Society Meetings

UK Meetings

Two, three-day meetings are held each year, in May and September or October.

The meetings are held at various locations throughout Great Britain, so that distance to meetings is not a prohibiting factor against attendance. In the last few years meetings have ranged from Exeter and Wye in the south through Shropshire, Chester, Bangor, Scarborough and Ambleside to Dumfries and Edinburgh in the north and Belfast in the west. The meetings are recognised for the quality of information presented and their friendliness.

The contents of meetings reflect the wide and varied interests of the membership in all aspects of sheep health and production. Details of a sample meeting is available to demonstrate the range of subjects covered. Wherever possible, "bolt-on" continuing professional development (CPD) courses are offered at these meetings.

sample meeting

Members may be accompanied by their husbands, wives or partners for whom an alternative programme of events can be found within the area.

International and European Meetings

Every four years the Society supports an International Sheep Veterinary Conference through advertising and supporting arrangements for travel to the conference.

The 7th International conference will be held in Stavanger, Norway (up to 1700 persons!) from Friday 12th to Tuesday 16th of June 2009. Details will appear here as they become available. For more information please follow this link. In addition to the meeting itself, there will also be a pre-conference tour of countries surrounding Norway, and more details can be found here.

Previous International meetings have been held in South Africa (2001) and in Crete (2005).

4th ISVC- South Africa 2001

5th ISVC- Crete 2005

Meetings are also arranged with groups on the mainland of Europe every 4 years. To date, the Society has visited Holland, Norway, Spain and Ireland. These meetings have proved very popular and are a most instructive way of expanding local knowledge. These meetings occur midway between the International meetings with the last one in Hanover 2007.