The North Notts Business Awards are a massive team of volunteers. A whole year of planning and hard work by all involved culminates in an amazing Awards Ceremonies which is enjoyed by business people from across the region.
Here's a little bit about the people putting in all that hard work for your benefit.
Here's a little bit about the people putting in all that hard work for your benefit.
AWARDS CEREMONY HOSTJoe SentanceJoe is North Notts BID’s Business Engagement Lead, supporting businesses across North Notts and playing an instrumental role in the North Notts Business Crime Partnership.
In June 2022, he won the Best Ambassador Award at the Town and City Management Industry Awards in Cardiff, where his work in helping businesses in the pandemic was commended. Joe takes great pride in being ‘hands-on’ with his work - none more so than during the floods of 2019, he spent the day supporting businesses with clean-up work, including emptying the freezers of Iceland. Before joining North Notts BID, Joe had a twenty year media career that took in many newspapers and radio stations across the Midlands and Yorkshire - most recently being heard on Dearne FM’s Breakfast Show for six years and locally filling in on Trax FM. Joe’s stage work has included hosting the Tour de Yorkshire stage in Barnsley, two Barnsley FC promotion parades as well as Retford’s Party in the Square and Worksop’s Christmas Lights Switch On events. Away from work, Joe coaches an Under 9’s football team in Worksop and is a regular at the North Notts Arena playing snooker with his son, Jacob. |
TECHNICAL DIRECTORSimon TurnerSimon is from Retford and studied Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University. He is now the Managing Director of Edgewise Edgestrip Ltd, suppliers of edge strips for copper refineries worldwide. He has been a company director of 7 companies, all based in North Nottinghamshire, in a wide range of industries including, electrolytic refining, petrochemicals, chemical filtration, commercial vehicle haulage, vehicle refinishing and waste recycling. He also has gained experience in employment law, financing, investments, industrial property design, commercial video production and shop retailing. The company has won the NNBA International Trade Award for the last 3 years. Awards to the other companies include; East Midlands exporter of the year, SMART Award and the Queens Award for Export.
Simon has been involved in Motor Racing for 20 years winning a UK championship in 2002. More recently he has been racing in the Citroën 2CV UK Championship and driven in seven 24 hour races, winning two of them. |
AWARDS TEAM MANAGERJacky HydeJacky is a Yorkshire lass born in Mexborough. Knowing from an early age that she wanted to be a nurse, Jacky achieved her goal before moving to the United Arab Emirates. Moving back to the UK 9 years late, Jacky and her family and settled in Retford.
Jacky was introduced to the Amway Business in 1992 and has been an Amway Business owner ever since, running it alongside her long term career in nursing. Following another calling in her life, Jacky is also a spiritual medium and is developing lots of local events to share her insights into this fascinating skill. Jacky now lives in Carton-in-Lindrick with her husband and their rescue cat called Kiwi. |
North Notts BC Official Artistic Director and Digital Tech PartnerDi FisherBorn in Ragnall, Di was riding a motorbike at 6 years old which was just one of the many slightly 'left field' things that Di's dad taught her to do. He also taught her to be independent and to do her own thing. This early influence has had a marked effect on Di's career, which started off as an apprenticed upholsterer, then on to being an administrator and leading to 2 years living and working in Germany. On her return to the UK, Di ended up in Swindon and with a job in IT. From there she moved to Milton Keynes working for another major blue-chip company in IT, then later on, moving in to Facilities Management.
In 2001 Di finally called it a day on being an employee and followed her dream of being a photographer, earning an excellent reputation for PR and commercial photography. 2007 saw Di relocate back to North Notts to live with her childhood sweetheart. New location, new opportunity, so Di followed another dream, to enter the world of wildlife conservation. During this time, Di came across Totally Locally Retford and Retford Business Forum and became active with various campaigns. The networking bug had bitten, and when Di had finally defined a suitable niche for her experience and expertise, The Photo Den CIC was formally created in 2015 and has been her life ever since. Apart from her Photo Den mission and business, Di loves spending time with her Springer Spaniel Colin, supporting her partner Jeff with his unique motorbike design and build projects, and the occasional classic bike track day. |
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