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CARDIFF LIFE AWARDS: NEW SPONSORS! New sponsors have signed up for the Cardiff Life Awards, as planning ramps up ahead of the big night on 16 March 2017. Latest to sign are Martyn Prowel Solicitors for the Charity category, and Park Plaza as hosts for the finalists’ reception and after-show party. They join a roster of sponsors led by headline sponsor Cardiff Airport, and also including Cardiff Blues, Parkhouse, Chapel 1877, Stills and Capital FM. Various sponsorships are still available: the Platinum Award for the crème de la crème winner on the night; finalists’ reception; winners’ dinner; and for feature elements on the night. “We’re delighted to welcome Martyn Prowel
Andrea Byrne and Capital FM breakfast show
and Park Plaza as sponsors,” presenters Geraint Hardy, Matt Lissack and said event manager Steph Polly James present the Watering Hole award to The Old Swan Inn at the 2016 Cardiff Life Dodd. “And both are adding Awards – it could be you! value to the Awards. Park Plaza will have complimentary drinks at the reception and Martyn Prowel will reached a record attendance. For sponsorship designate the Charity category winner as its own enquiries, please contact Andy Baker (andy. preferred charity of the year, which is great – baker@mediaclash.co.uk). We are also keen to even more reason for local charities to enter this hear from companies and organisations who year’s Awards!” have services or products to showcase via the Nominations open on 10 November, and a Awards – please contact Steph Dodd (stephanie. limited number of Early Bird tickets are on sale dodd@mediaclash.co.uk). from 17 November. Last year, these were all For more: cardifflifeawards.co.uk, @CardiffLifeAwds quickly snapped up, and the Awards night itself
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Seeing eye to eye: Steve Sulley (Stills) and Zoe Westerman (The Wallich)
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COOKING ON GAS Family-owned kitchen manufacturing company, Sigma 3, has been recognised for excellence at the prestigious BKU Awards 2016, recently held in London, for its kitchen brand, Masterclass Kitchens, a collection of over 400 classic, shaker and modern styled kitchens. The Llantrisant-based company, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year, received the Best Overall Kitchen Brand award at the ceremony, hosted by comedian Paul Sinha.
“We’re absolutely delighted to have been presented with this prestigious award,” said Gerald Jones, Sigma 3 MD. “To have been recognised, not just for elements of our Masterclass kitchens but for the overall brand, is a fantastic achievement, and a testament to the hard work that our team puts into the development, manufacturing and promotion of all our kitchens.” For more: sigma3.co.uk
Paul Sinha, Cassie Evans and Jason Williams (both Sigma 3) and Mark Edwards (House of Harrogate)
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Hot on the ‘wheels’ of Team GB’s amazing achievements in Rio, Welsh homelessness charity, The Wallich, is calling for businessmen and women across Wales to join Cyclone 24, an epic 24-hour track relay fundraising challenge which will take riders on a journey totalling 10,000 miles. A joint event between strategic branding agency Stills and The Wallich, the challenge will take place at Newport’s International Velodrome on 16 October. “Partnering with The Wallich on Cyclone 24 was an easy decision for me,” said Stills MD Steve Sulley. “They change the lives of vulnerable homeless people – they don’t just provide a cup of tea on a cold morning, their support systems provide a path to a whole new way of living. “That ethos is the reason that we adopted The Wallich as our nominated charity. They are also our neighbours, and we love cycling, so this is the perfect partnership.” For more: cyclone24.co.uk
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