IN THE COMMUNITY

Celebrating business resilience:

the winners of the Gloucestershire Live Business Awards 2021

We were delighted to once again celebrate the achievements from the Gloucestershire business community at this esteemed annual celebration; the 23rd Gloucestershire Live Business Awards.

Fiona Hughes Marketing Manager

Following their absence in 2020, we felt grateful to be able to come together and be part of this ceremony held in the Centaur at the Cheltenham Racecourse, get dressed up again and celebrate face-to-face once more! As the pre-eminent awards evening for Gloucestershire, the ceremony provided a platform to truly showcase the winners’ achievements.

Our managing partner, Tim Watkins said: “A win this year feels even more momentous after last year’s awards had to be cancelled due to such difficult circumstances.

“It was such a special evening celebrating the success and resilience of our business community. Congratulations to all the winners – and the finalists should also feel extremely proud of their achievement.” Our host for the evening, magician and television presenter, Ben Hanlin kept us entertained with his fantastic tricks and entertaining style of presenting. Ben introduced our annual video, recorded as the message from the headline sponsor, after the three-course dinner and appeared to be well-received by the audience going by their applause (and laughter!).

We were thrilled that Faye Hatcher, BBC Gloucestershire Radio presenter, agreed to be a part of the charity video for Scoo-B-Doo, who support the neonatal unit at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, along with staff from the unit to raise awareness about the charity’s important work for families with sick and premature babies. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated on the night and raised an impressive £3,335.

Thank you to Louise Cains, Events Manager, and the team at Reach Plc who made the event such a success and finally congratulations again to all the winners and finalists of the 23rd Gloucestershire Live Business Awards! The Winners

1. Business of the Year – Spirax Sarco 2. Family Business of the Year – Badham

Pharmacy 3. Small Business of the Year – Leaf

Creative Design 4. Start-Up Business of the Year –

Prosperity Care and Wellbeing 5. Business Innovation Award – Fire & Flow

Coffee 6. Best Place to Work – Vanessa

Arbuthnott Fabrics 7. Corporate Social Responsibility Award –

The Beeswax Wrap Co. 8. New Business of the Year – The Coconut

Tree 9. Best Employee Award – Paul Dixon, Mill

House Care and Dementia Care Home 10. Business in the Face of Adversity Special

Award – The Cheltenham Trust 11. Local Business Hero – Paul Dixon, Mill

House Care and Dementia Care Home 12. Young Business Person of the Year –

Oliver Bruce, PinPoint Media 13. Lifetime Achievement Award – Dr Diane

Savory, OBE DL, chair at GFirst LEP 14. Special Recognition Award For

The Great Work Of The NHS In

Gloucestershire – Gloucestershire NHS, accepted by Peter Lachecki, chair of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS

Foundation Trust