The Gift Awards: A Night To Remember

Inset: We’ve won! Big smiles from the delighted winners of both The Greats Awards and The Gift of the Year Awards who are shown on stage with their trophies.

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Champagne corks popped at the glittering Royal Lancaster hotel in London as guests gathered for the lavish, inaugural The Gift Awards, uniting The Greats Awards with the Gift of the Year Awards for the very first time. If y cldn’t be there, we’d love to share r o bum wh y . . .

Left: London’s 5 star Royal Lancaster hotel.

Below left Getting ready to welcome guests . . . Max Publishing’s Jakki Brown (front); Ian Hyder (left); Ali Farrell (back left); Sue Marks (centre); Jo Pilcher (back right) and Rob Willis (right).

Right The Giftware Association’s ceo Sarah Ward (right) with Chris Workman (second right), Victoria Louise Rotton (left) and the Creative Industry Association’s Craig De Souza (second left).

Bottom left and right: The Greats and the Gift of the Year trophies, standing proud.

Left: Phil Verrils, sales director of Gift Republic, walks down the red carpet with colleagues Vicky Nicholls (left) and Tara Nei.

Right: A stylish, Italian Campo Marzio pen doubled as a place card and take home gift, along with a table favour from Spice Kitchen.

Left: Clarion’s Zoe Bonser (second left) and David Westbrooke (third left) with Clarion colleagues.

Right: The GA’s ceo Sarah Ward welcomed everyone to the Awards.

Below right: Also on stage to welcome guests was Progressive Gift and Home’s editor Sue Marks.

Left: Craig De Souza, ceo and founder of the Creative Industry Assocation, with Mike Antwoon, sales director of Yodel.

Bottom left: Beaming with delight, Presentation Cards and Gifts’ Andrea Pinder and Lisa Thomason (right), with Little Beau Sheep’s Sarah Turner (left).

Bottom right: Among the raffle prize winners were Karen and Luke Ritchie of The Rowan Tree, who received their prize from Max Publishing’s Sam Loveday.

Inset: Gisela Graham’s Jennifer Peters (back row, fourth from right) with colleagues. Inset: The gang from Candlelight includes Ben Winch (centre) and Kate Winch (centre left).

Above: Spring Fair and Autumn Fair’s Julie Driscoll (centre) and Simon Lau (centre right) with colleagues.

Right: Happy smiley people, from right to left: Mooch’s Sandra O’Connoll, Siobhan Nikolic and Evelyn O’Flaherty; Paper Salad’s Claire Williams and Karen Wilson; Max Publishing’s Jakki Brown and Warren Lomax.

Left: All the way from Northern Ireland, Frances Doran and Rhonda Wood, co-owners of The Bottom Drawer.

Bottom right: The Seed Card Company directors (left to right) Lewis Stevenson with Kay and Jit Patel who designed and produced the amazing The Gift Awards tickets.

Right: Looking forward to the night ahead, Joe Davies’ managing director Paul Hooker (centre) with the team.

Below left: There was plenty to laugh about thanks to comedian and compere Charlie Barker.

Below: Just the ticket from The Seed Card Company. Inset: A peek into the dining room, where the waiting staff were ready to welcome guests. Below: Among the guests clearly delighted with the 3D pop up menu from Cardology.

Inset: A line-up of lovelies from Life Charms. From left to right: Agata Werycha, Becky Wakefield, Gosia Trzebuchowska, Hannah White, Georgia Burness and Darcy Beattie.

Left: Looks like everyone’s a winner!

Left: Friends united! From left to right: Anne and Katrina Raill from Etcetera, and Aga and Richard Marsden from Highworth Emporium.

Right Hitting the dance floor, Enesco’s Phil Atherton with colleagues Sophie Ferguson (left) and Helen Cottrill (right).

Below right: Dancing the night away was Billy Greeno and Carzdone’s Kim Baker.

Below left: We’re having a good time!

Bottom left: Music was provided by duo Matt and Marcel.

Bottom right: Libby Holden of Lovely Libby’s (second right), and her mum Tracey Holden of The Olive Branch, together with colleagues Hannah White and Tracey Burness, were among those enjoying a flutter at the casino.