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Netherthorpe Communicator of the Year Award

Often referred to simply as “the Netherthorpe”, the Guild’s Communicator of the Year Award is our highest and most prestigious accolade.

The Netherthorpe’s perpetual “crowing cockerel” trophy – displayed at The Farmers Club – is presented annually to the Guild Member who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to agricultural communications.

It is judged from nominations made by Members who identify someone who has contributed to the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about agriculture, in its widest sense, over a number of years.

This can have been by the written word or through editing, by production or presentation on radio and television. It is open to press and public relations members of the Guild, as well as journalists, editors and photographers.

Roll of Honour:

2020 – Michael Williams

2019 – Peter Hill

2018 – Ewan Pate

2017 – Alan Stennett

2016 – Peter Hollinshead

2015 – Dei Tomos

2014 – Steve Mitchell

2013 – Ken Fletcher

2012 – Andrew Arbuckle & David Cousins

2011 – Howard Walsh

2010 – Ross Muir

2009 – Ken Rundle

2008 – Bill Howatson

2007 – Don Gomery

2006 – Guy Smith

2005 – Stephen Howe

2004 – Debbie Beaton

2003 – David Richardson

2002 – Fordyce Maxwell

2001 – David Lloyd

2000 – Derek Watson

1999 – Kenneth Bowe

1998 – Ray Vale

1997 – Ann Rogers

1996 – David Brown

1995 – Harry Hope

1994 – Gerald Henderson

1993 – George Thompson

1992 – Arthur Anderson

1991 – Marcus Oliver

1990 – Derek Fraser

1989 – David Richardson

1988 – Ian Morrison

1987 – Diane Montague

1986 – Allan Wright

1985 – Stuart Seaton

1984 – Denis Chamberlain

1983 – Peter Bell

1982 – Edwin Gillanders

1981 – Godfrey Brown

1980 – Anthony Parkin

1979 – John Cherrington

1978 – Leonard Moxon