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The Showing Council is an umbrella organisation founded in 2006 when
the main horse showing organisations in the UK realised that Showing,
an important and increasing discipline in the horse world, was not
represented at the British Equestrian Federation. The British Equestrian Federation speaks for the horse world to the Government and acts on its behalf. It was agreed that Showing needed a voice and a visible presence in the corridors of power, particularly as over 200,000 people in the UK are involved in horse and pony showing. The Founder Members devised an open Forum called The Showing Council, where problems and difficulties and knowledge could be pooled. The Council meets three times a year at Stoneleigh and is now incorporated, thus paving the way to membership of the BEF which should be achieved in the near future. The umbrella logo stresses that we are not a governing body but an umbrella organisation under which all can gather to shelter together and defend the interests of the very significant number of horse owners who form the showing world.
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The Founder Members Arab Horse Society British Appaloosa Society British Miniature Horse Society British Show Horse Association British Skewbald and Piebald Association British Show Pony Society British Morgan Horses British Percheron Horse Society Cleveland Bay Horse Society Coloured Horse & Pony Society Donkey Breed Society Irish Draught Horse Society (GB) National Pony Society - British Riding Pony National Pony Society - Native Ponies Northern Counties Pony Association Ponies Association (UK) Shire Horse Society Side Saddle Association Sporthorse Breeding of Great Britain United Saddlebred Association 
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