The Millennium Gloucester Hotel in South Kensington was host to this year’s annual National Business Women’s Awards on Thursday 12th December.
Train strikes and elections aside, nothing was going to stop the UK’s top business women celebrate their success. Hundreds attended this prestigious event spreading glamour like wildfire. The overall winner was Bonnie May from Global Infusion Group. Of the winner Awards Director Damian Cummins said “This was a very close-run contest for the overall winner, it literally could have gone three ways, but the judges identified Bonnie May as being top in their field over the last 12 months, a tremendous achievement. We offer them our congratulations.”
Finalists attended from as far away as Aberdeen, south to Devon and Cornwall and across the sea to Derry in Northern Ireland. Emcee Jonny Nelson introduced the winners of the 20 categories:
Best New Business
Catherine Morgan – The Money Panel (Milton Keynes)
Business Owner of the Year
Carol Blackford-Mills – MRS Digital (Hampshire)
Business Woman of the Year – Micro
Vicky Saynor – Bethnal&Bec (Hertfordshire)
Business Woman of the Year – Small
Charmaine Vincent – Baltimore Consulting Ltd (Bristol)
Business Woman of the Year – Medium
Gail Dudleston – twentysix Limited (Leeds)
Business Woman of the Year – Large
Sophie Lawler – Total Fitness (Cheshire)
Corporate Leader of the Year
Louise Hardy – Crest Nicolson Plc (St Albans)
Employee of the Year
Katie Wright – The Cambridge Lash Company (Cambridge)
Employer of the Year
Carol Blackford-Mills – MRS Digital (Hampshire)
Influential Business Woman of the Year
Louise Hardy – Crest Nicolson Plc (St Albans)
International Women’s Award
Bonnie May – Global Infusion Group (Chesham)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Kathy Doran – Morestaff Ltd (Bedfordshire)
Northern England Business Woman of the Year
Samantha Burlton – Make An Entrance.com (Lincoln)
Northern Ireland Business Woman of the Year
Vivian McKinnon – Hydro-ease (Belfast)
Scottish Business Woman of the Year
Kate Stott – Beautybooker Limited (Aberdeen)
Service Excellence
Nicola Harris – George James Bridal Ltd (Bedfordshire)
Social Impact Award
Bev Hurley – YTKO Group Ltd (Cheshire)
Southern England Business Woman of the Year
Caroline Strawson – Caroline Strawson: Rapid Transformational Therapist (Northamptonshire)
Third Sector Champion
Angela Novell – MK SNAP (Milton Keynes)
Business Woman of the Year
Natalie Richards – Expertise Homecare (Central & West Kent) Ltd (Kent)
