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Thank you all the entrants, attendees, sponsors and guests at the 2024 Wauchope & Hinterland Business Awards Gala Dinner.

We had a fantastic evening celebrating our local businesses while networking, dining and catching up with the business community.

Please visit our Facebook page for all the great photos from the night, thanks to Chris from Atlantis Creative.

We are always looking to improve our events, so if you have any feedback, please contact Kate at wauchopechamber@gmail.com.

Congratulations to all of the deserving winning businesses, listed below.

Local Award Winners:

Excellence in Accommodation & Hospitality – Any Occasion Cakes & Party Foods

Excellence in Creative Industries – Out There Design & Mosaic

Excellence in Health & Wellbeing – Hastings Physio and Health Wauchope

Excellence in Hair & Beauty – Spectacular Beauty

Excellence in Professional Services (10 employees or less) – Wauchope Travel

Excellence in Professional Services (11 employees or more) – Slade Refrigerated Transport

Excellence in Retail (10 employees or less) – Wauchope Rural Centre

Excellence in Retail (11 employees or more) – Air Light Insulation

Excellence in Tourism – Billabong Zoo

Excellence in Trades, Industry & Manufacturing – H.L.W Projects

Wauchope Chamber Patron’s Award – Bald Eagle Barber Shop

Business NSW Aligned Award Winners:

Outstanding Employee – Marc Minor: Harcourts Greater Port Macquarie

Outstanding Young Business Leader – Blake Stone: Billabong Zoo

Outstanding Business Leader – 20 employees and under – Shiree Bennett: Bennetts Steel

Outstanding Business Leader – 21 employees and over – Josh Slade: Slade Refrigerated Transport/ Comboyne Fresh/ Keep Safe Community and School Safe Apps

Employer of Choice (under 20 employees) – Rosewood Wild Therapy

Employer of Choice (21 employees and over) – Billabong Zoo

Excellence in Innovation – Rosewood Wild Therapy

Outstanding Community Organisation – Tender Funerals Mid North Coast 

Outstanding New Business – Hastings Physio and Health Wauchope

Excellence in Micro Business – The Out There Collective

Excellence in Small Business – Wauchope Rural Centre

Excellence in Large Business – Slade Refrigerated Transport

Wauchope and Hinterland Business Awards

The Wauchope Chamber of Commerce and Industry are excited to announce the Wauchope and Hinterland Business Awards are back in 2023!

Entries will open on the 29th of March 2023... Watch this space!

The Awards are a celebration of local business and acknowledge the contributions of our local operators. They bring opportunities for local business to recognise their achievements, build rapport with their team, review their business journey, and consider their future

All local businesses are encouraged to enter.

Partner with the Awards!

Sponsorship packages are available for business champions looking to show their support for local business through the Awards program. Sponsorship benefits include a range of promotional opportunities through the marketing campaign and at the Gala Dinner event.

For more information please contact Lisa 0422 210 824, or Kate 0437133138 or email wauchopechamber@gmail.com.

Awards Categories

The Business Awards program will include two types of Awards – Local Excellence Awards and NSW Business Chamber aligned Awards.

Through the Local Chamber Alliance with between the Wauchope Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the NSW Business Chamber, the aligned Awards entries will feed into the NSW Business Chamber Mid North Coast Regional Awards growing opportunities for local business to gain exposure and promotion to a wider audience. Winners at the regional Awards go through to the State Awards later in the year.

Key Dates:

  • Entries Open – Wed 29 March 2023
  • Entries Close – Wed 17 May 2023
  • Voting Opens – Fri 19 May 2023
  • Voting Closes – Fri 2 June 2023
  • Gala Dinner – Sat 17 June 2023!!

Thank you to our amazing sponsors of the 2024 Wauchope & Hinterland Business Awards!

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Corporate Sponsors

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