Countryside Alliance Awards

The ninth annual Rural Oscars will open this summer

Welcome to the website of the Countryside Alliance Awards

Nicknamed "The Rural Oscars" they are the leading rural business, produce and community award to win. Operating across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales they celebrate the very best of rural enterprise. They are run by the Countryside Alliance, the 100,000 strong membership organisation that campaigns for rural life.

In 2013 we will run the ninth annual Awards. The UK & Ireland Champions of the 2012 Awrds are pictured above (read about them here).

Categories for the Awards are as follows:

• Local Food, supported by Defra
• Village Shop/ Post Office, supported by The Daily Telegraph
• Butcher, supported by the Worshipful Company of Butchers
• Start-up (for businesses trading for 18 months or less), supported by Hunter Boot

The Awards are public nomination led and will open to nominations here in the summer, so if you know of someone who runs a small rural business and is contributing to community life, the rural economy and the countryside's future, please nominate them. We are keen to honour the characters behind the businesses as well as the businesses themselves.

Read more about how the Awards work here.

Meantime, please shop local, eat local and back our farmers!

The "Rural Oscars" are supported by: