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Coronavirus - BGAJ Charitable Trust
During this period of great uncertainty following the measures put in place to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, a reminder about the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists’ Charitable Trust. The Trust was created to provide help and financial…
Notice of online 2020 AGM
Having initially postponed the Annual General Meeting, which was due to be held along with the Digital Day training event next week, your management Council has decided that the AGM will go ahead but as an online event using a video conference…
Coronavirus - a special message from the BGAJ Chaplain
Dear colleagues I have been Hon Chaplain to the Guild for some time, but I have been a church minister and an agricultural chaplain for many years. As your chaplain I write to offer a listening ear to any member of the Guild in these difficult and…
Home working hacks
Many freelance agricultural journalists and communications professionals will be used to working from home. But the Covid-19 crisis is now forcing it on our entire membership for the foreseeable future. Working from home can sound hugely…
POSTPONED: BGAJ Digital Day
Please note this event has been postponed for public health reasons and will be rearranged at a later date. Perplexed by podcasts? Desperate for digital content? Fear not, as a member of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists you are at…
New look for Power on the Farm Award
Perkins Power on the Farm, the Guild’s longest-running award, has been revamped for a new decade with an exciting new category, a revised prize structure – and a reminder from Perkins that it’s not just machinery writers who can enter. Since its…
Notice of BGAJ AGM
The 77th Annual General Meeting of the British Guild of Agricultural Journalists will be held at 12 noon on Friday, March 27 at NFU Mutual Sports & Social Club (FISCC), Knights Lane, Tiddington, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire CV37 7BJ as…
Memorial service: Edward Hart
A memorial service for former Guild member Edward Hart will take place on Saturday, 7 March, in Shropshire. Edward passed away in 2011 but Rosemary Hart has contacted the Guild after organising the event to celebrate his life. She said: “Edward…
New owners for Pest publications
Lewis Business Media has acquired independent magazine Pest, Pest+ enews and its associated website – until recently published by Foxhill Publishing. Pest founders and Guild members Frances McKim and Helen Riby say the move has secured an…
Joe Watson fund opens IFAJ Congress bursary applications
“The only way you can inform your own opinions and learn, is to see the world through another person’s eyes.” That’s how Mick Roberts (pictured above), the recipient of a bursary from the Joe Watson Legacy Fund, summed up his experiences as a…
