Category: Awards Evening

CCD Architects take top honours

Local architects CCD received the top accolade at last night’s Guernsey Awards for Achievement when they were crowned the Commerce & Employment Guernsey Business of the Year.  The other main business winners of the night were Two Degrees North who took home the NatWest Best Small Business award and BDO who lifted the Healthspan Best Large Business trophy.  RBS International won the NP Silver Salver for Excellence in Training.

CCD Architects were in the running for the main award when they first took to the stage to collect the BWCI Best Medium Business Award in front of a 780 strong audience made up of local dignitaries and business men and women. They saw off weighty competition from Aztec Group and Clydesdale Bank International.

At the end of the Awards gala evening they were named as  overall winners of the night when they were presented with the Commerce & Employment Guernsey Business of the Year Award by the Lieutenant Governor, Air Marshal Peter Walker, who was attending his first Guernsey Awards for Achievement evening.

Chairman of the judging panel, Deputy Robert Sillars, said CCD Architects were outstanding and extremely worthy of the title, Guernsey Business of the Year.

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Kim Marquis voted your Unsung Hero

Charity superwoman Kim Marquis was last night crowned the 2011 Specsavers Unsung Hero after receiving nearly a third of the 800 votes cast.

This was the third year that the public were invited to vote online as well as by post for their favourite nominee – someone who works tirelessly for the local community and the service of others. Mrs Marquis was the outright winner, with votes spread evenly among the remaining shortlisted nominees.

Mrs Marquis, 45, is involved in several charities, including The Pink Ladies, Wigwam, Guernsey Deaf Children’s Society and is also an active participant in an initiative that supports British troops on deployment in Afghanistan.

A mother of four children, including one of whom has Down’s Syndrome, she undertakes all her charity work on a volunteer basis and in the little spare time she has is learning sign language so that she can communicate more easily with the children she works with at the Deaf Society.

Debi Troth, who nominated Mrs Marquis, said: ‘Kim is remarkable, she is always keen to help others and puts everyone else first, she never has any time for herself.’

Another voter said that ‘Kim is a very special lady and so deserves this award. She is truly an unsung hero; there is so much she does that people are unaware of’.

Specsavers founder Dame Mary Perkins, said: ‘This award has become the voice of the Guernsey people and they have shouted out their chosen winner. We were so pleased to see how many votes were cast this year, as well as the number of initial nominations. It really is a lovely award to be involved with.’

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Roger Allsopp swims his way to Ambassador of the Year

Roger Allsopp, the Guinness World Record Holder for the oldest person to swim the Channel, founder of Hope for Guernsey and charity fund raiser extraordinaire was named Guiton Group Ambassador of the Year 2011 at the Guernsey Awards for Achievement Gala Evening held at Beau Sejour, St. Peter Port, Guernsey on Thursday 9 February 2012.

30th August 2011 was the day that local Guernsey man and retired breast cancer surgeon, Roger Allsopp created a new Guinness World Record when he became the oldest man to swim the English Channel at the age of 70 years and 115 days.

His achievement, made even more inspiring by the fact that it was the second time that Roger had completed the infamous Channel swim, was covered comprehensively by local media, UK media and much further afield including Thailand and Australia.  His swimming feats are what have recently propelled Roger to the top of local, regional and international media headlines, but it is his tireless work and commitment to Hope For Guernsey and Wessex Medical Research that provides the real motivation in his life.  The objective of Roger’s 2011 Channel swim was to raise £750,000 to buy a mass spectrometer for Southampton University that will help with early diagnosis of cancer.

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Internationally renowned architect to speak at 2011 Awards for Achievement

AN ARCHITECT who has lectured across the world will be the keynote speaker at the 2011 Guernsey Awards for Achievement.

Robert Adam is being brought to the island to talk about his 34-year career in architecture by the Garenne Group, which has secured a number of high profile speakers for the event in recent years.

‘Garenne chairman Stuart Falla had the pleasure of hearing Robert speak earlier this year and thought he would make an ideal speaker for the Award for Achievement,’ said Garenne chief executive Andy Hall.

‘We have had some exceptional speakers from Lord Coe and Lord Falconer to Tim Smit and Mel Young and all have brought something unique to this celebration of what makes Guernsey the successful place it is. Garenne Group is once again delighted to be involved with the Awards for Achievement.’

Mr Adam, 63, has practised in Winchester since 1977 and co-founded Winchester Design in 1986, which subsequently became Robert Adam Architects in 2000 and then ADAM Architecture in 2010. During his career, he has worked on a diverse range of projects including major private houses, extensions to historic buildings and public and commercial buildings.

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2010 Awards For Achievement Launch

Guernsey’s Awards for Achievement will celebrate its 25th anniversary next year as the search starts once again for the Bailiwick’s top local companies, organisations and individuals. Launched today, the Awards for Achievement nominations process is calling on all local businesses to come and celebrate success at a gala ceremony to be held on Thursday 3 February 2011, where seven trophies will be presented to the elite of Guernsey’s business environment and wider community.

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