Club contact information:-
Office Manager: Gillian Naum, 23 Brendon Road, Watchet, Somerset TA23 0AU
Mobile: 07746-243325 between 10am - 4pm Monday - Friday
Email:
Racing Manager: Jill Webber, 29 Lucca Drive, Abingdon, OX14 5QN
Mobile: 07821-898336 between 10am - 4pm Monday - Friday
Email:
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Sigogne - Liberation & Convoyer Report - 21st July 2018Exactly 24 hours ago our Racing Pigeons were at Caen docks resting and being watered after their channel crossing. Around midday, Tours, once a Gallic-Roman settlement, was their resting and watering hole. The Chief convoyer and pigeon fancier, for over 6 decades, Barrie Smith, rested them for an hour at the beautiful liberation site of Sigogne, before feeding and thereafter liberally watering from 3:30pm onwards.Today the sun poked its head out around 6am, to greet the NFC Transporter, in thankfully a clear dry sky with very high clouds that were broken and not going anywhere for several days over the Northern hemisphere. The team decided to cut the strings and give the birds their freedom at 6:30am in a sunny 4mph Southwestern wind. The flock cleared the site in less than a minutes and headed home in textbook fashion, as Barry and Bob our responsible driver watched them high tail it back to England & Wales.On their way home, they should have light variable winds of no more than 4 to 9mph, and very little gusts, including the channel, which makes a welcomed change. Temperatures should get to around 24 degrees in France and even hotter in England. Our winners should encounter no more than light showers as they disperse to their home lofts but in most cases, these will be easily avoidable.Barrie reports that Sigogne is the perfect liberation site for the NFC as it has extremely friendly French pigeon fanciers, that make the team very welcome on its large home football pitches. There are open skies with no obstructions, it is on high ground and no water courses to lure in mist and fog.Best of luck and great racing to all our valuable and appreciated members.
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Dear National Flying Club Members,
On Saturday 3rd December at 11am, The National Flying Club Committee held a short meeting to appoint three positions: one of Office Manager NFC, one of Race Administrator NFC and one of Press Officer NFC.
The Committee have welcomed and appointed Gillian Naum as Office Manager, Jill Webber as Race Administrator and Drew Callan as Press Officer, all experienced in their field.
We will explain in the coming weeks, the application of these roles and the direct contact details for each department – the email addresses and telephones are currently being arranged .
In the meantime, please direct all correspondence to our Office Manager, Gillian, c/o email:
Would you please note the new contact details of our Office Manager, Gillian Naum, on the Home Page, as your first port of call with any queries or concerns that you may have.
The contact details for our new Race Administrator, Jill Webber, will be published shortly.
Prize Cards 2022 season will be dispatched January 2023; sincere apologies for the delay, which has now been rectified.
A reminder: The AGM is on Saturday 18th February, 12 noon.
The venue: Alveley Sports & Social Club, Button Hole, Alveley, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. WV15 6JX.
The British Homing World Show of the Year at Blackpool is on Sat 21st - Sun 22nd January 2023.
We will be there, in our usual place, by the doorway, Mick McGrevy, Paul Naum and Gillian, our new Office Manager, ready to greet and meet and discuss all and sundry with you. Looking forward to seeing you there - sub payment facilities will be made available to you.
Your patience and understanding during this time of transition that we are all currently experiencing has been incredible and we wish to thank you all for your kind comments and positivity shown both over the phone and in your emails - it is very much appreciated.
The office will be closed from Friday 23rd December, 12 noon and re-open Tuesday 3rd January 2023. The website online facility will remain available for subs / rings etc, as will the Office Manager email and phone for messages, to be attended to upon our return in the New Year.
The President and The Committee would like to wish all members old and new, far and wide, a very Merry Christmas and a jubilant New Year.
'Cheers' to Channel Racing 2023.
For online payment of subs and orders of NFC rings, please continue with normal procedure on the NFC website.
- For postal submissions of subs and orders of NFC rings, please use the updated form on Page 83 in the 2022 issue NFC Handbook. Please post your completed form with cheque payment or BACS to:
Mr P Naum
23 Brendon Road
Watchet
Somerset
TA230AU
Any queries, please ring 01984 634658.
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