Why Enter the Rural Employee Award?
We talk a lot about how winning an award will benefit your business. From the recognition, the PR, and the media exposure, to the networking opportunities, to using the entry process as a strategic tool to evaluate your business, there are so many reasons to enter!...
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How to Avoid the 5 Most Common Entry Mistakes
One of the most frustrating things for us is when great businesses don’t translate to great entries. To help you on your way to winning, we’ve compiled a list of the five most common (and easily avoidable) mistakes past entrants have made.
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What does it take to win a Rural Professional Services Business Award?
The Best Rural Professional Services Business Award was created to celebrate any Professional Services business that either operates from a rural location or serves rural clients. These businesses are a hugely important part of the rural sector, and their hard-work and expertise deserves to be celebrated.
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Take a Look at the RBA’s Sporting Success Stories!
This week on the blog we thought we’d take a trip down memory lane, and have a look back at some of the fantastic businesses who’ve entered our Best Rural Sporting Business Category.
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Video showcasing the “new” Rutland is launched
A new video showcasing Rutland as it has never been seen before has been launched by Discover Rutland today (Friday, 6th April). The video includes footage filmed over nine months by Tom Wragg of Stamford company Helium Media, working alongside...
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Family-Friendly Ways to Explore the Countryside
Have you spent hours at every soft play centre in your area? Have you stuck, painted, coloured in and papier-mâchéd everything in your house that doesn’t move? Are you tired of having your children staring at screens all day? With schools taking a break for a couple...
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Are You 2018’s Best Rural Manufacturing Business?
Best Rural Manufacturing Business is one of our broadest and most varied categories, and each year we are awed and inspired by the passion, dedication, and attention to detail in every aspect of business demonstrated by so many of our manufacturing...
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Need a Holiday? Try these Rural Retreats for a Truly Great British Break
The UK boasts some pretty spectacular scenery, so it’s not hard to see why the “staycation” is more popular than ever. For the past few weeks here at RBA HQ we’ve been dreaming of escaping to the countryside, of, long muddy walks with views that make our hearts soar,...
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Greater digital adoption in rural areas could add £12 to 26 billion a year to the UK economy says new report
Research by Rural England and Scotland’s Rural College, commissioned by Amazon, shows that greater use of digital tools and services could deliver 4 to 8.8 per cent of additional Gross Value Added per year for the rural economy Unlocking the digital potential of rural...
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Say Thank You on Employee Appreciation Day!
Do you think that your employees are as amazing as we do? Then nominate them for the Rural Employee of the Year Award. This is a great chance to show your employees how much you appreciate them, and to celebrate all the success you have achieved together.
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Rural Business Awards’ Winners Announced
Dorking, Surrey – 6th October 2017 – Rural businesses are celebrating today following last night’s Rural Business Awards Ceremony, held at the Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey. Attendees were hosted by Jules Hudson, best-known as the leading face of the BBC’s...
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Connecting Companies as a Category Sponsor – Openreach at the RBAs
The Rural Business Awards is proud to have attracted prominent businesses to sponsor each award category and one of the well-known companies that has decided to support this year’s RBAs as a category sponsor is Openreach. But why are they dedicating their time and...
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Farmers & Rural Business Owners 74% More Likely to Diversify Due to Brexit
Diversity is the future of farming. More and more farms are looking at branching out into more than one area to establish multiple streams of income which will allow business to remain resilient in times where subsidies are falling and trade deals with the EU are up...
read moreRural England and Scotland’s Rural College Launch Consultation on How to ‘Unlock Rural Britain’s Digital Potential’
Consultation to inform comprehensive analysis and research report commissioned by Amazon to help support development of the digital economy in rural Britain Call for rural businesses, local authorities and community groups to submit views on how to fast-track rural...
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The Rural Business Awards Finalists 2017 are Announced
A thriving wedding venue born from a derelict sheep farm, an environmentally conscious construction company and a rural healthcare service are just some of the businesses shortlisted today for the annual Rural Business Awards (RBAs), due to be held on 5th October at...
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RBA’s partner with BT via their Community Fibre Partnership programme
Here at the RBA's we are always striving to help Rural Businesses to thrive. We aim to acknowledge and celebrate the vital contributions made by companies to the development and success of the Rural sector and encourage entrepreneurial spirit, by giving recognition to...
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Success at the Rural Business Awards could mean so much for your business, By Sharon Stevens-Cash, director of Gravity Digital.
Success at the Rural Business Awards could mean so much for your business. All you have to do is enter, says last year’s creative category winner Gravity Digital, from Derbyshire, which offers digital marketing services to more than 100 clients, including big names...
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Women – The Unsung Heroes of Rural Entrepreneurship
By Polly Gibb - Director of WiRe (Women in Rural Enterprise) Our strapline at WiRE is that the countryside is alive with business –a rich tapestry of small and tiny businesses woven through the villages, farms and market towns which give jobs to local people, sustain...
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Rural Manufacturing is Out Of This World
Josef de Pfeiffer of Zettlex (UK) Ltd winner and runner-up in the Rural Business Awards Manufacturing category talks about how being a Rural Manufacturer has its definite plus points and offers advice to other Rural Manufacturers hoping for success in the Rural Business Awards.
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The rural economy has great digital potential, but it’s still Day One
We want to help deliver that change by democratising the ability to start a business and levelling the playing field between businesses big and small, urban and rural – to the point where as long as you have a laptop, and internet and a great product or idea, you can be local but sell globally.
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