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AN AWARD winning entrepreneur is encouraging other Lancashire business people to showcase their work. Elizabeth Billington from Preston was awarded the Best Rural Drink award at this year s Rural Business Awards for her work with Wild Fox Distillery. She is now encouraging fellow rural entrepreneurs to showcase their work, products and services to the nation at the 2021/22 Rural Business Awards. Ms Billington said: “It was a tremendous honour to receive the Best Rural Drink Business Award at the national final of the Rural Business Awards sponsored by Amazon. We are a young business, taking a new approach to gin crafting and celebrating all things country with each recipe.
Becky Hamilton from Mold started the Accessible Holiday Escapes website with her husband Phil. The Leader reported recently how the company was named Best Rural Start-Up Business in the 2020/2021 Rural Business Awards, which was held in partnership with Amazon. Entries for this year’s competition close on May 21 and Mrs Hamilton is encouraging others to enter. She said: “I want to encourage all rural businesses in Flintshire to enter this year’s awards before the deadline passes. We were honoured to be a part of the Rural Business Awards last year and receiving recognition from a company like Amazon has given us a real boost.
By Philip Sedgwick
The team from The Wensleydale Experience, winners of the best tourism business at the recent Rural Business Awards A WENSLEYDALE-based business is celebrating being named as the country’s best rural tourism company. The Rural Business Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the successes of businesses operating in the UK’s rural economy – a sector which in England alone contributes £261bn to the nation’s economy, nearly a fifth of the country’s total economic activity. Held online for the first time due to the lockdown, in the 2020/21 national final, 12 category winners were announced following a record number of entrants. The winner of the Best Rural Tourism Business was North Yorkshire-based The Wensleydale Experience.