Tratman Award Citations
Tratman Award, 2019
The prestigious Tratman Award (in memory of E.K. Tratman, who died in 1978) is awarded annually for a caving-related, paper-based publication, to recognise excellence and encourage future improvement. It is one of the UK’s premier national caving awards, but is open to authors and publishers from Britain and Ireland.
First awarded for the publications of 1979, the Tratman Award was administered by the Ghar Parau Foundation when the foundation was a sub-charity of BCRA, but since 2019 (presenting the awards of 2018) when the foundation became an independent charity it has been directly awarded by BCRA. The judges are independent of the association and look for not only a high standard of writing and information content, but also factors such as the publication’s layout, print quality, binding and availability. The current award covers the publications of 2019 and was judged by Joe Duxbury, Ric Halliwell
UNIONS have welcomed a U-turn by Ikea on May Day, after the Swedish flat-pack giant bowed to pressure and rowed back on its decision to drop the “real” living wage.
The transnational said over the weekend that it would now honour the minimum hourly rate of £10.85 in London and £9.50 in the rest of the country from May Day the deadline for implementation set by the Living Wage Foundation (LWF).
Ikea sparked fury in November when it told workers that it would not pay the 20p hourly increase set by the LWF, citing a “challenging” retail environment but continued displaying the foundation’s plaques on its sites.