Community Awards 2013

A huge success for the Castle Vale Community Awards 2013.

Pride in Castle Vale, a genuine celebration of all the hard work and achievements of those in the room, everyone made to feel valued at a special occasion for them.

Here’s some information below about who was nominated, won, sponsored and supported the evening.

It took just over a day for Vortex Creates to transform Castle Vale Residents Club into our brilliant backdrop with some of the magic starting in the corridor leading you into the room with lights and materials drapped everywhere you looked.  We had lots of ‘wow’, ‘ooh’ and ‘I don’t remember the Residents Club looking like this before’.

We started the evening off with brilliant performances from baritone Owen Webb accompanied by James Keefe who have been part of a team working with The Ridings Care Home as part of a new opera project by Welsh National Opera.  As well as performing the beautiful classic ‘One Enchanted Evening’ they also performed one of the pieces from the new opera ‘I Had an Angel’.

Our compere Chris Thomas then took us through all the awards presented with help from our funders and supporters.  A short film on each of the three nominees in each category gave us an look into the reasons why they were up for the award made by local company Trash.  Seeing some of the achievements of our nominees on film and hearing lots of people speak about them passionatly raised goose bumps and set some tears going.

Below are the nominees and winners for 2013:

Arts and Creativity Award
Julie Edwards
Laura Hicklin
The Ridings Care Home

Valued Contribution Award
John Miles
Sue Spicer
Wendy Walsh

Young Person Award
Aaron Moroney
Castle Vale Youth Council
Jonathan Nelson

Sport and Fitness Award
Garry Kilday & John Newton
Pat Tanner
Castle Vale Pool User Group

Awarded in 2 special categories were:

Councillors Award – Tracey Teal

TRA Special Award – Sheila Arthurs

The Unsung Hero ~ The open award nominated and decided for by the public:

Annie Largie
Brian Cragg
Castle Vale Tenants and Residents Alliance
CVCRS staff
Jan Davies
Judy Tullett
Lady Val Corbett
Robert Lee
Rupert Johnson
Sarah Ovlaghan
Sheila Arthurs
Terry Quinn
Tezlin Newell-Harding
The Santa’s Grotto Volunteers
Tracy Teale
Trevor Williams
Tracy Barrington

We finished the formal part of the evening with some more fantastic music this time from the first Castle Vale’s Got Talent winner Justin Averill who gave us a brilliant performance including some of his own composed music.

The celebration didn’t stop there as the evening continued with food, drink and more photos.  There was a great buzz in the air as everyone chatted and enjoyed the evening. It was with sadness that we had to then pack away at the end of the night.

 

A big thank you to those who helped make the night a huge success.

For those who presented the awards:

Owen Webb

Lynda Clinton, Mike Sharpe and Mick Brown

Caius Collins

Sheila Hyland

Ruth Miller

Ray Goodwin and Sam Lowe

Lydia Miller

Cultural Commissioning Team

Birmingham City Council

Our funders and sponsors:

Castle Vale Endowment Trust Fund

Birmingham City Council’s Community Chest Fund

CVCHA

The Youth Council

Castle Vale Tennants and Residents Alliance

Tyburn Ward Councillors

Greenwood Academy

and Active Arts Castle Vale

Those who gave in kind support for the night:

Sainsbury’s Castle Vale – Thank you Sheila Hyland for the flowers and support.

MITIE – Thank you for the great support on the night for the security especially to Stephen Barthorpe and to Saj and Habib.

All of the photos can be seen on our Facebook page