Business award finalists are revealed after record entry
THE finalists have been announced for the 12th Rossendale Business Awards - after organisers received a record number of entries.
The presentation will be at The Ashcroft, formerly The Riverside, in Whitworth, on Wednesday, December 1.
In total 184 businesses were nominated for awards and 28 individuals were put forward for the title Enterprising Person.
The finalists are:
●●PART-TIME BUSINESS
Clare’s Cupcake Co.
Ink Spell
JJR Video Productions LTD Quality Time PA Services
●●SOLE TRADER
Cook Stars Rossendale and Blackburn
JJR Video Productions LTD Liz Henson Photography Spexbox
●●MICROBUSINESS
Dearden Wood Huckleberry Films ValleyWags
●●SMALL BUSINESS
Cowpe Electrical Services Ltd
Lucardo Rawtenstall Escape rooms
SimTrainer UK
●●MADE IN ROSSENDALE
Dansworks Dance
Academy of Performing Arts CIC
Foremost Furniture
Limited
Scrap Local Ltd
The Soap Shack
●●LARGE Business
Douglas & Peters Ltd Interfloor Limited MelbaSwintex
The Firepit
●●INVEST IN ROSSENDALE
Coffe Bagel Limited Framex Ltd
Grow You, Grow Your Business
●●HOSPITALITY BUSINESS
Anna’s Café-Bar
Casked Ale House & Ginporium
The Firepit
The Old Library Waterfoot CIC
●●ENTERPRISING PERSON
Anna Federici (Anna’s Café-Bar)
John Lord (SimTrainer UK) Kimberley Ashworth (Women of Whitworth project)
●●INDEPENDENT RETAILER
Anna’s Café-Bar Spexbox
The Soap Shack
●●CREATIVE BUSINESS
Brush & Pencil
Dansworks Dance Academy of Performing Arts CIC Huckleberry Films
Liz Henson Photography Scrap Local Ltd
●●NOT FOR PROFIT
Rossendale Hospice Veterans in Communities WaterWell Foundation CIC
●●SERVICE BUSINESS
Cowpe Electrical Services Ltd
Metis HR Ltd
Milcare Ltd
Scrap Local Ltd
●●VISIT ROSSENDALE AWARD
Dearden Wood
Lucardo Rawtenstall Escape rooms
The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery
●●WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
Anna’s Café-Bar
Dansworks Dance Academy of Performing Arts CIC Interfloor Limited
Milcare Ltd
●●MEDIUM BUSINESS
Anna’s Café-Bar Hazelwood Homecare Ltd The Soap Shack
●●ENTERPRISING YOUNG PERSON
Eromi Navaratnam (Alder Grange)
Sara Mir (BRGS)