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Chas takes home inaugural award
Chas Bishop (pictured), Chief Executive of the National Space Centre, has won the Research Leadership Award at the inaugural Leicester Mercury Innovation Awards 2019. Hosted at the King Power
Stadium, Leicester, the awards celebrated the very best technology, services, digital advances, and creative thinking that Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland have to offer. Chas was nominated for his
work leading the National Space Centre team to deliver a great day out to visitors from across the region and further afield. Chas said: “I am chuffed to
bits. The National Space Centre has a really important role to play in celebrating scientific achievement and helping provide education pathways for young people, as well as delivering a belting family day out. I am in constant awe of the space scientists, communicators and creative geniuses that I am lucky enough to work with each day.”
Rob Day, Chairman and Founder at Blueprint Interiors
Innovative office redesign brings in a win for Blueprint
Chamber patron Blueprint Interiors has won the Innovation in Construction category at the Leicestershire Live Innovation Awards 2019 for the project to transform its offices, WorkLifeCentral, in Ashby de la Zouch. The company was also shortlisted alongside some
exceptional organisations for the Excellence in Design Award at the East Midlands Bricks Awards 2019 and a nominee for E2E's Entrepreneurs Awards. The awards recognise the innovation shown during
the transformation of Blueprint’s head office, WorkLife Central, where it took a typical business park office building and transformed it into an agile work environment which can accommodate up to 80 workspaces for individuals and teams. In reality, the quality and variety of places translates into a far more productive and healthier workspace. Relationships with staff, supply chains and existing and prospective clients have been transformed and has
Helen keeps a royal appointment at Buckingham Palace
Helen Wathall, Managing Director of Derby’s longest established independent funeral director, Wathall’s, has been awarded an MBE by HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, at an investiture held at Buckingham Palace. She was awarded the MBE in the
New Year’s Honours list for her services to business and the local community. She said: “It was a huge honour to
be awarded an MBE and the icing on the cake was definitely learning that Prince William was officiating on that day. He was wonderfully warm and friendly which put everyone at ease. It was a lovely day and something that we will all never forget.”
6 business network May 2019 Helen is the fifth generation of
her family to run Wathall’s, which has offices in Macklin Street, Alvaston, Borrowash, Ashbourne and Burton. She has worked in the family
business since she was 18 and has been Managing Director since she was just 29 - taking over the reins of the company on the death of her father Bill. Helen is also volunteer Chair of
St Peters Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) where she has been particularly involved in initiatives to improve the safety, cleanliness and sense of community in the area since the launch of the first BID in 2011.
led to Blueprint Interiors winning the design and fit-out work in three of the other five buildings in the Ivanhoe Business Park development alone. The scope of works included the design of feature
stairs, the full mechanical system, lighting, acoustics and furniture. Blueprint also combined branding with the pioneering use of biophilic materials and plant life to create a stunning interior. Chairman and Founder Rob Day said: “Providing the
ideal built environment filled with resources that allow people to ‘get things done’ is valuable on so many levels. “We incorporate innovation into workplace design
as it can be the difference between a thriving business filled with happy and passionate people and an average one filled with indifferent or unhappy people. Our commitment to this ethos has been incorporated into our offices at WorkLifeCentral to provide a living example of how a company’s workspace can be transformed.”
Helen Wathall receives her MBE
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