Awards: Women in business winners announced; Accolade for law firm; Winning streak for property business; and more

THE Yorkshire winners for the Celebrating Women in Business Awards from barclays have been announced.

The awards attracted more than 60 nominations which were shortlisted to twenty two finalists from across the region.

Joanne Roney, CEO for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council was named as Yorkshire woman of the year larger business for her long and distinguished career.

Di Walker was also honoured in this category as highly commended for her work with Karro Food Group.

Jenni Hardy, finance director, Transline Group was named as Rising Star recognising her pivotal role in taking the business through the growth journey to reach £220m turnover.

Amanda Shea, group financial director for Harrison Spinks, manufacturers of mattresses and springs based in Leeds, was named as Women of the Year Medium Business.

Nilam Holmes Patel, High Definition Beauty Group Ltd, was named SME winner.

Rachael Memmott and Helen Hall, Special Autism Services, were named as Women of the Year for their contribution to diversity. They have developed their own unique ways of working with adults with Autism Spectrum Condition and manage to run the business which requires £1.8million to run the service with no funding support.

The award for supporting Citizenship went to Lesley Dawson, managing director, Children’s Corner Childcare.

Debbie Mullen, Barclays Corporate Head of Yorkshire said: “Women from all sectors across Yorkshire are securing key roles in larger companies and we wanted to recognise exceptional achievements for the contribution they are making.”

The winners and shortlists were selected by an independent judging panel which included last year’s winners Beth Butterwick, CEO Bon Marche; Joanna Robinson, managing director, Mansfield Pollard and Victoria Woodings, global board director, Principle Holdings. Also on the judging panel were Garry Wilson, managing partner, Endless LLP; Jonathan Turner, CEO Bayford Group; Darren Forshaw, founding partner, Endless LLP and James Lambert, founder of R&R Ice Cream.

Rachel Reeves MP for Leeds West attended the event and said: ” Women in business are a major contributor to the UK economy, but there are still too many barriers that women have to overcome in comparison to their male counterparts. Celebrating the achievements of women in business is helping to promote equality and diversity within businesses and the economy.”

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Let Leeds awardLET LEEDS has been victorious at the Letting Agency of the Year Awards for the fifth year running.

The agency won the silver award for Best Small Northern Lettings Agency of the Year 2016 and was presented with the trophy by Sir Clive Woodward at a London ceremony.

The victory caps a successful 12 months in which Let Leeds has opened a Pudsey branch, undergone a rebranding process and made more improvements to its customer service by restructuring into three specialist teams: student lets, professional lets and investment sales.

Let Leeds founder Luke Gidney said: “Any award we win is a tremendous pat on the back for everyone who works for us and with us. To have picked up an award for the fifth year running is a huge achievement.”

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Stone King awardLEEDS law firm Stone King has been awarded the Investors in People Gold Standard.

The firm is among 7% of accredited organisations across the UK that hold the standard for realising the full potential of their people.

“We are incredibly proud to have received this highly prestigious award,” said Tassy Vincent, human resources director at Stone King. “The Gold Standard is given to only a small number of organisations that have demonstrated excellence in developing and supporting their people.

“The feedback from the assessor was extremely positive about the hard work that has gone into establishing a professional and forward-thinking approach to people development across the firm.”

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Sewerby Hall and GardensSTAFF at Sewerby Hall and Gardens are celebrating success once again, after being selected for the 2016 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence, which reflects the consistently good reviews the venue has received from customers over the past year on the world’s largest travel website.

This is the third consecutive year that East Yorkshire-based Sewerby Hall and Gardens has received this accolade.
 
Coun Richard Burton, portfolio holder for civic wellbeing and culture, said: “This is another great achievement by the team at Sewerby Hall and Gardens, who work tirelessly all year round to provide a great experience for our visitors, whether they are coming to the Hall, the gardens, or to stay in the cottages. Well done to everybody involved.”

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Paradigm Family law awardPARADIGM Family Law has been nominated in this year’s Family Law Awards in three categories.

The firm is up for the Family Law Regional Firm of the Year (North) 2016, Family Law Partner of the Year 2016 – for James Thornton, managing partner, and International Family Lawyer of the Year 2016 – Frank Arndt, managing partner.

Mr Thornton said: “We are delighted to have been nominated in three categories this year. It is a step up from last year’s nominations when Frank was shortlisted and reached the final four in his category. To be in with a shout for no less than three of such prestigious awards is great.

“We hope to build on Frank’s success last year and the fact that we now have a nomination for Regional Law Firm of the Year aswell as individual nominations for both of us in our respective categories is a real boost.”

Paradigm Family Law is based in York.

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