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The 2010 Countryside Alliance Awards
2009's Village Shop Award went to Feckenham in Worcestershire

The Countryside Alliance Awards 2010 will open to nominations in September 2010. We are also delighted to announce that the first ever Countryside Alliance Ireland Awards will also open for business.

Doughty's in Kent is a popular butcherThese will be the sixth annual Countryside Alliance Awards and yet again we will be celebrating the countryside's produce, skills, heritage, enterprise and communities through the people who work so hard to make rural life tick. The Awards have grown in popularity over the years because they tell positive stories about rural people and their work, so anyone is in with a chance. They are public-nomination led, giving customers and supporters the chance to tell us why their favourites are so special. This year by popular demand we are introducing a butcher category to the existing categories, giving our hard-working butchers their own category in which to shine.

This year's Countryside Alliance Awards categories are:

Local Food Award
Village Shop/ Post Office Award
Enterprise Award
Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award
Countryside Alliance Butcher Award


We will also be searching for a Rural Hero of 2010, who could be anyone of any age who is doing something heroic for the countryside. We will also be looking for a Countryside Alliance Grassroots Award winner, who will be the member or trade member of the Countryside Alliance who is doing the most to advance our aims.

Visit the Countryside Alliance's website here .

cowCelebrating our rural heritage
 
Regional and national winners of 2009 - the coverage

The Westmorland Gazette: Community-run Furness pub wins national award

The Lakeland Echo: Cumbrian Inn wins national award

Scotland National Rural Network: Scotland's most southerly cinema wins national award

The Publican: Community acts to leash the Greyhound
Morning Advertiser (pub trade mag):TV co-op gears up to buy leased pub

Gazette & Herald: Beadlam Grange Farm Shop and Tearoom, at Pockley, near Helmsley, wins "Rural Oscar"

Newbury Today: Estate narrowly misses out on 'rural oscars'

Redditch Advertiser: Feckenham boasts Britain's best village shop

New Start: Local shop triumphs in "rural Oscars"

The Daily Telegraph: Charlie Brooks (Awards Judge): The countryside cries out for a fair deal

BBC News: Volunteer-run Feckenham village shop wins award

Market Rasen Mail: Rural Hero award for Alan

Community Newswire: Community shop wins national award

Community Newswire: Local Reverend wins national "Hero" award

Cambridge News: Enterprising crocodile farmer snaps up award

Northumberland Gazette: Hat trick of honours

Teesdale Mercury: Couple's delight as shop is named best in North East

North West Evening Mail: Community run pub wins national award

The Worcester News: Village shop is up for national award

Hampshire Chronicle: Kings Worthy businessman up for award

The Westmorland Gazette: Grizebeck pub and Crooklands fishery fight back to success

The Cotswold Journal: Blockley Village Shop could be best in Britain

Portsmouth News: Generous John could be in line for award
Darlington & Stockton Times: Butcher is the choice cut

Morpeth Herald: Best of the bunch - again

The Northern Echo: Organic farm shop hopes to harvest national title

The Comet (North Herts): Regional award for resurgent village store

The Hexham Courant: Shop wins second title

The Lancaster Guardian: Rural enterprise seals top awards

The Northern Echo: Piercebridge Organic Farm, near Darlington, named among Countryside Alliance Awards winners

The Oxford Times: Farm shop voted best in region

The Journal, Newcastle: Northumberland business up for Countryside Alliance awards

The Journal, Newcastle: Belsay shop in running for national award

Stackyard: Enterprising ‘Fodder’ Wins Top Award from Countryside Alliance

News Post Leader: Belsay and Widdrington champions bid for national title

The Press, Yorkshire: Enterprising North Yorkshire businesses scoop Countryside Alliance Awards

Darlington and Stockton Times: Local butcher scoops top award

Cumbrian News and Star: Cumbrian shop named best village store in the North West

Andover Advertiser: Store celebrates national award

Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser: Smoking hot business in Clunbury wins top accolade

The Westmorland Gazette: Reborn businesses rewarded for hard work

East Anglian Daily Times: Award hat-trick for village post office

Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph: Rural businesses are best in region

Dorset Echo: Community-minded pub couple do the double

 
Media coverage of the 2009 finalists

Ludlow Advertiser: Four south Shropshire businesses on shortlist for Countryside Alliance award

This is Wiltshire: New shop in Sherston in award final

Halifax Evening Courier: Farm shop makes final

Peterlee Mail: Farm shop in line for major award
The Comet: Farm is the pick of the crop

The Cumberland News: Village's community shop is in the running or national award

Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk: Brompton Ralph Stores progress in Countryside Alliance Awards

Salisbury Journal: Woodgreen Community Shop chosen as awards finalist

Awards Director Jill Grieve's blog on judging

Horse & Hound: Equestrian businesses in CA Awards regional finals
Northampton Evening Telegraph: Rural shops in line for award

Daily Post, North Wales: North Wales finalists in Countryside Alliance awards
Newcastle Journal: Morpeth farm shop up for countryside awards