Luxury lunch makes CFE a tasty treat at Cereals

It was a winning formula at Cereals with more than 200 people entering the popular Campaign Trail competition, organised by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust in an effort to further raise the profile of the Campaign for the Farmed Environment. 

To enter the competition, visitors to the show were given a ‘trail card’ and encouraged to visit all exhibiting CFE partners in order to collect stamps on the trail cards from partner stands. 

Peter Thompson, the Trust’s farmland biodiversity advisor and Hampshire co-ordinator for CFE said, “This was a great way of encouraging people to visit all the various CFE partner organisations and importantly to learn more about the Campaign.” 

All completed competition trail cards were entered into a prize draw at the end of the show on the last day and the three winners were drawn by Jim Egan, from FWAG and Chair of the CFE Delivery Group and Peter Thompson.

The much desired first prize of a fabulous champagne lunch for two at top London restaurant Le Gavroche (kindly donated by Michel Roux Jnr) was won by Stephen Johnson, from Syngenta.  Second prize of an industrial sized bottle of Whiskey was won by Gareth Morgan from the RSPB and third prize case of wine was won by Gary Darnell.

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Photocaption: Jim Egan (left) Chair of the CFE Delivery Group and Peter Thompson CFE Hampshire Coordinator draw the winning entries of the CFE Campaign trail competition.

Notes to editors

1. The Campaign is an industry-led, rather than regulatory approach to re-capturing the environmental benefits that were provided by set-aside. It unites key industry stakeholders - NFU, CLA, LEAF, FWAG, AIC, AICC, CAAV and GWCT.
2. The industry are working in partnership with Defra and its agencies, Natural England and the Environment Agency, and the RSPB in order to deliver advice to farmers on how they might best retain and increase the environmental benefits provided by their farmland in a targeted and agronomically practical way.
3. To find out more about the Campaign visit www.cfeonline.co.uk or call 024 7685 8892.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is an independent wildlife conservation charity which carries out scientific research into Britain’s game and wildlife. We advise farmers and landowners on improving wildlife habitats and we lobby for agricultural and conservation policies based on science. We employ 14 post-doctoral scientists and 50 other research staff with expertise in areas such as birds, insects, mammals, farming and statistics.  We undertake our own research as well as projects funded by contract and grant-aid from Government and private bodies.   The Trust is also responsible for a number of Government Biodiversity Action Plan species and is lead partner for grey partridge and joint lead partner for brown hare and black grouse.

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