The fourth annual Salford Business Awards Ceremony, sponsored by TalkTalk Technology, took place at the Lowry Hotel. As in previous years, there were eight categories of awards in total with a winner and a runner-up in each category.

Guest speaker, Dawn Gibbins MBE delivered a speech called ‘Dare to Be Different’, in which she shared her Mission and Passion.

She revealed to everyone present how it is possible to give yourself the strength needed to embed messages in to the subconscious. To achieve this, Dawn believes chants key messages five times. Done with energy and passion and they become a reality .

So, she got the crowd chanting!

We are fantastic!
We are incredible
We are amazing

Yeap, the energy certainly rose and the audience really lapped up Dawn’s advice… what she omitted to tell them is that she does this every morning - on a mini trampoline to really get the juices flowing.

Dawn concluded the speech with everyone hugging each other. Each member of the audience hugging three different people, to learn how to bring some love into business (she believes business is too cold, too black and white, so it needs some colour, fun and love injected into it).

It worked at the Lowry, so it can work for our nation!

Congratulations to the winners..

Innovation Award - Mister Blister www.mr-blister.com (a British Manufacturer!)
Green Award - Kingsland Wines and spirits www.kinsland-wines.com
Excellence Award - Fledglings Education and Childcare www.fledglingsnurseries.co.uk (an amazing happy team …)
Community Award - The Lowry Arts & Entertainment www.thelowry.com
Entreprenteur Award - RAW design studio www.weareraw.co.uk
Business of the Year Award - Morson Group www.morson.com

The Salford Business Awards are held in conjunction with the University of Salford, Chapel Street Business Group and Salford City Council