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Wednesday, 25 August 2010 |
 As the sixth Countryside Alliance Awards get underway, the East of England has emerged as the top Award winner of the previous five years. The region has won three national titles and taken four national commendations – the most of all the twelve competing regions and just ahead of Yorkshire, the South of England and Wales. “The Rural Oscars” are the Countryside Alliance’s annual celebration of rural businesses, produce and communities and are public-nomination led. You can nominate in the 2010 Awards here. |
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Tuesday, 24 August 2010 |
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 Owing to public demand the Countryside Alliance Awards are now open for business, and you can nominate your favourites here. These are our annual celebration of rural life through people, skills, produce and heritage. We also have two Rural Hero categories as well as a Grassroots Award which will be given to the Countryside Alliance member who has done the most for our campaigns over the past year. The nomination phase is open until late October. Read more about the Awards, past winners, rules, history and judges at www.countrysideallianceawards.co.uk.
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Friday, 30 July 2010 |
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The sixth annual Countryside Alliance Awards, the Countryside Alliance’s celebration of rural people through their communities, businesses, skills and produce, will open to public nomination on Monday 6th September. The Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the Rural Oscars, were set up to challenge the notion that rural life is in decline. They celebrate people going the extra mile to ensure that rural Britain’s communities, food and farming industry, small businesses, traditional skills and forward-thinking enterprises can flourish. |
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Wednesday, 23 June 2010 |
 The Countryside Alliance is delighted to announce that Hunter Boots will be sponsoring the Rural Hero categories of its Countryside Alliance Awards in 2010. |
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
 The Countryside Alliance has criticised as “knee jerk” a government report which suggests children should not have contact with animals at open farms. The Griffin report was set up after the 2009 E-coli outbreak in which ninety three people, including children, became ill. It has today laid out recommendations to prevent such an outbreak happening in the future. |
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
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 Countryside Alliance Head of Communitcations Jill Grieve has blogged on the lessons Government should be learning from its own dismal "buy British" statistics and laments that when it comes to the Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative it is "less British produce, more gravy train". Read Jill's blog here.
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Tuesday, 02 March 2010 |
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 The Countryside Alliance says the Government is “continuing to fail to lead by example on buying British and supporting British farmers.” A new report shows a fall in the amount of UK-produced food being procured by the Government and its departments. The Public Sector Food Procurement Initiative (PSFPI) published a report at the end of February on the “Proportion of domestically produced food used by government departments.”
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