Essex has a wonderful variety of villages but a feature common to all of them are the efforts local people make to strengthen and sustain community life. Up until the pandemic intervened in 2020, RCCE ran the Essex Village of the Year Competition annually to celebrate and reward these efforts.

Watch this space!

After careful reflection we have decided to relaunch Essex Village of the Year in 2024, when we will bring you more information on our plans for the competition. The challenges of recent times have brought out the best in our rural communities and we look forward to celebrating this with a revamped competition this year. 


 

The origins of RCCE’s popular annual competition date back to the 1950s.

In recent years, it has been sponsored by Essex & Suffolk Water and Inkpen Downie Architecture & Design Ltd.

The focus of the competition is always on the efforts local people are making to strengthen and sustain rural community life.