The Farmers Mart Jun-Jul 2019 - Issue 63 | Page 34

34 NSA NORTH SHEEP JUN/JUL 2019 • farmers-mart.co.uk The Original Yorkshire Clothing Company Ltd – Launches Photo Competition WEDNESDAY the 5th June at the prestigious NSA North Sheep Show and by kind permission of British Wool. MD Howard Scaife, of The Original Yorkshire Clothing Company, launched his latest marketing exercise on the British Wool stand, a photo competition that will appeal to all farmers young and old. The search is on for the cutest picture of young lambs and a sheepdog – the dog can be a puppy or fully grown. The photos need to be in closeup as the winners will get their photo turned into a unique lining for one of The Original Yorkshire Clothing Company’s famous flat caps and the option of a waistcoat of the same fabric complete with colour lining. They are going to produce two linings, one with lambs/ sheep and one with sheep dogs/puppies. Each lining will be matched to two of the four fabrics chosen by the visitors at NSA North Show, so that will make four different caps in total. The caps and waistcoat will be made from 100% Brit- ish Wool supplied by British Wool in Bradford. Each Cap will have its own unique badge and gold certificate number and will have on the side tab an image of a lamb. Farmers who are reg- istered with British Wool, members of NSA will get a special discount code when buying the cap and waist- coat. Special discount is also available to all young farm- ers, you simply need your membership number. All online sales go into a free draw to enjoy two nights B&B for two people at a sheep farm in the UK. Original Yorkshire Clothing Company will donate a per- centage of each sale to the Rare Breeds Society. Howard is now involved in a smallholding rearing Wens- leydale sheep, furthering his passion for sheep and the farming community. Come and see Howard Scaife on the Farmers Mart stand at The Great Yorkshire Show where he will be pleased to talk about the competition and show ex- amples of the unique caps and waistcoats. Judging will take place at the English National Sheep- dog Trials, 9th August at My- erscough college. Judges will be from NSA, British Wool, a Young Farmer, Howard Scaife and Ian Wilkinson owner of The Farmers Mart. The Farmers Mart are sponsoring and supporting the competition. The fabrics for the caps and waistcoats were cho- sen by a large cross section of people at the NSA North Show. The Original Yorkshire Clothing Company Ltd have recently been appointed as “The official supplier of 100% British wool flat caps” to the UCI Y2019 Cycling Road World Championships. To be based in Harrogate Yorkshire 22-29th September 2019. Mr Scaife says they we will be there championing the rural UK to the many 1,000s of visitors from around the world, whilst also handing out their ‘con- sider the countryside and country code’ leaflets. The competition winners will receive a FREE flat cap incorporating the unique photo competition lining. Please send your photos to [email protected]