Business Action August / September 2019
August / September 2019 issue of the independent North Devon-based business magazine covering news about business and enterprise in Barnstaple, Bideford, Braunton, Chulmleigh, Combe Martin, Holsworthy, Ilfracombe, Lynmouth, Lynton, South Molton, Torrington, Woolacombe and more. Full magazine available to non-subscribers mid-August. Business Action Plan and magazine subscribers receive priority access of new issues of Business Action on publication. Subscribe at http://www.business-action.co.uk/plans
August / September 2019 issue of the independent North Devon-based business magazine covering news about business and enterprise in Barnstaple, Bideford, Braunton, Chulmleigh, Combe Martin, Holsworthy, Ilfracombe, Lynmouth, Lynton, South Molton, Torrington, Woolacombe and more.
Full magazine available to non-subscribers mid-August.
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PEOPLE<br />
Tom Bond with his Devon and Cornwall Care Home Manager Silver Award<br />
Tom Bond, manager of West<br />
Heanton, the Buckland Filleigh<br />
care home providing sheltered<br />
housing and domiciliary home<br />
care, has won the Devon and<br />
Cornwall Care Home Manager<br />
Silver Award <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Tom and his wife Hayley<br />
attended the awards ceremony<br />
knowing only that a member<br />
of staff had nominated him for<br />
the award.<br />
“I’m overjoyed to receive<br />
this accolade,” says Tom. “None<br />
of it would be possible without<br />
the great team supporting me<br />
at West Heanton.”<br />
Established by Tom’s<br />
grandparents, Syd and Phyllis<br />
Martin, he now runs the<br />
business with great aplomb,<br />
innovation and vision.<br />
Administration manager<br />
Mindy Duly explains that their<br />
services assist 60+ families in<br />
the area, including residential<br />
and domiciliary care (care in<br />
the community services), meals<br />
on wheels and day care centre.<br />
Future plans include<br />
increasing rooms from 23 to 26<br />
and building a new all‐purpose<br />
reception and activities hall.<br />
They continue to train and<br />
develop their staff with Acacia<br />
Training and Development and<br />
are always looking to increase<br />
their team of 100.<br />
Acacia’s programme<br />
manager, Sue Lynne, recently<br />
enrolled three more members<br />
of staff on to apprenticeships.<br />
She is delighted for the team,<br />
saying: “There is always a warm<br />
welcome at West Heanton, with<br />
smiling happy staff and content<br />
clients. It is a pleasure to work<br />
with Tom and his team, a very<br />
supportive employer of his<br />
staff and Acacia as a training<br />
provider. We have worked with<br />
Tom and his team since 2014<br />
and have seen the company<br />
develop over the years.”<br />
The team recently received<br />
CQC Good for its domiciliary<br />
care services and a 5-star environmental<br />
health rating.<br />
Professor Jim Norton, one<br />
of Applegate’s non-executive<br />
directors, has been awarded an<br />
OBE for services to engineering<br />
and the digital economy.<br />
Jim Norton says: “I am<br />
delighted by the national<br />
recognition for my contributions<br />
to the digital economy<br />
and am continuing to support<br />
that work through the innovation<br />
in e-Procurement being<br />
pioneered by Applegate.”<br />
Among many other roles,<br />
Jim was for 18 years an<br />
external member of the Board<br />
of the UK Parliament’s Office<br />
of Science and Technology<br />
and is a Fellow of the UK<br />
Royal Academy of Engineering<br />
– bringing a wealth<br />
of knowledge and experience<br />
to the board of Applegate as a<br />
technology business.<br />
Kelly Williams, sales and<br />
marketing director at Savona<br />
Foodservice in Ilfracombe, has<br />
been shortlisted as a finalist<br />
in one of the national IGD<br />
Awards categories.<br />
The awards celebrate the<br />
biggest and best achievements<br />
in the UK FMCG industry<br />
and the national winners will<br />
be announced at the awards<br />
ceremony at London’s Tobacco<br />
Dock, London on 7 November.<br />
Kelly is one of four finalists<br />
from across the country in<br />
the Leading Light category as<br />
someone who’s made a real<br />
difference within her role over<br />
the past year. Her recent key<br />
Applegate chief executive<br />
Stuart Brocklehurst<br />
commented: “Jim’s OBE is<br />
richly deserved. Few people<br />
have done more for the<br />
engineering sector and the<br />
UK’s digital ecosystem. His<br />
contributions to our Board are<br />
invaluable, we’re delighted to<br />
have him working with us.”<br />
achievements include: sustainability<br />
and managing route<br />
consolidation to reduce the<br />
company’s carbon footprint,<br />
securing major contracts, exhibition<br />
relocation success, online<br />
ordering and re-branding.<br />
Kelly has made a measurable<br />
difference to the business,<br />
consumers and the wider<br />
industry, and has plans to grow<br />
the company in the future.<br />
Judges looked for evidence<br />
of: how candidates performed<br />
over and above their normal<br />
job role, desirable behaviours<br />
and / or use of their skills, and<br />
how their achievements have<br />
made a difference.<br />
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