The Pembroke Farmers’ Club Award for Services to Agriculture was recently awarded to Edward and Betty Morris of Loveston Farm, Pembroke.

Edward has been a member of the Club for 40 years, during which time he has served as chairman during 2005 and 2019; president and now treasurer. Edward was president over the Club’s bicentenary year in 2017 when he collated the 200 year history of the Club and managed to gain Lottery funding to have the book printed to commemorate this occasion.

Every August, in the days preceding the Show, Edward can be found out on the Lamphey Showground marking out the field for the marquees, tradestands and car parking area.

Edward is also currently treasurer to the Cleddau Grassland Society and has previously been Chairman to the Welsh Turkey Association. He was also treasurer to the Association for 28 years.

In 2005 when Edward was Chairman of the Club, he and Betty resurrected the Fur and Feather section of the annual Town and Country Show and they ran this section for 15 years. They also took on the running of the Crafts section and now this Crafts and Shopping Mall, as it is now known, has gone from strength to strength and is very popular with visitors to the Show.

In 2016 Edward was the instigator of a charity concert which was held at Folly Farm, to raise funds for the Club and the Air Ambulance organisation. As the majority of the Club’s members are men and to draw attention to the incidence of prostate cancer, Edward instigated another fund-raising concert, this time at the Henry Tudor School, for the Prostate Cymru charity. The Pembroke Male Voice Choir performed at both of these concerts and Edward, who had joined the Choir in 2018 joined them on the stage at the school.

Edward has been a councillor for 40 years serving on the Stackpole and Castlemartin Community Council and has been chairman several times over the years.

Edward and Betty are longstanding churchwarden and treasurer, respectively, of St Twynnells Church and give a lot of their time to maintaining the churchyards and fund raising for the church.

During the COVID lockdowns Edward was very successful in raising funds and renovating his local village social centre at St Twynnells, which had become quite dilapidated in recent years. It is now up and running and well equipped and is a very useful hall for the area.

Copies of the 200 Year History and Heritage of Pembroke Farmers Club are available for purchase at the Show in August or directly from Edward.