Awards Sponsors

Farmers Weekly is the UK’s leading agricultural media brand, delivering actionable content, innovative events, and a range of services to farmers.  Our goal is to be in every farmer’s pocket, to be the starting point for all their business information needs, and to inspire profitable decision making.

To our weekly magazine readers, daily website users and social media followers we provide authoritative and independent news and information.  We also have a number of events and services to inspire, inform and support our audience.

The biggest of these is the Farmers Weekly Awards held at The Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London. Each year through a rigorous judging process, which includes a visit to every farm on the shortlist for each category, with the most deserving farmers rewarded culminating in the award for the Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year.

We also produce face to face events such as Britain’s Fittest Farmer, a YouTube series in Farmer’s Apprentice and a variety of tailored webinars designed to connect sponsors to our audience with carefully crafted, valuable content.

2021 saw the launch of the Transition project, a new initiative which involves content, a webinar series and podcast aimed at helping our audience to secure a sustainable future for their farm business in the face of changes to payments and bold carbon neutral targets for the sector. 

Alongside the Transition podcast we also have The Farmers Weekly podcast and Boots & Heels podcast covering the top news and key issues in British farming.

Our classified platform in print and online allows our audience to easily connect in a marketplace to buy and sell machinery and equipment. In addition to this, the Farmers Weekly R&D tax credits service, in partnership with Leyton, can help farmers inject cashflow into their farm through tax incentives that they may be eligible for.

Noble Futures is a leading specialist recruitment consultancy for the Animal Health, Agricultural, Equine & Pet industries. With an emphasis on executive, management, sales, marketing, technical and clerical roles, Noble Futures has a dedicated network of expert recruitment consultants located across the UK and Ireland.

An enthusiastic attendee of the VMA Awards for the last seven years, the Noble Futures team are firm believers in the celebration of achievement and consequently the company is returning sponsor of the VMA Marketing Campaign Award for the 3rd year running.

Tony Noble, Managing Director of Noble Futures comments “we’re delighted to be back on board to sponsor the VMA Marketing Campaign Award. Creativity is a key contributor to business success in today’s fast paced global economy. Successful companies need to stand out to get noticed and nowhere is this more evident than in creative marketing campaigns that extend beyond a single communications channel. It takes a special talent to create an integrated campaign that is successful across multiple channels and as we’re all about talent here at Noble Futures, we’re delighted to be given this opportunity to reward it.”

Noble Futures manages recruitment for many of the UK’s leading nutrition, supplement and pharmaceutical companies, in addition to many other leading product and service led organisations. Experts in their field, the team has an in-depth knowledge of the animal health industry and has many decades of combined experience in recruiting for success. “A keen eye for connecting employee to employer”, “great insight in matching people to organisations” and “an amazing ‘can do’ attitude” are just a few of the many comments the Noble Futures team receives on a regular basis.

The Noble Futures’ approach to recruitment focuses upon quality, not quantity, which allows the team to deliver a first-class service to both client and candidate. By working with a select client base, the company presents the most exciting job opportunities in the industry and works tirelessly to find the most attractive candidates for any vacancy.

Noble continues “the Noble Futures ethos is built upon the three core pillars of expertise, an individualised service and complete confidentiality. Our consultants take time to get to know both our client’s needs and our candidate’s strengths and motivations. This allows us to really understand the role and help us to find the perfect person to fill it.”

Whether you are managing your company’s recruitment needs or you’re looking for your next big career move the Noble Futures team are on hand to provide you with expert advice and direction and are committed to placing people first.

For more information and the latest vacancies, see www.noble-futures.com

Zenopa’s Animal Health division is home to a professional team of recruiters passionate about animal welfare. We have over 30 years of experience in recruiting, helping shape careers and source the best industry talent for your business.

Zenopa strives to maintain high quality in the Animal Health candidates we present to you and provide a stress-free, efficient process from job brief through to the start date.

We cover roles within marketing, sales, technical advisory, engineering, and managerial roles within Animal Health. Our services cover permanent, interim, and contract positions within the UK and internationally.

That’s why we are so excited to be sponsoring an award at the VMA’s this year!

Veterinary Times is the UK’s market-leading news-led journal for the veterinary profession, distributed by name to all veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses, with an audited circulation of 19,640. Sister publication VN Times provides monthly news, views and features to an audited circulation of 14,371. Content from both publications, together with other exclusive content, is available at www.vettimes.co.uk

Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered in Ingelheim, Germany, Boehringer Ingelheim operates presently with a total of some 50,000 employees worldwide. The focus of the family-owned company, founded in 1885, is on researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing new medications of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine. In 2015, Boehringer Ingelheim achieved net sales of about 14.8 billion euros. R&D expenditure corresponds to 20.3 per cent of net sales. For more information, please visit www.boehringer-ingelheim.com

CM Research is a full-service market research agency specialized in the veterinary and pet owner sector. Our research offering covers new product development, segmentation, modelling, ad testing and brand health tracking, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Specialising in veterinary market research, since 2010 we have run hundreds of surveys and interviewed more than 100,000 vets and pet owners across most countries in Europe. From fielding simple surveys amongst our panellists to complex advanced statistics, CM Research has the experience and knowledge to help you.

We own and manage our online panels:

Vetspanel is the largest exclusive membership-only community for vets and vet nurses where veterinary professionals are rewarded for sharing their opinions on a variety of issues. Almost 20,000 veterinary professionals are members in: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the US.

Petspanel is a community of pet owners from across seven countries of Europe who share their opinions on a variety of small animal / companion animal issues.

CM Research is a full-service market research agency specialized in the veterinary and pet owner sector. Our research offering covers new product development, segmentation, modelling, ad testing and brand health tracking, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

Specialising in veterinary market research, since 2010 we have run hundreds of surveys and interviewed more than 100,000 vets and pet owners across most countries in Europe. From fielding simple surveys amongst our panellists to complex advanced statistics, CM Research has the experience and knowledge to help you.

We own and manage our online panels:

Vetspanel is the largest exclusive membership-only community for vets and vet nurses where veterinary professionals are rewarded for sharing their opinions on a variety of issues. Almost 20,000 veterinary professionals are members in: UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Brazil, South Africa and the US.

Petspanel is a community of pet owners from across seven countries of Europe who share their opinions on a variety of small animal / companion animal issues.

We are a global, creative integrated marcomms agency offering a ‘health first, sector second’ approach, with over 250 sector experts with unparalleled breadth of capabilities.  We deliver strategic, creative and insightful programmes that drive measurable behaviour change.

We create integrated, meaningful experiences by bringing data and emotion together using our proprietary strategic planning model, CHANGE, developed with UCL’s Centre of Behaviour Change.

Our specialist team of vets and deep category SEO experts are on a mission to put the right animal health information at the fingertips of every vet, pet owner and farmer. By doing so, we’ll drive growth of your brand, and fix a pattern of waste we see time and again – investment in websites no one actually sees because they rank so poorly in Google. We’ll work with you to curate the website content your audience actually wants to see and make sure they can find it.That means measurable change for you: more eyes on your brand, more visits to your website and more conversions, plus change in your pocket you can re-invest to do good.

Noble Futures is a leading specialist recruitment consultancy for the Animal Health, Agricultural, Equine & Pet industries. With an emphasis on executive, management, sales, marketing, technical and clerical roles, Noble Futures has a dedicated network of expert recruitment consultants located across the UK and Ireland.

An enthusiastic attendee of the VMA Awards for the last seven years, the Noble Futures team are firm believers in the celebration of achievement and consequently the company is returning sponsor of the VMA Marketing Campaign Award for the 3rd year running.

Tony Noble, Managing Director of Noble Futures comments “we’re delighted to be back on board to sponsor the VMA Marketing Campaign Award. Creativity is a key contributor to business success in today’s fast paced global economy. Successful companies need to stand out to get noticed and nowhere is this more evident than in creative marketing campaigns that extend beyond a single communications channel. It takes a special talent to create an integrated campaign that is successful across multiple channels and as we’re all about talent here at Noble Futures, we’re delighted to be given this opportunity to reward it.”

Noble Futures manages recruitment for many of the UK’s leading nutrition, supplement and pharmaceutical companies, in addition to many other leading product and service led organisations. Experts in their field, the team has an in-depth knowledge of the animal health industry and has many decades of combined experience in recruiting for success. “A keen eye for connecting employee to employer”, “great insight in matching people to organisations” and “an amazing ‘can do’ attitude” are just a few of the many comments the Noble Futures team receives on a regular basis.

The Noble Futures’ approach to recruitment focuses upon quality, not quantity, which allows the team to deliver a first-class service to both client and candidate. By working with a select client base, the company presents the most exciting job opportunities in the industry and works tirelessly to find the most attractive candidates for any vacancy.

Noble continues “the Noble Futures ethos is built upon the three core pillars of expertise, an individualised service and complete confidentiality. Our consultants take time to get to know both our client’s needs and our candidate’s strengths and motivations. This allows us to really understand the role and help us to find the perfect person to fill it.”

Whether you are managing your company’s recruitment needs or you’re looking for your next big career move the Noble Futures team are on hand to provide you with expert advice and direction and are committed to placing people first.

For more information and the latest vacancies, see www.noble-futures.com