Congratulations to Cyril and Simon

by | 25 March 2023

Some of you may not be aware but our Chairman, Cyril Watkins and General Secretary, Simon Nute are also Trustees of, and members of the Executive Council of the National Dahlia Society.

Cyril joined the Executive Council in 2012 and serves on the Judging, Classification and Show Committees, he is also a Vice-President.  He is in fact Chairman of the Judging committee and is responsible for organising the National Show Judges, Stewards etc and also for the NDS Judging Exams.  In 2019 he was awarded the Silver Medal in recognition of his work promoting the Dahlia.  We are delighted to report that in 2023 he has now been awarded the NDS Gold Medal for services to the Dahlia.  Congratulations Cyril on your award, it is very well deserved.

Simon joined the Executive Council in 2019 and became Chair of Finance.  He was also Honorary Treasurer of the Society but has now stepped down from that role.  He also looks after the website and recently taken on the Editor’s responsibility for the NDS Publications.  Simon also serves on the Show, Publications, Finance and General Purposes Committees.

We are equally delighted to announce that to represent his work for the Society Simon has been made a Vice-President and awarded the Vice-Presidents Medal, he was also awarded the NDS Personality of the Year for 2023.  We send our congratulations to Simon also.

We thank them for their hard work and commitment to both the Cornish Dahlia Society and the National Dahlia Society.