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Iron Horse and Exmoor pony days out

The Exmoor Pony Centre has teamed up with the West Somerset Railway to offer a very special day out to the Centre.  Catch a steam train from Bishops Lydeard station to Dunster where you will be met by coach and taken to Winsford for a lunch stop before visiting the Exmoor Pony Centre where you will have the opportunity to meet the ponies.  The tour includes a presentation on the origins, history and future of these beautiful, rare breed native ponies and the opportunity to browse at the Centre.   The coach will then depart for Minehead station where you will join the steam train back to Bishops Lydeard.  The tour is available on Monday, 2nd April, Monday, 28th May and Monday, 10th September 2012.

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Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cornwall revisits Moorland Mousie         

The Duchess of Cornwall had several important tasks to perform when she made a return trip to the Exmoor Pony Centre on Monday, in her role as Patron of The Moorland Mousie Trust.

The Trust was named after the famous Moorland Mousie books, written in the 1920’s, and it has always been a dream of the charity’s founder, Val Sherwin to reprint it, “The timing for this visit was just right. We had completed the renovation work on the new building, and were considering options for an opening celebration when we got the call from the Duchess’s office. As it was Moorland Mousie who bought us together in the first place, it seemed like the perfect time to re-launch the book”.  The Duchess spent a couple of hours at the Trust headquarters meeting staff, volunteers and supporters, and chatting to a group of children from Dulverton school, who were also on a visit to the Centre. The afternoon was completed with a celebratory drink in the” Green Room”, where Camilla joined Mrs Sherwin on the stage and re-launched the book, telling the audience how much she and her sister had loved the Moorland Mousie stories as children, and how she was looking forward to taking copies back for her grandchildren. She also unveiled a plaque to commemorate her second visit..

MMT launch reprint of Moorland Mousie Book

NOW AVAILABLE!

Founder of The Moorland Mousie Trust, Valerie Sherwin, has seen one of her long-term dreams come true this week with the launch of a reprint of Moorland Mousie, the popular children's book originally written by Golden Gorse and published initially in 1929.  The book is available from the Trust by mail order at a cover price of £11.99 with postage and packaging of £3 for a single copy, £4.50 for 2 or 3 copies and £6 for 4 copies.  Please contact us for postage prices for overseas orders, or if you wish to order more than 4 copies.

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Foal News........

We are now looking for sponsors for this year's foals and will be happy to send details of our Foal Sponsorship Scheme to anyone who is interested.  There are three sponsorship levels available Gold, Silver and a monthly sponsorship package.   All levels of sponsorship receive quarterly updates and an invitation to an Exclusive Sponsor's Day in November.