COMMUNITY interest company Tamar Grow Local has scooped two awards for enterprise and community contribution.

Tamar Grow Local (TGL), based in Callington, has received national and regional awards in recognition of its work.

TGL attended the Western Morning News Business Awards in Plymouth where it was announced winner of the best community contribution category for work with local food businesses, growers and bee-keepers in the Tamar Valley under the Tamar Valley Food Hubs and Tamar Valley Honey Co-op projects. TGL also travelled to Manchester for the Local Food Recognition Awards where the TGL, Growing the Valley project received the enterprise award.

Simon Platten, project manager for Tamar Grow Local, said: 'We are really thrilled to have won these awards. Lots of our members, including volunteers, small producers, farmers and landowners have worked really hard to make Tamar Grow Local projects work. It is really nice to have all our efforts recognised nationally, as well as in our local area.

'We work in collaboration with small food producers, growers, bee-keepers and our community projects to develop co-operative and sustainable ways of building on the famous Tamar Valley growing heritage.

'Hopefully, in turn, TGL is helping to create a positive future for food production in the Tamar Valley.'

The Growing the Valley project received funding from Local Food in 2010 and has since been developing sustainable growing projects across the Tamar Valley, including community orchards, village growing schemes, small producer co-operatives and bee-keeping groups and courses.

To find out more about Tamar Grow Local and new project Tamar Valley Food Hubs, a not-for-profit online grocer specialising in Tamar Valley food and drink, visit http://www.tamargrowlocal.org">www.tamargrowlocal.org and http://www.tamarvalleyfoodhubs.org.uk">www.tamarvalleyfoodhubs.org.uk

Tamar Valley Food Hubs has been generously funded by the Cordiale project, a collaboration between the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and teams from other protected landscapes in southwest England and northwest France.