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The Fell Pony Society
Patron: His Majesty King Charles III
Registered Charity, Number 1104945.
The Fell Pony Society is a Company Limited by Guarantee 3233346.
The Fell Pony Society's aim is to foster and keep pure the old breed of pony which has roamed the northern fells for years and to circulate knowledge and general information about the pony breed.
The Society deals with the Registration of Ponies, applications for Membership and export matters. It produces two Magazines per year, lists of ponies for sale, runs shows and advertises a regular calendar of events.
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SOCIETY OFFICE ADDRESS
Bank House, Boroughgate, Appleby, Cumbria CA16 6XF.
Office e-mail: secretary
@fellponysociety.org.uk (The out-of-office Gmail address has
been discontinued.)
To speak to the Secretary or to make an appointment to visit the Office, Tel/Fax: 0 17683 53100. (In order to manage health and safety risks when staff may be working alone, visitors will only be seen by appointment.)
The Office is manned Monday to Thursday. You can leave a voice
message or send an email to secretary
@fellponysociety.org.uk if the Secretary is unavailable.
Council Agenda and Summaries of Minutes
Links to Council Meeting Agenda and subsequent Summaries of minuted business at meetings can be found on the About the Society page.
Annual General Meeting
Links to Agenda for forthcoming Annual General or Extraordinary General meetings can be found on the About the Society page.
Keep up to date
Occasionally, old files remain unnoticed on the web server and may be picked up by search engines such as Google. To be certain you have the most up to date versions of documents, please always come to this site and use the Menu or the Site Search function to find what you need.
Fell Pony Stud Book - Grassroots Online Registry
This service, which gives access to animal details, member details, pedigrees and progeny lists, is free to Fell Pony Society members and has been available since Spring 2009.
Log in via the Grassroots link below, using your FPS membership access number (it is printed on your Magazine envelope address label; it is not your annual membership receipt number) plus your password.
Grassroots has been updated (25 May 2022) and members now allocate their own password.
New FPS members will receive a link via email to ‘set a password’
when they join the Society.
If for some reason as a current member you no longer have your ‘log in’ details, then you need to go to the Grassroots Log In screen and “click to Reset Password”. You will be sent an email containing a link, using the email address that we have for you. You use the link in that email to reset your password.
Payments to the Society
Payments to the Society can be made by post, BACS or bank transfer.
Cheques or postal orders should be made payable to "The Fell Pony
Society". BACS details can be found here. Members
can also find these details in the Fees and Charges section of the FPS
Magazine. Updated October 2024
Payments from Overseas
Because exchange rates fluctuate, we cannot accurately quote fees in foreign currencies, so for Overseas payments all Bank transfers should be in £ British Pounds sterling (£ GBP), and any charges should be paid in the country of origin.
You may find that Money transfer services charge less than Bank transfers. See example screenshot from xe.com; view a list of other companies/apps. Please make sure that the figure in the "Recipient gets..." box matches the amount you intend to send to the FPS (eg, see the membership fees list).
NB - Our bank makes a charge for the receipt of an electronic transfer from overseas – please add £2 for transactions up to £100, and add £7 for transactions greater than £100. (If you are a UK resident this does not apply.)
NB - At present the Society does not have the facility to take card payments and does not use PayPal.
Fell Pony Society Office, Bank House, Boroughgate, Appleby, Cumbria
CA16 6XF, United Kingdom.
Office E-mail: secretary@fellponysociety.org.uk
Tel/Fax: 0 17683 53100. To phone a UK number from overseas, replace
the leading 0 with the UK country code +44.
Updated 10 December 2025.
NOTICES & NEWS HEADLINES. Updated: (MM/DD/YYYY format)
Full details of News items can be found on the News Page
FIS testing
FIS testing kits can again be purchased through the FPS (see Registration and Other Fees for details). On receipt of the payment the kit(s) will be issued to the owner. A vet must take the sample and complete the label on the packet in full before returning to the FPS, who will forward it to the lab, Animal Genetics. 11 July 2024 More >>>
FIS certificates - caution
For the first time since FIS testing was introduced in 2010, the Society has seen an FIS certificate that has been tampered with. 3 June 2024 More >>>
Equine Passports
What to do when you buy or sell a pony, geld a colt or stallion, or a pony dies. More >>>
1 - When you buy or sell a Pony
Paperwork to check when buying or selling. More >>>
2 - While you are an Owner
IMPORTANT: Please read about your passport responsibilities! More >>>
3 - Death of a Pony
You MUST return the passport to the FPS office. More >>>
4 - Compulsory Microchipping
With effect from 1 October 2020 it has been a legal requirement for all horses in England to be microchipped (this applies in Wales from 12 February 2021 and in Scotland from 28 March 2021).
When your vet implants a chip for the first time, the barcode label should be placed in the passport with the stamp and signature of the vet beside. The owner should send either the passport or a scanned copy of the passport to the Society as soon as possible so that the records can be updated.
Updated 4 July 2018
Fell Pony Stud Book - Grassroots Online Registry
One of the benefits of joining the Fell Pony Society is access to the Grassroots online registry which shows animal details, member details, pedigrees and progeny lists, and any ponies marked as for sale or available for AI. It is free to Fell Pony Society members and has been available since Spring 2009. New features are now available to assist breeders (Dec 2024).
Please go to the Health page to read about the functions of Grassroots and how to access the database, and how to use the breed analysis feature Check Mate. 17 Dec 2024