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Award time!
Petersfield hosts Life in Petersfield’s sixth annual Business and Community Awards The people of Petersfield gathered to celebrate the best of the town with the sixth Life in Petersfield Business and Community Awards on Friday 22 March at the Festival Hall. A top panel of local judges featuring Town Mayor, Mary Vincent, Head Girl at The Petersfield School, Alice Bezant, Tracey Richardson, from the Association of Petersfield Businesses, Marcus Hadlow, representing Churcher’s College, Alastair Stewart, Treasurer of The Petersfield Musical Festival, Cllr Julie Butler, East Hampshire District Council and Cllr Vaughan Clarke, East Hampshire District and Petersfield Town Council, faced the tough job of selecting winners for 14 of the awards. However, it was up
to the Life Awards audience to pick The Event of the Year on the night and after vigorous voting they went for the Jubilee Weekend. Sponsored by Bluebird Care, this year the awards also saw guests for the first time treated to a delicious two-course meal from Inside Catering, as well as the traditional range of fantastic performances. These featured the Petersfield Academy of Dance; the Petersfield School; Churcher’s Jazz Band; Eloise Keating and The Choir Company. Hosts Karen Sheppard, Regional Managing Director of Tindle News and Jo Barlow, Special Publications Manger, wished congratulations to the winners, to those who were highly commended,
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and to all those who entered. First time host Jo Barlow said, “The Life in Petersfield Awards are a great opportunity for people and business in Petersfield to come together and celebrate their hard work over the past 12 months. Thanks to our sponsors, we had a fabulous night and plans for next years event are already underway.” Karen Sheppard continued, “We are thrilled with the Life in Petersfield awards this year as, we were given the opportunity to recognise some truly talented and committed individuals and incredibly hard working business people.” Read on to find out who the lucky winners were…
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