the Leading Swindon PR consultant and award-winning
serial entrepreneur, Sara Tye, is to judge The Whitewed Directory Awards 2019,
for the third year in a row.
Sara Tye commented: “I’m honoured and excited to be asked back to judge these awards. The standard of entries increases year on year and I’m looking forward to the winners being announced in February 2020. I’m always delighted to help celebrate great entrepreneurship!”
Sara is an award-winning entrepreneur, top 500 PR, coach, speaker, mother and 70.3 triathlete. She is an acclaimed top 500 international PR who was a finalist in the first Cosmopolitan Women of the Year Awards in 1999.
Sara has joined some of the most influential people over the last three years as part of the judging panel. Now the PR is looking forward to repeating the experience in 2019 as the directory of recommended wedding suppliers across the south-west stages its third awards ceremony, launched to highlight and support the region's best wedding industry operators.
This year, Sara is joined by director of sales
of DoubleTree by Hilton Swindon Emma Richards. A key voice for businesses in
the South West, Ian Larrard, who is director of the Initiative in Swindon and
Wiltshire, completes the judging panel.
The Whitewed Directory founder and managing director,
Natalie Lovett, said, “A big thank you to Sara for joining our professional judging panel
again this year. Her business acumen and experience means that she is rightly
positioned to judge the entries and choose the very best applications to be put
forward to the final.”
The shortlist has been revealed as:
Business of the Year 2019 Finalists:
George
Goes Out
Kimmi's
Cakes
Natalie
Jolley Photography
Start-up Business of the Year 2019 Finalists:
Holly
Robinson Jewellery
MK
Hair & Makeup
Willoughby
& Wolf
Most Inspiring Business Person of the Year 2019
Finalists:
Fluffy
Puffin
MK
Hair & Makeup
The
Prosecco Party
The Peers Award 2019 Finalists:
Cakes
by Mrs F
Holly
Robinson Jewellery
Wendy
House Flowers
The Director's Award 2019 Finalists:
Cakes
by Mrs F
Corky
& Prince
Holly
Robinson Jewellery
Willoughby
& Wolf
The winners being announced at an Awards
Ceremony on 6 February 2020 to be held at, and sponsored by DoubleTree
by Hilton Swindon.
ENDS
EDITOR’S NOTES
ABOUT SARA TYE
Sara Tye is an award-winning business and
organisational development expert, a top 500 international PR, and serial entrepreneur.
She is the founder and managing director of redheadPR (www.redheadpr.co.uk) chair of Swindon Triathlon Club and a top business
development mentor.
ABOUT WHITEWED DIRECTORY
The Whitewed Directory provides details of 24
different types of supplier - ranging from bands and musicians to bridal
fashion and venues, marquee & tipis.
In 2018, it received global recognition when it
was accredited by global awarding body Awwwards, which recognises and promotes
the world's best developers, designers and web agencies.