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THE BAS NATIONAL SHOW CRACKING WEEKEND
from Alpaca Spring 2023
by KELSEY Media
Duncan Pullar reports from the BAS National Show.
The National Show in Telford was a success. The show committee worked hard this year to produce a cracking weekend. Thanks to all involved; without the wider pool of volunteers playing their part it would not happen.
One advantage of going back to the same venue is that there is some familiarity with the layout, and you can accumulate “learnings” from year to year, which lead to improvements. This year, for example, the unloading procedures on Friday went very smoothly. Everyone got their alpacas to their pens in good time and the colour checking went well.
The National Show dinner on Saturday night included a charity auction for the Quechua Benefit. BAS members were very generous with their donations and their purchase of the lots. The final amount raised came to £33,000. The showing of the film Vicuna: survival of the finest certainly did a great job of explaining the humanitarian and conservation work of the Quechua Benefit. It is a account of a 30 year conservation story that has increased the wild vicuna population from 5,000 to half a million and benefitted the people who live where the Vicuna live.
Watch out for 2024: March 22, 23 and 24 at Telford International
