No Agility Or Flyball Classes Tomorrow!
Due to the recent weather and ground under foot, there will be no Agility or Flyball Classes on Sunday 29th April 2012 at the trusts Canine Sports Faculty.
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No Agility Or Flyball Classes Tomorrow! Due to the recent weather and ground under foot, there will be no Agility or Flyball Classes on Sunday 29th April 2012 at the trusts Canine Sports Faculty.
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As many people will know, The Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust has always led the pack, for the love of dogs!
We have for nearly a year been proud to host the for the Bedfordshire region the mentoring sessions for the City & Guilds recognised Kennel Club Accredited Instructors Scheme (KCAI) at the trusts own expense. These have helped anyone wanting to become an accredited dog training in Ring Craft, Obedience, Agility, Flyball, Gundog or another discipline. As an educational charity we have always valued and promoted the importance of training, not only dogs; but also judges, handlers, breeders, the public and dog training instructors to ensure the absolute best for man’s best friend. As some of you may know we recently done a feedback exercise with those people that attend the KCAI mentoring hosted by the trust, to ensure that it stayed on track and continued to provide what was needed to help participants be guided through the scheme. We also had to look at a new cost and pricing model for the sessions as the Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust along with all charities; faces difficult decisions in the current economic climate and there has been a withdrawal of some local authority funding. As a result of this feedback and subsequent approval by the trusts Board of Trustees we are pleased to announce our new “Instructors Club”. The new Instructors Club will continue to provide the monthly sessions for those building their portfolio for the KCAI scheme, it will continue to help and support new people looking to start a career in dog training with placements and training but it will also offer a platform for dog training instructors to network, attend the new KCAI Focus Group sessions, monthly guest speakers and a range of other events throughout the year aimed at the education and continued development of dog training instructors. The new group will be membership based, with members joining online via our secure online services portal where they will also be able to access learning resources, events information, instructor’s club news and their online learning portfolio. Membership will be set as per ordinary membership of the trust at £10.60 per year, and then £4 each monthly session the member attends. Alternatively members may pay a yearly £30 membership which covers membership and all eight monthly sessions during the year (a £12.60 saving). For more information on the Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust Instructors Club click here To join the Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust Instructors Club click here Competition League – Now Online!
The Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust is pleased to announce that it’s very popular Competition League for members and their dogs who regularly compete at Kennel Club Licensed Shows is now online! Thanks to today’s launch of the phase two of the trusts new online administration “Portal” at www.cbctportal.org, members can now register dogs for the league and submit show points and results online, quickly and securely. For those members that are currently using the paper point’s forms or using the downloadable Microsoft Word Points Forms, you can simply and easily use the new “Results Upload” feature to upload your points file and send it to us automatically. Trust Chief Executive, Gary Gregory said “We are very pleased that phase two of the online portal is now tested and live. Members will now quickly and easily be able to send in their dogs points and register for the competition league” As an added bonus for online users, members who submit their results online can now have their points worked out for them, will receive an email league table four times a year and will no longer have to send in a claim form when their dogs reach the required number of points as the system will automatically generate their certificates and issue them. To find out more about the Competition League in general click here. To visit and register for the new online results system, click here. Due to the continued and rapid growth of our core training and course activities, we are looking for a new volunteer position of Awards Administrator to join our friendly team, based from the volunteers home for approximately 1-2 hours per week. Reporting to the Chief Executive, the Awards Administrator is responsible for:
The Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust is a progressive and dynamic charity and volunteers are its heart beat. We treasure all volunteers and ensure that they are welcomed and looked after. Volunteers receive:
For further information please read the role description below in PDF format. Applications welcomed from all sectors of the community. 
 New Portal Launched!
Hundreds Of Administrative Tasks Cut! Thousands Of Pounds Saved! Yesterday certainly was “Good Friday” for the Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust, as it saw the launch of the trusts long awaited “Online Services Portal” at www.cbctportal.org giving members greater access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to manage, update, subscribe and enrol onto Central Bedfordshire Canine Trust Services. The launch of the new portal sees a major milestone in the trusts “Do It Online!” programme first started in 2010. Gary Gregory, Chief Executive of the trust said “Since the commencement of the “Do It Online” programme in 2010 we launched the new website which gave members the facility to enrol and pay for training courses and events online. We have seen a massive uptake in the number of online enrolments for training course, with currently 97% of members accessing trust services and registrations online” The new portal takes the initial stage of the programme a step further. Previously although enrolments, memberships and registrations were taken online, they were still processed manually at the trusts Head Office and all confirmations were still sent by post. Gary added: “The new portal is simply joined up thinking, improves our workflow and turnover. We handle thousands of the event, course, dog registration and membership forms each year. Members now enter their details and register online, the portal automatically sends out confirmation emails, and maintains all the records. It then also automatically sends out reminders, renewals and newsletters, all without the intervention of administration staff and volunteers” The new portal and the policy of the switch over was first approved at the trusts 2011 Annual General Meeting and the portal has been rigorously tested for ease of use, reliability and security. The process of switching on the new portal for all members is being done over the next week, and members will receive an email when their access is ready to be used. Members will be able to access the portal, to update their details and their dog’s details, and when the time comes for renewals they will be able to "Do It Online!". As from the 10th April 2012 all paper/posted enrolment, membership and renewals will be withdrawn. Instead members will have to carry out these tasks online although they will NOT HAVE TO PAY ONLINE, as online payment will be optional and the option of cash or cheque payment available. Help in using the portal will be available and for those members who do not have internet access or an email address there will be a special telephone booking service for a short switch over period. The switch on of the portal will cut the trusts Head Office administrative workload by thousands of tasks each year. There will be not cuts to staff/volunteers, but instead they will be able to concentrate on frontline and core charity activities. The switch on of the portal is expected to save thousands of pounds on the trusts annual administration budget over the next ten years, when costs such as paper, printing, time, envelopes and of course rising postal charges are all factored in. Gary concluded: “We will ensure that the transition is effortless, that members get the help they need, and that nobody is disadvantaged or prohibited from accessing our services due to the new portal, this is a positive step in the right direction to ensure the trust is using its resources wisely and remains competitive in the 21st century! “ |
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