Please find the results here.

Thank you to all competitors and helpers. It was a lovely well supported event, but unfortunately we had some last minute withdrawals due to injury and illness. We hope that all horses and humans recover soon, and that we will see you at the next event, at Moulton, in early March. The schedule and entry forms are on the website.

We raised £11.20 for the Air Ambulance from refreshments donations!

Little and Large – for those of you unfamilar with Trec, photo’s of two competitors in the ‘In Hand’ Class!

We are looking forward to seeing competitors at Moulton College Equestrian Centre on Sunday. We hope the weather will be pleasant but we are in the indoor arena .

The start times, and course plans and competitor information are now available on the Calendar/Events page. Please note that the competition is starting at 10.30 a.m. Help with putting the course away is always appreciated.

There will be self service refreshments – tea, coffee and cake! All donations will go to The Air Ambulance.

Central TREC Group exists to promote the rapidly growing sport of TREC and to run training events and competitions for members and non-members alike.

Our activities are centred on the counties of Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and Leicestershire but we welcome any offers to run events of any type outside these areas as we wish to encourage increased involvement in the organisation of events to enable more TREC activities to be offered.

Central TREC Group has been run on non-profit making lines since it was formed in 2011.  In late 2015, the club registered with the Charities Commission as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation, in order to take advantage of the better regulations for this type of organisation that this structure offers.

The committee includes a range of TREC experience from experienced and successful TREC riders to TREC enthusiasts who have not completed a competition but enjoy the satisfaction of running a smooth event that riders can enjoy.

If you would like to offer any kind of help to the club in any way shape or form, be it joining the committee, running a competition, helping at a competition or offering some form of financial assistance such as event sponsorship then please do get in contact via central@trecgroup.co.uk; we would love to hear from you!

We’re delighted to be returning to Moulton College once again for our Winter Arena TREC Series. We will be holding 3 competitions at Moulton (all in the indoor arena) and our November competition is at a great new venue for us, Glapthorn Manor Equestrian, Glapthorn, Peterborough.

Please click here for the schedule and all the information about the competitions. We look forward to seeing you there!!

We have opened a new bank account for Central (as our old bank account now requires a phone-app based online security process, but the app has dreadful reviews and their phone customer services line usually has a long queue). This account should hopefully pass all checks for online banking, which the old one didn’t always. Please could anyone who pays money to the club by BACS update their records with the new bank details:

Lloyds account, sort code 30-54-66, account number 34880160

PayPal payments will of course be unaffected (so can still be sent to paypal@trecgroup.co.uk if being sent direct, as well as via the Store), as I have updated the necessary details my end.

On the subject of PayPal, I would like to make a request – please send payments over to us in the smallest number of transactions that you can. PayPal charge fees (they are as low as we can get them, as we are a registered charity) made up of a transaction fee and a percentage of the payment amount. Putting a membership fee and an event entry in the same basket in the Store means they are paid for together and so only one transaction fee is paid.

For example, paying for a year’s membership (£15) and an entry to a one-day event (say, £50) diverts a total of £1.11 in fees to PayPal when done together but £1.31 (41p and 90p) if done as 2 separate PayPal transactions. The difference is small (only 20p in this example) but it does mount up over the year – possibly £20-30 is going to PayPal instead of Central each year, and of course we need to make as much profit as we can if we are to keep our membership and entry fees as low as possible.

If you have any problems or queries about either of the above please contact me via central@trecgroup.co.uk. Many thanks, Helen

The CTG committee has been working away behind the scenes during lockdown, and we are pleased to announce that we now have an online shop! We are now able to offer membership, club clothing, equipment and entry to our events directly from this website. Payments will be processed via PayPal, though payments can be made by credit or debit card without setting up a PayPal account if you prefer not to.

Some of the products will appear to be free on the main store page, though we are afraid to say that once you select your options (which classes you wish to enter, for example, or which piece of clothing you would like to order) the price will change to reflect that.

We hope that this will be a convenient way for our members and other interested riders to enter our events, and it should also reduce the admin burden for our hard-working Entries Secretaries and Treasurer. We have also reviewed our financial systems and have decided to introduce an admin surcharge for cheque payments. Any payment made by cheque will be increased by £2.50, to reflect the additional time and effort required to prepare cheques for the bank and pay them in. If this causes a problem please contact us on central@trecgroup.co.uk (or email the Treasurer directly via helen.martin@trecgroup.co.uk).