06/07/2009
Is your company the Best Place to Work in the Thames Valley?
An exciting new category has been added to this year’s Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards – the Best Place to Work. Sponsored by Leading Real Estate Adviser Vail Williams LLP, the category is open to any business, large or small, in the region.
As part of the prestigious TVBMA’09, the Best Place to Work award seeks entries from both employers and employees – from any business sector.
If your employer has some innovative ways to make your workplace a great place to be, let us know.
Here are some of the ways your company could be considered the Best Place to Work 2009:
• Creative use of space, fitting to your working style.
• Innovative working environment
• Wide-ranging staff facilities
• An open, inclusive work culture
• Strong environmental policies.
There are many more ways in which your company might be considered the Best Place to Work.
Entries will be accepted until September 30, 2009. Finalist companies will be invited to the gala awards night in Reading on November 19, when the winner, second and third places will be announced.
The winner will receive a prestigious trophy for their reception or boardroom. It will also be featured in The Business Magazine and enjoy wide-ranging media and PR opportunities.
Awards chairman David Murray said: We are delighted to welcome Vail Williams to our group of sponsors, and to launch this new category. Vail Williams has a strong reputation for it’s expertise, and is a leading real estate adviser with offices across the south, so it couldn’t be better placed to support this category.
“For this award, we are looking for the workplaces that stand out as being really different. They might be creative businesses or established factories – but the key ingredient will be the way the management and staff work together to make the organisation a great place to be.
The Best Place to Work award is one of five categories in this year’s TVBMA. Others are:
• Thames Valley Business of the Year, sponsored by Pitmans solicitors
• Dynamic Business Award, sponsored by Deloitte
• SME of the Year Award
• Business Management Team Award, sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland.
Entry forms are now available online by visiting the dedicated website
www.businessawards.co.uk
The former chancellor of the exchequer Norman Lamont is the special guest speaker at the 15th Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards, which takes place at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium in November.
Lord Lamont was the chancellor during the UK’s last recession, and so will give the 300-strong audience an unique insight into how Britain needs to get out od the current downturn.
Lord Lamont was at the centre of British politics for many years. He was a Cabinet minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years.
