Guild of TraditionalUpholsterers

Challenge Trophy

Each year at the Guild AGM, during the evening meal, we see a Certificated Member awarded the Challenge trophy.

The Award is presented to those Members who put forward a portfolio of photographs of a single piece of work from the previous 12 months.

Each portfolio is then inspected by other Certificated Members and voted upon.

Each entry is anonymous and must consist of the following photographs:

  • Before work began
  • After ripping out
  • Work in progress
  • The completed piece (several views)

The winner of the cup retains the trophy for one year and also receives a prize of £250.

A call for entries will be put forward closer to the date of this years AGM

Michael Bowden, Challenge cup winner 2014

Winners

  • Charlotte Ellis

    2025

  • Michelle Kenyon Roberts

    2024

  • Katerina Gibb

    2023

  • Niqui Little and Gregory Cupitt-Jones

    2019

  • Andrew Lawerence

    2018

  • Andrew Lawerence

    2017

  • Gregory Cupitt-Jones

    2016

  • David James

    2015

  • Michael Bowden

    2014

  • Michael Bowden

    2013

  • Michael Bowden

    2011

  • David James

    2010

  • Bruce Jack

    2009

  • Rabea Giebfried-Nietzard

    2008

  • Gregory Cupitt-Jones

    2007

  • Rob Lines

    2005

  • Gregory Cupitt-Jones

    2004

  • David James

    2003

  • Vicky Lane

    2002

  • Stuart Beaumont

    2001

  • Heather Porter

    1999

  • John Brinsden

    1998

  • Stuart Beaumont

    1997

  • David James

    1996

  • Bruce Jack

    1994

  • Gareth James

    1992