Commonwealth Bank Rural Achiever Award

Tim Dreverman from Berridale is the inaugural Dalgety Show Rural Achiever.

The judges said they had a very hard task deciding who was to be the winner of the Rural Achiever Award. They commented that all the candidates were “just wonderful and really inspiring young people“. “They are all so committed to country life and their community, and they are all potential leaders. “We were blown away by the quality of these young people,” they said.

Tim, who is 26 years old, is a dedicated horseman with his own successful equestrian business called Snowy Mountains Performance Horses. Over the past few years, Tim has been the ring announcer at many country shows, including the Royal National Agricultural Show of Queensland (the Ekka). You can hear Tim announcing at the Dalgety Show, Sunday, March 7. 2010.

Tim is also the promoter of the very successful Snowy Mountains Showjump Festival held over five days in January at the Cooma Showground. As the judges said, “with young people such as these in the Snowy River Shire, our future is assured”.

Tim will now be sponsored to attend the RAS Rural Achiever Award competition in December 2010 where eight finalists from rural NSW will be chosen to participate in the Award program in 2011. To read what the RAS Rural Achiever finalists had to say about their experiences go to www.sydneyroyal.com.au/ruralachieveraward.