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Christopher Bromfield - Legal Trustee

Christopher Bromfield became a Trustee in 2011. Christopher’s wife Clare is the District Commissioner of The Avon Vale Branch and they have three children who have all been Pony Club Members.

Christopher has volunteered for Pony Club events for many years; he acts as scorer for Horse Trials and Area Competitions when they are organised by the Avon Vale Branch and judges shooting for Tetrathlon.

Christopher is a practising solicitor and a partner in the firm of Wansbroughs in Devizes.  Among his other voluntary activities, Christopher has been a school Governor for over 20 years and is a Trustee of The British Society of Gastroenterology and his local Community Foundation.

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Ros Slinger - Area Representative

Pony Club:

• Former Pony Club Member, Branch Committee member and D.C.
• Regularly hunted.
• Four children, all former Pony Club Members
• Three grandchildren current Members.
• Area 4 Representative.
• Chairman Mounted Games.
• Centre Membership Committee

Other:

• Former English & Sports Teacher 11-18yr olds.
• Former Lacrosse International.
• Volunteer - various local organisations.
• Other interests non-equestrian - gardening, beekeeping, theatre, music, art.

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Mary Tuckett - Area Representative

Mary became Area Representative for Area 12 in 2010 having been District Commissioner for the Whaddon Chase branch for 6 years. Mary is also on the Pony Racing Committee. Mary’s Pony Club involvement began as a child as a member (not very active though).

On leaving University Mary returned home to take over the mixed family farm in Buckinghamshire. The farm is in Environmental Stewardship and is part of the English partridge establishment scheme. Mary sits on the CLA Buckinghamshire Committee and the Agriculture and Land Use Committee nationally. She is also a magistrate and Chairman of the bench Youth Panel and Bench Deputy Chairman.

Mary is married with three daughters who are all actively involved with the Pony Club.

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Robin Danielli - Treasurer

Robin’s career was spent in the Oil Industry, culminating in a series of senior financial appointments with Gulf Oil, both at the European head office and at the UK downstream company, Gulf Oil (GB), in Cheltenham.  His involvement with The Pony Club began when his daughter took up riding in 1986.  He became Treasurer and later D.C. of the Cotswold Vale Farmers’ Hunt Branch.  In 1999, he was asked to become National Treasurer.

He and his wife Andrea live five miles outside of Cheltenham. They have a daughter and a son, and two grandchildren.

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Robin Thompson CBE DL - Vice Chairman

Robin became Vice Chairman of The Pony Club in 2008.  Robin is also Chairman of the Management Committee and President of the North Shropshire Hunt Branch. 

Robin began his career in the army.  In 1974 he founded the Shropshire Rural Housing Association and has been involved in the social housing movement for many years.  Robin’s career includes Director of Bibby Line Ltd, Vice Chairman of the Rural Development Commission, Council Member of Rural Agricultural Society of England, Board Member of The Housing Corporation (Chairman of the Finance and Audit Committee).  He is a past President of the Shropshire Horticultural Society. He is a Director of The Ultimate Travel Company, and is Chairman of an agricultural and property company. 

Robin is married with three children. His recreational activities include gardening, horses, skiing, and pursuing his youngest daughters pony activities!

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Cherry Michell - Chairman of The Pony Club

Educated at Dulwick College preparatory School and St Mary’s Baldslow. Cherry was a Member of Romney Marsh Hunt Branch of The Pony Club as a child, passed her B Test and competed up to Area Level.  She taught at Rallies from the age of seventeen.

In 1972 Cherry married, had a daughter and spent six years cooking for ocean going yachts and sailing on the Solent.

She returned to the family farm and stud in 1978 and has worked there ever since.  Emma, her daughter, joined the Romney Marsh and Cherry was soon asked on to the Branch committee.  She was made secretary in 1979, then Assistant District Commissioner in 1983 and finally D.C. in 1987.

When in 1998 the job of Area Representative for the southeast (Area 11) became vacant Cherry was appointed to the position. 

Mary Anderson became Chairman in 2004 she asked Cherry if she would consider being her Vice Chairman.  A job she was delighted to accept and enjoyed immensely.

In 2008 Mary retired and The Pony Club Council voted Cherry in as Chairman.  Now in her first year of her second term of three years she is looking forward to helping The Pony Club evolve and prosper and also to see her three grandchildren become the fourth generation of her family to benefit from the fun, friendships and training That The Pony Club offers.