THIS YEAR S Flame Award went – again – to the Perth Office team of Margaret Hebbourn, Katy Neill, and Marc Robb FOR THE third year running, NFU Scotland s Membership Flame award to recognise outstanding efforts in recruitment and retention of members has gone to its Perth team of Margaret Hebbourn, Katy Neill, and Marc Robb. The team look after the interests of more than 500 members across four branches – Perth, Crieff, Blairgowrie and Highland Perthshire – and finished 2020 having recruited 32 new members, on top of the 64 recruited in the previous two years. NFUS chief executive, Scott Walker, said: “To win the Flame once is an achievement, and to win it three years in a row is absolutely outstanding. The last year has been particularly challenging time for all our local offices and regional managers with Covid-19 restrictions impacting on face-to-face contact, usually such an important element in getting new members to sign up.