The annual Countryside Alliance Awards are now open to public nomination, and Antony Higginbotham MP is urging the local community to get nominating.
The Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the ‘Rural Oscars’, were borne of a need to support and promote rural communities. They celebrate people going the extra mile to ensure that rural Britain’s food and farming industry, small businesses, traditional skills, forward-thinking enterprises and, most of all, its people, can flourish.
Local MP Antony Higginbotham said:
We’re so lucky to be surrounded by beautiful countryside on every side of the borough. And to have so many local businesses who work year-round within the rural economy.
These awards are an excellent way to promote our village shops, country pubs and butchers who source their meat locally.
We have so many community heroes and businesses worthy of national recognition, so I’d encourage everyone to get involved and nominate a business today. Let’s see if we can bring a British title home and tell a positive story about Burnley and Padiham’s rural community.
The Awards run across the following categories:
- Local Food Award
- Village shop/ Post Office Award
- Rural Enterprise Award
- Butcher Award
- Rural Pub Award
Nominations are open online at www.countryside-alliance.org/caawards until 13 November. Judging will then take place and national winners will be announced at the House of Lords in May 2023.
