Welsh Rural Affairs Minister, Elin Jones, has paid a visit to the Llyn y Fan fishery in Carmarthenshire to make up for them being unable to collect their Countryside Alliance Award at the Senedd in Cardiff back in January when snow prevented the owners from attending the winners' reception. Better late than never! Read more here.
The Countryside Alliance is delighted to announce that Hunter Boot will be sponsoring the Rural Hero categories of its Countryside Alliance Awards in 2010. The sixth annual Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the Rural Oscars, will be launched in early September across eight categories, and Hunter will be joining Clarissa Dickson Wright, Farmers Guardian and the Daily Telegraph in their support. The Awards are nomination-led and were set up to honour those who go the extra mile for the countryside, its communities, skills, heritage and enterprise.
March 2010: Further congratulations to Machars Movies, the community run "most southerly cinema in Scotland" who received recognition for their achievements when Dumfries & Galloway council held a civic reception in their honour earlier this week. Patsy Gilroy, Convenor of Dumfries & Galloway Council presented members of the Machars Movies committee with a specially commissioned plaque to commemorate their winning of the Countryside Alliance Best Rural Enterprise Award 2009, and also the corresponding Scottish Countryside Alliance Award in Scotland.
Regional and national winners of 2009 - the coverage
The Telegraph praises Countryside Alliance Awards nominees
In the Daily Telegraph on Friday 20th November 2009, commentator Charlie Brooks wrote a powerful piece entitled "An uncomfortable truth about our food".
The platform for this piece was the Countryside Alliance Awards, which
the Telegraph supports. Mr Brooks blasted cheap imported food, which is reared
abysmally, and praised British food producers' high animal welfare
standards, writing "The message resonates loud and clear from the
nominations made that people care passionately about where their food
comes from". He also praised the regional finalists for "showing
great ingenuity in helping their communities".
The Countryside Alliance is delighted to announce that Hunter Boot will be sponsoring the Rural Hero categories of its Countryside Alliance Awards in 2010. The sixth annual Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the Rural Oscars, will be launched in early September across eight categories, and Hunter will be joining Clarissa Dickson Wright, Farmers Guardian and the Daily Telegraph in their support. The Awards are nomination-led and were set up to honour those who go the extra mile for the countryside, its communities, skills, heritage and enterprise.