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The NFED is a unique central resource for all equestrian information based in New Forest & covering all of Central Southern England. It exists in digital form only, but you are welcome to make hard copies of any sections that you may find useful. |
The site is owned by Claire & Steve Kitcher, run by Steve with input & advice from gratefully received from many others. ( Please see the "Meet the Team" page.) Having a single, full time administrator/editor/web editor means that if you have a problem or query, you won't be passed around and can always talk to Steve. As the site is run from home, there are no set office hours & you are welcome to call 365 days a year up until 9.00pm. If we are not at home, you can always leave a message or call the mobile. |
Anyone with an interest or love of horses, ponies, riding or driving. Particular those living in Central Southern England. |
No. Although we breed New Forest ponies ourselves and are always pleased to promote or help anyone involved in NF ponies or commoning, the NFED is for all equestrian information. |
We are based at Sway in the the New Forest, but the NFED covers the whole of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, the Isle of Wight & well beyond. The classifieds regularly receive enquiries from all around the country & mainland europe. |
Claire's first art Website was designed, built & launched in 1998 by myself. At the same time, I started producing the schedule for a friend, Sally Mace, who was secretary for the Bashley Horse show. It seemed a logical step to put the Bashley horse show on the Internet along with a schedule for downloading. Even though it was early days, the feed back was very good, so it seemed a good idea to offer the service to other local shows. The NFED has grown from this. |
Go to the directory, click on the "Submit New Listing" link, fill in & submit the form. |
New categories can be added if required. |
Standard listing cost £40 for 12 months. Full affiliate webpages are available for £10 per month, including a directory listing & preferential positioning in the directory A to Z, monthly updates & your own website address (NFED Subdomain). See the Business Promotion for full details. |
The Business Directory was free of charge for 8 years with the intention of giving a fully comprehensive directory of equestrian services in the area and providing the very best service to our users. Although it sounds a great idea, it is not that easy. Keeping a directory up to date is a very difficult task when you do not have regular contact with the individuals or companies listed. A directory that is not kept up to date can cause more problems than no directory at all. By charging a nominal amount we have regular contact with all advertisers & can provide a far better service, whilst allowing them to take control of their listings for regular updates. Anyone can still add their name to the Phone Book free of charge. |
| The Business Directory has always run this way giving top position to the oldest & most loyal advertisers. Unlike the classifieds which are browsed regularly, people tend to go to the directory looking for a definite service in a particular area & will therefore take more time to find the correct person or business. The listings are listed alphabetically in the advertiser A to Z, the latest listing are also listed on the NFED homepage & can be searched, so a lower listing is not a disadvantage. As listings expire, all other listings move up the list. |
| Approved Directory entries are normally posted within 48 hours of payment has being received |
By joining the mailing list, you will receive the latest NFED updates & important news for the area by Email. You can unsubscribe whenever you like. Click Here for further details |
The NFED page on Facebook facebook.com/nfed.uk allows Facebook users to receive the latest news, forthcoming events, site updates & features ads directly to their Facebook news feed either on their PC or mobile phone. To join in, just make sure that you are logged into you Facebook account & click the "Like" button below, or "Send" to let a friend know.
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If you find the NFED useful please tell everyone you know!! If you know someone who is organising an event, please make sure it is listed on the diary & if possible get them to submit a schedule, followed by results. You can download, print out & display a poster or logo in your car, at your yard or local tackshop. If you have any ideas for the NFED, want to become more involved or have something you can offer, please get in touch.
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No but we are happy to host sections for non profit organisations that are of interest to the NFED visitors. |
Yes, see Affiliate pages. |
Apart from Forum Membership, there is no NFED membership & it is open to everyone |
The NFED has grown into a very large site. We have done our best to make navigation logical, but if you still have problems have a look at the site map, or use the search facilities. |
Yes, generally very successful, see the Testimonials for a selection of users comments. The site receives thousands of visitors everyday, most of whom have a look through the classifieds. A lot of work goes on behind the scenes on search engine positioning and cross linking. We also subscribe to the Google adwords, paying for sponsored links on Google & paid ads & sponsored stories on Facebook. Featured ads are published on Facebook & Twitter via RSS feed. This said, we cannot work miracles: Providing the animal or item is saleable, it is up to the advertiser to create a good advert, post a good photograph with the correct price. If we could guarantee sales, we would be very rich! |
The majority of approved adverts are completely free of charge, whether a an advert requires payment or not depends on the type of advert & the value. Please see the price list below, further details can be seen in the Classifieds Guidelines & FAQ's Advert Prices: The standard insertion fee for an NFED Classified advert submitted online is £8.99. The standard fee applies to:
Providing the guidelines have been followed, the advert will be approved when the payment has been received. The advert details will be removed from the database if payment is not received within two days. The standard fee may be waived under certain conditions to give a free advert, see Guideline 4 for further details & conditions.
To qualify for a free advert.. Anyone found to be deliberately abusing or attempting to cheat the system, falsely advertising, being dishonest or causing problems, will have any existing free adverts removed without notice & will no longer be eligible further for free adverts. |
The NFED is a business & has to be run as such to continue. All websites cost money to run, although smaller sites/hobby sites can be run very cheaply, as they grow they need far more resources, server space, bandwidth & take more time to manage, this does become expensive & has to be paid for. All successful sites have these expenses but how they are funded may differ. The most popular way of funding is corporate & banner advertising. This can be very distracting & we consider unfair to advertisers. If an advertiser posts an advert, the viewer should be able to see the advert without having to read other unrelated adverts, Google ads, ect; we therefore keep corporate advertising to an absolute minimum with banners only available to a few advertisers local to the area & of interest to the site users. Premium rate phone calls are used by some classified sites. The viewer has to contact the advertiser by phone, the phone call is diverted through a premium rate number & the proceeds pay for the site. To use this method the site really has to have national coverage to generate enough income, this wouldn’t work for a locally based specialist site such as the NFED. It would also remove the option of Email or text as all enquiries would have to come through the premium rate line. Commission charges are used by auction sites such as EBay. To run this system, the site must know the final selling price to be able to calculate the commission owed. This system again would not work for us as sales take place off site. Most of the NFED including all events, schedule downloads, forums & the majority of approved classifieds are completely free of charge. Advertisers posting wanted ads or selling goods (excluding equines) up to £99.99 pay nothing. As a comparison, the equivalent item sold on EBay for £99.99 would cost £1.00 insertion fee, plus £9.99 commission (10% of final price) making a total of £10.99. For goods costing £100 or over, we charge a fixed insertion fee of £8.99. Again as a comparison, EBay will charge a £1.30 insertion fee, plus 10% of the final price up to £40.00, so a saddle sold for £400 will cost the standard £8.99 on NFED or £41.30 on EBay. In conclusion, the NFED has to pay its way to survive. Over the years we have looked into many ways of achieving this & consider the present method to be reasonable & fair to all advertisers. It is safe & secure & keeps the site uncluttered, while offering the maximum flexibility for advertisers & site users. |
Please see Photo Help for full details, examples, online photo resizer & photo editor. |
What's New only includes site updates that are carried out manually. Automated updates such as: Classified ads, Forum Postings or Event diary entries are not included, but may be included in the RSS feeds including Featured Ads. |
Yes, providing it is an open event, non-profit event or show you
are welcome to enter the details in the event diary completely free
of charge. Please remember to include contact details & allow
24 hours before the event is approved & can be seen by the public.
If you would like to have your schedule, entry, sponsorship, form,
etc on the site for downloading, please Email it to the usual address.
Diary events will also appear on the NFED home, Twitter & Facebook
pages 10 days before the day of the event to act as a reminder. |
Email or post the results (on disk) & photos to us & we will set it up for you, free of charge (Email is preferred). Unless by prior arrangement, the maximum number is 16 photos, all results must provided in MS Word or plain text. If you submit photos, it is your responsibility to ensure you have copyright or the photographers permission. |
There are no offices. It is run from our home in Sway, with everyone involved keeping in contact by Email. |
| There are three main ways to provide statistics; hits, visitors & unique visitors. There are currently people using the site.
The graph below shows unique visitors in yellow & page views in orange for the previous seven days.
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The diary is user submitted, it is up to the show or event organisers to enter their own details in the diary. We will enter details if we are aware of an event. |
No, we are in regular contact through the Horsewatch scheme, & we have received several donations from Hampshire Police Authority. This has enabled us to sponsor further shows & therefore publicise the NFED. |
Email the editor with full details & we will gladly correct it for you. |
Email the schedule, we will then add it to the page for you & let the mailing list know it is available. |
Please contact us, it depends on the size of the kitty at the time! |
The results are user submitted, in other words it is up to the show organisers to submit their results to us, we will then post them on results page. Of course, they may not be aware of this free service, so please tell them. |
We are always open to suggestions & welcome your comments through Email or the support forum. The sections that are run for other organisations such as the NFEA & Horsewatch, are run in agreement with the individual committees. There is no committee involved with the NFED & the editor has the final decision as to what is included. |
If your question has not been answered here, Feel free to Contact Us or use the Support Message Board