Chamber Bridlington and Yorkshire Coast Business Awards 2017
All Winners
The event was held in the Royal Hall at The Bridlington Spa and was attended by business people from across the Yorkshire region. The compére for the evening was Clare Frisby, a radio and television presenter, including for Look North, Leeds.
The bigest congratulations go to Heald Limited, winners of The Overall Business of the Year Award, who also won the Medium/Large Business of 2017 Award, whilst the Bridlington Echo won the Small Business of the Year Award 2017.
Spirit of Yorkshire won the Best Tourism & Hospitality Business and this year’s Business Person of the Year was Ian Yeo from BIMSense Limited in Hull. Chris Fit from Eastfield were named Start-Up Business of 2017.
Hull and Scunthorpe based business HBP Systems won Best Training Business of the Year and the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award was former Chief Executive of The Deep, in Hull, Colin Brown.
The Young Business Person award went to Brad Lake from Professional Leather in Hull, and Special Stars Foundation won the Social Enterprise of the Year Award.
The Green Business of 2017 was S & J Synergy from Hull and Valley Press, from Scarborough, won the Culture/Arts Business of the year award. Agenda Screening Services were the choice for the Judges’ Award for Innovation.
Entertainment came in the form of excellent comedian Lea Roberts and St Augustine's Senior Jazz Orchestra of Scarborough. Local talent Emmie Beckett from Bridlington received a standing ovation for her rendition of Nessun Dorma.
Andrea Borelli from Sicily and Chantal Green from Beverley gave a fabulous display of Latin Dance.
A charity raffle and auction helped raised over £2500 for the RNLI.
Chairman of the Bridlington Chamber, Neil Watson, said: “The Chamber Bridlington and Yorkshire Coast Business Awards have been another great success. I’d like to thank the organising team and of course our sponsors. We hope everyone enjoyed the night and we look forward to doing it all again next year.”
Event organiser Geof Humphrey added: “It was a truly magnificent evening and everyone seemed to enjoy it very much. Everything from the food to the entertainment to the presentation was spot on and hopefully we can continue for many more years.”
“I would like to thank all who attended or got involved in any way and I am proud of how far we have come with these awards.”
The Chamber and the organising committee would like to give heartfelt thanks to all the companies who were Sponsors of the Awards. Without them it would not go ahead.
The 2018 Awards will be at the Spa Bridlington on Friday 19th October. For more information please contact Geof Humphrey of Nexus Proficient on 07528 522592 or at nexusproficient@btconnect.com
