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The Farmers Club Pinnacle Awards for Excellence in Business Management
These prestigious annual awards were established in 1998 to foster and encourage the management training of students who are preparing for work in the rural and land-based industries.
They are sponsored by The Farmers Club, ADAS and the Cave Foundation, with help from the Guild of Agricultural Journalists.
Entry for the awards is open to full-time students attending colleges and universities in the United Kingdom which are providing training courses for land-based industries and who will complete a practically based management project during the year of entry for the award.
Students are entered on the recommendation of their college or university, as having undertaken a project of high standard that is suitable for assessment in competition with entries from other students.
All entries are submitted to an initial screening by ADAS, against agreed criteria, which identifies the eight that will go forward for final judging. This judging takes place at The Farmers Club, London, over a long and challenging day for the students.
First, each student is questioned, personally, for 25 minutes about his or her project by a team of five judges representing the sponsors and chaired by an independent farm management expert, Professor David Leaver. Then, later in the day, under the scrutiny of the judges, each of them has to present, or 'sell', his or her project to their competitors, as well as to the many college tutors, principals, and family or friends of the students who may be present.
Then it's decision time, with the judges choosing a Farmers Club Gold Student Pinnacle Award winner, who gets £1250 and a replica of the Nickerson Cup. The winner's college receives a matching £1250.
Similarly, the Silver Student wins £600 and the Bronze Student £400, with the remaining five students getting special awards of £150 each. All students receive a commemorative certificate, become members of The Farmers Club for a year, and their colleges receive a matching sum of money to the amount that they, their student, has won.
Entries for the 2011 Pinnacle Awards must be submitted in written form. Final judging of the eight short-listed entries will take place at the Club next April.
Further information about the awards can be obtained from Gina Monckton at ADAS on 01902 693217 or by visiting aplus.adas.co.uk/services/agriculture