CRESTED BC NEWS – JULY 2015
by Ghalib Al-Nasser, Chairman

The society held its AGM in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, in late June to coincide with the Specialist & Rare Variety Open Show. A Minute’s Silence was observed in memory of the late Shirley Risebrow, past president & secretary of the club, who passed away last December.

Ghalib & Janice Al-Nasser accumulated sufficient Best Crest award wins over the 2014 show season to be awarded, for the second consecutive year, The Silver Jubilee Trophy for most Crest Young Bird and the CBC Salver for most Crest Any Age wins. These awards were presented to them by the outgoing Presidents Sue & Rod Clarke.

Ghalib & Janice (Winners of the Gold & Silver 2014 Awards) with Sue Clarke

At the Specialist & Rare Variety Show the new fancier Sean Murray won the Best Crest and Best Crest Any Age award with a lovely Circular Light Green hen while Mick Anzara won the Best Crest Young Bird award with a Circular Grey cock. A nice framed diploma for Best Crest in Show was presented to Sean Murray by the outgoing President at the AGM.

Sean Murray with Sue Clarke

Janice Al-Nasser was inaugurated as the new President for a 3-year term. Other officers elected at the AGM were chairman, secretary & publicity officer Ghalib Al-Nasser; vice chairman Sean Murray; membership secretary & treasurer Janice Al-Nasser; patronage secretaries Rod & Sue Clarke; trophy steward Paul Cheatley; committee Gina Adams & Dave Rafis. All communications, other than matters related to subscriptions and patronage, are to be sent to the chairman Ghalib Al-Nasser (Evenstar, Pinkuah Lane, Pentlow, Sudbury CO10 7JW. Tel: 01787 282332, email: ghalib.alnasser@gmail.com).

Janice Al-Nasser - new President of the CBC

The society is still without an editor and it was agreed at the AGM to write to the other 5 specialist societies to consider having a joint publication to save on cost as many members are members of the other specialist societies. It was also agreed to nominate Sue & Rod Clarke, Chris Hawkins & Mick Widdowson to the National Council for Aviculture for their NCA Long Service Badge Awards; these have since been awarded by the NCA with their Gold 25 year service badge award. The next AGM will be held on a new date of 26^th June 2016 to coincide with the new date for the Specialist & Rare Variety Show.

The summer issue of The Chronicle was sent out to all paid up members in early June. Any member who has not received a copy should contact the chairman. More information about the society can be obtained from the society’s website www.crestedbc.co.uk

CRESTED BC GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION – AUGUST 2013
by Ghalib Al-Nasser, Chairman

The society held its AGM in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire late June to coincide with the Specialist & Rare Variety Open Show. The Annual Members Show coinciding with the Annual Members Show of the Rare Variety & Colour BS in May was a success.

Mick Anzara accumulated sufficient awards in the any age and young bird sections to be awarded a Silver and Gold Badge. The society Presidents Rod & Sue Clarke presented The Silver Jubilee Trophy for most Crest Young Bird in 2012 and the CBC Salver for most Crest Any Age wins in 2012 to Dave Moss.

Joint Presidents Rod & Sue Clarke presenting Dave Moss with his
Silver & Gold Salvers for accumulated wins in 2012

Officers elected at the AGM were joint presidents Rod & Sue Clarke; chairman, secretary & publicity officer Ghalib Al-Nasser; vice chairman Gordon Grist; membership secretary & treasurer Janice Al-Nasser; patronage secretaries Rod & Sue Clarke; trophy steward Paul Cheatley; committee Gina Adams, Dave Moss & Dave Rafis. All communications, other than matters related to subscriptions and patronage, are to be sent to the chairman Ghalib Al-Nasser (Evenstar, Pinkuah Lane, Pentlow, Sudbury CO10 7JW. Tel: 01787 282332, email: al-nasser@cbb4u.co.uk). The society editor Donald Bruton stepped down from the position due to pressure of work and anyone who is interested in the post to contact the chairman. The next AGM will be held on 29th June 2014 to coincide with the Specialist & Rare Variety Show.

The summer issue of The Chronicle was sent out to all paid up members in late June, which also contained the patronage allocation list. Any member who has not received a copy should contact the chairman.

Sue & Rod Clarke, new Presidents, with Chris Hawkins, retiring President, at the 2012 CBC AGM

CRESTED BC PUBLICITY – APRIL 2013
by Ghalib Al-Nasser, Chairman

The Crested BC had a successful year with its Golden Jubilee Anniversary celebration held on 30th June in the Northampton area and also a successful club show in November.

The club show, staged in conjunction with the Budgerigar Society Club Show, had an increase in entry to 40 crests for Maurice Roberts to judge. The quality of the crests benched were, as always, of a high standard and congratulations to Dave Moss for staging the Best Crest in Show & Best Crest Any Age with a wonderful Circular Grey cock of good size and crest. Best Crest young Bird went to Mick Widdowson with a Circular Cobalt cock benched in good condition. The Society extends congratulations to all crested exhibitors and in particular the winners who all received special Jubilee glass award donated by members.

The society says Goodbye to Dave Moss who decided to sell his entire stud in February for health reasons. Dave has done a great deal of work to improve the variety in the short time that he was breeding them and had supported many shows with his crests over the past years and it is a befitting tribute to his efforts that he left the hobby on a high note after winning the supreme crest award at the club show last November. We wish him good health for the future.

Dave Moss with his winning Crest and the B.S. President & Judge Maurice Roberts

The Society’s Members’ Show will once again be held in conjunction with the Rare Variety & Colour BS on Sunday 19th May in Loddington Village Hall. Classes for crests will be available and will be judged by Keith Leedham.

Subscription rates are due as from 1st January and payable to the membership secretary Janice Al-Nasser (Evenstar, Pinkuah Lane, Pentlow, Sudbury CO10 7JW. Tel: 01787 282332, email: janice.al-nasser@cbb4u.co.uk). The rates are single £8.50, pensioner/disabled/junior £6.00, partnership at same address £12.00, partnership at different addresses £17.00, OAP partnership £12.00 and life membership is still at 20 times the single membership. The enrolment form can be downloaded from the society’s website www.crestedbc.co.uk. The next Chronicle will be sent out during June to all paid up members.

All communications, other than matters relating to subscription & patronage, to be sent to the chairman Ghalib Al-Nasser (al-nasser@cbb4u.co.uk). The next AGM will be held on Sunday 30th June at the Specialist & Rare Variety Open Show venue in Bugbrooke.

DOUBLE JUBILEE CELEBRATION

Members from the Crested Budgerigar Club (CBC) and Spangled Budgerigar Breeders’ Association (SBBA) gathered together on the evening of Saturday 30th June 2012 to celebrate a milestone in both societies’ history. It was a Jubilee Celebration for both societies and they held a joint function with 43 fanciers attending the 24th show organised by the Specialist & Rare Variety Open Show (SRVOS) held at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Flore, Northamptonshire.

A three course meal was served and in between courses speeches were made by senior fanciers. Ghalib Al-Nasser, in his treble role as the Chairman and past President of both societies as well as the Show Organiser & Chairman of the SRVOS thanked members and guests for attending and made a special welcome to the three overseas fanciers who were present at the function namely John Carter, President of the Australian Pied BS, as well as two overseas CBC members Carlos Ramôa from Portugal who will be judging the SRVOS next year and Martin Stieglmaier from Germany. Ghalib was pleased to see fanciers from the ten area societies as well as the six specialist societies represented at the function. He thanked Maurice Roberts, President of the Budgerigar Society, for attending the function as the Guest of Honour and also to Chris Hawkins, President of the CBC, and Bob Allen, President of the SBBA, for joining him at the head table.

Presidents at the Jubilee Celebration – standing (left to right) Chris Hawkins (CBC),
Michael Chapman (VBC), Rick Watts (LSCBS), Dave Guppy (CBBA), Bob Allen (SBBA).
Sitting – Maurice Roberts (B.S.), Margaret Chapman (LEA), Janice Al-Nasser (RV&CBS

Ghalib reflected on the role of the specialist societies within the fancy as a whole, and the beginning of the CBC, formed on 20th October 1962 with 26 members; also on the formation of the SBBA on 14th November 1987 with 34 members attending. His association with both societies has been long, as he joined the CBC in 1972 and was chairing the first SBBA inaugural meeting as a co-founder member. He was pleased and honoured to still be at the helm of both societies so many years later and even more pleased to see Presidents from the five specialist societies and two area societies as well as The Budgerigar Society, Maurice Roberts, attending this unique function. Those were Chris Hawkins (CBC), Bob Allen (SBBA), Dave Guppy (CBBA), Michael Chapman (VBC), Janice Al-Nasser (RV&CBS), Margaret Chapman (LEA) and Rick Watts (LSCBS). He hoped that fanciers will join next year in another jubilee celebration when the show committee of the SRVOS will be celebrating the Silver Jubilee Show and invited the Management Committee and members of the Clearwing Budgerigar Breeders’ Association (CBBA) who will be celebrating their Golden Jubilee to join them in another double celebration.

Maurice Roberts, Budgerigar Society President, was the second speaker whose knowledge on all the specialist societies is unique as he is a member of all of them as well as a member of all the ten area societies. He reflected on the role that Alan Fullilove, founder member of the CBC, played in the early days of the formation of the club till the time he handed over the secretarial duties to Ghalib in 1976 before his retirement. Alan is alive and well, making him the only CBC founder member still living who sent his congratulations to the CBC.

Guest of Honours Chris Hawkins, Maurice Roberts & Bob Allen

Maurice said that the role of the specialist societies is as important as the role of the area societies in making the fancy flourish with each having their own areas of responsibilities.

The last speaker of the evening was Grant Findlay who said, like Ghalib, he filled a double role within both organisations as he was for many years the Membership Secretary & Treasurer of the CBC as well as past President and for one year he was the Secretary of the SBBA. He also praised the work that Ghalib has done for both societies and many others and said that, like him or not, he was the common factor in the CBC, SBBA and SRVOS and has held them together for so many years.

He proposed a toast to both the CBC and SBBA and hoped that they continue to flourish and serve their members well.

All fanciers who attended said how much they enjoyed the evening with the usual friendly banter and even Janice Al-Nasser made a short speech, saying that Ghalib is celebrating his own Golden Jubilee on 1st August as he landed in England 50 years ago and that she is making a collection to mark the event by seeking donations towards a one way ticket back to Iraq, and felt that this would probably result in business class travel!