Merry Christmas from Silsoe Young Farmers

This afternoon 5 Silsoe members spent an hour Christmasfying our Tin Can Alley sculpture. 

Keep your eyes peeled on the A507 near Flitwick!! 

Well done to Tom, Kirsty, Fraser, Gabe and Elena, it looks great! 

Merry Christmas everyone!! 

Silsoe pottery throw down - Wednesday 2nd December

Just under 30 members enjoyed an evening modelling and having a go on the pottery wheel at the 'Silsoe YFC pottery throw down' evening.

In that time almost 50 items were made, which were all taken to be put in the Furniss. 

Models included a fruit bowl and lots of fruit....

A fish.... 

And also The lochness monster, a horse, A dog and lots more. 

Thanks to Bernard and Ruth Thirkettle for giving up there time and bringing along all there bits and letting us have a go. 

Bedfordshire Young Farmers Public Speaking Competition

Yesterday was the public speaking competition held at Box End by kind permission of Hannah and James Barbour.

The day consisted of a number of competitions ; Junior Reading, Junior Public Speaking, Intermediate Just a Minute, Senior Debating , Senior Member of the Year and Junior Member of the Year. 

Silsoe entered a team of Toby, Elena and Ashli in the Junior Public Speaking who came 3rd. 

We also entered a team of Alice, Tom and Fraser in the Senior Debating and came 3rd.

Elena was also placed 2nd in the Junior Member of the Year Competition. 

Alice also came 1st in Senior Member of the year with Tom coming joint 5th. 

Well done to all members who took part in the competitions. 

Last two weeks

The last two weeks have seen members enjoy an evening at bounce and a farm tour around a pig farm. 

Members at bounce enjoyed a good game of dodgeball and a nice new pair of socks 😜

During the farm tour members had to wear blue overalls and white paper shoes, to reduce the risk of transfer off diseases. 

After there was a BBQ and refreshments for members. 

County Annunal General Meeting and Prize Giving - Wednesday 11th November

Last Wednesday meeting was the County AGM whereby our new County officers were elected. 

Each County Federation of Young Farmers has a Chairman, Vice Chairman, President and Treasurer. These spaces are usually filled by people out of Young Farmers age, who have been a Young Farmer themselves. 

This year Oonagh Oneil has been our County Chairman , here role is to support all the Clubs in Bedfordshire , her Vice Chairman was Dave White and he has now taken the role of Chairman for the forthcoming year with Janine Hudson as Vice. 

Annie Sinnott was re-elected as the Bedfordshire President and Brendan Sturgeon as the Treasurer. 

The prize giving at the end of the evening saw Silsoe come away with the most Efficent Secretary Cup and the best Treasurer (well done Tom). We also won the attendance cup which is awarded to the club who has the most members attending county events. 

Silsoe also came 4th in the competitions cup and =2nd in the sports cup and was 3rd in the most Efficent club competition.

They also announced the results of the tin can alley sculpture which we put up a few weeks ago. Silsoe won the bale sculpture last year with our teddy bear and managed to win again this year with our show jumping horse!! 

We also managed to come 2nd in the come dine with me competition which was run for the first time this year. 

Well done to everyone involved in all competitions and to all the members who took officer positions last year who help us to have such a successful year! 

Silsoe Firework Spectacular

Silsoe hosted their own fireworks display on Wednesday in Westoning by kind permission of the Barnes family! 

Over 65 members, ex members, friends and family attended the event to watch our Weasley car from our Rally float be burnt and the fireworks. 

After the fireworks there was food and drink for everyone to tuck into ! 

Thank you to those who came and to those who made food 😃 

21st October - Swing Dancing with Biggleswade YFC

Almost 40 Silsoe and Bigglewade members gathered at the Weatherley Centre in Biggleswade for a bit of swing dancing. 

The group was split into leaders and followers. The leaders formed a circle and paired up with a follower. 

The instructors then taught the group a routine which saw the followers being passed around the circle. 

After an hour of learning and performing the dance, members were treated to a performance by the dance instructors. 

Bedfordshire YFC Sports Competition

Bedfordshire Young Farmers spent the afternoon playing Ultimate Frisbee at Wootton Upper School. 

Despite the rain everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. 

Results were: 

1st Biggleswade 

2nd Woburn 

3rd North Beds

4th Silsoe 

5th Leighton Buzzard 

6th Blunham 

This was just one of the sports competitions Beds YFC hold. Also today was touch rugby and volleyball will held as an inter club competition. 

Previously members have played badminton, hockey and rugby to name a few. 

Points from today will go towards the Befordshire Young Farmers Sports Cup. 

New members Evening - Wednesday 14th October

New members evening took the form of a games evening. 

A total of 8 new members came to the meeting and took part in a few team games with balloons.

Then Members also enjoyed a game of human hungry hippo.

Tin Can Alley

It's New Members Week so every club have been busy building a Tin Can Alley Sculpture!!! 

Silsoe's has been placed on the A507 near Flitwick - keep your eyes peeled! 

Thanks to Fraser, Jim, Tom, Andrew and Alice for all your help making it! 

Results will be announced in November!! 😃 

Ploughing Match and Farm and Garden Produce Show

Yesterday was the Young Farmers second biggest event of the year: The Ploughing Match and Farm and Garden Produce Show!! This year it was hosted by Bedford Club in Wootton by kind permission of the Cook Family!! 

The day started with members busy entering their classes into the Farm and Garden Produce Show! There was flower arrangement , home made liquers, cordial and beer, pears, apples, grain samples and lots more. 

At 10am it was time for the draw for the ploughing plots. Over 50 ploughmen and woman took part in the competitions including Young Farmers, Ex Young Farmers and other tractor enthusiast! 

And so the ploughing begun... Silsoe had 4 individual ploughmen Tom, Fraser, Marcus and Alice plus a team consisting of Elena and Jim with a helper Gordon.

Whilst the ploughing was taking place the visual classes started with YFC members making a scarecrow, cooking a pizza on a gas stove and making a vegetable sculpture.

After lunch and ploughing had finished the tent opened for everyone to see where they had come.

Finally members took part in some main ring events to finish of the day in the it's a knockout competition. 

All in all silsoe won 8 cups: 

Best Novice Lady Tractor Driver - Elena 

Best Lady Tractor Driver - Alice 

Member gaining most points overall in the grain classes - Alice 

Member gaining most points overall in the Produce Show -Alice

Club entering most ploughmen - Silsoe and Bedford

Best team of 4 Ploughmen -Silsoe 

Club gaining most points in the Produce Show - Silsoe 

Overall winner of the Day = Silsoe

Tom also came 2nd in the novice ploughing class and 2nd in the Best YFC member Ploughing.  Alice came equal 4th in the Best YFC Member Ploughing.

In the evening members enjoyed the after party.