Public nominations have opened for this year’s Countryside Alliance Awards, also known as the Rural Oscars. 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 can flourish.
Rural enterprises can be nominated under one of four categories, including Local Food, Village Shop/Post Office and Butcher. A new Rural Tourism category has been introduced for 2015, promoting rural tourist attractions. Public nominations will be assessed by Countryside Alliance judges, with a shortlist of enterprises for each category being invited to a Parliamentary Grand Final in April 2016.
Speaking earlier this year the Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Truss MP, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said, the Rural Oscars were “a brilliant opportunity to showcase our rural heroes who promote the best our countryside has to offer.”
Aberconwy MP Guto Bebb commented, “Aberconwy is a large, rural constituency and I know we have plenty of high quality tourist attractions and rural businesses. I would encourage constituents to nominate their favourite rural enterprises for the Rural Oscars.”
Nominations can be made online at the Countryside Alliance’s website.
http://www.countryside-alliance.org/nominate-now-in-the-rural-oscars