Investing in Dorset Award

What are the Dorset Business Awards (DBAs)?

The DBAs celebrate the achievements of Dorset’s businesses, large or small across the county and across all sectors. The awards reward the county’s high achievers, our inspirational leaders and our unsung heroes.
 
The UK Health Insurance Investing in Dorset Award was a brand new category for 2016 and we are delighted to be sponsoring this category once again in 2018 which so closely reflects our own passion for supporting local businesses.

Why the Investing in Dorset Award?

“Our philosophy is simple. When we need to make a purchase, whether it’s a product or service, the first question we ask ourselves is, can it be bought from a local company? We would like to challenge all Dorset businesses to adopt the same philosophy.
 
“By creating positive business relationships with other local business, successful entrants will understand and realise the benefits of supporting Dorset’s businesses and purchasing supplies and services locally whenever possible.”
Alistair Sclare, Managing Director, UK Health Insurance
 
You can find more details about the investing in Dorset Award and the free online entry form on the Dorset Business Awards website.

Why is supporting Dorset businesses so important?

If we all source goods and services more locally we can all win, generating a host of benefits and opportunities for the region’s businesses:
 
•           More locally successful businesses
•           Higher productivity
•           More personal service
•           Greater customer satisfaction
•           Improved local employment prospects
•           Lower delivery costs
•           Lower carbon footprint
•           Less traffic…
 
Looking after our local economy is very important to us as a business and this award is one way that we can showcase and reward other Dorset companies that endeavour to source goods and services locally.

Enter the 2018 awards
 

Signature Catering Group - 2018 Winner

Signature Catering Group, based in Ringwood, is a catering company with an extraordinary passion to deliver true hospitality, whilst ensuring raw ingredients and other products and services are purchased from other local businesses. 

 
They also run two restaurants, ‘Seasons Restaurant’ and ‘Marshall’s on the Green’, both of which take advantage of the abundance of resources in their local area to support other local businesses.

The judges were particularly impressed that in order to stay true to their local suppliers, Signature Catering create menus, including the children’s menu, based on the local produce available, and will never substitute to a lower quality product if the main ingredients are not available.
 

Huge congratulations to everyone at Signature Catering and very well done to our other two finalists too, A-One Insurance Group and Summer Lodge Country House Hotel. Each of the finalists showed a really passionate determination to build relationships locally and purchase goods and services from within a few miles of their business wherever possible.
 
You can find more information about all the Dorset Business Awards’ winners here.

 

Enter the 2018 awards