Helen Tandy, Founder and Director, Eco Communities
In the same month that COP28 starts, Chester is hosting the Green Expo Awards for the North West. Having supported the Green Exposition in June, we are pleased to attend the Green Expo Awards on the 9th November, as last year’s Community Engagement Award Winner.
We won Green Expo Cheshire West & Chester Council Community Engagement Award (that’s a mouth full) for our provision of accurate information regarding the environment and sustainable practice; through our website, magazine and online events.
I attended the 2022 event to accept the award, as founder and director of Eco Communities, it was fantastic to be recognized for the hard work we have put in. As I said at the time “Cheshire is an excellent place to live and do business in and it’s a privilege to provide environment insight and initiatives to the businesses and people of our county to make us all a bit greener. I’m very thankful for everyone who’s worked with our campaigns, whether it be someone who’s come along to one our monthly litter picks or a business which has committed to our plastic free Cheshire campaign. Events like Green Expo are a great source of inspiration and it’s been wonderful to hear the progress being made by other organisations.”
Photo: The Green Expo 2022 Award winners and presenters LtoR; Phillip Cox Chief Executive of Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership, Jonathan Bretherton managing director of the Urban Growth Company, Jane Gaston development director at Protos for Peel NRE, Helen Tandy who won the award for community engagement, Cllr Quentin Abel Environment and Climate Change Champion at Cheshire East and Barry Johnston founder of Jamebi.
Green Expo is the North West and North Wales’ regional event to celebrate and show progress on fighting climate change and achieving carbon reduction towards Net Zero, sustainability and all things Green.
The Green Expo Awards Dinner will be held on Thursday, November 9th and organisers are seeking entries from innovators and organisations across the region.
There are nine award categories including a new award for ‘Learning initiative of the Year’
Last year’s award for ‘Startup of the Year’ was won by Chester based Jamebi.
Jamebi’s Sun Life Water technology brings clean water to people in hotter climates via a device called a solar water pasteuriser. It uses the sun’s heat to kill microbes that can make people ill. According to the UN, approximately 3.5 million people die each year due to inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene. Clean water and sanitation are one of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and so this innovation could be used to save many many lives and a deserving winner we say at Eco Communities.
Jane Harrad-Roberts, Project Director for Green Expo said; “Great things are going on in the region and we need to shout about them to an international audience and learn quickly from the skills we are developing here. There is still time to enter the awards and a few opportunities left to sponsor or take a table.”
See the full list of award categories here – Awards Categories – GreenExpo
The evening will commence with a sparkling reception, a prestigious welcome address and sit-down three-course dinner for 150 guests from the world of business, industry and academia. It provides an ideal opportunity to network with like-minded business figures, inward investors, leaders and VIPs all focused on the green agenda.
Book to attend – Buy tickets – Green Expo Awards Event – 2023 – Eaton Park, Thu 9 Nov 2023 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM (tickettailor.com)
A few sponsorship and table opportunities remain.
We hope those of your working in the sector will encourage your business or organisation to enter an award, although the deadline is looming as 30th October is now only days away. I promise it is not too late, I think ours just got in for the deadline last year. Good luck!
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