Across the land-based and aquaculture sector, you can...
Support a Rising Star
Every year, Lantra brings together the best of the best from across the land-based and aquaculture sector. We do this to celebrate the unsung talent, the hard-working learners and those who have overcome challenges, and to support their further development.
Our high profile awards ceremony takes place at Crieff Hydro on Thursday 6th March 2025, when learners and industry can promote and celebrate their success.
But we don’t just give them a prize and take a glitzy photo, we also offer support to our finalists by offering them membership of our ‘Industry Champions’ initiative, providing skills development, training and valuable networking opportunities to help ensure all our finalists are supported in the next stage of their career.
In exchange they act as ambassadors for the sector, at events and on social media, to an audience ranging from industry to school pupils. This helps to further raise the profile of our sector and to promote it as a positive career destination.
How can YOU get involved?
We know that different organisations have different aims and priorities for sponsorship, which is why we have a range of opportunities available.
You might be interested in sponsoring the whole award ceremony with your organisation’s name in lights as our headline sponsor. Or perhaps you want to be more aligned with a category close to your organisation’s area of work, such as Agriculture Learner of the Year, or Modern Apprentice of the Year, and to present the trophy at the ceremony. Or you might want to sponsor a table.
You might want to focus your support on the Industry Champions initiative, providing support, expertise and input to the next generation of our sector’s leaders. We will help you to connect with our rising stars.
However you choose to become involved, you can rest assured that all of your sponsorship goes to recognising and supporting the best of the best from our sector.
What are the options?
We offer a variety of sponsorship benefits, including branding and marketing during and in the lead up to the awards ceremony and beyond, through our social media channels, in the press and on our website.
You will have the opportunity to be profiled in an ‘About our supporters’ section of our website, and have your company profile used in our learner and career materials.
We celebrate unsung talent, hard-working learners, those who have overcome challenges, and we support their further development.
We can offer the following packages...
Headline Sponsor
In our most prestigious support option, your organisation gains maximum benefit from the awards, from the nomination process right through to the high-profile ceremony itself. Your company will feature in related PR and marketing, including our website and social media, promotional material and newsletter, generating media coverage.
During the Event
• As main supporter, you have the option of providing us with a short video message to be played during the ALBAS
• Entry to an exclusive reception to meet finalists before the ceremony
• A seat at the top table, with the opportunity to network with our high profile guests
• Extensive branding opportunities, including logo on stage throughout presentations and your banner stands in the venue
• Distribution of your products or promotional material to guests
• Full page advert, logo on cover and editorial in our souvenir programme
• Presentation on stage to overall individual winner
• Table for 10 at the ceremony.
After the Event
• Feature as the main supporter in the next edition of our newsletter
• Photograph on our website of you presenting the overall winner’s award
• Credit as main sponsor in PR activity related to the awards
• Opportunity to host a reception at the Royal Highland Show on our stand in a prime location
• First refusal to be main supporter at our ALBAS the following year
• Opportunity to meet our Industry Champions at the following face-to-face event.
£5,000 plus VAT
Other benefits may also be available, so please ask us for details.
“Your company will feature in PR and marketing around the awards, including our website and social media, promotional material and newsletter, generating media coverage.”
Gold Support
Be a major part of our premium awards event. As well as enjoying a wide range of marketing benefits, you’ll be able to meet key figures from industry and can entertain your guests.
Benefits include:
• Eight tickets for the awards dinner
• Named sponsor for a category of your choice
• Your company’s name or logo to appear: in background presentations on stage; in the souvenir programme with a half-page advert; on our website with link to yours; in the next edition of our newsletter after the ceremony; within press releases and marketing materials before, during and after the event
• Photograph on our website of you presenting an award
• Entry to an exclusive reception to meet finalists before the ceremony
£3,000 plus VAT
Bronze Support
Our Bronze support package offers the following benefits:
Silver Support
Excellent value for your organisation with inclusion in marketing activities at the awards dinner and after the event.
Benefits include:
• Six tickets for the awards dinner
• Named sponsor for a category of your choice
• Your company’s name or logo to appear: in the souvenir programme with a quarter page advert; on our website with link to yours; in the next edition of our newsletter after the ceremony; within press releases and marketing materials before, during and after the event.
*£2,000 plus VAT
• Four tickets for the awards dinner
• Your company’s name and logo in the souvenir programme and a link from our website to yours.
£1,000 plus VAT
Categories of Award available for Sponsorship
Individual Industry Awards which include Learner of the Year for:
Animal Care, Aquaculture, Equine, Environmental Conservation, Fisheries Management, Game and Wildlife, Horticulture, Land-Based Engineering, Vet Nursing and Trees and Timber
Mentor of the Year Award
School Pupil Award
Secondary School Award
Higher Education Awards
Research Project
The Anna Murray Award for Partnership Working
Modern Apprentice of the Year
Overall Runner-up
Overall Winner
You might also want to sponsor our Industry Champions directly, helping to ensure that each has the support they need, whether it be through sponsorship of the scheme as a whole, or by providing training or expertise in a particular area.
“Lantra’s Industry Champions initiative helps you to further your personal and career skills, network and has great opportunities. It’s also a supportive team of like-minded people who will welcome you and help you gain skills and grow. For me, it has been enjoyable and valuable and I would definitely recommend it!”
Callum Duggan, Aquaculture 2021
Champions share their experiences of different industries within the land-based and nature-based sector with each other; get training from us in areas such as presentations; social media; networking and on how to best represent their industry at career events; and can contribute to skills consultations and influence policies.
With this support, our Industry Champions inspire the next generation of learners while supporting skills development and promoting the diversity of careers available in the sector. All were finalists in our ALBAS, and so have already been selected for their inspirational qualities and outstanding contributions to the workplace.
To discuss support for our Industry Champions or our ALBAS directly, email scotland@lantra.co.uk or call 01738 310164. www.scotland.lantra.co.uk/learner-year
