Lucy Fletcher - About Me

Meet Vet Nurse and BGA Ambassador Lucy Fletcher as she gives bares all in her honest biog...

So the wonderful people at BGA have asked that you all get to know me better and actually the start of the year is a great time to do this as an introduction to 2019 and a personal insight of my life!

I live in a stunning little village on the edge of the beautiful Cotswolds ideally located just seven minutes away from work. My home is shared with a number of two and four-legged species!

There is my long suffering husband Ben, my absolute soul mate, he loves to tinker with his Land Rover Defender and any machinery he can find. Jack, my fifteen year old son, god bless him, he’s a typical teenage boy who loves play station and football, sleep and chocolate and India, my four year old crazy, non-stop, drives you insane with her energy daughter.

Then we have Winston the Bull dog, Bradley and Charlie the cats, Dusty and George the beaded dragons, Dave the Chameleon, Tuli the goose and numerous, chickens, ducks and quails. Plus Arizona my TB x and Ed my mini Shetland who live directly next door to work! WOW, that list seems ridiculously long when you write it all down! They are all our family and each and every one of them is special to us.

I have always loved animals and started voluntarily helping out at our local vet surgery from the age of 12 years. I would go in at any spare time I could and assist in anything they would let me do, when I wasn’t at the vets I was at my local stable yard with my pony Ellie (who happens to be Arizona’s Mum) spending Famous Five kind of days there with my fellow pony owners.

I stayed at the vets until I was 16 and then went off to Moreton Morrell to study equine management and my BHS exams. After this I returned to the vets as a full-time nurse until I was 18 and then was offered the opportunity to work for an ex member of the Korean Olympic team and boy was he a perfectionist.

I learnt so much from him but the position was only temporary. Before he returned to France, he asked me along but I wasn’t ready to relocate. To cut a long story short I had various management roles within the equine industry gaining valuable experience with breeding and have had two homebred foals of my own. I’ve worked in hunting, on livery yards, in eventing, dressage, jumping and showing yards and also gained my NVQ level 3 and assessor qualification along the way.

Showing eventually ended up being my forte and managed to gain a first at the Royal International Horse Show and qualify two for HOYS being placed in the top ten in my first season when the owner had been trying to qualify this trio for four plus years!

Sadly, I had a forced break from horses when my first marriage broke down and Jack was very small, I had to take a ‘safe’ job with better hours but finding something I liked was a challenge. I ended up studying beauty therapy and eventually owned a successful salon and the title of business entrepreneur of the year and one of the top 52 businesses in Wychavon.

I taught beauty therapy at Evesham College for a while and set up a beauty training centre for a company in Gloucester but in my heart of hearts I missed the horses. In 2017 my friend asked if I would be interested in a job share at Peasebrook Equine Clinic and this is where it began! The dream job was found! I packed in my teaching and flung myself head first into the nursing and I still absolutely love what I do, I couldn’t think of doing anything else!

So now you know! The journey has been a long, twisty one with various setbacks in between but it brought me to where I wanted to be. If it’s meant to be, it WILL come back to you!
Enough about me!! Looking forward already to writing my next article, until then, keep warm and keep riding!

Lucy x

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