Sir Colin Spedding Award 2026
Nominations for the Sir Colin Spedding Award 2026 have now closed.
Details of the background to the award can be found here.
If you would like to make a nomination for the Sir Colin Spedding Award for 2027, please come back after NEF26, on Thursday 05 March 2026, when the nomination process will be open for NEF27.
Picture: Winner of the Sir Colin Spedding Award 2025, Di Arbuthnot, being presented with her award by HRH The Princess Royal, President, National Equine Forum. Picture courtesy of Shai Dolev Photography.
Nomination checklist
- Have you listed your nominee’s exceptional qualities and achievements, explained how they are relevant to the equestrian world and how they have gone 'above and beyond'?
- Has your nominee won any other awards in recognition of their work in the equestrian world prior to the close of the nomination period of the Sir Colin Spedding Award? If so, they will not be eligible for the Sir Colin Spedding Award
- Your nominee can be a person or organisation
- Multiple nominations for the same person or organisation will not carry additional merit
- Nominees cannot nominate themselves
- Commercial organisations are not eligible for the Sir Colin Spedding Award
- The shortlist and ultimate decisions will be final and the National Equine Forum Organising Committee will not enter into any discussion or provide any feedback on any individual nominations
- The National Equine Forum Organising Committee reserve the right to nominate a winner in light of exceptional circumstances outwith the normal nomination process
- Nominations for the Sir Colin Spedding Award 2026 have now closed.
The winner of the Sir Colin Spedding Award 2026 will be announced at the 34th National Equine Forum on Thursday 05 March 2026.