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Design a New Trophy

The Philip Wills National Enterprise Trophy

The focus of Competition Enterprise has always been a week’s competition held every year at various gliding clubs around the UK. Alongside it has been a national trophy awarded annually by the Enterprise Club to the pilot/s believed to have achieved the most enterprising flight launching from anywhere in the UK.

Design a New Trophy!

We’d like to make the National Enterprise Trophy better known and this year Justin Wills has kindly allowed us to add his father’s name to the title; after all it was Philip Wills who was the originator of the Enterprise ideals. We’ve lost the original trophy so we are seeking a design for a brand new trophy that encapsulates the spirit of Enterprise. You are challenged to design a new trophy which can be produced within a budget of £1,000.  Send your designs to jhart.jon@gmail.com by 31^st December 2009.  We’ll acknowledge your entry and let you know how many have been received.  The winner will be announced by 31^st January 2010 with the expectation that the new trophy will be ready to be awarded at the BGA conference on 20^th March 2010.

Qualifying Flights

Qualifying flights may not receive a BGA trophy. They may involve lift other than thermal and wave – ridge or cliff running, convergences, sea breezes or perhaps crossing unusual terrain. Indeed it could be quite a short distance and perhaps in a low handicapped glider. In other words it is one that can be termed “Enterprising”.

Nominations for 2009

The BGA have agreed to start awarding this trophy at their annual prize-giving ceremony, so we are seeking nominations for this year 1^st January to 31^st December 2009.

Past Nominations

The trophy has been a fairly well kept secret and since its inception in 1985 has been awarded just 11 times. We believe many enterprising flights have not come to the attention of the Enterprise Club. Currently we are “missing” the following years and so are seeking nominations retrospectively for: 

1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

Nomination Details

If you feel that one of your flights qualifies or you know of such a flight by someone else, then please send details to: jhart.jon@gmail.com  by 31^st December 2009. All submissions for 2009, and those “missing” years, will be acknowledged and the winner/s announced by 31^st January 2010.

Jon Hart – Enterprise Club Chairman

P.S. Interested in Competition Enterprise? Why not come and join us at Lasham 3^rd to 10^th July 2010!