The finalists in the Coast Awards 2012 have been announced and the Hive has once again reached this exclusive group in the ‘Beach Beach Café’ category.
These annual awards are one of the highlights of the year as the winners are chosen by the public, through an open vote. The Hive won this award back in 2009 so is very close to our heart and we hope to do well again this time round with your support. The awards cover many categories including Best Beach Café, Beast Coast Path and Best Beach amongst others. For full details of the categories and finalists, click here.
Keep it in Dorset
In order to win the category, we have to ‘voted in’ by our customers and supporters, so please go online and vote for the Hive Beach Café in the ‘Best Beach Cafe’ category. Vote here.
You can vote in all or just 1 category, its up to you. By voting you are also entered into a prize draw to win £250 worth of vouchers to spend at Joules.
Voting closes soon, so please get online and vote for the Hive. The winners will be announced in late April 2012, but we’ll keep you posted with any updates we hear before then.
The finalists for this years awards have all been chosen by a select panel of judges including our very own local hero, Ben Ainslie …
- Ben Ainslie CBE Director of the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy
- Roma Backhouse Director of Hidden Cities; co-founder of the Seasider campaign
- Ben Fogle TV presenter and adventurer
- Catherine Gazzoli Chief executive, Slow Food UK
- Clare Gogerty Editor of Coast magazine
- Richard Harrington Communications manager, Marine Conservation Society
- Tom Joule Managing director of Joules, sponsors of the awards
- Jonathan Knight Photographer and writer of the Cool Camping guidebooks
- Sally Shalam Hotel critic and freelance travel journalist
- Alex Wade Coast contributor, sports writer and author of ‘Surf Nation’
- Patricia Yates Director of Strategy and Communications at VisitBritain
For full details of this years Coast Awards, please visit their website at www.coastmagazine.co.uk/coastawards2012
And finally, with Christmas fast upon us, its easy to forget things like this, so do it now while you remember. Go online and place your vote.
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Just back from a super Christmas lunch with the girls. Fantastic menu options, wonderful cooking and a view to die for.
Thank you for another memorable lunch!
Hi Claire, glad you had a good time and we look forward to seeing you all again soon. Dont forget to vote for us in the Coast Awards! Have a great Christmas.