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Kiln Agility T raining Society
Brief Club History:
The club was founded in August 1991.
The venue, “The Kiln” was found by
Sydney Hougham, who today is still an active
member, principal trainer and the president of
the club.
It was originally named
“The Aldershot and District Agility Club”
Initialy the club trained on a fortnightly
basis but this proved
unsatisfactory and in 1993 started meeting
weekly. That is still the way the
club operates today.
In the early days, with the help
of enthusiastic club members, much
equipment was built
and painted in the club livery until
we became one of
the best equipped clubs in the area.
. Most has been replaced
by purchase, to meet new
Kennel Club regulations.
This is an ongoing commitment for the club, as
safety is constantly being monitored
by the Kennel Club. Thus the
equipment you train on is of the same standard
as you will meet when you
choose to compete outside the club.
At the AGM held on the 14th April 2002 it was agreed
to change the club name to
The Kiln Agility Training Society.
This gives rise to the easy to
remember acronym of KATS.
The renewed club quickly became a victim
of it’s own success. Most of the
trainers were also competitors and wanted to
compete at the weekend and
classes just got bigger and bigger.
So the search was started for a new
training day and venue.
As of the 3rd March 2004 KATS moved to Beacon
Hill Farm, Crondall
and now trains on a Wednesday evening.
Surprisingly
we lost very few members in the move. |
