Wednesday the 18th Jan 2012 was our AGM Meeting,
A great turnout to vote in our new commitee .
WE did not have many changes, except the very sad resignation of Ray Nicholas (Dizzy) who has been a massive part of the club for many years, A big thanks for all his support. Taking his place is Michael Thompson who will do a great job.
Please see about us section that gives full deatils of us all and contact numbers.
Also please note that we also can confirm that the raffles for a £150 koi voucher, that was kindly donated by Avenue Fisheries was won in December by Chris Bellinger.
Once again many thanks AVenue and we all look forward to seeing you at your fantastic shop in 2012.
massive thanks to George Shortstop on his brilliant quiz last night.
We all enjoyed the last event in a brilliant year.
Now I wish you all a happy Christmas and a healthy and succesfull 2012 to all our members and friends
2011 PHOTOCOMP RESULTS AS WITHIN EVENTS SECTION PLEASE LOOK
CLub night
Wednesday 21st December.
Georges Koi Quizz...Laindon Community Centre at 8 pm...
Look forward to seeing you all
CLUB night
Wednesday November 16th
'Photographic Competition'
Starring Your Koi,
Laindon community centre prompt start for 8.00 pm.
CLUB NIGHT
Wednesday 21st September
GAZ and BOB talk about water quality at usual venue at Laindon community centre at 8pm
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Just a quick one,
Many thanks to every one who attended on Sunday, and to the people who worked hard in setting up and packing away...shame not to many members where able to help.
Another reason to join a koi club, nearly 300 lots of koi, all sold.
For the buyers great prices for great fish, from 6 inch fix to 75 cm plus monsters !!
Looking forward to Spring 2012.
AGain many thanks
Mr F
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URGENT NEWS DUE TO A WRONG DAY PUBLISHED BY KOI CARP PUBLICATIONS
PLEASE NOTE
AUCTION UNCHANGED
September 4th (Sunday)
Autumn Auction at Barleyland
CLUB NIGHT !!
Wednesday August 17th
Pond Construction buy our very own Graham Hall.
8pm laindon Community center
Sunday 24th July, own pond visit.
A great koi day for all Crouch Members. Several ponds and gardens opened, and once again, fantastically supported by our members on a perfect sunny day.
Dave and Dianne, once gain where hosts to a fantastic summer barbeque, held in their fantastic home and garden,...as always THANK YOU !!
Also thanks to everyone who helps make today a brilliant day.
Please see photo, that really show why we have a great koi club...
www.flickr.com//photos/64020671@N04/sets/72157627271375760/show/
Thanks
Ian
Wednesday July 20th A special night at Dave and Dianes fantastic pond and garden, hosted by
Yumi KOi, Mike Snaden
PHOTO LINK AS BELOW !
www.flickr.com/photos/64020671@N04/sets/72157627121516875/
What a great night at crouch valley. Wednesday 20th July, we had the double pleasure of holding our club night at Dave and Dianne spectacular Garden and ponds
Dave is a legend , for his water quality and healthcare for his spectacular collection of fish. Dianne, has set a stage to show the ponds with fantastic, tropical gardens and great hospitality. Together they opened up there house to over 75 members to see an amazing set up.
We had the chance to see Daves main pond, wildlife pond, and his growing on and hospital facilities.
Tonight was made even more special as Mike Snaden of Yume Koi came to Dave and Dianne house to host a mini master class.
Late last year Dave purchased from Mike several fish at a very early age, and tonight, Mike was going to give his opinion of each fish in there first year, and sex the fish.
Mike clearly showed us and explained what we should look for in sexing these Koi, but being so young, this is not always possible.
The goods news for Dave , his fish are doing fantastic and we all look forward in following the development of these one year olds.
The rest of the evening Mike hosted an open panel, to over 75 members, and questions where raised from, filters, food, water quality.
Last a huge thanks to Mike, Dave and Dianne and all the members of the Couch Valley Section that make our club such a great koi Section.
CLUB NIGHT
Wenesday 15th June
JO SO PRODUCTS - Yorkie
CLOSED SHOW 2011
The 2011 was sponsored "TC KOI, Hill House Koi, Avenue Fisheries, and Kusuri Products" and koi2000
A massive thanks to them all for the generosity and assistance they all provided.
The 2011 Closed show was held at our regular venue, at the South Essex Garden Show ,
at Barlylands Farm, on the 11th and 12th of June 2011.
AS always a excited team arrive on the Thursday to the show ground to set up the show
This year our pitch had been moved that brought problems for water access and drainage. Alan Hurley and his team quickly resolved the problems
It was not long before the Crouch Valley members had the marquees up and vats had been organised, and was ready to fill with water.
This year the show has been modified to include extra vats for exhibitors this now pushed the number up to 20 vats.
A big thank you must go to the members that give up their time from work and schedules during the day to get the show setup
The second day the general public had some Koi to view and a big thanks to Members who assisted on the Friday
Friday Evening the Show fish arrive and a late night was had, but a big thanks to the Team that Stayed over and made sure the fish healthcare was looked after and the security of the site was upheld.
The Big Day is the Saturday, many thousands of visitors are attracted to the garden show and all are eager to view our Koi.
Darren Hepple would have attracted new members, when he talks with passion about the benefits of a Koi Club,
Once again we stayed with the Crouch closed show size allocation for the Koi, where as the BKKS will have 8 sizes of Koi we only have 3, These Koi sizes are as follows.
Size 1 & 2 are our size 1, size 3 & 4 is our size 2 and finally size 5, 6, 7 & 8 is our final size 3.
The BKKS provided a fantastic team of judges that worked hard to find our champion.
AS always we would like to thank them both for their time and efforts, thank you.
Also on location was representation from the HSC, once more we would like to thank them for their time and dedication for the welfare of the Koi, thank you.
Saturday Night is a great social time, A thanks to Dave Baker Darren and myself for the BBQ , but also to all the other committee members that make sure all the food and drinks is there, fresh and ready.
SUNDAY
Day four arrived and it was time for the results, so here are the awards as follows.
Grand Champion - Kohaku – Ryan Peschino
Mature Champion - Kohaku – Peter Barnes
Adult Champion - Kohaku – Paul Timothy
Baby Champion - Kohaku - Peter Barnes
Best Vat – NO. 7 Laurence Harvey
Best in size 1 Kohaku Peter Barnes
Best in size 2 Kohaku Paul Timothy
Best in size 3 Kohaku Paul Timothy
Best in size 4 Sanke Peter Barnes
Lastly a massive thanks to Alan as show Chairman, and Deputy Andy, and not forgetting all of the members for the massive support.
Looking forward to 2012, when I hope the weather is a bit better for us !
Many thanks
Ian
CVKC May Auction 2011
Sunday 8th May viewing at 9 30 bidding from 11.00
As normal the Crouch Valley Koi Club will be holding it's spring auction, this will be held at the normal venue of Barleylands Farm in Essex.
Expected 300 lots this year of koi for all budgets
Re: CVKC May Auction 2011
Barleylands Farm, Barleylands Road, Billericay CM11 2UD
See you next Sunday
Crouch Valley will be having a Disco/buffet on the Saturday 9th April.
This will be held at Wickford Cricket Club, Swan Lane, Wickford Essex.
Please contact Dizzy Ray for deatils and a ticket
Meeting 16th March 2011
KEVEIN ELLIS
Crouch Valley where delighted to have a Talk from Kevin to give us a truthfull insight into his hobby.
Kevin, Thank you
On behalf of the club committee and the members I would like to thank Christine Woolger for a great night, A well organised and understandable presentation on Koi Appreciation, not Koi Assasination 
Great to go over a variety of the finer points and some of the basic obvious points when looking and selecting koi and finally judging them in shows.
With another packed house it was a great start to the 2011 Crouch Valley Koi Club year.
Once again a big thanks to Christine,
WISHING ALL CROUCH MEMBERS AND NON MEMBERS A FANTATSIC HOLIDAY SEASON
Crouch Valley Koi Club Crouch Valley Photo Competition 2010
With 139 Koi entered for this competition and hours of hard work and effort by both Lisa & Ash we should be in for a great night of fun.
This night will be a perfect night for non members to come along and sit back, relax and enjoy a typical Crouch Valley night.
15th December 2010
This Meeting starts at 8pm, and will be held at:
Laindon Community Centre
Aston Road
Basildon
Essex SS15 6NX
A VERY LATE UPDATE
Another great night. Massive thanks to George "SHORTSTOP" For his excellent koi quizz
No names mentioned but some koi keepers need to brush up on the most basic koi knowledge !!
Wednesday 17th November Meeting update
Just to inform all members that the November meeting will be George's Quiz, this will be brought forward one month as this was suppose to be in December but as we have no Photographic competition yet then this will now be in November's meeting.
November 2010 Club Meeting It is with sadness that I have to inform you that the Crouch Valley Photo Competition which was to be held on the 17th November will not be going ahead. There WILL be a meeting of course but it will not be as planned, it will more than likely be an open forum unless advised otherwise by the committee. This decission has not come easy, huge amounts of efforts have been carried out by Lisa & Ash on collecting all the photographs, they have travelled far and wide covering 300 miles or so to obtain everything, and had delivered everything on time in perfect order, so a quick thank you to both of them for their efforts. It appears that there has been some miss communication between the ranks at the JSC and a Judge has not been allocated for this competition and therefore has caused a huge delay in reviewing these photgraphs and judging them, and then finally getting them back to me in a timely manner in which I would have placed them on a presentation to be screened on the night of the meeting. I hope that further down the road these photographs can be arranged and judged as these nights at the Crouch Valley go down very well with the members, and are a fun night on our calendar schedule.
Members dont forget to go and see our sponsers and all recomended dealers in our links section...above during the winter.
It may be cold but the dealers still need our support !!
Our meeting just get better and better !! Join the crouch and you will see why !!! Reason last night was the Muppets Tour talk. Massive thanks Gazz and Bob, you are wasted sparkys, you should go into stand up . Seriously, A great talk on their trip to Southern Japan. I learned loads and realy now want to experiance buying a koi in Japan from the breader direct. From all the crouch Members thank you ! PS no pictures as left camera at home
September meeting Wednesday 15th September at Laindon community centre 8.00pm
A fantastic talk on a trip to Japan, known as the muppets tour...another great night and fish tales
A big thank you to all clubmembers for all the help this weekend, and most importantly to all people who purchase from this event.
Next Auction May 2011..start saving !
This Sunday the 5th september is auction day at barlands
Put it in your diary's, Sunday 5th September the Autumn Auction
About 250 fish, plus dry goods, held at the regular Barlylands Complex in Essex
This year we know some realy big fish will be offered, and we will have a section selling some used filters.
Members help is needed from 12.00 pm on the Saturday, and gates open for viewing at 9.30 on Sunday with prompt start to bidding at 11.00
If any Crouch members only require to put fish in, Contact Graham Hall
Barleylands Road,
Billericay,
Essex CM11 2UD
Meeting 18th September
Last night Crouch Valley Koi Club had JoSo Products visit us for a talk, Steve and Sharon have over 12 years of Koi keeping experience and providing professional advice on all your Koi keeping requirements.
Steve's talk was on the art of pond building, we have all been there building our first pond and some people have sat back after the completion and thought I should have done that different or even at a later date thinking I wish I had taken that advice.
Well last nights talk covered most of the pitfalls in pond building.
We discussed slab base block built ponds over liner, we talked about mesh builds and the best place to use them, there seemed to be no angle not covered with Steve and the chat went down very well with the members.
I personally found it interesting as I am currently in a build myself and listening to some free advice from a respected pond builder has gave me a little more confidence to take a few more things on myself.
There is plenty going on with JoSo Products at the moment, what with pond builds and a shop extension. But im sure once this has all been completed we can return the favour and pop down to see Steve and Sharon to give them our support.
On behalf of the members thank you once again, dont forget the laptop next time Steve
If you have any questions on the services Steve and Sharon provide please visit their website here www.josoproducts.com
Many thanks Graham M for the Article !
Sunday 5th September Autum Auction
At Barlylands farm Essex
Put it in your Diary, another chance to see about 250 members fish for Auction.
Meeting 18th August 2010
JoSo Products and the art of pond building
This Meeting starts at 8pm, and will be held at the community hall.
TRIP TO SOUTH EAST KENT
A massive thanks to all the South East Kent club
Their Ponds and hospitality where fantastic, and even provided sheep for us to play with.
Thanks Dizzy for another well organized day.
Just under 40 members really enjoyed a day at spectacular gardens, ponds and food !!
Crouch Valley Thanks YumeKoi
On Wednesday 21st July Crouch valley Koi Club had the pleasure of Mike Snaden from Yume Koi, the talk covered many areas like achieving and understanding Jumbo Koi, Mike's procedures on Koi quarantine and where he stands with blood testing.
There was over 55 Crouch Valley members who attended and also some very welcome guests, and for two and a half hours we were amazed as Mike gave a fantastic presentation. So much detailed and exciting information was provided, which will make interesting discussion for many weeks and months.
I think the proof of Mike's fantastic name in the industry was shown, when he showed a DVD of his amazing collection of the highest grade koi for sale in the UK.
Mike A big thanks from all the Crouch Valley members and also to club members Dave and Dianne for looking after Mike whilst he was down in sunny Essex.
Own Pond Visit Sunday 11th July 2010
Another Fantastic day.
Massive thanks to all people who opened their pods and gardens, and a very special thanks to Chris and "Super " kerry for the food and hospitality at their beautiful home
This is why we have the BEST CLUB in the UK !!!!!
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Crouch Valley visit to East Coast Koi Club (Sunday 4th July)
A massive thanks to EAst Coast Koi for their Wonderful , Ponds , Gardens and hospitality on a glorious summers day.
Ray (Dizzie) a brilliant day and many thanks to you. A record 47 members where on teh coach, next year we will need two coaches !!!
JULY MONTHLY MEETING
21st July Crouch Valley have a visit from Mike Snaden of from Yumekoi a meeting not to miss, meeting starts at 8pm .
At same Venue Laindon in Laindon, but held in the larger hall as we are expecting such large numbers
'Essex Section BKKS Koi Show'
Supporting our Freinds at the Essex Section
Essex Section 30th koi show to be held on Saturday & Sunday 17th & 18th July 2010.
They have moved to a new venue @ BARLEYLANDS, BARLEYLANDS ROAD, BILLERICAY, ESSEX CM11 2UD
Crouch Valley visit to East Coast Koi Club (Sunday 4th July)
To all booked in members pickup is at Laindon Comunity Centre (where we have meeting) 8.00am sharp
Will be another great day !!
OWN POND VISISTS JULY 11th
The Summer Club own pond visist is nearly here. Full details of who gardens are open will be coming soon.,
WE do know that that the BBQ its at Chris and Kerry,s house and appreciate them opening there house and garden.
FUll adress will be made available to members.
2009 GROW AND SHOW RESULTS
Largest Koi went to Jim Tyral 19 1/2 inches
And voted best koi by members was Michael Thompson
Well done to all !!
This Wednesdays club night is NOT at Laindon but at Alan and Linda house, if you need details please
phone one of the comitee for the address.
Also if anyone has a grow and show from last year, remember to bring as will be judged this Wednesday too.
Other Majors
Crouch Valley Closed Show 2010 Baby Champion
Kohaku - Peter Barnes
Crouch Valley Closed Show 2010 Adult Champion
Gin Rin - Chris Bellinger
Crouch Valley Closed Show 2010 Mature Champion
Kohaku - Ryan Persechino
Not long now until our closed show, please get your tickets. I fyou pre buy they are 2.50 or 5.oo on gate . All members and must have tickets .
A fantastic day Koi , plants and great friends and company !!
Another wonderful day has been had
South East Kent started the day with a broken down coach but , the day got much better !
Dizzie met and chauffeured them from the passenger seat of the coach to some of the best Ponds in Essex !
Fantastic Pond , Fish People and Food !!
A massive thanks to all crouch team and members who organized , opened ponds and fed us all
So much looking forward to visiting South East Kent soon !
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Another night another great Club night !
Roy Isted of Healthy Koi, gave a fantastic talk on all aspects of Koi Health.
51 yes 51 members, listened to Ray, asked questions and talked KOI !!
Ray has a great website that talks and gives information on Koi health.
As always Many thanks Ray, and look forward to seeing you soon.
www.healthykoi.co.uk
Dont forget to check the BKKS website for some great articles on Crouch Valley and News from the BKKS
www.bkks.co.uk/
Not long now to another great evening . Next Wednesday being the 19th May
'Koi Health', by
Roy Isted
See you all at 8.00
Many thanks
Ian
On behalf of all the Members of the Club, as massive thank you to all buyers who purchased koi yesterday
We realy appreciate your support, and look forward to seeing you either as a New member or back again in September.
THANK YOU
AUCTION 9th May 2010
Barleylands Farm, Barleylands Road, Billericay, Essex. CM11 2 UD
There are usually about 250 'lots' for sale at each auction and they range from large to small koi at prices to suit all pockets, depending on the popularity of the 'lot'.
Each koi for sale has been 'benched' by our expert team for size and variety. All koi on sale are from members ponds, you have to be a member to sell but buying is open to anyone, just get a bidding card and you are on the way to enjoying some beautiful koi.
As with all our events Koi health is paramount to the running of this event. As a BKKS section we maintain the highest standards in line with current guidelines.
All buyers are provided with strong cardboard boxes to transport the koi safely. All we ask you to do is make sure you have enough space to fit them in for a safe journey to their new homes......your pond
Next Club Meeting April 21st
OPEN FORUM
Ask a question, listen or chat...its our night
Club Meeting
Wednesday 17th March
'Microscopes'
Talk and practical sesion by L J Smith
Another great club night . A big thank you to Son and Father Smith.
48 members listened , learnt and laughed, on a fantastic talk on the use of a microscope.
This was a presentation to encourage members to be comfortable with this tool and then use
it to its best use.
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Tickets now available (ask Alan for special Members price)
Saturday 13th March " 20 th Aniiversary Party"
Thank you everyone for a great 2oth Anniversary party. Again big thanks to the commitee who worked hard to make sure all was perfectly planned.
Great company, lots of food and free flowing drinks, all made for a great night.
The raffle was well received with a 2 LCD TV being first prize.
A big thanks to all the donations for the raffle from who all deserve a big mention
NTL LABS
Fuji Fish food
Utopia Koi
Hill House Koi
Kusuri
KOI MAG
KOICARP MAG
Other members donations
Now looking forward to the 25th !
Please click on link for lots of photo's
http://pbckt.com/sB.p3L
Club Meeting
Wednesday 17th March at 8.00pm
'Microscopes'
Talk and practical sesion by L J Smith
An opportunity to bring your microscope along and get it checked out.
'WINNERS'
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We where delighted to be named "Koi Club of the year " from 2009 by Koi Magazine readers.
Club Night 17th Feb 2010
A big thanks to Paul from NT Labs for last nights talk, nice to listen to what the guys at NT Labs are up to with there range of Koi foods, the MediKoi Probiotic range has given us all food for thought 
Again it was nice to see the members turn up on what was another cold and murky night, I lost count in the hall at 42 when Lisa brought out the tray of cakes
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