The Long Service Awards are annual Society awards which recognise the long standing hard work of those who have been in the agricultural and farming sectors for over forty years. This is a remarkable achievement and nominations can be made by Members of the Royal Bath and West of England Society.
Successful nominees will be invited to attend the Bath & West Show of that year and will receive a personal keepsake as a memento.
To make your nomination for 2027, please contact Rachel.Freestone@bathandwest.co.uk by 27th February.
More than 400 stewards give up their time for free to help run and make the Royal Bath & West Show the very special occasion that it is. Some of them have been doing it for decades and some are the descendants of those who were also stewards.
At this year’s show we acknowledged nine stewards for their amazing contributions, some giving more than fifty years of service. Often this includes attending committee meetings out of show and pre-show planning before they arrive at the showground. Honorary Show Director, Rupert Uloth, announced this year’s winners of the Long Service Award. Will Yates, Anna-Clare Seymour, Peter Sherborne, Mary James and Robert Dimond received their awards for each stewarding more than 30 years at the Bath & West.
In addition, we also give long service awards to farm workers who have given particularly long and loyal service and who can be nominated by members of the Royal Bath & West Society. This years winners were (pictured) Alan Lee, Stuart Marsh and Pam Taylor. Also pictured on the left is Bridget Christensen, who collected a posthumous award for Grahame Wiles on behalf of the Wiles family.
Presenting their long service awards, Rupert said, ‘it is a pleasure to celebrate the contributions of those who often go unrecognised’.
