Bath Life - Winners Guide 2019

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Bath is the winner, always‌ The biggest ever Bath Life Awards were held last month.

More nominations, more finalists, and yet more emotions on a very special night‌

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hat is this life if we have no time to stand and stare…”

Awards give opportunity for pause. Pause to think how well a business has done in the year.

Pause to consider a city and how it is changing.

And pause to ponder on just what remarkable individuals there are in Bath, developing companies, employing more people, finding new routes to market, increasing the amounts of goods and services bought locally, risking start-ups, volunteering for charities, acting civically, seeking to improve this city…

And so it was at the Bath Life Awards, the most emotional yet. It was a night to be proud of Bath.

We came to celebrate and stayed to cheer – resoundingly.

The warmth in the room was palpable, particularly at four points: Freshford Church School won the Bath BID-sponsored Environmental category and used the opportunity to make a widely-supported political point about having its solar panel proposal rejected by B&NES. “What’s the point of protecting our past if we can’t protect our future..?”

Taste of Bath’s Helen Rich gave the most Olivia Colmantastic acceptance speech, some of which is even repeatable (you had to be there): “I’m absolutely [redacted] amazed. I’m [redacted] so honoured. I’d dreamt of simply being in Bath Life but to win this award is absolutely incredible!”

Reader, there were tears. And not just from Helen.

For the first time ever, there were joint winners of the charity category, sponsored by Stone King. Bath City Farm and Southside Family Project were deserved winners individually, and the judges also wanted to highlight how superbly they work together. In a city of such success, highlighting the vital work they do to help combat the effects of poverty in the city was recognised with a standing ovation.

And for many, the highlight of the evening was the spontaneous outpouring of emotion for a remarkable man Eddie Ilic, who works at hairdressers BA1 and founded Eddie’s Street Cuts. He gives free haircuts to the homeless to help their self-esteem and is inspiring other salons in the city to contribute – all prompted by his own story of turning his life around.

Eddie was overwhelmed by the room cheering and cheering and cheering as he accepted the inaugural Civic Award, which Bath Life’s publisher MediaClash was honoured to sponsor.

Reading the nominations and attending the Awards makes us feel yet better about Bath – and we hope that the same is true of Bath Life as, issue in issue out, we celebrate the very best of Bath.

On this uberglamtastic evening, of shimmering beauty, of whooping and surging emotion, of celebration and coming together, ultimately there was one winner: Bath – always.

To all who entered, judged, sponsored, partnered, entertained, gushed, filmed, aftershowed, photographed, supported, organised, hosted, fed and dined us all, just one word: thanks. These were the very best yet.

And next year?

It’s started already. Tick tock.

Jane, Steph, Greg and the Bath Life and MediaClash Events teams

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Headline Sponsor

Platinum

All photos by Soul Media

It’s a cliché for a good reason to say that we couldn’t have organised the Bath Life Awards without our wonderful sponsors – but, we’ll, we couldn’t’ve.

But beyond that, it’s also superb that so many leading companies are part of this singular celebration.

To each: thank you.

Headline Sponsor: The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, with its Brand Partner Taittinger

Property Group, Apex City of Bath Hotel, Kersfield, Novia, Tile & Flooring, Bryers, Bath Audi, Bath VW and Bath Rugby

Platinum Sponsor:

Silver Sponsors: Dialect, L&C Mortgages, Pearson May, Royds Withy King, Thai Barn

Bristol Airport

Main Sponsors: Jelf, Stone King, Savills, Spaces, Bath BID, Curo, First West of England, Hawker Joinery, Sub 13, Acorn

Feature Sponsors: Juice

Recruitment, Freestyle Designs, Circo

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CATEGORY WINNERS

ARTS

WINNER:

BATH INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VISIT BATH

BUSINESS SERVICES

WINNER:

TASTE OF BATH

Sponsored by

CHARITY

Sponsored by

JOINT WINNERS:

BATH CITY FARM & SOUTHSIDE FAMILY PROJECT

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BAR

WINNER:

Sponsored by

CAFÉ

CIVIC

CIRCO BAR

WINNER:

CASTLE FARM CAFÉ

Sponsored by

WINNER:

EDDIES STREET CUTS

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CREATIVE Sponsored by

WINNER:

MYTTON WILLIAMS

ENVIRONMENTAL Sponsored by

GASTROPUB Sponsored by

WINNER:

FRESHFORD CHURCH SCHOOL

WINNER:

MARLBOROUGH TAVERN

EDUCATION Sponsored by

WINNER:

FUN SCIENCE

EVENT

WINNER:

BATH FESTIVALS

Sponsored by

HAIR & BEAUTY

WINNER:

BROAD STREET STUDIO

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HEALTH & WELLBEING

WINNER:

LEGAL & FINANCIAL

WINNER:

TEAM BATH

Sponsored by

ROYDS WITHY KING

Sponsored by

NEW BUSINESS Sponsored by

WINNER:

MH TYRE SERVICES

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HOMES & INTERIORS Sponsored by

WINNER:

SIMS HILDITCH

LEISURE & TOURISM

WINNER:

Sponsored by

AVON VALLEY ADVENTURE & WILDLIFE PARK

PROPERTY

WINNER:

Sponsored by

AARON EVANS ARCHITECTS

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RESTAURANT

Sponsored by

RISING STAR

WINNER:

THE SCALLOP SHELL

WINNER:

JADE WHALE, BATH RUGBY FOUNDATION

RETAILER Sponsored by

WINNER:

THE ITALIAN FOOD HALL

TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION Sponsored by

PLATINUM AWARD Sponsored by

WINNER:

TEAM BATH

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TRUESPEED

FINALISTS Arts

• 44AD artspace • Bath Art Fair • Bath International Comedy Festival in partnership with Visit Bath • The Edge • Kilter • New Old Friends Bar

• Bar 15 at No.15 Great Pulteney • Circo Cocktail and Rum Bar • Framptons Café Bar & Kitchen • Le Vignoble • Mandalyns Bar • The Mint Room • The Star Inn • Sub 13 Business Services

• Apex City of Bath Hotel • Catering Services International • HGEM • HUB XV • Keystone HR • SearchStar • SerialTrainer7 • Spaces • Taste of Bath

Café/Coffee Shop

• 3 Café Kitchen • Castle Farm Café • Good Day Café • Hartley Farm Shop • No.10 Tea Gardens

Dementia Action Alliance • Bath Area Play Project • Bath City Farm • Bath Mind • Bath Rugby Foundation • Southside Family Project • St John’s Foundation • We Hear You • YMCA Bath Group Civic

• Bath Business Improvement District • Bath Carnival • Bath City Football Club • Bath Rugby Foundation • Eddies Street Cuts • Minerva’s Owls of Bath • Minuteman Press • Nationwide Building Society • The Packhorse Community Pub • Stride Treglown

Creative

• Absolute Press • Dialect • Fitzroy Hawk • Mytton Williams • Really Decent Books • Wild & Wolf

• Bath & North East Somerset Carers’ Centre • Bath & North East Somerset

Environmental

• Freshford Church School • Harvest Natural Foods • Huskup® • Iford Manor Estate • The Natural Cleaning Company South West • Natural History Consortium • Pure Planet Event

• Bath Carnival • Bath Digital Festival • Bath Festivals • Bath Mencap and Komedia • Genesis Trust Bath • Minerva’s Owls of Bath • SearchStar Gastropub

• The Chequers • King William • The Hare & Hounds • The Locksbrook Inn • The Marlborough Tavern • The Methuen Arms • Timbrell’s Yard Hair & Beauty

Education Charity

• Broadlands Academy • Dorothy Coleburn School of Dancing • Fun Science • Mayden Academy

• Bath Business School, Bath Spa University • Bath College • Bath Theatre School

• Beauty @ No32 • Broad Street Studio • David Maxwell Hairdressing • The Duchess Beauty Heaven • Glow Beauty

All hail the Judges!

Amanda Brown Founder, Flamingo

Amy Williams Olympian

Charlie Taylor Partner, Knight Frank

Ian Sandham Branch Director, Jelf

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Leisure & Tourism

• The Apartment, Bath Health & • Apex City of Bath Wellbeing Hotel • Art at the Heart of • Avon Valley the RUH Adventure & • The Hand to Elbow Wildlife Park Clinic • The Bath Priory • Harvest Natural Hotel, Restaurant Foods and Spa • Lansdown Tennis Squash & Croquet • Bath Racecourse • Century Casino Club Ltd • Kaleidoscope • Nova Sports and Collection Coaching • Lucknam Park • Spa 15 at No.15 Great Pulteney • Team Bath New Business • TONIQ • Aesop • Bath Country Pets Homes & Interiors • The Beckford Bottle Shop • Dible & Roy • Boudavida • Elmore Kitchens • Hartbeeps Bath, • Etons of Bath • Joel Bugg Furniture Keynsham and West Wiltshire & Spaces • Kelly Marie Kitchen • Koffmann & Mr. White’s Interiors • MH Tyre Services • Sims Hilditch • Walcot House • Stonewood Builders Ltd • Valley Of Bath Property Limited • Aaron Evans Architects • Acorn Property Legal & Financial Group • Epoch Wealth • Bath Stone Management Property • inFund • Berkeley Place • L&C Mortgages • Linden Homes • Lesson Moore (Western) • Milsted Langdon • Savills • Mowbray • Stonewood Woodwards Builders • One pm Finance • Stride Treglown • Royds Withy King • Tynings • South West Business Finance (SWBF) Restaurant • Unividual • The Bath Priory Hotel, Restaurant

and Spa • Corkage Chapel Row • The Dower House Restaurant • Green Park Brasserie • The Ivy Bath Brasserie • Lucknam Park • Noya’s Kitchen • The Scallop Shell • Thai Barn Retailer

• Abbott Lyon • Dible & Roy • Fudge Kitchen • The Italian Food Hall • Moss of Bath • Portman • The Perfume Shop • V V Rouleaux Rising Star

• Fabia SelwoodMiller, The Marlborough Tavern • Jade Whale, Bath Rugby Foundation • Jessica Saumarez, LUX Rewards • Nicola Davis, Nicola Davis Crafts • Stephanie Jeffery, Good Day Café Technology & Innovation

• Bluefuse Systems • BrownHen Solutions • Claritum • OJO Solutions • Rocketmakers • Storm Consultancy • TrueSpeed • Zahara Systems

All decisions about these awards are made by a panel of utterly impeccably independent judges, chosen afresh each year from all areas of Bath business life.

All different businesses types and sizes.

With a record number of yet stronger nominations, the decisions this year were harder than ever for our judges.

Our sincere thanks to all.

Ian Taylor Owner, Kaleidoscope Collection

John Ryder IWG PLC (Regus and Spaces)

Laurel Penrose CEO, Bath College

Mel Taylor Co-director and owner, Running High Events

Zara Perry Owner, Zara Perry Hairdressing

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SCENE T H E L AT E S T A DV E N T U R E S I N PA R T Y- GO I N G AC ROSS BAT H Cal Davies-Phillips, Kerry-Ann Markham and Tierney Cocoran

Elliot Mellen and Katja Kammerer

PHOTOS BY SOUL MEDIA

Sam Thomas and Simon Wainewright

Is it a film set? No, just the mesmeric Assembly Rooms

Since the Bath Life Awards celebrate excellence in the city, it was fitting that our host was Amy Williams, who has excelled both here and internationally as a gold medal-winning Olympian.

Educated at Hayesfield, Beechen Cliff and then the University of Bath, Amy was a complete and utter star on the night‌ Amy Williams

Amanda Brown, David Maxwell and Zara Perry David Ghent and Angela Ghent, Tim Moss and Annie Moss

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Standing tall were these gorgeous guests

Joe Stas and William Noad

Nickie Portman, Jon Rolfe, James Portman and Lauren Prince

Nicola McHale and Gavin McHale

The awards kicked off with a champagne reception, sponsored by Juice Recruitment. The Assembly Rooms were positively buzzing as the glitterati of Bath arrived in their finery, audible clinks of glasses featured heavily and friends and colleagues chatted away.

Emilio Mudrak and Mark Hawkins

Annette Hind and Annabel Hall

Greg Ingham wowing the crowds

Tom Annear and Jonny Wheeler Rachael Risdale and Becky Pocock

Stephanie Pritchard and Robert Burrows

Evan Wienburg and Claire Wienburg

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Declan Gray and Kalvin Simmons

Eddie Ilic and Aurore Coatantiec

Tom Bright, Holly Rose and Adrian Millard

Adam Powell and Claire Powell Alice Stevens and Fiona Gilbert

Kevin Murphy and Penny Murphy

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Beth Denny and David Maxwell

Emma Rome and Abi Pocock

Katie Cofferon and Abi Constanza

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Guests gamely threw themselves into the spirit of the evening, posing in our life-size perspex Bath Life magazine cover, sponsored by Freestyle Designs. xxxx

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• Domestic and commercial roofing specialists • Covering Bath, Bristol and the South West • Trading since 1985 Tel: 01225 421499 Email: mail@youngsroofing.co.uk www.youngsroofingbath.co.uk Braysdown Lodge, Woodborough, Peasedown St John, Bath BA2 8LN

David Boddington, Elaine Roberts, Lucy Allen and Stephen Pierce

Louise Harvey selfie-styles it out An awards ceremony is nothing without a multitude of gigantic feathers

There were hugs aplenty on the night

MP Wera Hobhouse

DINNER Guests tucked into a three-course meal of salt-baked beetroot, English goats’ cheese, organic watercress, toasted pecans, lavender honey and mustard dressing, followed by slow-braised beef, sweet potato mash, buttered greens and caramelised shallots.

To finish, a trio of colourful delights arrived: a mini choux bun, raspberry tart and a chocolate opera. De-lish.

Me?! Fabia Selwood-Miller delighted with the win for Malborough Tavern

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Hoorah! Whoop! Whoop!

Sarah Moon, Laura Brewster and Kambiz Shayegan

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Happy winners Georgina Tomlinson and Emma Heatley-Adams

Forget the Oscars, it’s all about the mighty Bath Life columns Rafi White, Mary Stringer, Anthony Rizzo and Isobel Heather

Jody Roblin and Samantha Fanthorpe

The moment everyone had been waiting for arrived as MediaClash co-owner Greg Ingham and Olympian Amy Williams took to the stage to present the awards. Whoops of joy, gasps of delight and hearty claps were felt around the room as the deserved winners were announced.

Helen Rich can’t believe it xxx Jonathan Stapleton

Chin chin!

Winners Marcus Harris and Sophie Rodger in a state of jubilation

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Many, many beverages were consumed, and sore heads were had

Sarah Moon, Guy Mercer and Laura Brewster

Scott Gurd, Cherie-Anne Baxter, guest and Greg Harris

Katja Kammerer

THE PARTY CONTINUED...

The hardcore party-goers keen to keep the celebrations going moved on to the official aftershow party at Circo Bar. Cocktails were drunk, shapes were thrown and everyone had a jolly old time.

Gemma Chatfield and Mitchell Thomas

Kartini Sutoto and Zara Perry

Circo’s DJ wizard mixing the tunes

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Marie Richardson, Katie Cofferon and Francesca Randese

Cocktail time at the bar Amanda Jones and Tom Weaver

Laura Kearns and Stuart Brazington Emilio Mudrak, Sam Thomas, Simon Wainewright and William Noad

Julian Burrage and guest

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