North Wiltshire-based specialist estate management business Dirty Boots has been named among the finalists in the inaugural Rural Business Awards – the first dedicated UK-wide business accolades for rural organisations.
The firm, based near Malmesbury, has been shortlisted in the Best New Rural Start-up category of the awards.
Dirty Boots, which has founded by Jonathan Capper, counts Southern Electric and Bristol Airport among its clients. 
The firm offers services ranging from harvesting and processing crops, erecting fencing and maintaining boundaries, digging ditches and drainage channels and tree surgery and woodland management.
The Rural Business Awards, which aim to showcase businesses operating right across the rural sector, from engineering through to food production and professional services, will be handed out on October 1 at a gala ceremony at Stapleford Park in Leicestershire.
Dirty Boots will compete against more than 40 shortlisted companies from UK in nine categories. An independent panel of judges will decide the winner and runner up in each category, as well as a Champion of Champions.
The awards are supported by the CLA, environment minister Rory Stewart and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan.
Joint founder of the awards Jemma Clifford said Dirty Boots is typical of the entrepreneurial spirit she so often sees in the countryside.
“We want our awards to recognise the hard work and achievements of companies like Dirty Boots,” she said. “The countryside is full of great examples of businesses starting up and making a real difference to the economy.
“Dirty Boots has shown determination to find a niche in the market and is proving that rural businesses deserve as much attention as their urban counterparts.”
