Awards and Trophies.

Each year the Club holds its Awards’ Dinner. An evening for pilots and their guests to reflect on the year of flying and catch up with friends over dinner.

For the 2026 flying season we are introducing a new set of awards which aim to make prizes accessible to a larger number of club members, not just the XC chasers who have hot ship wings and no conflicting priorities when the good weather arrives during the working week.

We have recently introduced Distance Medals, initially for straight-line distance and now for triangles also. The Club is keen to encourage and recognise the achievements of pilots at all levels of experience.

Annual awards

Hang Gliders

• Highest scoring flight

Paragliders

• Highest scoring flight in “Open” category (any certified glider)
• Highest scoring flight “Serial” category - EN C or above
• Highest scoring flight “Sports” category - EN A and EN B
• The “Middle Malvern Pilot” - pilot in middle of XC League counting up to 6 flights
• Highest score in cumulative XC League Flights - up to 6 flights
• Longest distance flight (no multipliers)

Either Discipline

Carolyn Dewdney trophy

Spirit of Free Flying Award

For the pilot having the most non-competitive enjoyment of their flying

Most Improved Pilot

John King Memorial Trophy

Rules

Paragliding

• To qualify for an MHGC trophy, flight must be entered into the National XC League with the club declared to be ‘Malvern’.
• XC League multipliers for declared and all other types of flight will be allowed
• Any pilot can only win one prize each year
• Where a pilot wins two prizes, the second goes to the next highest placed pilot

MHGC will pay for the Club entry into the XC League

Hang-Gliding

• Qualifying flights must be logged on the UK National XC League with the club declared to be ‘Malvern’.
• Scores calculated by the league will be used unmodified

Club awards before 2026 Season

Recorded for posterity