Nominations for fourth-annual ‘Geoffrey Deckers Award’ now open
2023-11-29
Outstanding contributions to animal protection and the fight to end animal testing in Europe can be nominated for the fourth-annual Geoffrey Deckers Award. Deadline for nominations is Thursday 7 December for the award which was launched in 2020 by Cruelty Free Europe in honour of the co-founder of Dutch animal protection group, Een Dier Een Vriend (now Diervriendelijk Nederland) and former Chair of both the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments and Cruelty Free Europe, who tragically died in June 2020.
Nominations from or on behalf of small or medium-sized groups or coalitions can be submitted by the application form on the Cruelty Free Europe website with the winner announced on Geoffrey’s birthday, 13 January. The winner will receive 6,000 euros to fund a campaign, training programme or outreach work that targets animal testing.
Past recipients of the Geoffrey Deckers award include Bulgarian group CAAI (Campaigns and Activism for Animals in the Industry), EcoVegAnimals (EVA) based in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Növényi Forradalom (Plant Revolution) in Hungary.