Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007
May 18 2007
Countryside insurance broker Lycetts has launched its search to find the Young Rural Entrepreneur of 2007. The Young Rural Entrepreneur Award will focus specifically on businesses based in rural areas.
A cash prize of £10,000 is up for grabs to anyone under the age of 35 who is helping to boost the UK’s rural economy amid an ever-changing landscape. The outlook for rural business is brighter, with the resurgence in demand for locally produced food and drink, coupled with the successful diversification of farm activity across the UK.
Angus Keate, chief executive of Lycetts, explains: ‘This year’s award is much more commercially focused to reflect just how much the countryside has changed and how so many farms and landowners have diversified into more commercially orientated activities.’
The panel of judges includes Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones from Channel 4’s Young Black Farmers, in which he took a group of nine inner-city school leavers from ethnic minorities on a life-transforming journey on his farm in Devon, and Caroline Dickinson, co-founder of The Real Soup Company.
Nominations can be submitted by or on behalf of an individual who meets the awards criteria until 12 August and the winner will be announced at a reception in London on 18 October.
For further information, visit www.thefield.co.uk.