The AFI’s Second National Awards Ceremony The stunning Welsh capital city of Cardiff was the location chosen for this year’s AFI UK Fencing Awards ceremony held in October. This was the second annual gathering to present awards for excellence and achievements to those involved in the world of fencing by the Association of Fencing Industries. […]Read More

Our 2024 golf day will be held as normal at The Belfry Golf Club on Thursday 16th May. We will be playing on the prestigious PGA Championship course. Once again the day will be sponsored by W & P Consultancy. W & P Consultancy has been run by Phil Emsley for 8 years. With over […]Read More

APF 2024 Invites Sponsors for the 2024 British Tree Climbing Competition and Arb Workers Zone. APF 2024 will take place at Ragley Estate on the 19, 20, and 21st of September 2024. Around half of the 23000 visitors to the show regard themselves as working in arboriculture. The event is therefore very important for companies […]Read More

The first ever Irish fencing competition, sponsored by Tornado and Scanpole, took place at the start of July with five teams of two contractors from across Ireland taking part. Hosted by the Clonmel Show in County Tipperary, the event involved the construction of 30 metres of fencing with a ‘slight’ corner and an angle strut/prop […]Read More

The Dura 2 fence posts, stocked by McVeigh Parker, continue to come in for high praise with the latest glowing testimonial coming from Matthew Cooper, owner of East Kent Yard & Paddock Maintenance. Matthew commented “I have been installing Horserail for some years now which has a 30-year warranty. I also install a lot of Xfence equine […]Read More

Exhibitor bookings for APF 2024, the UK’s largest exhibition for the forestry, woodland, arboriculture, fencing, trees, and timber sectors in the UK are now open. The show will take place once again at Ragley Estate, Alcester, Warks on the 19/20/21st of September 2024. In 2022 320 exhibitors and over 23,000 visitors attended the event and […]Read More

The 2023 UK Fencing Championships, held in July at the Driffield Show, proved to be a big success. A team from Herefordshire-based MJ Evans Fencing taking the honours ahead of Dan Critchlow Fencing of Derbyshire and John Morgan Fencing / J A Bradley Services. The nine competing teams were assessed and marked by judges Gary […]Read More

The Fencing News Golf Day took place recently on the PGA National course at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham. Sponsored once again by our friends at the W&P Consultancy Ltd, the event proved to be a great success. Everyone played 18 holes over a Stableford format and then gathered for the awards and a […]Read More

This year’s event takes place on Wednesday 19th July at the Driffield Show. A total of eight teams have already confirmed their entry into the competition with further two spots available for teams interested in taking part. The event is being kindly supported and sponsored by a range of high profile fencing sector companies that […]Read More

Tornado Wire hosted the recent AFA and AFI Fencing Best Practice Day at their manufacturing factory in Millom, over 100 contractors took advantage of the free-to-attend event. The day kicked off with introductions from Peter Hogg, CEO of Tornado Wire, and Pete Clark, CEO of the AFI, after which, one group headed off for a […]Read More