The team running this year’s Royal Show have welcomed the appointment of the show’s youngest-ever honorary show director, Mark Spencer, 37, from Mapperley Plains in Nottinghamshire.

Under executive show director Peter Stovold the new management team includes Geoff Burgess, deputy executive director; Simon Frere-Cook, event presenter; and Clare Savins, livestock manager.

Further recent additions to the team are marketing and international relations executive Sophie Locke, sales and marketing assistants Jo Fairburn and Julie Bublaitis, livestock executive Sarah Deeming, operations assistant Sam Green and features co-ordinator Keeley Harris.

Spencer, the show’s 21st honorary show director farms with his father on land purchased by his grandfather in 1939 now on the urban fringe of Nottingham. The farm’s 60 year dairying heritage gave way to retailing direct from the farm with 25 butchery, bakery and general sales staff now selling home-reared beef and free-range eggs as well as potatoes, field vegetables and fruit.

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