Winner: Sam Anker Project: Escape Community Arts in Action Representatives from the arts and business around the region attended the Awards ceremony at which guests were entertained by artists from the Belgrade Theatre. The Awards, sponsored for the 6th consecutive year by Jaguar Cars Ltd, recognise the great work performed across the region each year by business people bringing their expertise to help arts and community organisations grow and thrive. Both the business representatives and the arts organisations concerned benefit from the collaboration.
Kay Hammond started working with the internet when she recognised an opportunity to go into business at just seventeen years of age. Ten years on she gives her thoughts and advice to those who might be thinking of getting started in business and urges them to persevere and to use the many support agencies which now exist to help and guide entrepreneurs. Kay also offers advice to businesses who are still uncertain of the web and how it might be made to work for their business. www.tamba.co.uk
Major retail operation, Fired Earth, chose Arts & Business to help them celebrate their 20th Anniversary in business in a way which reflected their creative heritage and the wide range of interesting materials used to make their products. The outcomes from the collaboration have exceeded expectations and brought the company and its workforce closer to the community in which they function and encouraged staff to look afresh at their product as well as envisaging new applications including developing their own artistic interpretations.
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