Welcome to the 2008 Essex Young Farmers Country Show!

On behalf of Essex Young Farmers and the Show Committee I would like to welcome you all to our 2008 Country Show website. The committee has put a huge amount of effort into the organisation of this year’s show. Moving site to Boyton Hall has added to the workload, but everyone has taken it in their stride. Many thanks must go to our landlords, the Philpot family whom have made all this possible.

Work for the Show started back in May last year, once the decision was made that we were looking at moving venue I started hunting down potential places to have the show. After having several meetings at potential sites we were kindly offered Boyton Hall. The Philpot’s have done an excellent job with getting the grass established, the dry weather last autumn didn’t help with matters.

Our new site allows us to have a new outlook on certain aspects of the show, so we’ve had a bit of an overhaul of some of the areas. The advertising being one of them, we hope our new design of posters and flyers has gone down well? We do value all feedback on the advertising as it’s the best way of improving what we do.

Essex Federation of Young Farmers is a registered charity. Proceeds from this show are ploughed back into the running of the federation. The money goes towards paying Paula, our extremely hard working full time member of staff in the county office. It also funds the printing and distribution of our bi-monthly magazine. Along with hiring venues for quizzes, public speaking, sports competitions and meetings, your money is also being put towards our new county office building.

The show has grown a great deal over the years and the ship has been steered by different crew every time, there are several old faces that have run certain areas for many years. I would like to take this opportunity to thank on behalf of everyone, Jeffrey Giblin for his running of the Vintage Tractors and Brian Frood and Steven Westover forthe organisation of the forestry area. We are much indebted to these three fine gentlemen. Who without fail turn up to our monthly committee meetings and as chairman I value their experience a great deal.

Lastly I’d like to thank everyone who has played a part in the run up to the show, from our generous sponsors, to those who have given up their time to help or have lent us equipment to make the show happen.

The show is a great tribute to Essex Young Farmers, take a step back and think about what you all achieve, it’s quite incredible.