Excitement is building for this year’s Devon Venus Awards with the announcement of the semi-finalists at a packed awards ceremony in Plymouth.
More than a hundred women attended the event at Plymouth Science Park, which provided complementary canapés and drinks for the nominees. Venus Awards founder Tara Howard was also on hand to congratulate all the nominees and semi-finalists.
The Venus Awards recognise the efforts and talents of local businesswomen and are split into 12 categories covering all aspects of business and personal achievement.
A special ‘Venus Experience’ was hosted by the Devon Venus Awards 2015 for local women in business yesterday (Thurs 25th June).
The Venus Experience allowed award nominees and women interested in entering the awards to take part in a question and answer session about the nomination and application process.
The event, which took place at The Imperial Pub on New North Road in Exeter, was open to everyone who has already entered or is thinking of entering the awards, which recognise women in business who demonstrate exceptional talent. There was also the chance to network with...
ON 30TH JUNE 2015, 8.30AM UNTIL 5PM AT THE PLYMOUTH SCIENCE PARK Alexis Bowater of Bowater Communications and Chris Jenkins, Director of Operations at The Plymouth Science Park play important roles in the Venus Awards and as a key sponsor of the Venus Awards for 2014 and 2015 - Sampson Hall are delighted to collaborate with them in bringing this opportunity for personal development to Business Women in Plymouth and beyond. The Sampson Hall Women In Business Away Day is designed to offer business women a fantastic opportunity of working together with like-minded...
Nominations for this year’s NatWest Venus Awards will open at a launch party in Exeter on Thursday 21st May 2015.
The awards aim to celebrate and recognise the achievements of the county’s working women and entrepreneurs.
The Devon Venus awards celebrated its second year last year and attracted more than 2,000 nominations. This year’s event promises to be bigger and better than ever before and will be launched at an evening ceremony at the city’s historic Exeter Castle.
The Devon Venus Awards regional partner, Celia Delaney, of SpeakingSuccess, expressed her...
Firm support from banking and the legal system kicked off this year’s Venus Awards sponsorship breakfast in Exeter today.
The Bishop Fleming offices played host to the prestigious event where businesses from across the region were invited to hear about the NatWest Venus Awards, which were specifically created to recognise and reward local women in business. Last year’s Devon awards saw 1,400 nominations, hundreds of businesses involved and 12 winners. 200 people were present at the regional finals at Exeter University’s Great Hall.
Three Devon winners of the county’s inaugural NatWest Venus Awards have triumphed in the national finals of the competition. Mariam Badavi, who runs Purity Spa in Exeter, won the Employer of The Year title. East Devon businesswomen Sarah Cressall, of The Creation Station, was named was named Entrepreneur of The Year and Cathy Debenham of YouGen, won the Green Business Award.
The trio were up against regional winners from all over the south of England.
The prize-giving ceremony was held at Rhinefield House Hotel in the New Forest. The event was hosted by the founder of the...
Exeter businesswoman Mariam Badavi is celebrating after picking up an award at the national finals of The Venus Awards. The owner of Purity Day Spa Ltd in Cathedral Close has been voted Employer of the Year not just in Devon, but also nationwide.
Mariam and her team were invited to a glitzy award ceremony at the historic Rhinefield House Hotel in Brockenhurst, Hampshire, at the end of November, after winning the regional Devon heat of The Venus Awards.
In all there are 14 sponsored award categories and the aim of the awards is to provide an outlet and platform for business...
YouGen founder Cathy Debenham has reached the final three in the Green Business and Inspirational Woman categories of the Devon Venus Awards . She will find out whether she has won at a grand awards ceremony in Exeter University’s Great Hall on 5 September 2013.
Cathy started YouGen in 2008, having noticed that it was difficult to get the practical information she needed to assess whether renewable energy was suitable for her house. Since then, the website has had nearly a million visits, and 2.5m page views.
“Just being nominated in two categories of the Devon Venus Awards...
The tension is mounting for the shortlisted nominees in the Natwest Devon Venus Awards, as the finalists are due to be announced in Exeter tonight at the Magdalen Chapter Hotel. In recognition of the importance of these awards, the event is even being filmed by Channel Four.
There have been thousands of nominations and votes in the competition, recognising the achievements of women in business.
There are 12 categories, including Employee of the Year, sponsored by The Exeter Daily, Business Mother of The Year, sponsored by Heart, and Employer of the Year, sponsored by...
Lisa Singleton, the owner of graphic design company, Zebra Design, is thrilled to have been nominated for the Venus Awards Devon in the category of Business Mother and Home-Based Business and is over the moon to have reached the semi-finals in both categories.
The Venus Awards were founded in Brighton by Tara Howard, Managing Director of Langtry Manor Hotels to celebrate and recognise the growing number of women in business and take place currently in Dorset, Southampton, Brighton and Devon but will soon by expanding to Bristol and Birmingam.
