Yes, I would like to adopt Boost your donation by 25p of Gift Aid for every £1 you donate Finn 1 year adoption £15.00 Eric 1 year adoption £15.00 I would like to Gift Aid this donation. I am Ernie 1 year adoption £15.00 a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay Pit Facts Bud 1 year adoption £15.00 less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax in the current tax year than the amount of Additional donation (optional) £ Gift Aid claimed on all my donations, it is my Total £ responsibility to pay any difference. • In 1913, there were 70,000 provided power for the -driven working underground. Use of ponies winding gins. Later, they were used Purchaser’s details: Name declined as mechanical-cutting and underground to pull corves and tubs Title (e.g. Miss/Mrs/Mr) Discover Our haulage systems became more of coal along the roadways. Address effective. Name • Drift-mine ponies would come to the & Ponies Address • Horses and ponies are measured surface every day. Gift Aid is reclaimed by us from the tax you in hands. A measures 4 pay for the current tax year. Your address • Breeds varied considerably in is needed to identify you as a current UK inches (10cm). taxpayer. different areas, but both Shetland Postcode • Ponies of different sizes were used in and Welsh ponies were common. Payment Details different parts of the country. Tel No • It was unusual to have mares Cheque Email address (made payable to National Coal • Most deep-mine ponies were stabled underground and were Museum for England Trust Ltd) underground and only came to the generally used, although some stallions Please tick if under 13 years Credit/Debit Card surface for annual holidays or during long were kept. strikes or lockouts. Recipient’s details: Please give card details below: (please also complete this section if applicable) • Different breeds and Card No Title (e.g. Miss/Mrs/Mr) sizes of horse or pony were used underground Valid from Name depending on the task Address to be done. At the pit Expires bottom, where many tubs had to be kept Cardholder’s name moving, 17 hand horses Postcode could be used. Tel No Cardholder’s signature • At first ponies and horses Email address worked wholly above ground, transporting Please tick if under 13 years If you would like to receive Museum coal for local use and, Please deliver gift membership to: e-newsletters, please visit at many small mines, @PitPoniesNCMME Me Gift recipient www.ncm.org.uk/signup PLEASE SAVE OUR HERITAGE www.ncm.org.uk/ponies How we treat your personal information Finn Ernie The personal information you provide You have the right to object to the when adopting a pony will be used to processing of your personal data for the thank you for your support, explain how Trust’s legitimate interest. your donation will be used, process your You have the right to request a copy of the adoption, and to send out membership personal data the Museum holds about you, information and newsletters. Our lawful the right to request that any inaccuracies basis for processing your personal in your data be put right, and if you are information is the Trust’s legitimate interest dissatisfied in any way with the way we in seeking to fundraise in support of the have handled your personal information, Museum’s charitable objectives. If you decide the right to lodge a complaint with the Bud Eric Information Commissioner’s Office to gift aid your adoption, we will share (www.ico.org.uk). Enquiries should be your data with HMRC for the purposes of directed in the first instance to the Meet the Ponies claiming back gift-aid. Our lawful basis for Museum’s Director of Finance, Planning doing this is the Trust’s legal obligation. For and Performance at the Museum’s address our financial records, we will securely retain below or by email to [email protected]. Finn details of your donations for 6 financial For further information please visit Finn was born in 2008 and joined Had they been born a century earlier, years following your most recent donation. www.ncm.org.uk/privacy-policy. us in 2010. He is our gentle they would more than likely have How you can help Clydesdale giant, standing over been used as pit ponies in their 18 hands high. Horses of his size native Wales. Our original pit pony You can adopt Bud, Eric, Ernie and Finn, either for yourself or as a and type were used in the mining harnesses fit them perfectly. generous gift for a friend or family member. Your kind support helps to industry to pull heavy loads of coal pay for their feed, bedding, tack, rugs, fencing, shelter, shoeing and foot Bud and move materials on the surface. trimming, dental care and veterinary bills. Your donation really makes a They were also used to deliver coal Bud is the newest member of our to houses before the introduction of equine team. He was born in 2013 difference to their daily lives. motor vehicles. and joined us here at the Museum in 2017. At this age, many years ago, he Your adoption pack will be sent out by post and will contain a personalised Eric and Ernie would have been ready to start his adoption certificate, colour photograph and factsheet for your chosen horse Please return this form to: Both of our boys stand 12 hands working life as a pit pony. Bud stands or pony, and an enamel pony badge. We will also send you a copy of the Pit high. Born in 2004, they endured 13 hands high and is originally from Pony Express, a newsletter especially for the valued members of our adoption National Coal Mining Museum for England Trust Ltd, an unhappy start to their lives. the Durham area. In the north-east, Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF4 4RH Abandoned on winter grazing with ponies were still working in deep- scheme, twice a year by post. For under 13s, communications will be addressed nothing to eat, they were eventually mines underground as late as 1994. care of their parent/guardian. If you are gifting an adoption for someone Tel: 01924 848806 Email: [email protected] taken in by the RSPCA after one Bud, Eric, Ernie and Finn are all other than yourself, we will offer the recipient the opportunity to opt-out of of their field companions passed broken to ride and drive, and enjoy receiving further communications from us when they are first notified of the away. After rehabilitation, they were Who we are being exercised on the Museum site. gift adoption. rehomed to the Museum in 2007. They also take part in onsite and The National Coal Mining Museum for England Trust is the data controller of your personal Eric and Ernie have never worked in offsite events and demonstrations, Bud, Eric, Ernie and Finn can usually be seen in the stable yard between 10am information, and is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under reference coal mines, but Welsh ponies just like ensuring that the important part Z7150177. The National Coal Mining Museum for England Trust is registered in England and them were commonly used in deep that horses and ponies played in and 3pm daily. Outside of these times, they can mostly be found stretching Wales as a Company Limited by Guarantee No. 1702426 and is a Registered Charity No. mines to pull tubs of coal and supplies the in the coal mining industry is their legs and grazing in the fields around the Museum site. 517325. VAT Registration No. 457 548 314. Registered office: Caphouse Colliery, New Road, along the underground roadways. never forgotten. Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF4 4RH.