ASP.Net MVC4 Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference

Question

I am having this issue that keeps flagging up and I have checked every file. Just want to see if anyone else can spot an error?

@{
ViewBag.Title = "Event List";
}

<div>

Event Name : @Model.item.eventname <br />
Event Date : @Model.item.date <br />
Event Town : @Model.item.town <br />
Event Country : @Model.item.country <br />
Event Description : @Model.item.description <br />
Event Report : @Model.item.report <br />

@Html.ActionLink("Add New Event" , "AddEvent")


 @*Html.Partial("EventList")*@

</div>

All reply's are much appreciated !

Bellow is the Event Model which is linked to the orginal post:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace NETCW.Models
{
public class Event
{
    public int EventID { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event name.")]
    public string eventname { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event date.")]
    public string date { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event town.")]
    public string town { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event country.")]
    public string country { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event description.")]
    public string description { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event report.")]
    public string report { get; set; }

}
}

See bellow edited I am getting a error it says it does not contain a definition for the following Date, Town, Country and Report :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace NETCW.Models
{
public class Event
{
    public int EventID { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event name.")]
    [Display (Name = "Event Name :")]
    public string eventname { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event date.")]
    [Display (Date = "Event Date :")]
    public string date { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event town.")]
    [Display (Town = "Event Town :")]
    public string town { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event country.")]
    [Display (Country = "Event Country :")]
    public string country { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event description.")]
    [Display (Description = "Event Description :")]
    public string description { get; set; }

    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Please enter the event report.")]
    [Display (Report = "Event Report :")]
    public string report { get; set; }

}
}

Answer 1

You have not declared you model in the view. At the top of the view you need to declare it

@model NETCW.Models.Event

Edit

Based on the edited question @Model.item.eventname will also fail because Event does not contain a property named item . In addition you need to pass the model to the view, and you should be using the htlm helpers to generate the elements. In the GET method

Event model = new Event();
return View(model);

and in the view

@Html.DisplayFor(m => m.eventname)

and if your property is decorated with [Display(Name = "Event Name:")] then you can use the following to generate the associated label

@Html.DisplayNameFor(m => m.eventname)