The Gallery at Escapade Silverstone Veuve Cliquot champagne terrace

What do you get when you mix sleek motorsports, a large splash of Veuve Cliquot and the crème de la crème of local indie businesses? That’ll be the Muddy Awards Winners’ Drinks 2025! We rounded off this year’s Northants, Leics & Rutland celebrations in style at Escapade Silverstone – cue: amazing views of the iconic Silverstone Circuit as Porsche put on an epic display for us on track, along with chinking glasses and jaw-dropping, motorsports-themed themed artwork.

It was a joy to meet so many inspirational local businesses – the brilliant people who keep life buzzing and significantly more fun and stylish. We hope the Awards might give them a little nudge onto even bigger and bolder things.

Muddy Awards winners drinks at Escapade Silverstone

Guests at the Muddy Awards winners drinks

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Ruby Hook Emma Galvin Escapade Silverstone

If you fancy your chances, you might even consider putting yourself (or the lifestyle businesses you can’t live without) forward for 2026 – go on, you’re fabulous and it’s free to enter! This year the Awards reached a mind-blowing 10 million people nationally, with over 500,000 votes cast. We’re still pinching ourselves.

On the champagne terrace at escapade silverstone

We also raised a glass to Tollers Solicitors, our brilliant local sponsor, now in their fourth Muddy year. With six offices across the region and a reputation for being utterly lovely and extremely good at what they do, they’re exactly the kind of business we love to champion.

Canapés The Gallery at Escapade Silverstone

And the nibbles? Ohhh yes. The incredible team at The Gallery restaurant at Escapade, headed up by Chef Matt Tsistrakis – who has catered for more A-listers than we’re allowed to mention – brought out tray after tray of delicious canapés and bottles of chilled Veueve Cliquot Champagne. I think they nailed it

Massive hugs and gratitude to our creative dream team: Fineshade Studios for the fabulous film, and Becky Kerr for snapping the magic, as always. True pros, zero fuss.

Muddy Awards The Gallery at Escapade Silverstone Finch's Arms

Guests went home with goodies galore and bags stuffed to bursting. Enormous thanks go to: Ganders Goat for the divinely scented soaps; Honeywell Bakes for the G&T themed iced biccies; Whimsy & Wist for lovely wax melts; Yummy Grains for the lovely, crunchy granola (made with Northamptonshire honey); and to Karen Timpson Fine Fragrance for the simply wonderful Côte Vermeille perfume, inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s bold interiors at 78 Derngate, right here in Northampton; plus plenty of vouchers and goodies from some of our amazing winners.

To everyone who voted, supported, and celebrated with us – THANK YOU. You’re the reason the Muddy Awards are what they are: personal, passionate and proudly local. Scroll down to meet your Northants, Leics and Rutland 2025 champs – and why not make it your mission to visit every single one? Just doing your civic duty, obviously.

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