New Sponsors For Best Kept Village Competition

We are pleased to announce that two local companies will be sponsoring the Best Kept Village competition this year.

InternetTY, the hyper-fast broadband provider, has generously agreed to sponsor the Best Kept Village. They will particularly support the best community planting in each category, as well as the best kept playground, churchyard and cemetery. They are also sponsoring the annual CPRE Environment Awards. KCOM will be sponsoring the keenly contested best kept war memorial this year.

The Best Kept Village competition has been running in Northern Lincolnshire since 1976. It is organised and run by CPRE Northern Lincolnshire and is open to all small towns and villages within the area.

The competition has proved increasingly popular, with 35 villages and small towns entering in 2022. To encourage more places to enter, new entrants have their entry fee waived for the first year and the best new entrant gets a special award.

Information about this year’s Best Kept Village competition has recently been sent out to all town and parish councils. Entries need to be returned to Jenny Haynes, the Best Kept Village organiser, before the end of June. Judging will be on a range of issues, with the emphasis on community involvement. This year the judges will be visiting between 21 July and 6 August, and each entrant receives a written report identifying strengths and areas for improvement.