Hope Rescue Pontypridd has won the Annual Christmas Window Competition organised by the Your Pontypridd Business Improvement District for a third year running. Hope Rescue faced strong competition with many new businesses taking part in the competition, and many wonderful displays across the town. Hope Rescue came out on top once again with another fantastic festive display created by their volunteers. Staff at Hope Rescue were given their award and abouquet of flowersby Your Pontypridd Projects Officer James Payne, Hope Rescue will also receive one month's worth of advertising on the digital billboard owned by the Your Pontypridd Business Improvement District at the Turning Circle in the town.

The volunteers were delighted to win the award again and added that ' The Window is very important for the shop, it's great for visitors coming in to see all the festive displays and gets everyone in the Christmas sprit, we are delighted to be recognised with this award.' Hope Rescue also came out top of the public vote with fantastic support from all their friends and customers voting for them on the Your Pontypridd Facebook page. The competition was once again very popular on social media with hundreds voting in an effort to get their favourite into the top 5 for judging.

The top five windows - Hope Rescue, Leek and Weston, Georges Barbers, Gwynns Opticians and St Vincents all made it into the exciting judging process where the windows werejudged by Gavin Powell ( Promotions Manager of GTFM), Loretta Tomkinson (Pontypridd Town Council Mayor), Becky Davies (Lecturer in Creative and Therapeutic Arts at University of South Wales), Alan Humphreys (Chair of Your Pontypridd Marketing Committee) & Ann Hayes (Creative Industries & Arts Manager at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council). The judges were impressed with the standard and each of the windows had their own highlights. Pontypridd Town Mayor Lorettta Tomkinson said that the 'Hope Rescue display had the wow factor and would definitely make people stop and look' there was also high praise for Leek and Weston's display who were very worthy of their runners up spot, Alan Humphreys calling the display 'incredibly innovative.'

Your Pontypridd would like to thank everyone involved in this year's competition, Your Pontypridd Projects Manager James Payne said "Congratulations to Hope Rescue on winning the competition for the third year in a row, a fantastic achievement as the standard rises every year. Thank you to everyone who voted for their favourite business, and to the judges for taking time to visit the wonderful displays in the town, the Window competition is always fun to organise and encourages visitors to look for the displays in the town, we look forward to next year when hopefully even more businesses enter and we can continue to create a festive look in the town centre"

The full result of the competition can be seen at https://www.yourpontypridd.co.uk/yourpontyxmaswindow