To celebrate our Queen’s 60 year reign, Herefordshire is awarding some of the most deserving in our community with some very special awards. These Diamond Awards are being given to people who are judged by the county to have been special in their field, not just in the last year, but over an extended period. These awards recognise a variety of sectors, a spread of ages and be both community and business based.
The recipients of these awards have been selected from the following nine areas: Sports, the Voluntary sector, Care in the community, Business, Farming, Food, Tourism, Arts and Education/Young people.
In each of these sectors, the Diamond Awards are being given to the best of the best over many years, using awards that already exist as a base for finding the right people. Existing bodies include Herefordshire Sport, the Herefordshire Voluntary awards, Pride of Herefordshire, Chamber of Commerce Awards, Flavours of Herefordshire, Elgar Music Awards and Apprentice of the Year and each of these will put forward three winners. There will be two Diamond awards in each sector, and one Outstanding Diamond Award.
A special award ceremony will be held on 11th July at the Herefordshire Diamond Day at the King George V fields when the Lord Lieutenant will present these awards to our Herefordshire Diamonds, and the winners will be celebrated by the whole community.
There are some amazing people that live in Herefordshire – this is the time for us to celebrate them and show our gratitude for all they have done. Our Herefordshire Diamonds are listed below.
EXCELLENCE IN SPORT
Bryan White, Hereford
Ian Dinnie, Fownhope
Trixi Pulsford, MBE, Ross-on-Wye
PRIDE OF HEREFORDSHIRE
Elizabeth Francis, Dorstone
Tony Hodder, Hereford
‘Brummie’ Stokes, Hereford
EXCELLENCE IN THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR
Coleene Tudor, Hereford
Margaret Clarke, Ledbury
Joan Lloyd, Hereford
Chris Tomlinson, Clehonger
EXCELLENCE IN BUSINESS
Helen Thomas, Westons Cider
Nic Millington, The Rural Media Company
Tony Killeen, Allpay
EXCELLENCE IN AGRICULTURE
Chris Lloyd, Wormbridge
Chris Fairs, Canon Pyon
Christine Hope, Longtown
Cathy Meredith, Madley
EXCELLENCE IN TOURISM
Dr Noel Meeke, Hereford
Lisa Richardson, Hereford
Ann Edwards, Kington
EXCELLENCE IN FOOD AND DRINK
Jackie Denman, Putley
Mike Johnson, Peterstow
Jenny Beard, Leintwardine
EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC
Vernon Thurgood, Stoke Prior
Pamela White, Hereford
Linda Arnold, Michaelchurch Escley
EXCELLENCE IN THE ARTS
Mike Gell, Hereford
Carol Thompson, Kingstone
Sarah Jane Matthews, Stretton Sugwas
EXCELLENCE IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
APPRENTICE CHAMPION
Ken Davies
COMMERCE APPRENTICE
Lee Snead
ENGINEERING APPRENTICE
Duane Sanger