The 2023 Wimborne Business Awards continued to grow with 50 local business
leaders at the lunchtime awards ceremony, held on Thursday, April 27, at Wimborne Town Football Club.

The awards focus purely on promoting the range and quality of local businesses.
They are not like the glitzy evening awards, they are held at lunchtime, they are free to enter, and the judging system has no outside influencers.

The 2023 awards had just over 120 entries and nominations and the judges commented on the high quality of the entries.

Nigel Reeve of the organisers, MW Events, pictured right, said: “ We believe that local business is the backbone of the local economy.

“They adapt, they innovate, they focus on what their customers want, they create employment and most of all they care about their customers.

“Many of the previous year’s winners have said how the awards have helped the profile of their business.

“After so much negative news it’s fantastic to see local businesses smiling.”

This year’s winners and their categories are:

• Best Place to Work: MJP Law
• Café/Pub/Casual Dining: Eight Arch Brewing Co
• Customer Service: Swain and Rands
• Family Business: Long John’s Fish & Chips
• Independent Business: Classy Collections
• Green/ Eco Business: Lewis-Manning Hospice Care
• B2B Business: Solweb Ltd
• New Business: Vetsmiths Ltd
• Health & Fitness Business: Square One
• Tourism Business: Wimborne Minster Folk Festival
• Young Entrepreneur: Andy Lennox of the Fired-Up Collective
• Joint Runners up-Business of the Year: Eight Arch Brewing Co and Swain and Rands
• Overall Business of the Year: Vetsmiths Ltd.