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Welcome to our Team Page, where we would like to introduce you to
the people that make Summerhouse what it is.
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Helen Gallop: Partner/ BHSI/ BHS Examiner/ EV/ BSJA Associate Course Builder
Helen is Centre Co-ordinator and a partner in Summerhouse. Helen started the Centre
with her mother Sheila Weston in 1982.
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She has the BHSI certificate and has competed at advanced level in Horse Trials, Show Jumping and Dressage
She is currently competing Raffles, a Dutch Warmblood by Concorde, jumping 1.35m and Contino, a Belgium Warmblood.
Helen time is spent working with the senior management team to oversee the running of Summerhouse, including the financial and health and safety aspect. Otherwise, she is out attending various education training meetings around the country. Any other time is spent catching up on the paperwork pile, training her horses, teaching or working as a BSJA course builder..
Helen's aim is to take her Raffles to Grade A and to ride Summerhouse Contino in a Prix St.George.
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Sara Gallop: Instructor/ Competition Rider & Groom/ BSJA Associate Course Builder
Sara is Helen Gallop's daughter. She has her BHSII and is currently training
for her BHSI Stable Managers and Equitation and Teach Exam.
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Sara is a BSJA course builder and regularly competes Summerhouse Spritzer at Senior BSJA events.
Sara is also very committed to her dressage and the training of her young horses, currently she
is training 7yr old, Summerhouse Don Diego a Danish Warmblood, by Don Shufro, winner of the
Shearwater National 5yr old championship title in 2007 and who she rode at both summer and
winter National Championships in 2007 & 2008, where they were placed in the top 10 at the 2008
Elementary Dressage to Music, Winter Dressge Championship at Hartpury. Sara and Diego have
qualified for the medium, medium freestyle to music and advanced medium freestyle to music
classes for the 2010 winter regional championships.
Sara also has a 5yr old, Summerhouse Zelham a Dutch Warmblood, by Sir Sinclair, who qualified
and competed at the Shearwater 4yr old at Addington in 2008, was 2nd of the 4yr olds at the
Badminton Young Horse Finals 2008 and was 5th, out of 29
at the Bluewaters National Championships at Stoneleigh this September 2008 in the NuuMed
Potential International 4yr old Dressage Horse Championship. Zelham was also 3rd in the
Shearwater 5yr old young horse championship this year at the Hartpury CDI/premier league
scoring a 9 for his trot!
Sara has just taken on the ride of a new horse Summerhouse Belini, a Hanovarian Warmblood
by Brashnikov with an aim to start at Prix St George and work towards Grand Prix by summer
2009. The horse is currently competing successful at PSG and is aiming for Int
I in January.
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Sheila Weston: Partner
BHSAI
Sheila is a Partner at Summerhouse and started the school by first running
Riding Holidays here. She has been instrumental in the setting up of the school
and ran the Centre when Helen was training and competing. Sheila is now
retired & is enjoying travelling & golf.
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John Weston: Partner
John is a Partner at Summerhouse and although not horsey has, in the past, kept busy running his own engineering business. He has always had time to support Helen in her competitive career and help with building projects and essential maintenance at Summerhouse. John is now retired & is enjoying travelling & golf.
John has been involved in the management of the business together with the accounts and budgets.
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Martine Winter-Alsop: Yard Manager/ Chief Instructor BHSII
Martine is Chief Instructor and has been with Summerhouse since 1989.
Martine has her BHS II and is an NVQ Internal Verifier.
She is involved in helping students of all ages and standards achieve
their potential and desired certificates.
Martine also trains the competition horses in Helen's absence.
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Sandra Jones: Part Time Receptionist BSc MRICS
Summerhouse welcomes Sandra who joined our team in April 2008.
Life for Sandra has always revolved around family and horses, former Pony Club & Riding Club committee member, organising events & training at which time Sandra was a volunteer course coordinator for the Yale College enabling the local riding club members to undertake training for BHS stages at her own yard. Bred and produced as an amateur competition ponies and horses, Carina Amadeus owned and trained by well known author and dressage rider Claire Lilley and Carina Objection selected reserve on the world class potential training scheme. Founded www.yourgifthorse.com retail and trade now run by one daughter and recreating the fun time spent with children and ponies with the publication of a children's book 'hairy ponies & friends'.
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Charlotte Poole: Part Time Receptionist
Charlotte joined Summerhouse in January 2009 after taking a career break to have her first child,
one of the first born on New Years Day 2008! Charlotte works part time on the
reception desk and is working with Nicola to help with reception administration.
Charlotte has recently taken her NVQ Level 1 in Horse Care at Summerhouse and
is now working towards her NVQ level 2 Apprenticeship in Horse Care
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Holly Norris: Part Time Receptionist
Holly joined the Summerhouse team in December 2009 and works part time on the
reception desk. She previously worked in retail after finishing a Sports
Science degree in 2008. Holly moved to the area three years ago and has built
up her own yard near Berkeley where she keeps her competition horses and a few
liveries. She is passionate about competing and has success with her
horses in all affiliated disciplines: British Eventing, British Dressage
and BSJA. She also breaks in and brings on youngsters, and bred her first
foal in 2008. Holly enjoys training her horses from babies and
introducing them into the competition world, she is very ambitious
and hopes to take all her horses to the top of their disciplines.
Her lifetime ambition is to ride around Badminton Horse Trials.
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Helen Munro: Administrator
Helen's previous career was in hotel and catering, working for large hotel
chains including Forte and Moat House. This changed in 1998 when she joined
Summerhouse to take over the "paperwork" plus a few other challenges.
Her achievements to date include: Investors in in People 'Key Champions
Award' Contributing to the Investors In People, assisting with the LSC
Inspection (Grade 1), plus 'sorting out' and maintaining the ever
increasing filing system.
She is also Homing & Welfare Officer for the Stroud branch of
‘Cats Protection’
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Lisa Westmacott: Part Time NVQ Administrator
Lisa joined Summerhouse as an NVQ Administrator in October 2009, although first came to Summerhouse in 1980, spending all her spare time here after school and in the holidays helping with the ponies and Helen’s eventers. She has competed in all disciplines, has her BHS Stage 1 and 2, and is currently working towards the Assessor’s award. She worked as a groom after leaving school before changing career and spending 15 years in IT in Financial Services.
She is enjoying the return to a horsey environment and the flexibility of the job. She enjoys being with her family and supporting her children’s interests, also travel and cookery.
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Irma Sutton: Training Team Leader
BHSI/ NVQ Assessor and IV
Irma joined the Summerhouse Team in June 2002 as a Senior Instructor and is now NVQ co-ordinator.
She came over from the Netherlands where she did her instructor training to an equivalent
level of the BHSI. After working as assistant yard manager and gaining her qualifications
as an NVQ assessor and IV, she now mainly works as lead Internal Verifier for all the yards
that run NVQs and Apprenticeships through Summerhouse.
Irma has her own horse Jeremy, who she brought over from Holland. Jeremy is now 18 years
old and retired from competing at advanced dressage level.
Irma is currently training Summerhouse Spritzer at Novice level dressage, has a young horse,
bred by Summerhouse to break called Vegas, is helping to produce Summerhouse Contino
to PSG level and enjoys riding experienced schoolmaster, Vincente to PSG level.
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Heather McLain: Part time Assessor and IV
Heather started at Summerhouse in June 2009. She holds the BHSI and trained initially at Huntersfield in Surrey, then Talland & Huntley School of Equitation. She has also worked at a variety of hunt yards, Cannington College and Hartpury College, and was the Talland cook! She is currently training to be an Internal Verifier.
As a child Heather was a member of the North West Kent Pony Club where she enjoyed all aspects of being a member & achieved her B test. She still has a passion for the value of Pony Club and teaches and examines locally. She has competed in Affiliated Dressage, Show Jumping & Eventing. She is a list 6 Dressage Judge and an assessor for the BHS up to stage 3 &PTT. Apart from her passion for horses and teaching, she enjoys walking & wildlife, swimming, reading, Politics and her family. In the future, Heather would like to complete her Certificate of Education.
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Becky Cash:
Part Time with Shows
Becky started at Summerhouse in June 2009 to help with the shows administration
She previously worked at a small stud and livery yard as a groom where she also organized unaffiliated competitions during the summer.
Becky shows her own horse in small riding horse classes at county level. And loves anything to do with Horses, Showing and everything to do with showing!
Becky has undertaken training for her BHS stage 1 and 2 and her ambition is to qualify and ride her own horse for HOYS.
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Victoria Hawley:
Reception & Show Team
Victoria started at Summerhouse in August 2009 and is helping with
the running of shows and working on Reception. She previously
worked in Finance. Victoria trained for her NVQ Level 1 at
Summerhouse and has completed her Apprenticeship with NVQ Level 2.
She is currently working towards her Coaching certificate.
She would like to train to be an Instructor and go on to do
her Advanced Apprentice with NVQ Level 3. Victoria has been
riding since she was 4 and has owned her own horses for the
past 10 years. She has competed in local shows, PC Show
Jumping and Hunter Trials, and hunts with the Berkeley.
Her personal interests include showing her Beagle, called Teita.
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INSTRUCTORS/ NVQ ASSESSORS
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Abi Einzig: Part time Instructor/ BHSIT/ SG4 care
Abi joined us in 1989 as a student. She now has her BHS IT and Intermediate Stable
Managers and a BA (hons) in English. Abi is an Instructor, Assessor, IV and
College course lecturer. Abi has competed at Elementary and Medium Dressage,
and has her own horse called Dylan.
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Jane Leach: Tutor/ Instructor BHSAI
Jane joined Summerhouse in November 2004 and has now gained her BHSAI.
As well as teaching, Jane is takes an active role in the College Course.
Jane is currently training for her BHS Stage 4 and Intermediate Teach
Certificate.
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Heather Williams: BHSII/NVQ Assessor
Heather started at Summerhouse in September 2008 as a part time instructor. Previously to that Heather has taught in Pony Club since gaining her BHSAI in 1978.
She then started a small riding school from her family home at Castlemorton, after which she branched out on her own, to teach at other riding schools in Ledbury.
Heather then gained the Advanced National Certificate in Equine Business Managament and the BHSII.
Heather’s riding career started at the age of 5 years and included hunting, show jumping, gymkhanas, eventing, showing and subsequently riding in Point to Points from 1976 to 1996. In 2001 she qualified and won “Search for a Star” show hunter of the year at the Horse of the Year Show with her horse, L’Etoile
Heathers interests are walking her dogs, running, cycling, rowing, reading and gardening. Her ambitions are to keep a healthy lifestyle, look after her family, compete more, keep learning more about horses and train for the BHSI
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Vicky Clark: Part Time Instructor BSHAI/ NVQ Assessor
Vicky joined Summerhouse as an instructor in December 2008. She has her BHS PTT, Intermediate Stable Manager and will shortly be qualified as an NVQ Assessor. She has a BSc (hons) in Psychology and her passion is to help others learn whilst having fun. Vicky has started to compete her youngster, DJ, in dressage at preliminary and novice level. She hopes to continue her development and work towards her Intermediate Teach
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Rosanna Hardwick: Part time Instructor
AA/ Coaching Award/ NVQ Assessor
Rosanna joined the team in October 2005 and has achieved her Apprenticeship, Advanced Apprenticeship, Coaching certificate and Level 3 A1 Assessors Award at Summerhouse. Rosanna worked at a small yard before coming to Summerhouse as an Apprentice. Rosanna enjoys being able to adjust her hours to suit round her daughter, Annalease and feels that she has achieved a great deal in her time here. |
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Rachel King: Part time Instructor/ BHSPTT/ SG3/ NVQ Assessor
Rachel joined Summerhouse team in November 2008 as an instructor
Rachel recently trained at David Pincus’s yard and has competed at BSJA newcomers and Dressage Novice Level. Rachel is currently working as a freelance rider/groom/instructor, mainly training youngsters
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Tanya Milne: Part Time Instructor/BHSAI/NVQ Sales & Assessor
Tanya joined the Summerhouse team in October 2008 as a part time instructor.
Tanya regularly competes her own two horses Stef and Clade at BSJA foxhunter
and British Dressage Elementary and Medium level. She would like to move up
the levels in both dressage and SJ over the next few years. Outside work and
competing Tanya enjoys snowboarding holidays.
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Emily Richardson: Part Time BHSAI/ NVQ Assessor
Emily started at Summerhouse in February 2009. When not at Summerhouse Emily
runs her own business as a freelance instructor and groom based in the
Cirencester area. Emily shares a horse called Dino who she enjoys competing
in most disciplines, but her big love is eventing particularly cross
country!
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Jenni Rolfe: Part time Instructor/ PTT/ NVQ Assessor
Jennie has worked at Summerhouse as a part-time Instructor since completing her initial
training at Summerhouse in 1996. She has continued to utilise Summerhouse’s flexible
and personalised training programme and qualified both with the BHS to achieve her
Teaching qualification, ABRS to qualify for the Grooms Certificate and the popular NVQ
programme progressing to become an NVQ Assessor.
Jennie enjoys the wide variety of horses at Summerhouse, although Robert is a definite
favourite and the pair are often seen participating in Summerhouse Elementary Dressage.
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Claire Talbot: Part time Instructor Coaching Award/ NVQ Assessor
Claire joined the Summerhouse team at the beginning of 2009. She has her NVQ
3 coaching qualification and is working towards her BHS exams.
Claire also has two of her own horses which she produces and competes herself.
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Naomi Underwood: Part Time Instructor BHSAI
Naomi started at Summerhouse in 2008 having previously trained at both Hartpury College
and Huntley School of Equitation. She obtained her BHSAI qualification in 2007 having
decided it was time for a career change after working as a legal executive for a number
of years. Naomi has owned and ridden her own horses all her adult life and her passion
is for classical riding. She has recently joined as an instructor member of the training
teachers of tomorrow trust to take advantage of their instructor’s clinics and to watch
some of Europe’s finest classical trainers in action. Naomi also teaches at her local
RDA group and is hoping to train towards the RDAI in the not too distant future.
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Charlotte Kennedy:
Advanced Apprentice, Instructor BHSPT
Charlotte (aka Charlie!) joined our team in Nov 08 and has achieved her NVQ level
2 Apprenticeship, BHSPTT and BHS SG3 care. Charlie is also well on her way to
achieving her NVQ level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship, BHS SG3 riding and training
for her BHSII. Charlie is working with our yard manager, Martine, to move on to
train to be an NVQ assessor.
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Lauren Roberts:
Advanced Apprentice & Trainee Instructor/ Yard Supervisor
Lauren joined our team in October 08 and has achieved
her NVQ level 2 Apprenticeship
and BHS exam. She is also working with Sara Gallop to become yard
supervisor and learn to teach.
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Chloe Aylesbury:
Apprentice/ Trainee Instructor
Chloe has been at Summerhouse since July 2009. Before working at Summerhouse she had a part time job at West Wilts Equestrian Centre as a groom, and also spent two years at Lackham College completing her BTEC National Certificate in Horse Management. Whilst she has been at Summerhouse she has had various roles including helping with the competition horses and teaching. She is currently doing her Apprenticeship with NVQ Level 2 and NVQ Level 3 Coaching Certificate. She aims to go on to do her Advanced Apprenticeship with NVQ Level 3.
She also hopes to achieve her BHS Stages exams and PTT qualification.
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Hope Chisholme:
Apprentice
Hope started working at Summerhouse in November 2009. She is currently working towards her Apprenticeship with NVQ Level 2, NVQ Level 3 Coaching Certificate and PTT qualification. Hope owns a horse called Busta and competes mainly in BSJA British Novice competitions. In the future Hope would like to achieve her AI and reach BSJA Discovery level with Busta.
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William Bickham: Trainee Advanced Apprentice
Will started with us in June 2007. Prior to that, he worked at a
racing stud for 6 months and before that he attended Hartpury
college where he achieved his BHS Stage 1. He is currently training
towards his Advanced Apprenticeship and Stage 3. Congratulations to
William for achieving his BHS Stage 2 care in May 2008,
his Apprenticeship in July 08 and his Stage 2 riding in May 2009
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Zac May: Advanced Apprentice/ Trainee Maintenance
Zac started his Apprenticeship at Summerhouse in August 2008 and achieved this in October 2009. He enjoys working on the yard and with the horses. His aim is now to complete his Advanced Apprenticeship with the maintenance option. Outside of Summerhouse Zac enjoys spending time with his son, helping his mum with her horses and spending time with friends.
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Ian Midwinter: Groom & Maintenance
Ian joined Summerhouse in 1992 and is invaluable on the yard where he assists in
general maintenance and horsecare. He has completed his NVQ level 1 and is
working towards his NVQ level 2. Ian enjoys riding Summerhouse Barney and Shani
and has completed in many unaffiliated show jumping completitions.
Outside of work, Ian enjoys listening to music.
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Louis Buhagiar: Maintenance
Louis joined Summerhouse in May 2004. He brings to Summerhouse his wealth
of experience in building, plumbing and maintenance. Louis is originally
from Malta where he used to race. He enjoys the great variety of his
work and doing something different every day.
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Jane Chisholm : Part Time cleaning maintenance
Jane joined Summerhouse in 1998 and keeps our centre spotless which is a challenging
role in any outdoor activity centre. Jane is a non horsey mum who’s daughter Hope
started riding at Summerhouse at the age of 5. This allows Jane to enjoy her love
of horses through her daughter’s interest.
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Helen Climpson: Part Time
Helen works one day a week keeping the Summerhouse accounts in
order and completing the wages each month
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