Social Enterprise Awards - 19th November 2015 - The results are in!

The winners of the 2015 Social Enterprise Awards are…

Above: L-R clockwise Changes UK, Witton Lodge Community Association, Production Assembly Services, PM Training, Beacon Opticians Plus+ and Beatfreeks

The long anticipated 5th annual awards took place this year at The University of Birmingham, who helped support everyone in celebrating the successes and achievements of social enterprises and sector supporters across the region. There were 10 award categories for the evening;

The team were busy counting and processing all 91 nominations in the run up to the event, in which people were encouraged to nominate an individual or organisation for their achievements. A full list of the winners of each award and those highly commended are below:

The Award for SE PLANET goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED Arc CIC - Gatis Community Space

WINNER Witton Lodge Community Association

The award for SE PROFIT goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED Changes UK

WINNER Production Assembly Services

The award for SE PROFESSIONAL goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED Dave Lane, Development in Social Enterprise CIC

WINNER Nick Comley, Community First

The award for SE PRIMA goes to …

WINNER Beacon Opticians Plus+

The award for SE PASSION goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED Dance LYF CIC

WINNER Beatfreeks

The award for SE PARTNER goes to …

WINNER Paul Smith, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council

The award for SE POTENTIAL goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED Beatfreeks

HIGHLY COMMENDED Rising Stars Property Solutions

WINNER Beacon Opticians Plus+

The award for SE PEOPLE goes to …

HIGHLY COMMENDED CLOCK (Community Legal Outreach Collaboration, Keele)

WINNER Changes UK

The award for SE INSPIRE goes to …

WINNER Bill Longmore, WM-PCC

The award for SE ASPIRE goes to …

WINNER PM Training

The award for SE MOMENT OF THE YEAR goes to …

WINNER Sam Tarff, The Key Fund

Above: Award winner on behalf of Sam Tarff, The Key Fund for SE Moment of the year

All Photographs from the evening are now available via the SEWM SmugMug page, which you can access Here. Password: sewm3628

For local press coverage of the awards access the links below:

Beacon Blind Centre secures ‘Social Enterprise’ Double Award

Malvern support specialist comes out on top at Social Enterprise Awards

Social Enterprise Award for Shropshire’s Police Commissioner

Thank you to everyone who attended this year’s awards, we all hope you enjoyed it!

Thank you again to all of our awards sponsors and our venue host for making the evening possible. We would also like to thank the dedicated support of the SEWM team in making sure the evening ran smoothly and was delivered to the highest quality. We hope to see you all again next year!