Landmark Issue 19 2021 SINGLE PAGES

ISSUE 19 | 2021 55 RAU ALUMNI We have launched a generous new prize, funded by alumnus Richard Pilkington (1987) of Pilkington Farms Partnership, which will see the recipient awarded their final year tuition fee based on sustained, excellent, academic performance throughout the first two years of study. The Pilkington Farms Partnership Prize will be given to the top second-year undergraduate student in the School of Real Estate and Land Management (RELM), with the final year’s fees (currently £9,250) awarded as a fee-waiver in their third year. The Pilkington Farms Partnership Prize has been created together with Richard Pilkington, Director of Pilkington Farms Partnership, an arable and livestock farming partnership based in Hertfordshire with farms in both Yorkshire and Hertfordshire. Richard Pilkington said of the award: “We, here at Pilkington Farms Partnership, are delighted to sponsor this prize. All those working in the agri and environmental industries are faced with ever more complex issues and the need for professional expertise to solve these has never been more needed. We are delighted that the RAU will be educating, encouraging and emboldening a new generation to take on this challenge and that we can play a small part in helping them do so.” William Leschallas, Head of the School of RELM commented: Pilkington Prize “I am so grateful to Richard for offering this generous award and for his ongoing support for the RAU. This prize offers a great opportunity for a student who joins one of our undergraduate courses, and I hope it will encourage students to push themselves to perform to the best of their abilities and achieve excellence.”