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After receiving over 200 entries last year, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has launched the 2019 iteration of the Great British High Street Awards.
High Streets Minister Jake Berry launched the competition whilst visiting the reigning champion, in High Street Crickhowell, and reiterated how the awards recognise and celebrate local achievements on the UK’s high streets and supports the communities in which we live and work.
The campaign includes a competition to find the UK’s best and most improved high streets within two categories: the Champion Award to celebrate the UK’s best high streets; and the Rising Star Award for those taking the lead and working to adapt and diversify. For each, a winner will be named in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as there being an overall UK winner.
Berry said: “The government awards celebrate the dedicated shop keepers, the committed volunteers and forward-thinking councils who together are creating vibrant and dynamic high streets that are loved by their communities.
“Last year more than 200 high streets across the land battled it out in a hotly-contested competition to be crowned Britain’s best. I would encourage communities across the nation to enter, so their high streets and the people working in them gain the recognition they fully deserve.”
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