Sponsors

Choose DoubleTree by Hilton London Kingston Upon Thames as the venue for your next event and enjoy style, space and personalised service.

Our newly constructed hotel is ideally located a stone’s throw from Kingston city centre, the River Thames and all of Kingston’s transportation hubs.

Our five versatile meetings and event spaces boast modern décor and complimentary WiFi. Hawkers Bar and Brasserie is one of the newest and best-established all-day dining restaurants in Kingston.

Holland Hahn & Wills help clients design the rest of their lives. We use our Secure Lifestyle Approach® to look after you and your family’s wealth, now and into the future.

Experts in the psychology of retirement, we can play a unique role to help our clients understand the kind of retirement they want and how to get there. We provide our clients with the options they need to make informed decisions. We give them peace of mind and secure their financial futures.

We have been helping people navigate the often complex world of personal finance, retirement and estate planning for over 30 years, and are more than happy to discuss concerns, or offer a second opinion. Give us a call to find out more.
www.hhw-uk.com or 020 8943 9229.

IQ in IT is an award-winning Technology Success Provider, based in Kingston. We have striven to help our partners advance and achieve excellence via technology and we pride ourselves on high-class customer service that goes hand in hand with resilient cybersecurity. We work mainly in partnership with SMEs but our team have experience working on big projects for the likes of the Greater London Authority, University College London, Promethean and the Met Police among others.

We are actively working on reducing our carbon footprint and helping our clients do so through technology. We have pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2030 through Climate Hub and are right on track to achieve this well before the deadline. While other companies value profit over sustainability,
we do it the other way around.

Kingston First represent and work with 750 business and organisations across the town centre. Our mission is to ensure Kingston is a thriving and attractive environment to do business in, as well as a vibrant and exciting destination for people to visit, shop, learn, live and work in. We deliver a range projects, services and initiatives which support our members and Kingston town centre, alongside ensuring a cross sector of views are heard about the town and its future.

LeBoo Media is an award-winning copywriting and communications consultancy based in New Malden. We are proud to deliver a broad range of written content, including web pages, blogs, emails, brochures, speeches and award submissions.

Our client list is incredibly diverse; we write about everything from insurance to interior design, from coffee to construction and from mortgages to mayonnaise.

As well as working with big-name brands and design agencies, LeBoo Media has also provided communications assistance to national sports governing bodies including UK Sport and the England and Wales Cricket Board.

Pearson Hards has been known by various names over the decades, but it has been an integral part of the Kingston Borough community since 1928. People know that they can rely on our expertise to offer them the best solution or outcome for their legal needs.  Clients know that we’ll take care of the finer detail, and use our knowledge to guide them in the right direction. We offer a bespoke approach to each client as each client’s needs are different. This is key to our success.

We feel that being integral to the local community is key and pride ourselves in helping support local businesses and individuals.  We are proud to sponsor the category of contribution to the community as this award symbolises those people who have given their time and effort to make a difference, not just to themselves but to others.

Rotary is a volunteer organization of 1.2 million business and professional leaders united worldwide to provide humanitarian service and help build goodwill and peace. Founded in Chicago in 1905, there are now around 34,000 Rotary Clubs in over 200 countries that conduct projects to address today’s challenges – including illiteracy, disease, hunger, poverty, lack of clean water, and environmental concerns.  There are three clubs in the Royal Borough; Kingston, New Malden and Surbiton. We meet twice a month to plan service projects and discuss local community and international issues. Clubs are non-political and open to every race, culture, and creed.

From its three London offices, Russell-Cooke works with clients to meet the complex demands of contemporary life. Continually pursuing its strategy of sustainable growth, over 200 lawyers cover a broad range of practice areas. Both in the UK and abroad, private individuals, families, businesses, charities and regulators enjoy the firm’s recognised expertise and services. Russell-Cooke’s practitioners are sometimes known as ‘the lawyers’ lawyers’ for their technical expertise that means they meet the exacting demands of barristers, solicitors and judges who are their clients. The firm’s expertise across a number of practice areas is reflected in the leading legal directories.

Unilever is one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, manufacturing beauty and personal care products, homecare products, food and refreshments. Improving people’s health, confidence and wellbeing is a key strategic priority for us, through our work on positive nutrition, through our brands and for Unilever’s employees.

At the heart of its business, Unilever’s Wellbeing Framework underpins all aspects of supporting employees’ health and wellbeing:

• Physical – Looking after health, fitness, diet, sleep and energy levels
• Purposeful – Identifying what really matters and connecting to that as much as possible
• Mental – Managing mental choices and reactions to distractions, pressures, challenges and adversity
• Emotional – Finding ways to feel positive and confidently face life’s challenges.

Wolters Kluwer is a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, and tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors. The group serves customers in over 180 countries, operations in over 40 countries, and employs around 19,200 people worldwide. As part of the global organisation, Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting UK is a leading technology business that provides software to professional accountants and tax advisors, from sole practitioners to most of the UK’s top 100 accounting practices.

We’re passionate about our culture. Our culture defines us - how we act, how we treat others, and how we conduct business. Our employees engender our culture by demonstrating their appetite for action, creativity, desire to innovate, and enthusiasm for making colleague and customer relationships a priority.