Meet your Committee

Amanda Williams
Contact details:
Email Amanda
07703 651246

Chairman/Facebook

I have been a member of BKRC for many years, I am the club's Chairperson, and I also organise the Area 12 team jumping and keep Facebook up to date. 

I am a self employed accountant and live in Burnham, with my hubby Rich, two mad cats and a seriously mad dog. I have owned a horse since leaving home at 19 and have had some characters and disasters along the way, but it’s been an experience worth persevering with. My horse, Minstrel, has been with me for a couple of years now and is still quite green, but progressing well with schooling and jumping. We’ve got a lot of hard work to go but he’s a lovely chap and coming on well. He’s certainly got a pop in him and likes to jump the electric fence when he wants to come in. We’ll have a go at a bit of everything but I want to get back to the dressage eventually.

Mel Allen
Contact details:
Email Mel if you want to take part in, or have queries about:
  • BKRC's Dressage Winter Series
  • Area 12 Dressage Teams

​BKRC Dressage Series Show Secretary and Area 12 Dressage Teams

​I have been a member for a few years and wanted to give something back to the club. I am also on a number of other local committees and organise the Mark Horse Show.

I live in Mark with my  step-son Cam, my dog Mishka, chickens, a duck, a peacock, a cat and 4 horses!  It is safe to say – I absolutely LOVE animals and lead a very busy but fulfilling life!! 
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I have been riding all of my life and take huge pleasure in learning new ways of working with horses.  I have two very special ponies, Loz who has taught me so much and I am extremely proud of the horse he has become! We regularly compete in British Dressage and he loves fun rides and a good gallop – but does not jump (ever!)  And then there is Bobert...We have been taking things slowly, mainly because he is the most accident prone horse I have ever met!!! However, when he manages to keep four hooves evenly on the ground we enjoy a spot of jumping and some dressage. I hope to event Bobert, but I have been saying that for two years now.... maybe one day..... 

I join in with as much as I can, training, clinics, competitions and team Area 12 qualifiers.  I was fortunate to be in the teams representing the club at the NAF National Championships in Lincoln two years running in dressage, show jumping and style  – one of the BEST riding experiences, spent with brilliant people!  BKRC is a fantastic club, I am really looking forward to making more memories with like-minded people. 

Ros Burridge
Contact details:
Email Ros if you have queries about, or are interested in:
  • the BKRC Team Jumping
  • Area 12 Show jumping qualifiers

Show Jumping teams including Area 12 SJ qualifiers

I joined the committee mid 2016. Having been a member for a few years, I wanted to put something back into a Club that had given me so much fun. I have been lucky enough to have had horses all my life, and competed at various levels and in various disciplines. I gained my BHSAI in 1991 and spent many years teaching for the Pony Club in my spare time. I currently have four horses, my home-bred horse, Zest, who is currently on loan to my niece as he has had to retire from competitions due to injury; Scrumpy, a lovely coloured Quantock pony, who is also on loan; and then I have two Quantock youngsters, who came to me at weaning in October 2017 which I plan to back this summer.
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My role on the committee is to run our Novice team jumping shows, which have proved to be very popular; and to organise our clubs teams for Area 12 SJ competitions.

Amanda Holmes
Contact details:
Want to be on an Area 12 Eventing team? Email Amanda

Treasurer / Area 12 Eventing Teams

Keep an eye on the BKRC members only facebook group for all the posts about upcoming Area Eventing competitions and training!

Bio to follow

Sarah Herniman
Contact details:
07812 708534

Rosettes

I have been fortunate to have had horses and ponies in my life for about forty years. When I was young I use to take part in local gymkhanas and enjoyed hacking out with my friends. When my Daughter came along, Rachel showed the same passion and love for horses as me. We are both fortunate to have our own horses living at home with us. We enjoy hacking out and fun rides, in 2012 I found Sebastian he is a 17 hand chestnut Irish sports horse who has a laid back attitude to life.

We joined in 2015 years ago and have had great fun so far. I look forward to meeting you all in the year ahead. I hope you share the same attitude as me and the rest of the committee - come along and enjoy it, give it a go.

Kelly Logan
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Membership / Website 

I moved to Somerset in 2015 and joined BKRC the following year. I was looking for a nice friendly club and one that would let all members join in and enter team events. BKRC were so friendly and I have already had a lot of fun - including a trip to Lincoln to do the National Dressage Champs in 2017.

Perhaps the best thing to come from joining the club, was that I met Ros Burridge and her pony Freddie, who I bought in Jan 2018. He's the best thing ever and I look forward to our journey together.

​The club has been so welcoming that I wanted to help out, so I offered my services to update the website. 

Looking forward to meeting you all at BKRC shows. ​

Kim Payne
Contact details:
Want to join in the training?
Email Kim

Training