Meet the finalists in this year’s Business Achievement Awards

Judges praise quality of MKBAA entries

Design entrepreneur accepts speaker invite

Entrepreneur and fashion designer Wayne Hemingway is to be the guest speaker at this year’s Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards.

His career in fashion began when he started to sell some of his and his girlfriend’s old wardrobes, which were full of hand-made and vintage clothing, at a market.

With his future wife, he then built Red or Dead into a worldwide label and, after 21 seasons on the catwalk, it was sold in a multi-millionpound deal.

They went on to found HemingwayDesign with a mantra of Design is about improving things that matter in life and over the past two decades it has delivered many high profile and award-winning affordable new-build housing schemes, transformed housing estates and delivered a series of seaside regeneration projects.

Nicholas Mann, chair of awards organisers Milton

Wayne Hemingway

Keynes Business Leaders Partnership, said: “Wayne is a sought-after speaker, covering a range of topics from brand loyalty to social responsibility, urban design and his long-term passion of sustainability. This fits well with the MKBAA theme this year, looking at the role Milton Keynes businesses can play in the green recovery.”

The judging panel for Milton Keynes Business Achievement Awards 2022 has announced the finalists for this year’s awards. The theme for this year’s awards is MK – Leading the UK’s Green Recovery: Survive, Revive & Thrive and many of the businesses and

MKBAA FINALISTS

BUSINESS IMPACT IN THE COMMUNITY

Autism Early Support Trust; Diversity Marketplace; Future Wolverton Ltd

CHARITY OF THE YEAR

Harry’s Rainbow; Milton Keynes Hospital Charity; MK Foodbank; Willen Hospice

CULTURE & ARTS

Pauline Quirke Academy – Milton Keynes; The Arches Theatre; The Stables

CUSTOMER SERVICE

Allica Bank Ltd; Aztech IT Solutions; Climb Quest Milton Keynes; EAC Consulting Group

DESIGN & CREATIVITY

Red Giraffe Marketing Ltd; South Central IOT/Milton Keynes College Group; Visual Identity

LEISURE & ENTERTAINMENT

Climb Quest; Vertigo VR Ltd

ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR

Scott Jones, 123 Internet Group; Harry Alston, Generation Z Marketing; Shalom Lloyd, Naturally Tribal Skincare Ltd; Sanj Chandi, Treat Street

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Bridgman & Bridgman LLP; Clearview Intelligence Group Ltd; KAIA Clothing; Red Giraffe Marketing Ltd

INNOVATION

Emerging Markets Quality Trials; (more:trees); Tomorrow’s Journey

TECHNOLOGY

PragmatiQ Solutions; Tomorrows Journey; Triad Plc

NEW BUSINESS

Emerging Markets Quality Trials (more:trees); Shoedini

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Cook Recruitment Group; Dentons UK and Middle East LLP; D.O.T.S. Chiropractic; Whitecap Consulting

SMALL & MEDIUM BUSINESS

Clearview Intelligence Group Ltd; Cook Recruitment Group; Diversity Marketplace; mergency Care Gateway; WSA – The Communications Agency

organisations who entered this year focused their submissions around this subject.

Anita Nadkarni, chair of the judging panel, said: “The judging panel had a really tough job this year.

“There were so many excellent submissions that really show the breadth and depth of the business community in Milton Keynes. It was also humbling to see how many businesses had taken on board the environmental theme of this year’s awards, giving us all a positive outlook for the future.”

The awards ceremony will be hosted by radio broadcaster Tony Dibbin.

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