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The team at Sinclair Day Accountancy is celebrating a double victory having won two awards for best practice in social media. The Worcester-based accountancy firm won accolades for Best Use of Twitter and Best Use of LinkedIn by a Business at the Worcestershire Social Media Awards held at Sixways. 180 guests, looking resplendent in evening attire, enjoyed a three course dinner before the presentation of the awards. Winners were deemed by the judges to be best at using social media to promote their business, charity, public sector or community cause. Stuart Allen, who is a Business Consultant and founder of #WorcestershireHour and the Worcestershire Festival of Business said: ‘The Worcestershire Social Media judges considered all aspects of how each finalist was using the different social media

Sam Sinclair-Day with Claire Hill from Hill HR Consultancy Ltd

channels. Sinclair Day Accountancy stood out in the LinkedIn & Twitter for Business categories because they not only provided vast amounts of insightful content, they also proactively engaged, promoted and supported other local businesses, including other accountancy firms. This was a fun and fabulous evening and we’d like to congratulate all the winners and everyone who was short-listed’ Sam Sinclair-Day, Head of Awesomeness at Sinclair Day Accountancy said: ‘We are really thrilled to have won both Best use of Twitter and Best Use of LinkedIn by a Business. We have absolutely loved engaging with our Twitter followers and our connections on LinkedIn. Our whole team have been involved, writing top tips, blogs and sharing photos. So it is fantastic to receive acknowledgement of the hard work that has gone into our social media over the last couple of years.’ Social media users in Worcestershire are welcome to join #WorcestershireHour by sharing the hashtag in their posts. Twitter hours are on Monday evenings from 8-9pm and Wednesdays from 12-1 pm.

An innovative natural toothpaste, developed by pioneering sisters Eve and Suzanne Carnall of The Green Woman, has been shortlisted for a national award. The Shropshire based company has developed the premium White & Green mineral toothpaste as part of its range of 100% natural, certified organic health and beauty products. The toothpaste contains high quality organic ingredients and artificial flavourings have been replaced with natural plant extracts such as peppermint essential oil. It contains no fluoride or Triclosan.

Now the new product, which was launched earlier this year and is produced at the company’s Ludlow Makery, has been shortlisted in the Health & Wellbeing Awards 2022 run by the national magazine. Suzanne Carnall of The Green Woman said that the company was delighted that its White & Green toothpaste had been recognised. “We worked very hard to find only the best, most effective natural ingredients to go into our new toothpaste. It’s quite an honour to have that work recognised by the Health & Wellbeing team by shortlisting us for the oral care award,” she said.

Shortlisted products will now be judged by a panel of expert judges. White & Green Mineral Toothpaste is available to buy from www.thegreenwoman.co.uk or from stockists which can be found on the website.

Umami Chef has been awarded three Farm Shop & Deli 2022 awards - with every single product they entered being given an accolade. This was an especially good achievement as it was the first awards they’d ever entered. Umami Chef was founded in 2019 by Jackie Bailey. It was the first company in the UK approved to grow koji – a naturally occurring fungus, which has been used for centuries to make Japanese fermented foods like miso, soy sauce and sake. The business, based in Worcester, is growing rapidly thanks to the current interest in naturally fermented foods. The company won silver awards for their Sweet White Fava Miso Paste and Filtered Shio Koji and a Bronze for Fresh Shio Koji. They hope to spread the word about Japanese fermented foods and encourage people to eat miso made with beans grown in the UK.