Lincolnshire Show 2011: press passes, feature articles and reader competitions
This year’s Show takes place on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June 2011
PRESS PASSES WILL BE DIGITAL: For 2011, press passes for the Lincolnshire Show will be managed online. ALL requests will have to be made through the website, specifying named contacts and the days on which they are attending, as digital passes will be issued this year. This forms part of the media centre area of the web site which is scheduled to go live in April.
PRESS RELEASES AND FEATURE ARTICLES ONLINE: The media centre on the web site will also include copies of all press releases and feature articles as they go live, providing a single easy-to-access route. In addition, if you would like exclusive feature material, or if you require interviews before or at the Show, we will be happy to work with you – contact Maggie Taylor at Prima PR : maggie@primapr.co.uk
READER COMPETITIONS: Each year we work with media titles to offer their readers the chance to win tickets to the Lincolnshire Show. If you are interested in discussing such joint promotions, then please get in touch and tell us how you would promote the offer to your readers or use the request form you will find within the media centre pages of the web site, when live.
PHOTOGRAPHY FROM PREVIOUS SHOWS: A selection of stock photographs from previous shows is available. A small batch from 2010 is on Flickr at the following link: primaprandmarketing You can also find many pictures from other people on Flickr if you search for Lincolnshire Show. We have archive catalogues here and elsewhere online click here for a 2009 gallery and will be happy to provide unique or specific shots on request.
Keep in touch:
The Show online: www.lincolnshireshowground.co.uk
Follow the Show on Twitter: @lincsshow
Follow the Show on Facebook: LincolnshireAgriculturalSociety
All PR and Media enquiries should be made via:
Prima PR & Marketing : info@primapr.co.uk : Tel: 01400 251557 : www.primapr.co.uk
Twitter: @magtay
Flickr: primaprandmarketing
Client news feed: click here
NB: Press releases about the Show are also available online through the Prima PR client news feed. There is also content and photography from previous years still available online, but it sits within the old client news area of www.primapr.co.uk – links can be provided on request.
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World class event draws international names
28.03.11 : POST EVENT UPDATE: For results from the Lincolnshire Horse Trials click here to read the report in Horse and Hound. And click here to read the Event Centre's review of the coverage.
The annual Lincolnshire Horse Trials takes place in March at the Lincolnshire Showground at Grange de Lings.
International riders will head up an exciting three day event when this year’s Lincolnshire Horse Trials gets under way, with up to 700 competitors expected to take part.
The 2011 event takes place at the Lincolnshire Showground from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th March with competitors taking part in dressage, show jumping and cross country over the three days at pre novice (BE100), novice and intermediate levels.
Once again, selectors for the British team are expected to be on the lookout during the pony trials that are also held.
The venue is recognised as an excellent event for early season because the flat, well drained ground is a good proving ground for both horse and rider.
International names attracted over recent years include last year’s Open intermediate winner Piggy French, Oliver Townend, Polly Stockton, Caroline Powell, Sharon Hunt, and Ruth Edge; and Olympic riders William Fox-Pitt and Nicola Wilson, both members of the Gold medal winning team at the World Equestrian Games last year, and New Zealand double gold medallist Mark Todd.
The event has also positioned itself as a showcase for local Lincolnshire talent. Last year’s successes included local Walesby rider Emily Parker who took the under-21 Open Intermediate section on Treefers, her 2009 young rider team gold medal winner. In recent years, Emily has had a stream of successes including runner up in the Pony Club Championships and Junior Regional Novice Championships in 2007. She was also fourth in the U21 Eventing National Championships at Weston Park.
Amongst other local riders, Matthew Wright from Retford won the 2010 final Open Intermediate section on Hugginstown. From Louth, Rosalind Canter had success with a win in one of the BE100 sections plus placings in other sections. And 17 year old Gina Ruck friom Tealby, a previous gold medal winner for Britain at pony level, came in sixth in the Open Intermediate Under 21 Sections.
Another BE100 section winner was Helen Scholl from near Grantham on Blackstairs King, and in the local novice section, the winner was Deborah Doyle from Lincoln.
Last year’s event provided record visitor numbers and Show director Charles Hood is hoping to build on that success in 2011. He said: “Our courses have a good variety of well-built straight forward fences, designed to give confidence for early season and it’s run over flat, extremely well-drained light land, giving ideal going.”
The event draws large visitor numbers to the county each year, providing a boost to the local economy, and is organised by Lincolnshire Events Centre on the showground site at Grange-de-Lings, which is also home to a major national conferencing venue and the groundbreaking EPIC green building project.
Running order:
Each day of this three day event is focussed on a particular class, giving visitors the chance to see all events each day, cross country, dressage and show jumping.
Friday 18th March:
BE100 and Open BE100 classes.
8.00am Dressage
8.50am Show jumping
9.30am Cross country
5.00pm Approx finishing time
Saturday 19th March:
Novice and Open Novice plus Pony Trial dressage and show jumping
8.00am Dressage
8.50am Show jumping
9.30am Cross country
5.00pm Approx finishing time
Also taking place on Saturday is Pony Trial dressage and show jumping. The pony cross country is on Sunday at 9.00 am.
Sunday 20th March
Intermediate and Open Intermediate classes plus Pony Trial cross country
8.30am Dressage
9.00am Show jumping
9.00am Pony Trial Cross country, then the open intermediate cross country
Entry on Saturday and Sunday is £5.00 per car to include all occupants.
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Media enquiries:
Laura Luty at Lincolnshire Events Centre inc Lincolnshire Agricultural Society
lluty@lincs-events.co.uk - 01522 585501
Maggie Taylor at Prima PR
maggie@primapr.co.uk – 01400 251557 / 0797 3767 602
Editor’s Note:
Lincolnshire Events Centre is a major national conferencing venue, home of the Lincolnshire Show and the groundbreaking EPIC project. Just outside the historic city of Lincoln, the Centre hosts events for 10 to 10,000 visitors on its 200 acre showground site and 3000 square metres of indoor exhibition and venue space.
Outdoor events include the flagship Lincolnshire Show, antiques fairs and horse trials, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year. Under cover, there are exhibition halls and conferencing facilities, including the recently completed EPIC centre, the second largest purpose-designed showcase for environmental technologies in the UK, it enables event organisers to reduce, monitor and offset their carbon footprint.
Putting the froth on fundraising for young people
- Dave Simpson and the Relate team
A unique new fundraising venture has been launched in Lincoln by the charity Relate to support their counselling work with children and teens, and it’s got off the ground thanks to the support of a local security company.
The Re-latte café bar at 137 High Street Lincoln is now being protected round the clock with a sophisticated intruder alarm system that’s been donated and fitted free of charge by Lincolnshire based GB Security Group, who have also installed other equipment at cost in Relate’s adjoining offices.
Security is a major concern for the charity. As well as protecting against shop theft, they now have a secure electronic door system which is keeping clients safe when they visit the main Relate offices alongside the new café bar.
“We needed the security system for our insurance as well, and without this support we would certainly have struggled to get this new venture off the ground,” explained Becky Wright of Relate.
“Now we’re hoping to give a big boost to our income, which will mean we can respond to more young people who need our support.”
The café bar is also home to a dress agency, offering customers a 50% return on selling their unwanted clothes, as well as a traditional charity shop. But it’s the local produce and cooking that is drawing in customers.
GB Security director Dave Simpson added: “As a family company, with a long standing heritage in our local Lincolnshire community, this was something that really matched our ethos, and we were very happy to be able to help when Relate made the approach.”
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www.relate-lincs.co.uk
www.gbsg.co.uk
Online coverage:
Media enquiries:
Maggie Taylor at Prima PR maggie@primapr.co.uk – 01400 251557 / 0797 3767 602
Editor’s Note:
About relate:
For over 40 years relate Lincolnshire has been providing a wide range of counselling services for the people of Lincolnshire. relate nationally, has over 60 years experience of recruitment, training and supervision. Over 150,000 people are seen by relate counsellors each year. As well as the much publicised problems of relationship difficulties, separation and divorce, the counselors also deal with problems such as sexual abuse, domestic violence as well as problems that arise from extended families and step parenting issues. They also offer support to young people who are having difficulties coming to terms with the breakdown of their parents’ relationship or other .
About GB Security Group:
GB Security Group has a 30 year track record in security and fire protection, with customers ranging from multi-site food processing plants, commercial businesses, professional firms and schools through to retailers and housebuilders. Their portfolio delivers a complete range of security products and services, backed up with leading edge technical expertise, including:
- CCTV
- Fire Alarms
- Guarding Services
- Intruder Alarms
- Access Control
- Gates & Barriers
- CCTV Monitoring
- Integrated Systems
GB Security Group also operates its own specialist 24 hour remote monitoring centre. working to the highest achievable accreditation levels with NSI and SIA, and with a proven track record since 1993. All monitoring centre staff are SIA licensed for monitoring both private and public space and the company operates under the Approved Contractors Scheme (ACS), the independently assessed quality standard for suppliers of private security services.
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New BS 8418 Code of Practice will improve detection standards
A new code of practice for remotely monitored CCTV systems designed to increase detection standards is expected to put pressure on non compliant operators.
GB Security has been a longstanding contributor to the development of industry standards and the company’s NSI ARC Gold remote video response centre was one of the first NSI ARCs to gain BS 8418 approval.
BS 8418 is the Code of Practice used for the installation and remote monitoring of detector activated CCTV systems. It has recently undergone a review and the 2003 version will be replaced by the 2010 version.
There will be a “dual running” period of one year, which expires on 31st July 2011. This allows installers to use either version of the Code of Practice and is subject to availability of compliant manufactured equipment.
New requirements covered in BS 8418:2010 include:
- Drawings should show the extent of the secure area (area which unauthorised access is intended to be detected) and location of vehicles / other moveable objects that could compromise the effectiveness of the system.
- Ensure PIRs facing east or west are not affected by the sun or from reflection and shadows.
- BS 8418 Annex B provides onsite related factors to consider for the correct location and operation of detectors. These include preferred use of multiple short range detectors over long range detection.
- Ensure detectors are uniquely identifiable to the system. Note: multiple detectors should not be identified as a single entity but each individual detector must have its own ID.
- IR illumination should not surround the camera lens on external cameras.
- Agreement should be in place between the system owner and the RVRC when it is acceptable to isolate a detector. Such instances might be where a change to site operation (builders working on site) would mean the detector would send unwanted alarms to the RVRC.
- Housings containing power suppliers to detectors should be equipped with tamper detection to detect opening through its usual method of opening.
- Two transmission paths are required, both being capable of transmitting images to the RVRC.
- A back-up UPS is required (where mains power is not supplemented by a stand by generator) to supply control and communications equipment for a minimum of 4 hours. Power supplies to detectors should also have 4 hour battery back-up.
GB Director Neil Jackson, who is a regular contributor to BSIA developments including this updated BS 8418 Code of Practice, commented: “I welcome the new standard as it will certainly improve detection standards.
“It will also increase the divide between those working to BS 8418 and non compliant remote monitoring providers. There are too many unreliable remote monitoring systems out there and the aim of the standard is to bring CCTV monitoring up to the mark. It’s a similar situation to the intruder alarm market 25 years ago, and the insurance companies are pushing to get compliance to a measurable standard.”
He added: “We are already implementing the new Code of Practice and so all our up and coming installations will be compliant irrespective of completion date during this year. It’s an important set of changes and demonstrates once again the high standards that are needed to secure a police response to any activation.”
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Media enquiries:
Maggie Taylor at Prima PR
maggie@primapr.co.uk – 01400 251557 / 0797 3767 602
Editor’s Note:
About remotely monitored CCTV:
Remotely monitored CCTV is a cost-effective method of providing live on-the-ground site protection around the clock, without the huge costs associated with providing 24 hour manned cover. It works by connecting motion detectors to cameras, linked to a 24 hour remote monitoring control centre, and is increasingly used on commercial, public sector and even domestic sites. Using high speed broadband and wireless 3G connections, the integrated cameras and motion sensors detect any movement on site. If an alarm/detector is triggered, images from an associated camera are transmitted to a specialised Remote Video Response Centre (RVRC), 24 hours a day.
About GB Security Group:
GB Security Group has a 30 year track record in security and fire protection, with customers ranging from multi-site food processing plants, commercial businesses, professional firms and schools through to retailers and housebuilders. Their portfolio delivers a complete range of security products and services, backed up with leading edge technical expertise, including:
- CCTV
- Fire Alarms
- Guarding Services
- Intruder Alarms
- Access Control
- Gates & Barriers
- CCTV Monitoring
- Integrated Systems
GB Security Group also operates its own specialist 24 hour remote monitoring centre. working to the highest achievable accreditation levels with NSI and SIA, and with a proven track record since 1993. All monitoring centre staff are SIA licensed for monitoring both private and public space and the company operates under the Approved Contractors Scheme (ACS), the independently assessed quality standard for suppliers of private security services.
From: Maggie Taylor, Prima PR & Marketing
Gelston House, Gelston, Grantham, Lincs, NG32 2AE
Tel: 01400 251557 Mobile: 0797 3767 602 Email: maggie@primapr.co.uk Web: www.primapr.co.uk
Company VAT Reg No: 598 3614 90
Business gets on board to back this year’s Lincolnshire Show
Big business and small local companies are coming together to help Lincolnshire’s agricultural heritage and education to flourish.
They are all backing the annual County Show, organised by the Lincolnshire Agricultural Society to boost awareness of countryside matters, and the vital role that agriculture plays in the local economy.
It will be the 127th Show, the 52nd to be held at the Grange-de-Lings 200 acre site and the two-day event will take place on Wednesday 22nd and Thursday 23rd June 2011.
Billed as Lincolnshire’s big day out, the Lincolnshire Show is an agricultural show, one of the few county shows to remain true to its heritage, and last year attracted more than 68,000 visitors and some 650 exhibitors – both numbers that the organisers hope to beat this year.
“The Show is for everyone living in the countryside, working in the countryside and those who enjoy the countryside,” explained the Show’s business development manager Laura Luty. “It’s really great that local businesses are keen to back us in this way. As a charity, it’s sponsorship like this which allows us to continue to develop the Show. As well as helping us to keep costs down, such as visitor prices, we also inject the sponsorship support into educational activities, such as our Schools’ Challenge, which encourages young people to get involved.”
She added: “Many of our sponsors come year after year, because they know it has a commercial value as well as supporting their place in our local community. We have had an excellent response so far but are still talking to companies that are active across Lincolnshire and the East Midlands region.”
Clydesdale Bank is once again the major sponsor for the Show, Langleys Solicitors and BBC Lincolnshire are jointly sponsoring the equine area, which attracts 2000 entries each year across show jumping, mountain and moorland ponies and ex racehorse classes.
Plans for this year’s Show will be announced soon, but organisers say visitors can be confident they will experience another exciting line-up at the renowned county event, with entertainment that will appeal to all tastes and ages.
As well as the show’s traditional agricultural theme – with events including pig racing, show-jumping, the spectacular Grand Parade of the best of the county’s livestock in the Clydesdale Bank Main Ring and the vintage to modern day agricultural machinery display – there will also be a host of other stalls and activities. Last year’s line up included medieval cooking and world-class jousting knights, through to advice on horticulture and sustainable living.
Sponsor of the Lincoln Red Cattle once again this year is The Agricultural Mortgage Corporation plc (AMC). Adrian Cawood, regional agricultural manager said: "AMC view Lincolnshire as one of the most important and foremost farming counties, and the Lincolnshire Show demonstrates the great commitment and enthusiasm towards farming within the county.
“When the opportunity arose three years ago to sponsor the native breed we were very happy to support it and are delighted to continue sponsor the Lincoln Reds again in 2011."
SHOW IS BIG EARNER
The Show is a big earner for Lincolnshire and research carried out last year showed that a massive £44m is being injected into the national economy thanks to the events held at the Lincolnshire Events Centre at the county’s Showground, attracting over 215,000 visitors a year.
More than 80 per cent of exhibitors return each year because of the amount of business they do at the Show and it is estimated that every £1 spent at the Show generates £20 in the local economy. The Show and other events at the Showground boost local hotels and B&Bs, creating demand for 18,400 overnight stays locally.
“The annual County Show is a major tourism attraction, alongside the city’s Cathedral and Castle,” said chief executive Mark Farmer, “It’s also a big earner for the economy, although it’s not just about the Show nowadays, as we have expanded the Showground site to become a major year-round regional conferencing and outdoor events centre.”
Images and captions from the 2010 County Show are available for download at :http://www.flickr.com/photos/55414176@N07/sets/72157625298289904/
Who’s backing this year’s Show:
| Company: | Sponsoring : |
| Jackie Strange
Private sponsor |
Shire Horses |
| BBC Lincolnshire | Equine Ring |
| Brown Butlin
A trading arm of Farmacy PLC |
Young Farmers’ Trailers |
| Woldmarsh
Farming agricultural buying group, Louth |
Machinery Parade |
| Spaldings
Agricultural and groundcare replacement parts, tools and accessories |
Machinery Parade |
| Streets
UK Top 30 firm of accountants, Lincoln |
Vice President’s Area |
| E Park & Sons Ltd
Potato supplier |
Schools’ Challenge |
| Farmacy PLC
Agronomy and environmental services to arable sector, Sleaford |
Schools’ Challenge |
| Complete Print Group
Printing supplies |
General support |
| Osborne Refrigerators | Double Harness Scurry |
| Brewin Dolphin
Investment solutions, Lincoln |
Parade of Hounds |
| McKinnells
Solicitors, Lincoln |
Courtyard |
| Langleys
Solicitors, Lincoln |
Ancaster Ring |
| Clydesdale Bank | Main Ring |
| Double M Catering
Catering business, Lincolnshire |
General support |
| Lincolnshire Co-op | Lincoln Longwool |
| Lincolnshire Co-op | Commercial Beef |
| Savills
Agricultural and rural estate agency services, Lincoln |
Roadside Signage |
| Swales Yorkshire Dales Ice Cream | British Charolais |
| Agricultural Mortgage Company Plc
Mortgage finance for land based commercial businesses |
Lincoln Red |
| Robert Bell & Co
Auctioneers and Land Agents, Horncastle, Coningsby, Woodhall Spa and Lincoln |
Pig Interbreed Supreme Champion |
| Masons Chartered Surveyors
Property professionals, Louth |
Interbreed Championships |
| Bang & Olufsen
Sound and vision products, Lincoln |
Screens in the EPIC Centre |
| Saul Fairholm
Chartered Accountants and Auditors, Lincoln |
Grand Parade of Livestock |
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Media enquiries:
Sarah Poucher at Lincolnshire Events Centre inc Lincolnshire Agricultural Society
spoucher@lincs-events.co.uk - 01522 585501
Maggie Taylor at Prima PR
maggie@primapr.co.uk – 01400 251557 / 0797 3767 602
Editor’s Note:
Lincolnshire Events Centre is a major national conferencing venue, home of the Lincolnshire Show and the groundbreaking EPIC project. Just outside the historic city of Lincoln, the Centre hosts events for 10 to 10,000 visitors on its 200 acre showground site and 3000 square metres of indoor exhibition and venue space.
Outdoor events include the flagship Lincolnshire Show, antiques fairs and horse trials, attracting over 200,000 visitors each year. Under cover, there are exhibition halls and conferencing facilities, including the recently completed EPIC centre, the second largest purpose-designed showcase for environmental technologies in the UK, it enables event organisers to reduce, monitor and offset their carbon footprint.
Independent law firm network and online specialists tie the knot
Technology-based services for legal solutions will improve internal efficiencies and open new markets without compromising professional offering
A group of leading independent firms are pioneering online legal service delivery following an exclusive deal between the LawNet network and Epoq’s DirectLaw online document automation solution.
Under the agreement, each of the 68 LawNet member firms will be able to deliver online legal services to clients through their own personalised portal, designed and integrated with each firm’s individual web site.
The move is designed to help create a new edge to the firms’ traditional service offering, but there’s no plan to push customers into DIY, according to LawNet.
“This agreement provides a perfect fit to the ambitions we have to provide members with online marketing and technology-based legal solutions,” explained director of services Helen Hamilton-Shaw.
“DirectLaw should help firms secure a strong position in online markets as well as delivering internal efficiencies, by getting to first draft documents faster. It gives them new options in terms of services, whilst still assuring their customers that there will be an expert and careful eye over anything undertaken online.”
She added: “We are committed to helping our firms keep ahead of the competition through the LawNet national framework which gives them quality accreditation, networking, knowledge sharing and buying group services, and outsourcing is high on the list of where we will be delivering over the coming year.”
Epoq’s executive chairman, solicitor Richard Cohen, said: “Creating a successful offering depends on how inbound enquiries are dealt with. Customers are drawn to a service giving accessibility and clear pricing, but don’t want to be roaming around the web unaided. DirectLaw provides a differentiator for firms, a move towards enabling greater involvement by clients and the ability to make more from each hour for the firm by using document automation.”
LawNet firms will have access to five libraries of DirectLaw documents covering wills and probate, family, landlord and tenant, employment and business start-up.
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For further information, please contact:
Press information:
Maggie Taylor, Prima PR & Marketing
Direct line: 01400 251557 Mobile: 0797 3767602 Email: maggie@primapr.co.uk
Helen Hamilton-Shaw, Director of Services, LawNet
Direct line: 01926 834622 Email: hhamilton-shaw@lawnet.co.uk
Emma Hopson, Marketing Manager, Epoq
Direct line: 020 8731 2432 Email: emma@epoq.co.uk
Notes to Editor:
About LawNet:
LawNet was established in 1989 to enable a collaborative, non-competing national network where independent law firms could access big firm resources and benefit from collective purchasing, shared knowledge, best practice and expertise. Each firm has an exclusive geographical operating area to enable collaboration.
The combined income of the 68 firms comprising LawNet is currently in excess of £250m – equivalent to a UK Top 15 law firm – with members ranging from £2m to £15m turnover.
Independent research shows LawNet is most highly valued by members for delivering in six key areas – training, networking, PII, business development, marketing and compliance. It currently places some £1.2bn worth of PI cover alone for members each year, which helps stabilise premiums for firms.
About Epoq and DirectLaw:
DirectLaw from Epoq has led the way in enabling law firms to deliver legal services online. By utilising Rapidocs®, Epoq’s unique, content rich document automation system and delivering it seamlessly via the web, DirectLaw allows solicitors to engage with clients conveniently online and make their firms more competitive, efficient and profitable.
And, because Epoq is the leader of developments in online legal solutions, law firms can be sure of technological excellence as well as affordability. Today, over 150 law firms are using Epoq’s online technology to differentiate their firms and deliver legal services more efficiently and profitably.