A community-owned shop on Barra is in line for a hat-trick of awards.
Buth Bharraigh Ltd in Castlebay sells produce from local suppliers in Barra and Vatersay, as well as offering employment, work placements and volunteering opportunities.
The shop has won the Scottish Rural Parliament Rural Innovators Award 2016 for best business. The award recognises projects, people and organisations that improve life in rural communities across Scotland.
It has also won the Rural Business Awards 2016 prize for Britain’s Best Community Project.
Awards co-founder Anna Price said: “Bùth Bharraigh Ltd was, we felt, simply an excellent example of a community project enterprise benefiting a whole community and beyond, in a remote area of Scotland.”
Buth Bharraigh has also been shortlisted for the Rural Community Ownership Award, which will be held in London on November 28. And they were finalists in the Independent Food and Drink retailer of the year category of the Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards 2016 last month.
Sarah Maclean, managing director of Buth Bharraigh Ltd, said: “We are delighted and honoured to have received these awards and it is testament to all our volunteers, producers and staff who have worked so hard to get us where we are today.”