Every week we select one of our businesses to the be the featured Business of the Week on Buy in Otley. This section includes all the past recipients
Luke Antonik-Yates has pretty much lived and breathed music since he was a toddler, first learning the violin at the age of four in his...
Arts & Entertainment, Business & Trade Services, Business of the Week / Riverside
Some people like to put down deep roots – in more ways than one. Take Katie Burnett, co-owner of Westgate’s Courtyard Planters alongside her husband,...
Business of the Week, Hardware & Gardening, Paint, hardware & gardening / Westgate, Beech Hill & Bradford Rd
Gills Doorstep Solutions is one of those businesses that seems to have Otley running right through it. The business started life back in 1971...
Business of the Week, Food & drink shops / Orchard Gate & Crossgate
Originally from South Yorkshire, Tom Pitts is a dyed-in-the-wool Sheffield United fan – but we won’t hold that against him. Especially since he’s pulled off...
Business & Trade Services, Business of the Week, Services / Wharfebank Mills & Otley Mills
If you’ve heard beautifully played violin at a concert in Otley, there’s a fair chance it was being played by Asuka Sumi, a musician...
Arts & Entertainment, Business of the Week / Westgate, Beech Hill & Bradford Rd
After a 14-year stint with Houldsworths, carpenter and joiner Josh Whitley decided it was time to take the plunge and build something of his...
Builders & building materials, Business & Trade Services, Business of the Week / Newall & Weston
Some Otley businesses wear their success proudly on the high street. Others quietly get on with changing the world from behind an unassuming front door....
Business & Trade Services, Business of the Week, Furniture & homeware, Other services / Boroughgate
Amelia Warrener from Rawdon has worked with animals all her life, including spending time on a farm before setting up her own dog walking business...
Business of the Week, Pets & vets / Manor Sq, Clapgate & Bridge Street
Greg Silverwood has been in hospitality man and boy - quite literally. This stalwart of the Otley nightlife scene started his career at the...
When Hadi Javed was managing the Riverside Café in Wharfemeadows Park for four years, she had a dream — to open her own catering business....
Alfresco food & drink, Business of the Week, Cafés, pubs & restaurants, Delivery & takeaway / Westgate, Beech Hill & Bradford Rd
When Alison Barton, originally from Horsforth, and her husband Andrew, originally from Pool in Wharfedale, set up their business, there was only one place they...
Business & Trade Services, Business of the Week, Paint, hardware & gardening / Westgate, Beech Hill & Bradford Rd
Twenty Watt Shades owner Sally Stubbs originally hails from Menston and began her working life as a social worker before a creative sidestep changed everything....
Business of the Week, Furniture & homeware / Westgate, Beech Hill & Bradford Rd