Press Information
15thNovember 2023
UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2023
Vote now for your favourite new outdoor products and enter our prize draw!
Online voting for the UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2023 is now open, providing an opportunity for outdoor enthusiast consumers to select their favourite new outdoor products. By choosing their favourite finalists via the OIA website, voters will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win either a £500 Ellis Brigham Gift Card, or a pair of £100 tickets for the 2024 Kendal Mountain Festival.
This is the final stage of the awards process, after hundreds of entries were received, and then displayed at the Outdoor Trade Show, the UK's largest outdoor trade exhibition. Finalists for each of the ten award categories were then shortlisted, by a panel of expert judges from the outdoor industry.
This year a new "Sustainability" category has been added, considering use of materials, performance over fashion, appearance and product circularity. Other categories included clothing, sleeping, footwear, climbing equipment, tents, and tech accessories.
The expert judging panel comprises key journalists and retailers, including: Chris Townsend, Gear Editor atTGO, Tina Collins, Editor of TentLife, Iain Duff, Editor of Camping, Ben Weeks, Gear Editor for Trail,Jacob Little, Outdoor, Travel & Adventure Writer and Photographer, David Simmonite, Editor at Climber, Chris Starkie, Buyer for JD Outdoors, and Sue Taylor, Digital Editor at The Camping & Caravanning Club.
Promotion of the finalists and the opportunity for the public to vote will be hosted online, and will be boosted via the databases of our awards partners, which this year areKendal Mountain Festival,Ellis Brigham Mountain Sports, andThe Outdoor Trade Show.
Online voting will remain open until close of play on Thursday 29thFebruary 2024. The winners of each category will then be officially announced on 20th March 2024 at the Outdoor Industries Association's (OIA) Annual Conference & AGM, taking place at Drayton Manor Resort, Tamworth. After the awards ceremony, news of the winners will be shared via various trade and consumer channels.
You can find out more about the 2023 awards via the OIA website.
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Note to Editors:
Voting link can also be accessed viathe OIA website.
Disclaimer:
Members of the public will be allowed to vote for one product from each category and submit their entry. Only one entry per email address will be allowed, and email addresses relating to the finalist's brands (employees or sister companies from the same group) will not be counted.
Email addresses will be provided to verify the entry is correct and notify you if you have won, but will not be added to any database or passed to any third party.
For further information about the OIA contact:
General Enquiries: info@theoia.co.uk