GAJ Award eAlert - Netherthorpe 2011

NOMINATIONS DEADLINE – Friday, July 29, 2011

Nominations have opened for the Guild’s most prestigious award, the Netherthorpe, which celebrates the achievements of members in making an outstanding and sustained contribution to agricultural communications.

It is the only Guild award for which members do not enter themselves: it is judged solely on nominations made by fellow Guild members.

The judges will be looking for someone working as a journalist or in commercial communications who has contributed to the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about agriculture in its widest sense, over a number of years. This could be through the written word as a journalist, editor or PR professional, or through the scripting, production or presentation of radio and television broadcasts.

Like winners in previous years, the recipient of the 2011 Netherthorpe Award will receive the splendid crowing cockerel bronze trophy that remains on permanent display in the bar of The Farmers Club in London.

Visit the Netherthorpe Award page of the Guild website to see who has won this accolade in past years, consider the track record of friends and colleagues in the Guild and then download the nominations form to put forward a worthy contender.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, July 29.