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WORTHYWINNERS GALORE ATLOCAL BUSINESS EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2012
EVERY YEAR, Salisbury & District Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s President’s Dinner and Business Excellence Awards ceremony celebrates the success of businesses and organisations from Salisbury and district. In front of around 150 guests, acting president Paul Burrough hosted this year’s event at the Salisbury Arts Centre; choosing between the high number of entries was exceptionally tough for the judges, but eventually some worthy victors emerged…
Charity of the Year: Lucy’s Days Out (Finalists: The Community Foundation; Trussell Trust)
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(Finalists: Farley Nursery School; The Value Cars Group)
Customer Service Award: The Value Cars Group (Finalists: Farley Nursery School; Peartree Serviced Apartments)
NEW BLOOD Every industry
thrives on the best new people coming though…
Green Business of the Year: Farley Nursery School (Finalists: Wiltshire Wildlife Trust; Wessex Drainage)
• Apprentice/ trainee of the year: Clint Kelly of Wilts & Dorset
•Finalists:
Simon Bedford; Sharon Sadler
Marketing Excellence Award: Best Western Red Lion Hotel (Finalists: Girls Love Fit; Becky Nixon Photography)
Tourism & Hospitality
Outstanding Business of the Year: Salisbury Playhouse
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WINNING
LIKE A BIT of golf, but put off by the high cost of the best courses, or the difficulty of finding competitive but fun games? Then the Wessex Amateur Golf Tour
Award: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum (Finalists: Peartree Serviced Apartments; Holiday Inn Salisbury- Stonehenge)
may be just what you’re looking for: influenced by the thriving US ‘amateur tour’ concept, and following Thomas Hardy in a geographical sense, the tour takes in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire. Organiser Dave Thomas has, however, settled on
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LOOKING FOR a unique (okay, unique until everyone you know has booked it, at least!) wedding venue in the Wiltshire? Well, King’s Meadow at Church Farm, in the lovely village of Kington Langley, might be just the thing – an idyllic new bespoke location on a privately-owned organic farm. King’s Meadow itself is a stunning, highly flexible seven- acre wildflower-strewn space,
Happy days: we suspect the bubbly flowed!
Business Commitment to the Community Award: Hilltop Diner (Finalists: Wilts & Dorset; Girls Love Fit)
Employee of the Year: Janet Herring of Alabaré Christian Care & Support (Finalists: Mark Bramley of Best Western Red Lion Hotel; Brian Stainer of R.D. Avery)
The President’s Award: Ceri Hurfor-Jones
Congratulations to all who won (or almost won). For more call 01722 322708
Salisbury as the spiritual centre of the region, and while the nine rounds take in all six counties, the first and last rounds for this inaugural year take place at the two fine Salisbury venues – it all begins at Salisbury & South Wilts GC on Tuesday, 20 March. For
moreastoundance.com/wessexgolf
GETMETO CHURCH FARMONTIME!
surrounded by mature trees and hedges for privacy, all of which can be styled to suit pretty much any bridal tastes – as long as they’re highly romantic, of course. Along with the field you get an adjacent cottage base to use for your day too. Located near Chippenham (think J17 on the M4); call 01249 758444 (day) or 01249 750264 (evening) for details. For
morechurchfarmuk.co.uk
DRAGON’S DEN, SALISBURY-STYLE
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WE’VE ALL seen Dragon’s Den and The Apprentice, where budding biz-types have to impress the moneymen with their ideas, and expert product designers take those raw concepts and shape them into something appealing. But few of us, perhaps, realise
that lurking in Salisbury’s Endless Street is something very similar – Innovate Product Design, the UK’s largest product design company, where the ideas of individual inventors and entrepreneurs are analysed for potential, developed and shaped. Often people will come along with nothing more than a rough sketch, which the IPD guys will assess for them – it’s got to be the most effective, low-cost way in the country to work out whether you’ve got a potential winner on your hands, or if pursuing your dream would be the equivalent of setting fire to your hard-earned cash, then throwing the smouldering ashes down the nearest well. For more
innovate-design.co.uk
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