North Region Awards Ceremony – Tuesday 9th October 2018
Join us at The Last Drop Village, Bolton for a celebration of all that is great about rural business in the North.
Starting with a champagne reception, guests will then enjoy a fantastic three course meal accompanied by wine, finished by tea and coffee. Afterwards, the winners of the 2018 Rural Business Awards North will be revealed for the very first time! The celebrations will continue into the small hours with music and dancing, making this a night not to be missed.
Ceremony Details:
Last Drop Village Hotel & Spa
Bromley Cross Road, Bromley, Bolton, BL7 9PZ
6pm start, carriages at 1am.
Dress code: Black Tie/Evening Wear
Accommodation is available at the venue and can be booked directly with The Last Drop Village.
Quote ‘The Rural Business Awards’ when getting in touch with the venue for an exclusive room rate.
Local Taxi Company: Metro/Cobra – 01204 520000
Rural Business Awards North Finalists 2018/19
Best Rural Start Up

Field & Forage
East Yorkshire

Cumbria
Lakes and Lambs

Little Beau Sheep
West Yorkshire

Spirit of Yorkshire Ltd
North Yorkshire

Westmorland Homecare
Cumbria
Outstanding Rural Diversification Project

Beadlam Grange Farmshop
North Yorkshire

Cannon Hall Farm
South Yorkshire

Heaton House Events Ltd
Cheshire

Wensleydale Experience
North Yorkshire

William's Den
East Yorkshire
Best Rural Retail Business

Durham Hens Ltd
County Durham

Farmer Copleys Ltd
West Yorkshire

Park Lodge Shooting School
East Yorkshire

Podgy Paws Pet Shop
Cumbria

The Shop at Glasson Dock
Lancashire
Best Rural Manufacturing Business

Breckenholme
North Yorkshire

FinHunterUK
Roxburghshire

Harrison Spinks Beds Ltd
West Yorkshire

Hawkshead Relish Company
Cumbria

Skyeskyns
Isle of Skye
Best Rural Professional Services Business

Blue Ninja Business Support
Fife

Hillsgreen Marketing Consultants
Cheshire

Rural Insurance
North Yorkshire

Sassy Property Styling
Cumbria

Vicky Anderson Ltd
North Yorkshire
Best Rural Creative or Media-based Business

Clare Brownlow Pheasant Feather Art
Hawick

Farm Creative
Lancashire

Kate Simpson Fine Art
Northumberland

Resipole Studios and Fine Art Gallery
Argyll

Tall Tales Mysteries
County Durham
Rural Social Enterprise, Charity or Community Project of the Year

Field Nurse
Lancashire

Living Potential Care Farming CIC
North Yorkshire

Outdoor and Sustainability Education Service
County Durham

Rusland Horizons Landscape Partnership
Cumbria

The Highlanders' Museum
Highlands and Islands
Best Rural Tourism Business

A Corner of Eden
Cumbria

Airhouses
Scottish Borders

Beech Farm
Yorkshire

Camp Katur
North Yorkshire

Cedar Retreats
North Yorkshire
Best Rural Recreational or Outdoor Pursuits Business

Newlands Adventure Centre
Cumbria

North East Falconry
Tyne and Wear

Silverband Falconry
Cumbria

Speyside Falconry
Moray

Yorkshire Trike Tours
North Yorkshire
Best Rural Education or Training Business

Embryonics Ltd
Cheshire

Lowe Maintenance
North Yorkshire

Mini Explorers Nursery
North Yorkshire

Stockley Farm Park
Cheshire

Vicky Anderson Ltd
North Yorkshire
Best Rural Food Business

Country Puddings Ltd
Cumbria

Cranstons Quality Butchers
Cumbria

Farmison & Co
North Yorkshire

Loch Duart
Sutherland

Side Oven Ltd
East Yorkshire
Best Rural Drink Business

Ampleforth Abbey Drinks
Yorkshire

Farm Yard Ales
Lancashire

The Lindores Distilling Co Ltd
Fife

Trolle Trading Limited
Cumbria

Waulkmill Cider
Dumfries & Galloway
Rural Employee of the Year

Charlotte De Ville
Bert's Barrow

John Horsfield
Harrison Spinks Beds Ltd

Team Williams
William's Den
The North
Our largest region, the North encompasses the wild majesty of the Scottish Highlands and the picturesque rolling countryside of the Yorkshire Dales, dramatic windswept coastlines of Northumberland and the glittering tranquillity of the Lakes. Our northern businesses often embody the same intrepid spirit and down-to-earth friendliness that characterises their region.
The North covers rural businesses in Scotland, Northumberland, Cumbria, Durham, Tyne & Wear, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Isle of Man and Cheshire.
Brand Ambassadors for the North
Our Regional Brand Ambassadors work with us to understand and communicate with the rural businesses operating within their region, helping us to achieve our vision of bringing together businesses in each region to celebrate success and build valuable relationships amongst rural business owners.

Kate Balchin
T.Mellor and Son
T.Mellor and Son is based on our fourth generation family farm and comprises the following businesses – Wold Top Brewery – brews award winning ales using home grown wheat and water from the farm’s borehole; Agricola Bottling – a specialist beer and spirits bottling business and Muddy Souls Events – a weddings, events and party venue.
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Hunmanby Grange, home to T Mellor and Son is a farm high on the Yorkshire Wolds where the hills roll down to the North Sea.
Our family has farmed 600 acres high on the Yorkshire Wolds for generations. With revenue from traditional income streams falling in the early 2000s, we concluded that diversification was a necessity.
Our first diversification was a brewery where we profited from the fact that our area boasts some of the best land for growing barley in Europe. Next came a specialist bottling business to service the brewery and the final diversification business is a wedding and events venue that takes advantage of our stunning rural location, National Garden Scheme garden and our beer to create a very unique experience.
We are proud to brew our award-winning beer using 98% British ingredients and that 95% of the barley comes from our own farm.
The brewery is housed in a sympathetically converted barn. We can guarantee that we only get our own barley back because we negotiated a deal with Flamborough maltsters, Muntons (almost within sight of the farm and brewery) whereby they malt our barley by the lorry load. For us it hugely reduces transport and associated costs and for them it means that they can look after the smallest customer on their doorstep, thus creating a true rural partnership between large and small businesses.
We nurture the environment that rewards us with both quality ingredients and a beautiful home. The farm is part of Stewardship schemes with Natural England and our 35 acres of species rich chalk grassland that is home to varied flora and fauna is of paramount ecological importance. We are also proud to be working with the RSPB to promote the varied birdlife on the farm.
We lead by example and the green ethos is firmly embedded in our business and embraced by staff as a matter of course. They appreciate that they are blessed to work in such a beautiful environment and that we’re all responsible for maintaining and sustaining it. Some of our staff bike to work regularly and two even run to the office!
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Darren Marcangelo
herdysleep
Launched in February 2017, herdysleep is the first mattress of its kind to combine the luxury of craftsmanship with the compact convenience of a bed-in-a-box. Traditionally tufted and finished by hand, each mattress contains up to an industry leading 6,000 pocket springs, topped with a cloud-like blend of cotton, cashmere and wool from local Herdwick sheep.
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Founded by Lake District brand Herdy in collaboration with luxury British mattress makers, Harrison Spinks, the Cumbrian herdysleep brand champions both luxurious comfort and social responsibility. Committed to keeping a rural heritage trade alive, herdysleep pledged to pay the local Lake District farmers twice the market rate for each kilo of Herdwick wool it buys. It takes a year to farm a Herdwick fleece and there’s at least one that goes into each herdysleep mattress.
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