OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT (sponsored by Daniel Robinson & Sons) – Peter Scarlett, for 61-year service to Bishop’s Stortford rugby club plus service as co-founder and director of employment support charity Kickstart and the Rotary Club of Bishop’s Stortford.
SPORTS PERSONALITY (sponsored by Tees Law) – Winner: Ashley Sutton, British Touring Car Championship winner for third time. Highly commended: Alan Hazell, Bishop’s Stortford Community Football Club fixtures secretary and Covid officer.
CHARITY CHAMPION (sponsored by Mullucks) – Winner: Citizens Advice East Herts. Highly commended: Bishop’s Stortford Food Bank.
Indies Class of 2021 – the winners and ‘highly commended’ recipients on stage at the end of the awards ceremony. Pic: Vikki Lince
JOHN TURNER MEMORIAL AWARD (sponsored by Stortford Indie) – Joint recipients: Cllr Mike Wood, long-serving town, district and county councillor and South Mill Arts trustee and volunteer, and Ray Greenwood, Bishop’s Stortford Community Football Club lead coach.
CUSTOMER SERVICE (sponsored by Bishop’s Stortford BID) – Winner: Humphreys Butchers. Highly commended: Amelia Rose Beauticians.
BUSINESS PERSONALITY (sponsored by Nockolds) – Winner: Michelle Brace, The Wheatsheaf publican. Highly commended: Jackie & Perry Colman, Hair by Elements & Urban Spa.
There were 112 guests on 12 tables at the event. Pic: Vikki Lince
GREEN AWARD (sponsored by Golf World Stansted) – Winner: Simon Baker, Save Our Stort. Highly commended: David Clarke, for work on The Firs, National Trust, Countryside Management Service and Friends of Southern Country Park.
YOUNG SPORTS PERSONALITY (sponsored by Stort Chemicals) – Winner: Emma Jones, 19, cricketer with South East Stars and Oval Invincibles. Highly commended: Luke Dunham, 13, tennis player and 5k runner.
CHILD OF COURAGE (sponsored by David Lee Estate & Letting Agents) – Aaron Sandhu, 13, for bravery, resilience and community spirit after suffering a stroke at the age of 8.
COMMUNITY CHAMPION (sponsored by London Stansted Airport) – Winner: Zara Skidmore, for Operation CommUNITY. Highly commended: Janet Bellingham, for High Wych Scarecrow Festival and other events.
Singer-songwriter Tom Ryder and Greg Camburn on the pennywhistle, representing music and wellbeing charity Retune, opened the ceremony. Pic: Vikki Lince
YOUNG CARER (sponsored by Rotary Club of Bishop’s Stortford) – Cameron Kephalas, 11, for looking after his younger brother Connor, 7, who has Down syndrome.
PERSON OF COURAGE (sponsored by Rayden Solicitors) – Beth Purvis, aka Bowel Warrior, national campaigner for better diagnosis of bowel cancer.
UNSUNG HERO (sponsored by Genmar) – Winner: Dr Sian Stanley, of Church Street Partnership and Stort Valley & Villages Primary Care Network, for heading Bishop’s Stortford FC vaccination centre. Highly commended: Birchwood High School’s ‘Team PPE’ for supplying over 12,000 items of personal protective equipment at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Outstanding Achievement – Peter Scarlett receives his trophy from Daniel Robinson and Sons MD Gary Neill. Pic: Vikki LinceSports Personality, highly commended – Alan Hazell, of Bishop’s Stortford Community Football Club, was ill, so Bishop’s Stortford FC chairman Ian Ketteridge collected his certificate from Tees partner Caroline Metcalf. Pic: Vikki LinceSports Personality, winner – BTCC champion Ashley Sutton did not attend, so Stortford mayor Cllr Keith Warnell collected his award from Caroline Metcalf of Tees. Pic: Vikki LinceCharity Champion, highly commended – Hana Hainsby, Bishop’s Stortford Food Bank co-ordinator, receives the charity’s certificate from Martin Nash, senior valuer at Mullucks. Pic: Vikki LinceCharity Champion, winner – Rachael Williamson, representing Citizens Advice East Herts, receives the charity’s award from Martin Nash, senior valuer at Mullucks. Pic: Vikki LinceJohn Turner Memorial Award – South Mill Arts operations director Paula Holland received the first of the two awards on the night from David James, of the Bishop’s Stortford Independent, on behalf of the late Cllr Mike Wood. Pic: Vikki LinceCustomer Service, highly commended – Jane Rose, right, owner of Amelia Rose Beauticians, about to receive her certificate from Bishop’s Stortford BID chairman Karen Burton. Pic: Vikki LinceCustomer Service, winner – Jackson Square manager Michael Smith picks up the award from Karen Burton of Bishop’s Stortford BID on behalf of Humphrey’s Butchers. Pic: Vikki LinceBusiness Personality, highly commended – Jackie and Perry Colman, of Hair by Elements and Urban Spa, receive their certificate from Nockolds managing partner Darren Hayward. Pic: Vikki LinceBusiness Personality, winner – Wheatsheaf publican Michelle Brace with her trophy and Nockolds managing partner Darren Hayward. Pic: Vikki LinceGreen Award, highly commended – Golf World Stansted co-director Sharif Shuhel Hussain presents the certificate to David Clarke. Pic: Vikki LinceGreen Award, winner – Golf World Stansted co-director Sharif Shuhel Hussain with Simon Baker, who set up Save Our Stort. Pic: Vikki LinceYoung Sports Personality, highly commended – Luke Dunham with Stort Chemicals’ fragrance and flavours director Emma Marchant. Pic: Vikki LinceYoung Sports Personality – Winner and cricketer Emma Jones with Emma Marchant, Stort Chemicals’ fragrance and flavours director. Pic: Vikki LinceDavid Lee estate agent founders and directors David Kirby and Lee O’Brien with Child of Courage winner Aaron Sandhu. Pic: Vikki LinceThe second John Turner Memorial Award, for the late Ray Greenwood of BSCFC, was collected by his sons Bert, centre, and Nick, right, from Stortford Indie’s head of commercial Conor Lenaghan, left. Pic: Vikki LinceCommunity Champion, highly commended – Janet Bellingham, right, with Stansted Airport community engagement co-ordinator Emily Ferris. Pic: Vikki LinceCommunity Champion – winner Zara Skidmore with Stansted Airport community engagement co-ordinator Emily Ferris. Pic: Vikki LinceYoung Carer winner Cameron Kephalas with his younger brother Connor and the trophy he received from Rotary Club of Bishop’s Stortford president Brian Morgan. Pic: Vikki LincePerson of Courage – Laragh Winter, right, collects the award on behalf of her sister, the late Beth Purvis, from Rayden Solicitors’ legal director Rosalind Fitzgerald. Pic: Vikki LinceUnsung Hero, highly commended – Genmar director James Moore, left, presents the certificate to Birchwood High School’s ‘Team PPE’ leader John Stephens, the school’s head of design and technology. Pic: Vikki LinceUnsung Hero – Genmar director James Moore presents the winner’s trophy to Dr Sian Stanley of Church Street surgery and the Stort Valley primary care network. Pic: Vikki Lince2021 Indies sponsors panel (53237450)
