amanda Hill. The National Administrator along with the Executice Committee are willing to discuss any enquires/questions that arrive at Head Office. They are here to help the membership in any way they can.

BFBA International Team Horseshoeing Championships 2015
Download the latest specimen shoes, hotel booking forms and rules by clicking on this link to the page

Latest Rules - 2015 - Download a copy of the BFBA rules by clicking on the image.

Membership Form - 2015 - Download the latest membership details by clicking on the image or go to the Membership Form page for more information.

35th International Team Horseshoeing Championships
Specimen Shoes now available to download - click on the image to download the pdfs

If viewing on an iphone or ipad low resolution images are available - click on the images below - these are for viewing on devices only.

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The BFBA National Championships will be held at Builth Wells for 2014.

Mon 21 July 2014 - BFBA Apprentice National Championships

Wed 23 July 2014 - BFBA National Championships

Have you applied for your ticket for the EFCC 2014 event yet?
Download the application form now - click on the image.

June 2014 - Valuable feedback from BFBA March pre-diploma day
Now well-established, the BFBA’s pre-diploma ‘mock exam’ weekends have proved their worth to apprentices time after time.
Recent changes to the way farriers are trained has added a further dimension to the ‘pre-dip’.
Next pre-diploma days on 30 & 31 August 2014 at The Forge, Stoneleigh.
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Don't miss the BFBA AGM on Saturday 31st May 2014 - ALL welcome

European Farriery Championship and BFBA UK Farriery Convention
24th – 27th July at Myerscough College
Convention dates Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th July
Full details available - click here

25 May 2013 - BFBA AGM

Congratulations to Cliff Barnes on becoming the new President for BFBA and Chris Linssner on becoming the BFBA Vice President.

BFBA Medal Application Form
APPLICATION FOR ASSOCIATION MEDALS FOR FARRIERY COMPETITIONS
Click on the image to download the pdf and return to BFBA Head Office.

Association medals may only be awarded if there are a minimum of six competitors in the class.
By requesting medals for this show the Competition Organiser agrees to include the following wording and Association logo in all schedules and programmes:
The British Farriers & Blacksmiths Association (BFBA) awards medals to promote and encourage competitions in Farriery. Concurrently assessing the farriery competitors’ skills on forging and horseshoeing against the highest standards. Impelling them to be triumphant over fellow competitors whilst striving to attain a “perfect score.” Thereby promoting excellence in farriery whilst maintaining a spirit of good sportsmanship and
friendly competition.

Updated Rules for BFBA
Please take a look at the rules and email BFBA HQ with any thoughts.

BFBA Live on Facebook

The British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association has launched its very own Facebook page. This new dimension for the Association was the idea of EC member Chris Linsnner. The reason for it is to encourage Farriers and Blacksmiths to interact, exchange views, thoughts and ideas to make our jobs/trade easier and more successful. This sort of open forum can only strengthen the trade and encourage younger farriers to take on new ideas/views from more experienced members of the BFBA, which in turn will only strengthen businesses within the equine industries and help keep British farriery the best in the world.
Another angle of the Facebook page is to give the opportunity for events such as competitions and seminars to be posted, made public and advertised for free.
We hope this will encourage members of the BFBA to attend and gain more CPD points.
BFBA's branches will be encouraged to develop their own pages and to use a link to the main page so that events from around the country can be posted, and this will allow branches to share ideas and put on new events, which may increase revenue and membership at Branch level. Photos can be added on the page of such events by anyone who is a friend of the page. As we all know, farriers do like to look at pictures of themselves!
The page will also benefit horse owners and equine-related businesses as they will have the opportunity to ask farriers questions in an open forum, so that farriers may respond so horse owners who can get many points of view if they have a farriery-related problem.
We strongly encourage our members to discuss Farriery/Blacksmithing related topics in the open forum discussions section of the page. It doesn’t matter how big or small your view is, it could be relevant and someone else could be having or had the same problem and may have a simple solution.
The page is primarily designed for Farriers/Blacksmiths by Farriers and Blacksmiths and we encourage all BFBA members to become a friend of the page and to use it as much as possible.
You can find the page on www.facebook.com by typing British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association in the search for box.

BFBA BRANCHESThe Association has many branches spread around the country. These branches hold a minimum of three meetings a year where Farriers/Blacksmiths can meet and discuss any problems they have faced in their local area.

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Become a Member of BFBA -
Download a Membership form here or go to the Membership Form Page

BFBA NEWS AND EVENTS

News and events from NAFBAE Head Office

BFBA is the trade association for farriers, blacksmiths and agricultural engineers, working tirelessly for its members to support them in their craft. Whether trainee, apprentice, sole-trader or employer, BFBA helps protect the interests of the craft whilst demanding the highest standards. It does this by organising national and regional competitions, running educational and training courses as well as working closely with other industry bodies such as the WCF, WCB, the FRC and the FTA.

Know foot know horse. - 20% discount for BFBA Members
This website aims to provide clear information in the form of short movie downloads covering everything farriery related. The downloads available provide information for apprentices, newly qualified farriers, experienced farriers, vets and horse owners.
Know foot know horse brings farrier education in to the twenty first century using innovative filming and editing techniques to produce quality movies demonstrated by top farriers. These movies are downloable via the website knowfootknowhorse.com and are also on sale in DVD form. The movie library is constantly developing, and the site is interactive to allow members to request movies on subjects that are farrier related. This website is a great teaching aid to pre-farriers, apprentice farriers, farriers, veterinary surgeons and horse owners. All NAFBAE members qualify for 20% discount on the premium membership. To obtain your discount quote code (nafb09) when registering. Visit knowfootknowhorse.com and begin to expand your knowledge!
NAFBAE members are entitled to a 20% discount.
Visit their website or tel: 01536 761310.