An Aberdeenshire partnership has picked up the award for entrepreneurship at the Arts & Business Scotland Awards. Buchanan Food and Woodend Barn received the accolade at the annual event last night in Edinburgh celebrating outstanding partnerships between the cultural and business sectors.
The Turcan Connell sponsored Entrepreneurship Award recognises a partnership that has developed business expertise or opportunities within the cultural organisation. It went to Woodend Barn and Buchanan Food of Banchory for successfully collaborating on a year of sponsored activities designed to showcase the environmental values and sustainability practices of both organisations, and to highlight the significant role of artists and creativity within environmental learning.
The winners of the other category awards are:
- Placemaking sponsored by VisitScotland: Urban Union and Waveparticle
- People sponsored by Chevron Upstream Europe: A1 Toys and Children’s Classic Concerts
- Digital Innovation sponsored by Accenture Scotland: LaChunky Studios and Tromolo Productions
- International: Virgin Trains and YDance
Arts & Business Scotland chief executive, David Watt said: “The partnerships, projects and individuals celebrated at the Arts & Business Scotland Awards illustrate the appetite within the cultural and business sectors to ensure Scotland is a nation which has creativity and cultural engagement at its heart. The partnership between Woodend Barn and Buchanan Foods is a fantastic illustration of this, showcasing the very best of what can be achieved through collaborative working.”
Elsewhere, Caledonian MacBrayne was named the first recipient of the Business Creativity Award sponsored by Inksters Solicitors. The Enterprising Museum Award sponsored by Museum Galleries Scotland was won jointly by Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum and the Scottish Maritime Museum and the Leadership Award this year went to Donald MacDonald CBE, Life President of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
The winners of this year’s awards received a specially commissioned awards object created by glass artist Vicky Higginson and Alan Horsley, both Artists in Residence at Edinburgh College of Art’s School of Design.
Sponsors of the event are Accenture Scotland, Chevron Upstream Europe, Inksters Solicitors, Museums Galleries Scotland, Turcan Connell, VisitScotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Black Light, CBRE UK, Edinburgh College of Art, EICC, Freight Design, The Herald, J Thomson Colour Printers and MacDonald Hotels.