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2005 Avonside Village of the Year Results Revealed

The full results of the 2005 Avonside Village of the Year competition have been revealed. The competition is run by the Avonside branch of the CPRE (Campaign for the Protection of Rural England) and sponsored by Calor, the UK’s leading supplier of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It judged communities on six aspects of rural village life with categories in Building Community Life, Business, Young People, Older People, the Environment and Information Communication Technology (ICT).

The full results of the competition are as follows –

Overall Winners

Cup Winners: Shield Tytherington

Wills Cup (large villages): Olveston

Armstrong Cup (small villages): Tytherington

Most Improved: Stanton Drew

District Winners

Large Villages

B&NES

Timsbury

North Somerset

Congresbury

South Gloucestershire

Olveston

Small Villages

B&NES

Chew Magna

North Somerset

Kingston Seymour

South Gloucestershire

Tytherington

All results

Large Villages

90%+

Olveston

80%+

Bathampton

Congresbury

Long Ashton

Marshfield

Pucklechurch

Wrington

Timsbury

<80%

Hanham Abbotts

North Common

Oldland Common

Pucklechurch

Wick

Small Villages

90%+

Chew Magna

Kingston Seymour

Ubley

Tytherington

80%+

Bitton

Hawkesbury

Norton Malreward

Kenn

Stanton Drew

Tockington

<80%

Cleeve

English Combe Village

Woollard

Thanks to competition support from Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) this year, there is an extra £500 prize money to enhance the newly established Building Community Life category. This will be split between the six district winners.

Competition organisers, commented: “Congratulations to all 26 villages that entered the competition. Standards were consistently high and the judges had a very difficult task selecting the winners. I am particularly looking forward to celebrating with representatives of all the communities that took part this year at the awards event in November. I’m also looking forward to an even more successful competition next year - I can’t stress enough what a rewarding and positive experience taking part can be and want as many of Avonside’s villages to benefit as possible.”

It has already been revealed that the North Somerset village of Long Ashton will represent Avonside in the prestigious national Calor Village of the Year^® for England competition, with Chew Magna competing in the ICT section. More than 40 villages across England will be competing in the competition, which has a total prize fund of £36,000 and a top prize of £6,000. Long Ashton and Chew Magna will be competing in the West England region of the national competition against villages from Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Wiltshire and Worcestershire. They have until the end of September to submit their entries and judging will take place in October.

For further information regarding the Avonside Village of the Year competition, please contact Brian Challis at info@calorvillageoftheyear.org, telephone 01454 228 519.

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