{"id":672,"date":"2014-10-04T16:53:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fresh-n-local.co.uk\/?page_id=672"},"modified":"2014-10-22T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T13:20:46","slug":"our-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fresh-n-local.co.uk\/our-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\n\tOur Awards<br \/>\n<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tFebruary 2013 &#8211; Stroud farmers market awarded &quot;Farmers&#39; Market of the Year&quot; 2013 from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.localfoods.org.uk\/home\">FARMA<\/a>.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tJune 2012 &#8211; Stroud farmers&#39; market announced one of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-18579290\">&quot;7 Wonders of the Cotswolds&quot;<\/a>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMade in Stroud announced winner of&quot;Outstanding Contribution to Food and Farming in Gloucestershire&quot;&nbsp;at the Taste of Gloucestershire Awards, organised by Gloucestershire Media in September 2011.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers&#39; Market was the winner of theBBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards&quot;Best Food Market 2010&quot;, the first farmers&#39; market ever to win this accolade\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers Market won&nbsp;&quot;Best Farmers&#39; Market&quot;&nbsp;in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink awards 2010.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers&#39; Market was judged finalist of the&nbsp;Best Food Market 2008 in the Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGloucester Farmers&#39; Market was announced winner of the&nbsp;Cotswold Life Food And Drink Awards &quot;Most Improved Farmers&#39; Market&quot; 2008&nbsp;at the awards dinner at Beaufort Polo Club Marquee.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers&#39; Market was announced&nbsp;FARMA UK Certified Farmers&#39; Market of the Year 2008&nbsp;at the gala awards dinner in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in November 2007. Previous winners include Edinburgh and Winchester.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMade in Stroud was a finalist in the&nbsp;FARMA Environmental Award 2008&nbsp;in recognition of the company&#39;s green policies.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers&#39; Market was awarded&nbsp;&quot;Farmers&#39; Market of the Year 2007, South West Regional Winner&quot;&nbsp;in the FARMA (National Farm Retail and Markets Association) annual awards.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tClare Gerbrands was awarded with a&nbsp;Civic Award&nbsp;from&nbsp;Stroud Town Council&nbsp;for setting up and running Stroud Farmers&#39; Market and the Made in Stroud Shop.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tIn May 2007, Made in Stroud was nominated for&quot;Community Project of the Year 2007&quot;&nbsp;in the Pride of Gloucestershire Community Awards.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGloucester farmers&#39; market was a finalist for&quot;Most Improved Farmers&#39; Market&quot;&nbsp;in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink Awards 2007.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers&#39; Market was a finalist in the&quot;Best Farmers&#39; Market&quot;&nbsp;category of the Cotswold Life Food and Drink awards 2006.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tSwindon Farmers&#39; Market was a finalist in the Country Life Magazine&nbsp;&quot;Nation&#39;s Favourite Farmers&#39; Market&quot;&nbsp;award in 2006. The market was nominated by Country Life readers.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers Market won&nbsp;&quot;Best Farmers&#39; Market&quot;&nbsp;in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink awards 2005.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMade in Stroud won the national&nbsp;&quot;Eat the View Award&quot;&nbsp;for the most sustainable businesssponsored by the Countryside Agency in the FARMA (National Farm Retail and Markets Association) annual awards 2005.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tSwindon Farmers&#39; Market was &quot;highly commended&quot; in the&nbsp;Marvellous Markets 2005competition, run by the Western Daily Press in association with DEFRA and the NFU.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tGloucester Farmers Market was&nbsp;winner of the Marvellous Markets 2005&nbsp;competition, run by the Western Daily Press in association with DEFRA and the NFU.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers Market won&nbsp;&quot;Best Farmers Market&quot;&nbsp;in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink awards 2004.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tStroud Farmers Market won&nbsp;&quot;Best Farmers Market&quot;&nbsp;in the Cotswold Life Food and Drink awards 2003.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMade in Stroud was a finalist for&nbsp;&quot;Contribution to the Community&quot;&nbsp;in the Citizen Business Awards 2002 in association with BBC Radio Gloucestershire.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tClare Gerbrands was shortlisted for the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schumacher.org.uk\/award_nominees.htm\">&quot;Schumacher Award 2001&quot;&nbsp;<\/a>for her &quot; invaluable contribution towards the revitalisation of the heart of Stroud and the re-localisation of the Stroud economy&#8230;her example gives inspiration to other similar projects around the country.&quot;\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tClare Gerbrands was awarded the status of&quot;Hero of Gloucestershire 2000&quot;&nbsp;for her work with farmers&#39; markets in the area.\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Awards February 2013 &#8211; Stroud farmers market awarded &quot;Farmers&#39; Market of the Year&quot; 2013 fromFARMA. 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