Monday 28 March 2011

COAST AWARDS 2011

The annual Coast Awards celebrate the people and places that represent all that is innovative, valuable and exciting around the British coastline. This year’s ten categories include Best Boutique Hotel by the Sea, Best-Loved Pier, Best Green Marine Campaign, Unsung Coastal Hero and the Joules Award for Best Coastal Path.

Coast magazine was inundated with thousands of votes from across the UK and, searching for the very best Britain’s coast has to offer, a panel of seven experts – TV presenter Michaela Strachan, Director of The Twentieth Century Society Catherine Croft, Managing Director of Joules Tom Joule, Restaurateur, Fishmonger, Writer and Chef Mitch Tonks, Vice President, Sustainable Markets, SeaWeb Melanie Siggs, Travel Writer Christopher Somerville and Director of Strategy and Communications at VisitBritain Patricia Yates – joined Coast Editor Clare Gogerty to sift through scores of nominees and decide eight of the ten category winners and runners-up.

TV presenter Michaela Strachan awarded the winners and runners-up their prizes at the Coast Awards 2011 ceremony, which was held yesterday at the Country Living Fair in London.

The winners of the Coast Awards 2011, in association with Joules, are:

Best Coastal Pub/Café
WINNER:        East Beach Café in Littlehampton, West Sussex
RUNNERS-UP:    Hive Beach Café in Burton Bradstock, Dorset
The Lord Nelson in Southwold, Suffolk

For full details of the Coast Awards 2011 check out the June issue of Coast, on sale 25 April.