Day at the Down Royal Races – 2nd May!

Don’t forget to get your tickets ordered soon! Tickets for this event are limited and are disappearing fast!

Tickets Include: *Full National Hunt Race Card *£100 House of Fraser voucher for best dressed person *Private suite for the use of our guests *Tote betting facility & Guest Tipster *Sweepstake in aid of charity *2 course meal

Gates open 1 pm – First race 2.20pm – £65 per ticket To reserve individual tickets or a table of 10 please email [email protected] stating your name and number of tickets required.

Click here to view the flyer for this event

Are you and your team fed up with fighting the crowds for a bit of over-priced dried up turkey and ham at Christmas?  Why not show your appreciation to your team by treating them to a summer outing instead? Our perhaps its a good opportunity to catch up with friends.  The glorious, glamorous NIVA Day at the Races at the Down Royal ticks all the boxes.Come along to the Down Royal Race Course, Lisburn on the 2nd May for a great day out and you’ll receive:

*Full National Hunt Race Card

*£100 House of Fraser voucher for best dressed person

*Private suite for the use of our guests

*Tote betting facility & Guest Tipster

*Sweepstake in aid of charity

*2 course meal

Gates open 1 pm – First race 2.20pm

£65 per ticket To reserve individual tickets or a table of 10 please email [email protected] stating your name and number of tickets you require.  click here for full details and to view the flyer for this event

 

Thinking of working abroad?  The World Veterinary Service has helped many vets do just that and Managing Director James Florence is coming over to Northern Ireland to tell us more about the work of WVS.  The NIVA Winter meeting, which is always highly social and includes seasonal refreshments, canapés and mince pies will be held on 2nd December at the Ramada, Shaw’s Bridge.  For more details, see the flyer.
Our thanks go to MSD for their generous support of this event.  We look forward to seeing lots of you at the Ramada!

NIVA held a meeting on VMD Inspections and Anti-microbial Resistance in March last year which many NI vets attended.
For those of you who couldn’t attend this meeting the presentation slides are available to view by clicking the links below:
click here to download – What a VMD inspection entails and how best to comply by Jackie Catterall
click here to download – Antimicrobial Resistance – Why does it matter to me? by Robert Huey
click here to download – Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance by Helen Harley

The YVN NI have scheduled an interactive afternoon at the AFBI Stormont Laboratory.  The event takes place on Wednesday 25th November between 2 and 5pm.
To register, contact [email protected]
For full details, see the flyer:  YVN AFBI event 25.11.15.

This year’s annual NIVA Senior Members’ Lunch, held on the 19^th June, saw a return to the ever popular Templeton Hotel. Around 40 guests attended the event availing of the opportunity to catch up with acquaintances and former colleagues on a gloriously sunny day.
Guests had the opportunity to mingle in the bar before being shown through to the Raffles Restaurant where they were served a delicious lunch. The satisfying sounds of continuous chat and laughter throughout the meal were a testament to a truly social occasion. Following the meal, the NIVA President, Simon Doherty, gave a brief talk on his chosen charity Send a Cow of which he is an Ambassador and Trustee. Send a Cow’s vision is for a confident and thriving rural Africa; it seeks to achieve this by providing rural families with training in health & hygiene, gender empowerment, organic horticulture and animal husbandry, before livestock placements are made.
Simon would like to express his gratitude to all those, present and absent, who made a donation to this worthy cause. After a brief vote of thanks to Simon and the staff of the Templeton Hotel, some of the guests adjourned outside for a quick photo opportunity.
We look forward to seeing our guests at next years Senior Members’ Lunch.