Simon Cotton

Chris Clarke, General Manager at The Fat Badger in Harrogate, enjoying a pint in the all new Fat Badger Sett

Take a look at inside the new outdoor hospitality experience at The Fat Badger

Simon Cotton outside the Fat Badger, Harrogate. Picture Gerard Binks.

Column: Simon Cotton, HRH Group - Dare I mention the Christmas word?!

Enjoying all that Harrogate has to offer over the summer.
Harrogate Carnival heading to Valley Gardens.
Picture Gerard Binks.

Column: Simon Cotton, Managing director, HRH Group - The scourge of commissions!

The Fat Badger has been named the best pub in Yorkshire and the Humber at the National Pub and Bar Awards

Popular Harrogate pub named best pub in Yorkshire at National Pub and Bar Awards

Harrogate is a beautiful and welcoming town and a great place to base your holiday.
Picture Tony Johnson.

Column: Simon Cotton, HRH Group - Time for a break from it all?

Harrogate’s hospitality and tourism heroes have been celebrated at a sell-out awards evening at the Royal Hall

REVEALED: Harrogate hospitality and tourism heroes celebrated at awards evening

Harrogate hospitality staff joined Harrogate Neighbours to offer a helping hand during Volunteers Week

Harrogate hospitality staff lend helping hand during Volunteers Week

Presenting the award for Best Rural Business to Claire Baxter Gallery at the Harrogate Advertiser Business Excellence Awards.

Column: Simon Cotton, HRH Group - Awards season is upon us right now

The winners of the Harrogate Advertiser Business Excellence Awards 2023 at the Pavilions of Harrogate

A great night celebrating at the Harrogate Advertiser Business Excellence Awards

The first ever Your Harrogate and Fat Badger charity golf day has raised a grand total of £12,000 for two local charities

IN PICTURES: Your Harrogate and Fat Badger golf day raises £12,000 for charity

Winners on stage at the 2022 Harrogate Hospitality & Tourism Awards

Judges reveal shortlist for the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards 2023

ustomers in the outdoors area of the Fat Badger bar, which is based at the White Hart Hotel on Cold Bath Road in Harrogate.

Harrogate bar in running for UK's National Pub Bar of the year 2023

There have been some amazing entries again this year for the Harrogate Hospitality & Tourism Awards and the appetite for these awards just goes from strength to strength each year.

Column: Simon Cotton, HRH Group - A time of great change

David Ritson and Simon Cotton, organisers of the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards with Sally Haslewood, Founder and Managing Director of Mumbler

Get your nominations in for this year’s Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards

Simon Cotton, Managing Director of the HRH Group

IN THE COMPANY OF: Simon Cotton, Managing Director of the HRH Group in Harrogate

Organisers of the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards, David Ritson and Simon Cotton, are encouraging people across the town to share the love and vote in this years awards

Share the love and vote in this years Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards

Harrogate businesswoman Alice Maguire raised £75,000 for Martin House in a single evening through a sell-out charity ball at a Harrogate hotel. (Picture by Yorkshires Events Photography)

Harrogate charity ball raises £75,000 in a single night

Taking part in the Harrogate Advent Calendar - The team at Hoopers department store on James Street with Santa and his elf.

Twenty-four Harrogate businesses to offer Christmas deals and prizes

Candlelighters Ball in Harrogate - The master of ceremonies for the evening was HRH Group’s Simon Cotton who also delivered the charity auction.

Harrogate charity event raises £50,000 in a single night

The stunning festive floral display which has been put up outside The Yorkshire Hotel and Pickled Sprout in Harrogate.

Christmas countdown begins as Harrogate hotel joins forces with local florist

OPINION: Hard to keep upbeat on the hospitality rollercoaster - Simon Cotton, th...

Harrogate's hospitality and tourism heroes were rewarded for their excellence and commitment last night at the Royal Hall

Harrogate’s hospitality and tourism heroes are celebrated at sell-out awards eve...

OPINION: To tip or not to tip, that is the question? - Simon Cotton, HRH group

The Fat Badger have today unveiled its woodland themed beer garden which will be displayed at this weekends Harrogate Flower Show

The Fat Badger set to make an appearance at the Harrogate Flower Show with its v...

Time is running out for businesses to enter the Harrogate Advertiser Business Excellence Awards 2022, with the deadline for entries now only two weeks away. PHOTO: Gerard Binks.

Countdown starts for awards as entry deadline looms closer

11 April 2021....... Hotelier Simon Cotton who has created the Yorkshire Dales beer garden outside The Yorkshire Hotel in the centre of Harrogate. Picture Tony Johnson

OPINION: Peak season ahead for Harrogate hospitality - Simon Cotton, MD of the H...

Organisers David Ritson and Simon Cotton have announced the shortlist for the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards

REVEALED: Shortlist announced for Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards 2022

Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards.

Retro pictures from the inaugural Harrogate Hospitality & Tourism Awards as this...

Simon Cotton and David Ritson, organisers of the Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards, are reminding people to ‘jump to it’ and make sure that they don’t miss out on being involved

Time is running out to get your nominations in for this year’s Harrogate Hospita...

OPINION: Could we see robots in our restaurants in Harrogate? - Simon Cotton, HR...

The ever-popular Harrogate Hospitality & Tourism Awards are set to return this year with organisers announcing their first event since 2019

Harrogate Hospitality and Tourism Awards returns and is set for a summer spectac...

The Yorkshire Hotel's Pickled Sprout is offering readers the chance to win a meal for two, including a bottle of prosecco

Feeling lucky? Find the golden sprouts in the Harrogate Advertiser and you could...

Jim Croxton, CEO of the British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA), and Simon Cotton, managing director of Harrogate hotel company HRH Group, signed a three-year partnership deal to host the BIGGA team during the BIGGA Turf Management Exhibition (BTME).

Harrogate hotel group signs three-year BIGGA deal

The reopening of bars and restaurants, coupled with our hotels being able to accept tourists once again, gave the Harrogate district a massive post-lockdown boost as businesses looked to recover their lost earnings

Harrogate businesses eye a festive feast following successful summer

Pictured: Simon Cotton

OPINION: ‘Book early to avoid disappointment’ - much more than a sales technique...

The impact of continuing anti-Covid measures is being felt by businesses as the country attempts to get back to normal as even as virus figures rise.

How self isolation and NHS app is contributing to Harrogate's staffing woes as e...

Baltzersen's cafe on Oxford Street in Harrogate.

'Staff shortages' fears in Harrogate hospitality sector as Covid precautions loo...

12th April 2021
Pictured visitors to Harrogate enjoy the outsdie beer garden at Fat Badger, Harrogate
Picture Gerard Binks

OPINION: Freedom, football and footfall! - Simon Cotton, MD of the HRH Group

17th April 2021
Pictured Ales in the Dales at the Yorkshire Hotel, Harrogate.
Picture Gerard Binks

OPINION: We look forward to welcoming you back - Simon Cotton, HRH Group

Ales in the Dales has proved extremely popular over the last month.

Furniture from Harrogate's Ales in the Dales to be auctioned off for Horticap ch...

'Podville' at the Fat Badger in Harrogate. Picture: Mike Whorley.

Harrogate bars set for 'scorcher' weekend as sun shines and phones ringing 'off ...

Simon Midgley of Starling Independent Bar Cafe Kitchen in Harrogate with the new mural by artist Sam Porter in the bar's new outside dinning/drinking area which will be ready to open on April 12. (Picture Gerard Binks)

Harrogate’s bars ready to open as Boris's roadmap rules change

Charity calendar - Yvonne Campbell of Harrogate Hospital Community Charity with Beer Hawk's Mark Roberts dropping off some of the calendars.

The perfect Christmas gift to show your support for Harrogate Hospital with char...

Merry Christmas from the Fat Badger Igloos.

Column: Finding the positives in a tough year

Saint Michael's Hospice has revealed its 'Light up a Life' video.

Saint Michael's Hospice releases special video to commemorate year like no other...

Ready for Christmas customers - The igloos at the Fat Badger in Harrogate with HRH Group's managing director Simon Cotton. (Picture Gerard Binks)

Harrogate hotel boss says town can 'salvage some of the Christmas trade that is ...