N&EMPF DPAGB Holders (Distinction)
| 2025 | Kenneth Bunch | Deepings Camera Club |
| Paul Burrows | Keyworth Camera Club | |
| 2024 | Tony Barker | Derby City Photographic Club |
| Stewart Haynes | RB Foto Group | |
| 2023 | Graham Clegg | Deepings Camera Club |
| Mary Fish | Axeholme Camera Club | |
| David Hewson | Lincoln Camera Club | |
| Andrew Wainwright | Rolls-Royce Derby Photographic Society | |
| 2019 | Trevor Hupton | Killamarsh Amateur Photographic Society |
| 2018 | Michael Bennett | Grimsby Photographic Society |
| David Keep | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society | |
| Ken Wade | Newark & District Photographic Society | |
| 2016 | Trevor Lane | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club |
| Ian Webb | Worksop & District Photographic Society | |
| Alan D Young | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society | |
| 2015 | Jacqui Grafton | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club |
| Vincent Scothern | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society | |
| Brian Stephenson | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society | |
| Gillian Young | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society | |
| 2014 | Julie Donovan | Newark & District Photographic Society |
| Gary Langley | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society | |
| Jamie MacArthur | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club | |
| Peter Sharman | Newark & District Photographic Society | |
| 2013 | Stuart Crump | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club |
| Derek Doar | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society | |
| Sarah Middleton | Derby City Photographic Club | |
| Stephen Shaw | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society | |
| 2012 | Chris Forster | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society |
| Michael Hughes | Newark & District Photographic Society | |
| Susan Wilson | Clay Cross Photographic Society | |
| 2011 | Peter Lawrence | Deepings Camera Club |
| 2010 | Gianpiero Ferrari | Sileby Photographic Society |
| Andrew Parsons | RB Camera Club Lincoln | |
| 2008 | Dougie Bee | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society |
| Stuart Dobson | Worksop & District Photographic Society | |
| Eileen Murray | Worksop & District Photographic Society | |
| 2007 | Duncan Hill | Scunthorpe Camera Club |
| Keith Naylor | Worksop & District Photographic Society | |
| David Severn | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club | |
| 2005 | John Colmer | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society |
| 2004 | Guy Brown | Dronfield Camera Club |
| Anthony Fell | Bolsover Camera Club | |
| Andrew Mozley | Melton Mowbray Photographic Society | |
| 2003 | Paul Exton | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club |
| Bill Hall | Rolls-Royce (Derby) Photographic Society | |
| Ken Henstock | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club | |
| 2002 | Mike Armstrong | Grantham Photographic Society |
| Arthur Payne | Melton Mowbray Photographic Society | |
| 2001 | Les Nixon | Bakewell Photo Circle |
| 2000 | Gerald Hall | Worksop & District Photographic Society |
| Graham Heywood | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society | |
| Alfred Mather | Bolsover Camera Club | |
| 1999 | Dennis Farrell | Worksop & District Photographic Society |
| Donald Pryor | Stapleford Community Association Camera Club | |
| 1998 | Mike Cowdrey | Nottingham & Notts Photographic Society |
| Brian H Fawcett | Bolsover Camera Club | |
| Mike Hall | Arnold & District Camera Club | |
| 1997 | David H Armstrong | Grimsby Photographic Society |
| Pearl Armstrong | Grimsby Photographic Society | |
| Sydney C Yielding | Beeston (Notts) Camera Club | |
| 1996 | Peter Yeo | RB Camera Club Lincoln |
Clubs listed were the members' clubs at the time of the distinctions being achieved – E&EO.