NORTHERN REGION – Regional Contact Member – Emma Chester
I hope this finds you well. As I write this, the Northern Region looks back on many things; including, especially, a very successful showing year The last show of the year was Masham Sheep Fair where there was an exceptional turn out of Jacob sheep – the highlight being a line-up of 20 entries in the gimmer lamb class. Barbara Webster of Fife, had her work cut out judging all exhibitors entries. Details in the show results at the back of the Journal. Thank you to everyone who exhibited – It was an tremendous turn out of Jacobs and massive thanks to Barbara for judging.
Various Agricultural shows have seen members become new exhibitors taking to the show ring which is excellent to see with Jacob classes being supported even more.
Looking back on the season we also held our first Jacob Sheep Society stand at the Great Yorkshire Show which was a great success and thank you to all whole helper make it so.
We have just had our Northern Region flock competition and assessment and Kay Carpenter and Jean Simmons travelled all over the north, from Lancashire and Cumbria to Northumberland and Yorkshire judging, assessing and giving advice to eight flocks in total. These consisted of two and four horned flocks, and everyone was grateful for their support and guidance. Currently we don’t know the results yet as they will be announced at our Northern AGM meeting which is coming up. Thank you again to Kay and Jean for taking their time to visit.
Lastly, we are holding our trimming demonstration day and Northern Region AGM meeting on Sunday 19th October. This is looking to be a very popular event with Scott Dalrymple providing the trimming demonstration. This is being followed by a judges seminar by Scott himself then our Flock Competition results will be presented by Kay and Jean. We are also launching our Young Handlers Points competition for 2026 (please keep your eyes peeled for more information), and finally our Northern AGM meeting and AOB. The day is kindly being hosted by the Maudsley family in Cumbria who have Escrigg flock.
As stated above, we are launching our Young Handlers Points Competition for 2026. This is where JSS Young Handler members can collect points over the showing season to go into the competition at the end of the show season. Please look out for more information to follow.
As ever, if anyone has any ideas for the region or would to host an open day or any other event (with our help of course) please let me know. We also have set up a WhatsApp group for the northern region (for info and updates, etc), if you wish to join, please let us know and I’ll forward the link to do so.