"Bolving? What's that then?" Well, it's mimicking the sound a red deer stag makes (otherwise known as roaring or belling) during the deers' rutting season. For more on this see About Bolving and listen to the sound on the Videos page.

"That's a strange thing to do!" Well, it might sound like a strange pastime but it's something that people in these parts have done for donkey's years. For the last four seasons it's something that has been done to raise money for charity. It's unique, it's popular and people come from miles around to witness the spectacle!

Last year's event at Draydon Rails was a resounding success, filmed by Johnny Kingdom for his TV documentary series ("A Year On Exmoor Series 2"), which was aired Nationally, earlier this year. There were umpteen contestants, over 200 people attended and we raised over £1,790 for  Devon Air Ambulance as Elvis Afanasenko carried off the Phil Ferris Memorial Trophy. This year we're hoping to raise a lot more for the same cause.

Exmoor TV nature documentary maker Johnny Kingdom has agreed to judge this year's competition again. In his time Johnny has been a farm worker, a quarry man, a lumberjack, a poacher and, for over 50 years, Johnny has been the grave digger for his local Parrish, as was his father, who first took Johnny along with aged 12.

For more than 20 years he has filmed the wildlife on Exmoor. He has produced 26 wildlife videos of his own and a two hour audio tape and has appeared on breakfast TV, documentaries and children’s TV, for the BBC, YTV HTV and Channel 4. For the last seven years he has been making series and documentaries for HTV about Exmoor and Somerset wildlife.