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Presidential Initiative
The Presidential team serves for one year and is made up of representatives from the regional ‘host’ area where the Royal Highland Show would traditionally have been held when it travelled annually before it moved to its permanent site at Ingliston, Edinburgh in 1960.
Representing Strathclyde this year, the Presidential Team will oversee their own Presidential Initiative, hosting an exciting calendar of events throughout the year, and culminating at the 2025 Royal Highland Show with sustainability being at the forefront of their events!
This year they will be hosting two high profile events as well as attending the Show, using their platform to highlight the ways that agriculture is supporting the environment, highlighting the ways in which our research institutes and organisations are helping the country to become net zero and how our industry is part of the solution, not the problem.
Along with this mission, a charity dinner will also be held in March 2025 at the Donald Malcolm Heritage Centre at Linwood to support the RHASS partner charities including Scottish Young Farmers Club Big Build, Royal Highland Education Trust, RSABI and Farmstrong Scotland. A Harvest Thanksgiving service will also be held in October in Glasgow with guests invited to a reception to celebrate the RHASS presidency returning to the Strathclyde area.
More information to come soon!
George Lyons
George Lyons was a seventh-generation tenant livestock farmer from the Isle of Bute.
A Nuffield Scholar in 1987, he was elected in 1989 into the NFUS Council and in 1994, served as Chair of Animal Health & Welfare Committee. He was elected Vice President and then President of NFUS from 1998-99.
Margo McGill Scott
Margo McGill Scott is a partner at Lockharts Law LLP in Ayr where she heads up the Agriculture and Estates team. She is an accredited specialist in Agricultural Law and loves working with the farming community.
She lives with her family on their dairy farm at Mossblown in Ayrshire where they milk 120 pedigree Holstein cows through lely robots.
Isabell Montgomerie
Born & brought up on a dairy farm in Ayrshire, Isabell Montgomerie will be taking on the role of Chaplin.
Before retirement, Isabell dairy farmed and bred Holstein Friesian cattle at Glenconner Farm. Exhibited at many agricultural Shows.
She has been an elder for over 40 years, Session Clerk of Ochiltree Parish Church and past moderator of The Presbytery of Ayr – the first elder and woman to have held this position and served on National Committees and highlighted farming issues on many occasions.
Rob Wainwright
At Cliad Farm, Rob Wainwright OBE and his family, have evolved an extensive farming system producing store lambs and calves off Lleyn ewes and Luing cattle, with half an eye on the health of the wonderful Hebridean flora and fauna found here.
Lord George Robertson
Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen KT GCMG is Chancellor of the University of Dundee, a member of the International Affairs Committee of the House of Lords, and is Vice Patron of the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.
He has served as the 10th Secretary General of NATO, Secretary of State for Defence and as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland.
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