Ballywalter Young Farmers Club

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We are an organisation ran by young people for young people! We meet every other Friday evening in Greyabbey Village Hall.

You dont have to be a farmer, to be a young farmer 👩‍🌾 Young Farmers' Clubs of Ulster (YFCU) was founded in 1929 by W.S Armour with the first club being established in Limavady. Over 80 years later, YFCU is still going from strength to strength with approx 60 clubs throughout Northern Ireland. YFCU represents the interests and aspirations of approx 3,000 members aged 12 - 25 years of age. A further 3,500 rural young people are estimated to take part in and benefit from local Young Farmers' Club activities and events. At the heart of the YFCU is an annual calendar of internally and externally accredited courses, competitions and events that are delivered under one of three main categories: agriculture; culture and the arts; and sports and social events. The calendar is designed to ensure that the programme of work offers something for everyone, from all backgrounds and abilities and at all levels of the association. Our programme of agri and rural development related activities (e.g. dairy, beef and sheep stockjudging, silage making and assessment, fencing, machinery handling and soil assessment) is complemented by a broader culture, sports and arts programme including public speaking, group debating, tag rugby, girls football and drama festivals all of which members enjoy participating in. In addition to the annual calendar of activities, we also provide a wide range of awareness campaigns such as our rural road safety campaign which aims to raise awareness of road safety amongst our members.

29/10/2026

🎤 PUBLIC SPEAKING FINAL

On Tuesday evening, 7 members travelled to St Mary’s Grammar School to compete in the YFCU Public Speaking Final!

A huge well done to everyone who took part throughout the competition and to all those who earned their place in the final. Special congratulations to our members on their fantastic achievements:

🥉 Kate Coulter – 3rd place in the 16–18 Prepared category
🥈 Poppy Heyes – 2nd place in the 16–18 Impromptu category

19/10/2026

🎃🏸 HALLOWEEN BADMINTON 🏸🎃

We had a great night on Friday for our Halloween Badminton! Everyone enjoyed plenty of matches before finishing off with a favourite classic, round-the-net game!

There were some brilliant fancy dress costumes on show and plenty of fun throughout the night! 👻

Thanks to everyone who came along! A great night was had by all!

14/10/2026

💐 FLORAL ART HEATS 💐

Last night, County Down’s Floral Art heats took place in Dromore High School, with this year’s theme being “Seasons on the Farm” 🌸

A massive well done to everyone who took part, with some absolutely incredible displays on show! 🤩

Results as follows:

12–14 age group
🥈 2nd – Jonah Gowdy, Ballywalter
🏅 4th – Bailie Anderson, Ballywalter

14–16 age group
🥈 2nd – Anna McDougall, Ballywalter
🏅 4th – Cahlie Boyd, Ballywalter

16–18 age group
🥇 1st – Isabella Graham, Ballywalter
🥈 2nd – Poppy Heyes, Ballywalter

18–21 age group
🥇 1st – Lauren Taylor, Ballywalter

25–30 age group
🥇 1st – Lucinda McKeag, Ballywalter

Congratulations to everyone who placed, and a special well done to those who achieved 1st place and have secured their place in the NI finals! 🙌💛

13/10/2026

🎃👻 FRIDAY NIGHTS MEETING: Serving Up A Scare 👻🎃

📍 Where: Ballywalter Presbyterian Church Hall
📅 When: This Friday night
⏰ Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
🎭 Fancy Dress: Encouraged (the scarier the better! 👀)

👟 Important: Please make sure to wear your trainers as you’ll be keeping active throughout the night!

📝 This is also the last opportunity to return membership forms and membership money, so please bring these along if you haven’t already handed them in.

Looking forward to seeing everyone there for a frightfully good night! 🎃👻🏸

12/10/2026

📸🎉 More photos from our 70th Junior Club Anniversary Dinner at Harrison’s in Greyabbey

12/10/2026

✨🎉 Ballywalter Junior Young Farmers Club celebrated their 70th anniversary on Saturday 10th October in Harrison’s of Greyabbey Restaurant

To celebrate, past and present members, past and vice presidents and friends, gathered for a white w**e reception.

Catching up for a chat and looking over old photographs and club memorabilia before a beautiful 4 course dinner.

The anniversary cake was made by club member Rachael McCracken and her mother, and was officially cut by twice past president Isobel Harrison, and junior club leader Oliver Patton.

Guest speaker was senior member and
YFCU president Kristina Fleming.
Compere for the evening was club president Richard Harrison who proposed a toast to the club birthday, this was replied by Oliver Patton.

We are grateful to Harrison’s restaurant and staff, Rachael McCracken, Newtownards chronicle photrapher Bob Torrens, and our raffle sponsors - Bank of Ireland, CES Quarries, H Miskimmin LTD, Glastry Farm Ice Cream, Francis Watson of Cloughy, Angus Farm Shop, N G Bell and Son LTD, John Kennedy & Partners, James and Pamela Brown.

We also acknowledge the hard work of our senior club secretary Hanna Miskimmin who brought the whole evening together

A great night was had! 🙌🏻

08/10/2026

We can’t wait to welcome everyone to our Junior Clubs 70th Anniversary Dinner this Saturday at Harrison’s! 🎉

We are delighted to say that the dinner is now SOLD OUT!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us and booked a ticket — we are looking forward to celebrating 70 years of Ballywalter YFC Junior Club together! 💙

08/10/2026

A big well done to everyone who took part in the Public Speaking competition! 👏

We are so proud of everyone who represented Ballywalter YFC, especially those who placed in their sections🏆

Well done to everyone who took part and gave it their best — you should all be proud of yourselves 💙

04/10/2026

🚔 Friday Night at Ballywalter YFC!

What a great evening we had at our meeting on Friday night! We were delighted to welcome the PSNI, who delivered a very informative talk to our members. It was a really valuable evening, giving everyone the opportunity to learn more about the work they do within our local community.

We also had Hanna giving our new members some information about the wide range of competitions and opportunities available through Young Farmers. It was great to introduce our newer members to everything they can get involved in throughout the year, from competitions to activities and events! 🌟

A huge thank you to the PSNI for taking the time to come along and speak to our members, and to Hanna for sharing her knowledge and helping our new members get settled in 💙

29/09/2026

🚨 PROGRAMME CHANGE 🚨

There’s been a little change to the programme for this Friday night… it is now “COP OUT” 👀

That’s all we’re saying for now… you’ll have to be there to find out what’s in store!

📍 Greyabbey Village Hall
🕢 Friday 2nd October | 7:30pm

📝 MEMBERSHIP REMINDER 📝
This Friday night will be one of the last opportunities to hand in your Membership Form! If you haven’t returned yours yet, make sure to bring it with you on Friday night and hand it in at the meeting.

See you Friday! 🤩🔍

Address

Ballywalter
BT22

Telephone

07731980895

Website

http://www.yfcu.org/

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