The Stone Food & Drink Festival won a Silver award in Enjoy Staffordshire’s annual tourism awards. The annual event scooped the accolade in the hotly contested ‘Best Tourism Event of the Year’ category.
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Festival chairman Richard Stevens with the Enjoy Staffordshire ‘Silver’ award
Festival Chairman Richard Stevens said: “It’s brilliant to for the festival to have been recognised as having a significant contribution to Staffordshire’s tourism industry. We were really up against the ‘big boys’ in this category – the Gold award went to Drayton Manor Park for its two world records in one day event – so I think that, as a volunteer-run Community Interest Company, we can certainly hold our heads up high.
“While bringing visitors into Stone and providing a great event for the local community is at the core of what we do, we are also dedicated to putting Staffordshire on the ‘foodie’ map and helping raise the profile of the fantastic producers and foodie businesses we have in the county. We have plans to continue making the festival bigger and better each year with the aim of attracting even more visitors from out of the area and establishing Stone as the county’s foodie capital.
“I’d like to dedicate this year’s award to every one of the brilliant volunteers who gives up their time throughout the year and over the ‘big week’ to make the event the success it is, but our message is watch this space – we’ve got our sights set on a Gold award in the future!”
The 2015 Stone Food & Drink Festival will take place on the 2, 3 & 4 October – for more details, visit www.stonefooddrink.org.uk
Great news and well done to you Richard and your team of very hard working volunteers. The festival has improved every year and an event that I know many locals and people from far afield look forward to visiting this event each year. I was in Kendal collecting Wild Boar from one of the exhibitors at the Food and Drink Festival and he has said he will be back next year and how much he enjoyed his visit to Stone. Many thanks for continuing to put on a first class Festival.
Warmest congratulations to Richard and all his team. The Festival gets better every year. I’m proud that Staffordshire County Council is a major sponsor.
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2 comments
Tony Panter
Great news and well done to you Richard and your team of very hard working volunteers. The festival has improved every year and an event that I know many locals and people from far afield look forward to visiting this event each year. I was in Kendal collecting Wild Boar from one of the exhibitors at the Food and Drink Festival and he has said he will be back next year and how much he enjoyed his visit to Stone. Many thanks for continuing to put on a first class Festival.
Tony Panter
The March Hare Kitchen
Philip Jones
Warmest congratulations to Richard and all his team. The Festival gets better every year. I’m proud that Staffordshire County Council is a major sponsor.
Philip Jones
County Councillor, Stone