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RHS Supreme Champions 2017 RHASS MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017 What a ShowStoppER! RHS Supreme Champions 2017: 8-page pullout + Post-Show Overview + New Members’ Area Survey + Technical Innovation Awards + Exhibitors Stories + RHASS Directors and Presidential Team 2017-18 + RHET Latest News + RHC Events to look out for RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 | 1 6 Contents COVER STORIES 6 Post-Show Overview 21 RHET News 24 RHC Events 13 26 RHASS Directors and Officials 2017 28 RHASS Presidential Team FEATURES 3 Welcome - Alan Laidlaw, Chief Executive 4 News Update 6 Royal Highland Show - Post-Show Analysis 21 8 Case Studies - “What the Royal Highland Show means to me...” 10 Technical Innovation Awards 13 Supreme Champions 2017 Pullout 21 Royal Highland Education Trust News 24 Royal Highland Centre Events 30 Members’ Feedback 24 RHASS MAGAZINE SUMMER 2017 CONTACT DETAILS: RHASS Society magazine Written & produced by is published by: The Royal Highland and Represent Agricultural Society of Scotland, Royal Highland 57 Calton Road, Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NB Edinburgh EH8 8FJ Tel: (0131) 335 6200 [email protected] What a Email: [email protected] ShowStoppER! Web: www.rhass.org.uk RHS Supreme Champions 2017: 8-page pullout + Post-Show Overview + New Members’ Area Survey + Technical Innovation Awards + Exhibitors Stories Charity No. SC4561 + RHASS Directors and Presidential Team 2017-18 + RHET Latest News + RHC Events to look out for RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 | 1 2 | RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 Over 8,000 members attended the Show on each of the four days Welcome from RHASS Chief Executive Alan Laidlaw t is with pride that I reflect on my first Show as Chief Executive. As a Ilongstanding member and visitor to the Show, I gave little thought to the amount of work that goes into delivering this world class event. It is only through experience that you can fully appreciate the dedication and passion it takes to deliver the Royal Highland Show. Just like our exhibitors, months of preparation combined with decades of knowledge held in the trusted hands of longstanding staff, directors and contractors makes this an event like no other. The Show delivers on so many levels, certainly socially and more importantly commercially - a lot of business takes place during the four days and for many months after following connections made. The true test of success is feedback from the agricultural industry, both in Scotland and wider afield. There is no doubt that the 2017 Show was an exceptional event, however we are not complacent and work has already commenced for next year. Our objective is to understand how can we make the Show better, keeping in mind our heritage to remain true to our core values as an award-winning agricultural show and Society. On behalf of RHASS Directors and staff I thank you all for your continued support, in whatever role you play in making RHASS and the Royal Highland Show a continuing success. You, as a member, are hugely valued and we will continue to work to deliver a Society to be proud of. Alan Laidlaw, Chief Executive RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 | 3 RHASS NEWS UPDATE OUR NEW COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR SHOWJUMPER HASS has appointed Lorne Scott to oversee SPONSORSHIP Rthe strategic commercial direction of RHASS and its 280- acre Ingliston site. Lorne will also ixteen-year-old showjumper Fraser Reed from St Andrews and look to drive forward the growth his pony Harry were selected to jump for Great Britain on the of the Royal Highland Centre, Pony European Team in Hungary in July. Fraser is a regular at the building on the success of the S Royal Highland Show and won the 148cm class in 2015 on Bay Friend. 220 events which run annually. This year he also qualified a horse in all four senior Scottish finals and Lorne joins RHASS from Media was placed second in the Classic final on the Sunday. 10, where he worked on some of RHASS made a charitable donation of £1,500 to support Fraser to the UK’s most successful events, compete in Hungary and to help with the added transport costs. The including Grand Designs Live and British team won silver in the team event, helped by a fantastic clear The Ideal Home Show. He was from Fraser and Harry. It was an amazing experience for Fraser and previously Head of Sales at BiP his family are extremely grateful to RHASS for the support. Solutions Ltd, a global market leader in the provision of cutting- edge solutions and services that facilitates business between the public and private sector. Commenting on the new Commercial Director appointment, RHASS Chief Executive Alan Laidlaw said: “Lorne brings valuable know- how to both RHASS and the Royal Highland Centre and will be an asset to the management team. His knowledge of business development strategies and brand management will be invaluable as we look to build on the Royal Highland Centre’s already well- established reputation as one of Scotland’s premier event spaces.” 4 | RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 CHAIRMAN STUDY TOUR TO DESIGNATE SOUTH AFRICA JAMES WARNOCK MBE n July, as part of its ongoing commitment to young people in agriculture, RHASS offered an all-expenses-paid 12-day trip Ito South Africa hosted by the Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth(RASC) Next Generation Programme. Open to RHASS members under 40, or those nominated by a RHASS member, the study tour leaves the UK on 29th August. The group will visit an agriculturally rich region of the world, and learn about a wide range of farming systems. The itinerary includes visits to various farms, a tour of a tea factory, a visit to a game resort and travel by mule cart to see how donkeys are used for ploughing and harvesting. Jenny McKerr, from Forth Mains Farm in Lanarkshire, was the successful applicant and we look forward to reporting on the trip in the next issue of Society. ames Warnock has been elected as Chairman JDesignate for RHASS. James farms 500-acre Sandilands Farm near Lanark with his wife and daughter. He is a former Young Farmers’ Club and Area Chairman, as well as a previous branch and district NFU Chairman. He was Chairman in 1995/96 of the British Texel Sheep Society after serving 21 years on the committee, and is still a member of the society’s disciplinary panel. James has served as a RHASS Director and was Chairman of RHET for eight years and has also chaired PR&E Committee. He serves on his local RHET committee as a farmer host and classroom speaker, commentates at eight shows, including the Royal Highland, BULGARIAN DELEGATION and has judged all the Royals, including the Great Yorkshire. s a Society, we work to establish and promote links both James was made a fellow of nationally and internationally. We were delighted to welcome a the Royal Agricultural Society Arecent delegation of Bulgaria’s most successful and influential in 2012 and was awarded an businesspeople to the Royal Highland Show where they met with MBE in 2015 for services to George Burgess, the Scottish Government’s Head of Food, Drink and education and communication Trade. As the first delegation from Bulgaria to visit Scotland, the historic in agriculture. meeting marked a significant first step towards a lucrative bilateral trading relationship between the two countries. On his election, James said, “I am hugely honoured to be elected Chairman Designate for RHASS - an organisation of KEEP IN TOUCH which I have been a Director For up-to-the-minute RHASS news and all the latest videos and for several years. RHASS and its posts, follow us on social media. educational charity RHET play an important role in improving Facebook: @royalhighlandandagriculturalsocietyofscotland the understanding of rural Twitter: @The_RHASS YouTube: RHASS Scotland and I will work with my usual vigour and enthusiasm to If you have any relevant news of your own which you think would continue this work.” be of interest to Society readers, email it to [email protected] RHASS • Society Magazine • Summer 2017 | 5 POST-SHOW OVERVIEW Scotland’s iconic Show! he Royal Highland Show proved once There was lively discussion elsewhere too, as the again to be a very successful event and Oxford Farming Conference brought its Oxford Union T debate to the Show to discuss ‘This house believes demonstrated the enduring appeal of Scotland’s UK agriculture will thrive outwith the European Union’. iconic celebration of farming, food and rural life. NFUS also unveiled its Change (new Agricultural Policy for Scotland Post-Brexit) discussion document. Visitor numbers reached record levels for the fourth year in a row: 190,028 people came through the gates On the cultural side, Show organisers introduced a over the four days of the Show. Ticket sales were up 6% Poet-in-Residence for the first time.Rural poet, and this year, of which 56% were bought in advance and over current Poet Laureate of Glasgow, Jim Carruth, 30,000 children visited the show for free. recited rural-inspired poetry around the Showground. A packed programme of music entertained the crowds The number of trade stand exhibitors was equally over the four days with an enjoyable mix of jazz, ceilidh strong and many enjoyed very significant sales. Indeed, bands, gospel choirs, brass bands, schools from all over £8 million is estimated to have been spent on over Scotland and no fewer than five pipe bands. shopping at the event. Scotland’s Larder Live featured 120 of the finest food and drink exhibitors from across The Show was also the chosen venue for the Scotland and the UK. This popular food showcase also announcement of Team GB’s curling team for the 2018 staged the inaugural Scottish bread championships Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, reflecting to join the national cheese, butter and ice cream curling’s strong links with farming heritage.
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