News archive for "BEMA Awards"

The inaugural Kit Houghton Photo of the Year competition was a great success, with 57 entries from a wide variety of equine photograph disciplines. Some entrants told us a story with their entries, some provided them as they were, allowing the viewer to create their own backstory. Entries were collated and added to a new […]

Rosalind Canter was voted British Equestrian Media Association Equestrian of the Year at the BEMA Awards lunch at the London International Horse Show. Ros had a spectacular 2023 which included individual and team European Eventing Championship gold medals as well as five-star victories at Badminton and Pau. She was presented with the BEMA Trophy and […]

Eventing legends, awe-inspiring Hickstead moments and rising stars were honoured at the 2023 British Equestrian Media Association’s (BEMA) Awards lunch at the London International Horse Show on Thursday (14 December). Double Badminton winner Jane Holderness-Roddam was the recipient of BEMA’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which was announced during the lunch and then presented by Rupert Bell […]

Dear BEMA member, I’m very honoured to be writing my first annual report as your Chairman. I know we are all enormously grateful to my predecessor, Andrew Baldock, for his leadership since 2012, ably supported by wonderful committee members giving their time to help the organisation achieve its aims of improving conditions for journalists and […]

Showjumping legend John Whitaker and Britain’s two reigning world champions Lottie Fry and Yasmin Ingham were celebrated by the British Equestrian Writers’ Association (BEWA) at London International Horse Show.

See also, BEWA Awards 2022, BEMA Awards 2023 Although the annual BEWA AGM and Awards were not able to go ahead as planned this year, it was still possible to present a couple of our awards to their recipients. BEWA Treasurer Lynne Reed presented Tokyo 2020 Olympic Gold Medallist Ben Maher with the Personality of […]

Ros Canter, the 2018 eventing world champion, has won the British Equestrian Writers' Association rider of the year award. Canter, who is based in Lincolnshire, captured individual and team gold at the World Equestrian Games in the United States. She became only Britain's fifth eventing world champion since 1966, while she also joined forces with […]