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2020.
Top Swindon PR confirmed as judge in industry awards for the third year running
 Top Swindon PR confirmed as judge in industry awards for the third year running

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.