Wow! What a night.

On Friday 17th October 2025, DRYBONES was awarded the prize of:
Best Business Innovation, 2025. 

The awards were presented and hosted by the Stratford Herald, Stratford upon Avon.

Thank you to The Stratford Herald and The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Stratford for hosting an amazing night for the 2025 Annual Stratford Business and Tourism Awards.

We were absolutely over the moon to, firstly be nominated for these prestigious awards. Then, to be shortlisted. We were super excited to even attend the awards and never in a million years did we think we would win!!

But WIN, we did!!

We are soooo proud, chuffed, excited and ecstatic.

It was amazing to share a table with the truly lovely Jodie and Mark from GambolByGob, Izzy and Emma from Shottery School of Dance and Jordan from Weston Nursery, all other small local Stratford businesses, like ourselves. They were all such genuine, kind and lovely company. Well done for being nominated guys and it’s your year, next year!

Well done to all the other nominees in our category: Aurora, BDR Group UK and Gemini Woman. 

A huge thanks go to the lovely Kevin and Stuart from Porterbrook who were the loveliest and kindest interviewees. We are indebted to you, for choosing us to win our category, against such tough, strong and amazing competition.

Thank you to all the support from the local and dedicated sponsors; Stratford upon Avon District Council, The RSC, Stratford Upon Avon High School and College, Shakespeare’s England and Stratford Martineau, along with others.

Huge Congratulations to all the other amazing winners of the night and the 2025 awards: Alscot Estate, Escape Arts and Posture and Poise, to name a few.

To all the small businesses out there. Times are tough. Keep going. Running your own business really is blood, sweat and tears. But the rewards come and when they do it’s absolutely amazing to see what you can achieve.

So keep putting one foot in front of the other. Keep moving onwards and upwards. Keep supporting eachother!

We’ll be at the Rother Street, Waterside and Stratford Xmas markets in the upcoming weeks, so pop down to say hello and have a look at, or try, any of our brilliant DRYBONES products. 

Or take a look here:
We Are DRYBONES

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