Glittering celebration of success at Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards
A GLITTERING celebration of the best of Northern Lincolnshire Businesses culminated with Tony Jex being presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the editor of the Grimsby Telegraph, Michelle Lalor.
In front of a packed house of more than 500 people, Liz Parry, from Abby’s Wine Bar and Bistro, in Grimsby, won the Wilkin Chapman Business Person of the Year Award and Elsham Wold-based coffee specialists Lincoln & York picked up the Forrester Boyd Business Excellence Award.
This year’s gala dinner and awards presentation adopted a seaside theme which recreated a traditional seaside pier variety show brought right up-to-date with some very 21st Century performers, including Grimsby Institute Students, Lumina the Laser Violinist and Jamie Allan, a nationally acclaimed magician who enthralled the audience with his sleight of hand.
Lincoln & York director, James Sweeting, said: “We are thrilled to have won the Forrester Boyd Business Excellence Award at this year’s Northern Lincolnshire Business Awards.
“It was a great evening and myself and the other members of the Lincoln & York team had a wonderful time celebrating and meeting other businesses in the region.
“We’re into our 20th year now and to have been recognised for our continued growth and development during this milestone year is an honour”.
Chamber President, Tim Durkin, said: “Business is really beginning to thrive again on the South Bank of the Humber, as witness to the quality and diversity of the entries for the Awards, and an evening which attracted over 500 people. All of this was in no short measure due to the organisation by Chamber employees Anne Tate and her colleague, Marilyn Waud”.
The evening was organised by the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce in partnership with publisher Grimsby & Scunthorpe Media Group. Guests enjoyed a champagne reception sponsored by Oaklands Hall Hotel before settling down to a locally-sourced three-course dinner prepared by Perfect Palate Solutions, the perfect appetiser for the after-dinner entertainment - a traditional seaside variety show.
Local girl and TV celebrity Helen Fospero was compere for the evening again this year, and a raffle raised £2,464 for the chosen charities of the South Bank Chamber area council chairs, Grimsby Food Kitchen and Scunthorpe's Lindsey Lodge Hospice.
Thanks to our sponsors: Humberside Airport, Eastern Airways, Biffa and Grimsby Institute.
Suppliers: Saville Audo Visual; Eastcoast Pictures; Grimsby Auditorium; Teamspirit; Grimsby Institute; Keyzo; Rachel Perry; Blue Minion; Stem Studio; Drift Ashore; Purelite Photography; Phillips 66.
