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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, see www.comp-enterprise.co.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 go to www.comp-enterprise.co.uk and click on “Trophies&Winners”.  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, want to know more about us? Visit www.comp-enterprise.co.uk or why not come and join us at Lasham 3^rd to 10^th July 2010!