West Country Blacksmiths is a regional finalist in the Countryside Alliance Awards

We are pleased to announce that West Country Blacksmiths has been shortlisted to win a Countryside Alliance Award in the category of Rural Enterprise.

The awards are the Countryside Alliance’s annual celebration of British food & farming, enterprise and heritage through our small hard-working businesses. The awards are no in their fifteenth year and have become the definitive rural business award to win. They are set apart from other award schemes because they are driven by public nomination, offering customers the chance to tell us why their favourite businesses are worthy of the national acclaim. The awards received over seventeen thousand nominations this year so West Country Blacksmiths has done extremely well to be shortlisted.

West Country Blacksmiths are a team of highly talented craftsmen based at Allerford Forge in Somerset. The craftsman produce work to the very highest standard supporting their local communities needs in a diversely from minor metalwork repairs to decorative and large scale metalwork projects. The skill and creative talents of the craftsmen have helped them forge a reputation for the quality of their work nationally. So much so that the in last year saw the win staircase of the year, be runners up in two national design & construction awards, feature on grand designs house of the year.

Countryside Alliance Awards Director Sarah Lee commented ‘We have been overwhelmed by nominations this year. The secret to the Rural Oscars’ popularity is that they honour the people involved in these businesses and not just their produce or services. They exist to sing the praises of those who work hard to keep our communities and rural economy ticking, but don’t seek to spotlight. These awards provide a cause for celebration in the time of great uncertainty in the countryside. Our local produce is second to none and there are many community heroes and businesses worthy of national recognition”

Kieren Roberts of West Country Blacksmiths commented ‘We would like to thank the people who nominated us for this award. We work tirelessly to serve our local community and without the support we receive we would not be in business. Although we are privileged to have worked on some high profiles projects nationally, the vast majority of our work is Somerset based and always will be. If we can ever be of assistance we are only a phone call away ”.

• West Country Blacksmiths will shortly be welcoming the Judging panel to Allerford ahead of the English regional champions being announced in May. The regional winners will be propelled in to the grand final, to be held at parliament in June 2020.

More information about the awards can be found at – www.countryside-alliance.org/campaigns/caawards.

To find out more about West Country Blacksmiths and the work they produce please visit www.westcountryblacksmiths.co.uk