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:
2023 – Jane Craigie
2022 – Tim Price
2021 – George Chancellor
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
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