Guidelines 2008

The completed Application Form, the short piece on how the award money would be spent, and the reasons of the employer or teacher for putting forward the candidate, must be received by the Trust by Monday 31 March 2008.

The Trustee Directors will invite short-listed candidates for interview in London on Monday 14 July.

At the interview candidates should be prepared to expand verbally on their career to date, their aspirations and proposed travel plans and explain how they would spend the award money in order to widen their culinary and vinous skills. They should also describe how they intend to record or document this experience both for their own benefit and that of the Trust.

Those candidates who already intend to develop their careers through international travel, irrespective of winning this Award, and have given some thought to their travel plans are more likely to be successful.  

Reasonable travelling expenses for attending the interview will be paid at the discretion of the Trustee Directors, provided candidates submit original tickets, receipts or other documents to support their claim.

The decision of the Trustee Directors is final and no correspondence will be entered into in respect of their decision.

Payment of the Award

The winner should agree with the Trustee an outline travel plan and itinerary, including the names of the establishments where he or she proposes to work and study by Monday 13 October 2008.

The trip shall commence within two years of the decision of the Trustee Directors, unless otherwise agreed.  £3,000 of the award money will be released, subject to 30 days notice, when it is needed for the purposed for which it is intended.

Within 90 days of returning from the trip the winner will be expected to submit a report in the format agreed, recording and summarising the experiences gained. The report should include a digital summary written in Word (or other compatible format) between 1 and 3 A4 pages in length which, including any photographs, is not significantly greater than 500Kb in size.  Please see examples of such summaries on the "Previous Winners" page.  

The balance of the award money will be released when the report is received from the winner in the agreed format, at which time an Award Certificate will also be issued.

The Trustee Directors may publish the report in any medium (including this website) without further payment to the winner.