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1 July 2025

Celebrate local: the 2025 Love Elmbridge Awards are here!

Owners of The Card Collection with cllr Hewens and their 2024 Love Elmbridge award

In a celebration of all things local and independent, the Love Elmbridge Awards 2025 are your chance to shine a spotlight on your favourite shop, café, restaurant, salon, or special independent business. 

These cherished annual awards honour the incredible independent businesses that bring life and character to our high streets and communities. From Weybridge and Hersham to Walton, Molesey, Claygate, Hinchley Wood, Oxshott, Stoke D’Abernon, The Dittons, Esher and Cobham, now is the time to vote for the businesses that make Elmbridge such a vibrant place to live, work and visit. 

Voting is open from 1 July to midnight on 31 July 2025

Vote for your favourite independent business in Elmbridge

Councillor Kirsty Hewens, Portfolio Holder for Enterprise, Parking and Local Economy, is proud to support this year’s awards: 

“Elmbridge continues to be a fantastic place to shop, live, work and play thanks to our independent businesses, the beating heart of our towns and villages. Whether it’s your go-to café, trusted hairdresser, or favourite local bakery, these are the businesses that support us every day. It was a pleasure to meet last year’s winners and hear their stories and successes. I encourage everyone to get involved and vote for your favourite for 2025” 

Let’s celebrate the businesses that go the extra mile—vote and show your love for Elmbridge independents! 

The 2024 Love Elmbridge 2024 award winners were: 

  • Best Claygate Independent 2024: The Game Larder 
  • Best Cobham Independent 2024: Instate Fitness 
  • Best Hersham Independent 2024: Bean On The Green 
  • Best Thames Ditton Independent 2024: Café Noir 
  • Best Molesey Independent 2024: The Card Collection 
  • Best Oxshott and Stoke D’Abernon Independent 2024: Baloolah 
  • Best Walton-on-Thames Independent 2024: Radiance Beauty & Tanning 
  • Best Weybridge Independent 2024: Tiffany MacDonald 
  • Best Esher Independent 2024: BlueHouse Art Space

Find out how we support local businesses in Elmbridge: https://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/business/support-businesses

 


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