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From the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust

Visitors urged look but do not touch Dartmoor’s ponies – Anyone worried about a pony looking ill can ring Karla on 07873587561
February, 15, 2021 – The Dartmoor Livestock Protection Society and the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust have issued a joint statement urging visitors to the moors
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February 16, 2021

Westcountry News Filming 22/01/21
We welcomed Bob Cruwys – Journalist and Rod Stevenson – Cameraman from Westcountry News to our Centre at Parke. The item will be aired next
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January 23, 2021

Charity’s new website connects with Dartmoor’s ponies and its landscape
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust (DPHT) will gallop into 2021 with a fabulous new website making it easier for its valued supporters to keep up
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December 17, 2020

Education, Conservation and Heritage on Dartmoor
We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.
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July 20, 2020

Award winning photographer joins DPHT as Patron – Malcolm Snelgrove
We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.
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June 20, 2020

Help please! Conservation volunteers!
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust is looking for volunteers to help clear a bronze age village and other buildings on Lakehead at Bellever Forest near Postbridge this month.
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February 7, 2020

Holiday Events
Come along to meet the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust’s Dartmoor ponies, find out all about them, enjoy interacting with them – and even adopt Rolo, Charlie, Smartie or George!
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January 31, 2020

Press Release – Dartmoor Pony research evidences the benefits of equines as conservation grazers
Dartmoor ponies are among the most iconic species of any British moorland but a dramatic decline in population since the 1950s has led to widespread concern about their long-term survival prospects and an urgent requirement to recognise their value as conservation grazers.
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November 18, 2019

Ken and Daf Edwards of Langworthy Farm lent their beautiful and well behaved mare and foal to the RBST stand at Honiton Show
Langworthy Nuthatch was one of our first foals, born to us in 2006, which caused great excitement.
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November 13, 2019

Horse of the year show success!
It’s believed that a record number of Dartmoor ponies enjoyed a wonderful tally of top placings at the UK’s most prestigious horse show, held last week at the NEC in Birmingham.
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October 9, 2019

Teamwork with Forestry England on Farrier Day!
We were recently out at Bellever for a farrier day to trim the hooves of the ponies in our care that make up our conservation grazing herd on site.
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July 30, 2019

Pony Handling Week
This week we’ve been handling ponies from 3 different Dartmoor farmers. Some pedigree and some not; some for sale but others staying with their breeders or even – potentially- staying with DPHT!
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July 25, 2019

Visit from Stairway Group
Recently we had a very special group of visitors who wanted to find out about our work and meet our ponies.
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July 15, 2019

Stone walling – Improving skills for Dartmoor Conservation Charity
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, whose Moorland site is on leased land at Bellever, Postbridge from Foresty England, has benefited from additional stone wall repair and construction training for its volunteer team who undertake so much good work at Bellever.
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May 23, 2019

Dartmoor Ponies help rare bird to thrive on Devon reserve
We are delighted to announce that photographer Malcolm Snelgrove has become the charity’s new patron.
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April 30, 2019

Alex goes on tour to raise funds for DPHT
We are delighted to announce that our good friend, Alex Graeme of Unique Devon Tours, has launched a rather unusual ‘Tour of Devon’ with the aim of raising funds for our charity and for the Donkey Sanctuary based at Sidmouth.
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April 18, 2019

Ponies Go On Christmas Break
The ponies are on two weeks holiday over the Christmas period as they need a break.
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December 21, 2018

Avril Kerswell patron of Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust appointed November 2018
Councillor Avril Kerswell is well known within the Bovey Tracey and Teignbridge community, particularly for her roles in the local Council.
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December 7, 2018

Co-Op members Raise £8,500 for ponies to inspire people of Devon
Shoppers at the Bovey Tracey, Devon Co-op stores at Riverside, Newton Road and Trago Mills, have helped to raise over £8,500 for local Charity, the Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust, through the Co-op Membership scheme.
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December 7, 2018

Father Christmas takes on a Dartmoor pony to work with reindeer!
A Dartmoor pony called Basil is taking on the role of ‘Dartmoor Reindeer’ to work with Father Christmas as he prepares for his travels all over the world on 24th/25th December!
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December 1, 2018

Successful month for Dartmoor pony sales
The Dartmoor Pony Heritage Trust successfully set up the sale of 12 young Dartmoor ponies, bred on Dartmoor, to four different homes and worth an income of over £5,000 shared between four different pony keepers, during the last month.
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November 20, 2018

Apple Day at Parke
In partnership with the National Trust, we celebrated Apple Day at Parke this Autumn.
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September 29, 2018

Apple Day at Parke 29 September 11.00 – 3.00 PM
MEET THE PONIES AT APPLE DAY AT PARKE – Saturday 29th September from 11am to 3pm Parke Estate, Bovey Tracey.
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September 29, 2018

Exhibition of paintings by Virginia Pope
September 9th – September 30th open 2pm- 6pm daily.
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September 9, 2018

The 28th Dartmoor Pony Moorland Show, Old Playing Fields, Princetown
Please support the Dartmoor pony Moorland Show, 2 September at Princetown.
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September 2, 2018

Wonderful Avian and Equine day on Saturday!
We had the ‘name the foal’ competition for a little foal whose mum is called Langworthy Nuthatch and dad Lickfolds Sebastian – and it had to be a bird name.
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August 20, 2018

Dog Show, Sunday 29 July CANCELLED DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS
DUE TO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS A NEW DATE WILL BE SET. WE APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.
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July 19, 2018

DPHT Open days
As you know, we are in the process of reviewing our Open days and had put our original Summer 2018 calendar on hold.
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May 18, 2018