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The Fell Pony Society
Patron: His Majesty King Charles III
Registered Charity, Number 1104945.
The Fell Pony Society is a Company Limited by Guarantee 3233346.
The Fell Pony Society's aim is to foster and keep pure the old breed of pony which has roamed the northern fells for years and to circulate knowledge and general information about the pony breed.
The Society deals with the Registration of Ponies, applications for Membership and export matters. It produces two Magazines per year, lists of ponies for sale, runs shows and advertises a regular calendar of events.
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SOCIETY OFFICE ADDRESS
Bank House, Boroughgate, Appleby, Cumbria CA16 6XF.
Office e-mail: secretary
@fellponysociety.org.uk (The out-of-office Gmail address has
been discontinued.)
To speak to the Secretary or to make an appointment to visit the Office, Tel/Fax: 0 17683 53100. (In order to manage health and safety risks when staff may be working alone, visitors will only be seen by appointment.)
The Office is manned Monday to Thursday. You can leave a voice
message or send an email to secretary
@fellponysociety.org.uk if the Secretary is unavailable.
Council Agenda and Summaries of Minutes
Links to Council Meeting Agenda and subsequent Summaries of minuted business at meetings can be found on the About the Society page.
Annual General Meeting
Links to Agenda for forthcoming Annual General or Extraordinary General meetings can be found on the About the Society page.
Keep up to date
Occasionally, old files remain unnoticed on the web server and may be picked up by search engines such as Google. To be certain you have the most up to date versions of documents, please always come to this site and use the Menu or the Site Search function to find what you need.
Fell Pony Stud Book - Grassroots Online Registry
This service, which gives access to animal details, member details, pedigrees and progeny lists, is free to Fell Pony Society members and has been available since Spring 2009.
Log in via the Grassroots link below, using your FPS membership access number (it is printed on your Magazine envelope address label; it is not your annual membership receipt number) plus your password.
Grassroots has been updated (25 May 2022) and members now allocate their own password.
New FPS members will receive a link via email to ‘set a password’
when they join the Society.
If for some reason as a current member you no longer have your ‘log in’ details, then you need to go to the Grassroots Log In screen and “click to Reset Password”. You will be sent an email containing a link, using the email address that we have for you. You use the link in that email to reset your password.
Membership renewals for 2025
Thank you to all members who have renewed your membership. However, we have received several payments at the old rate.
To save us time in having to contact you individually, please can you check and if you have paid the old rate, send the extra payment as soon as possible, then we can issue your new membership card. The 2025 rates can be checked on the Membership page and on p12 of the Autumn 2024 Magazine.
Priority will be given to those who have paid correctly. Members are only eligible to vote for Council if their subscription has been paid *in full* by 15 February, and we cannot guarantee you will receive a reminder by this date and therefore you will miss out on the opportunity to vote. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Happy New Year!
3 Jan 2025
Payments to the Society
Payments to the Society can be made by post, BACS or bank transfer.
Cheques or postal orders should be made payable to "The Fell Pony
Society". BACS details can be found here. Members
can also find these details in the Fees and Charges section of the FPS
Magazine. Updated October 2024
Overseas payments
All Bank transfers should be in English pounds sterling and any charges should be paid in the country of origin. Our bank makes a charge for the receipt of an electronic transfer from overseas – so if you are not in the UK, please add £2 for transactions up to £100 and £7 for transactions greater than £100 (if sending payment from within the UK there is no need to add anything).
The Society does not have the facility to take card payments.
If you wish to pay your membership by Standing Order, please request a mandate to set the payment up with your bank, because the Society cannot do it on your behalf.
Updated 14 October 2021. Current at 30 August 2024.
NOTICES & NEWS HEADLINES. Updated: (MM/DD/YYYY format)
Full details of News items can be found on the News Page
Breed Show Schedule Updated
Please note: there have been some changes to the Judges and to the Dressage Tests. Full details and the updated Schedule can be seen on the Events Calendar.
4 July 2025
Secretary and Treasurer Required for the Society
Located in Appleby, Cumbria
Full-time | 30–37.5 hours per week
Salary: £29,250 (based on 37.5 hours per week)
We are looking for an organised, detail-oriented individual, who has
great interpersonal skills, strong IT and financial management skills,
with a passion for our rare breed.
We are looking for someone who is dedicated and who will take the lead
in the administration, financial management, and promotion of our rare
breed.
Please see the full advertisement here
Please see the job description here
10 June 2025
Problems with Grassroots database
There was an issue in June with logging service
details on Grassroots.
If you attempted to record service certificates
online, even if a message appeared to say it was successful, it’s
unlikely that you will have received an automatic confirmation email or
an email from the FPS office to confirm which means that the details
have not been recorded in the system.
The problem regarding the input of service
certificates online has now been fixed, so if you have tried to log
service details recently then please try again and you should now
receive the appropriate confirmation emails.
Thank you for your patience with this matter.
12 June 2025
New Functions in Grassroots online registry
One of the benefits of joining the Fell Pony Society is access to the
Grassroots online registry which gives members access to the Society's
pedigree database. Members can use the database to research pedigrees,
find offspring or see ponies marked as for sale or available for AI.
A new breed analysis feature is now available on Grassroots, called
Check Mate.
Check Mate allows members to select any male from the database and any
of their own females or those flagged as for sale. It creates a simple
four generation "What If" pedigree with any common ancestors highlighted
in colour.
Details of how to use the function are linked on the Health page.
Membership fees increase from 1st January 2025
As approved at the AGM in April 2024, fees are increasing for 2025. If you are a current member paying by Standing order please remember to get the mandate updated in advance of 1st January. The new range of subscription fees can be seen on the Membership page. 26 Sept 2024
Voluntary DNA Testing of Filly Foals in 2025
Voluntary DNA testing of filly foals will be offered again this year,
from January 2025, test paid by FPS (1 test per filly). For further
details please read the item on the News page. 13
Dec 2024
FIS testing - update
FIS testing kits can again be purchased through the FPS (see Registration and Other Fees for details). On receipt of the payment the kit(s) will be issued to the owner. A vet must take the sample and complete the label on the packet in full before returning to the FPS, who will forward it to the lab, Animal Genetics. 11 July 2024 More >>>
FIS certificates - caution
For the first time since FIS testing was introduced in 2010, the Society has seen an FIS certificate that has been tampered with. 3 June 2024 More >>>
King Honours Fell Ponies with Patronage
The Fell Pony Society is extremely proud, and deeply honoured, to announce that the charity's new Patron will be King Charles III, following more than 40 years of patronage by Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. This fabulous news was received on the 1st anniversary of the King's Coronation. 15 May 2024 More >>>
Foal / Registration Applications
Just a reminder - any foal registration/passport application forms arriving with the Society in December are charged double fees. They should reach the office by no later than 31 December. Applications received after this date will be treated as late registrations requiring DNA parentage testing.
All service details for this year's coverings must be with the Society by 31 December - both online and service books.
Equine Passports
What to do when you buy or sell a pony, geld a colt or stallion, or a pony dies. More >>>
1 - When you buy or sell a Pony
Paperwork to check when buying or selling. More >>>
2 - While you are an Owner
IMPORTANT: Please read about your passport responsibilities! More >>>
3 - Death of a Pony
You MUST return the passport to the FPS office. More >>>
4 - Compulsory Microchipping
With effect from 1 October 2020 it will be a legal requirement for all horses in England to be microchipped (this applies in Wales from 12 February 2021 and in Scotland from 28 March 2021).
When your vet implants a chip for the first time, the barcode label should be placed in the passport with the stamp and signature of the vet beside. The owner should send either the passport or a scanned copy of the passport to the Society as soon as possible so that the records can be updated.
Updated 4 July 2018
Fell Pony Stud Book - Grassroots Online Registry
One of the benefits of joining the Fell Pony Society is access to the Grassroots online registry which gives access to animal details, member details, pedigrees and progeny lists or see ponies marked as for sale or available for AI. It is free to Fell Pony Society members and has been available since Spring 2009. New features are now available to assist breeders (Dec 2024).
Please go to the Health page to read about the functions of Grassroots and how to access the database. 17 Dec 2024