| Secondary Performers | Yomi Sode - spoken word,
Karim Kamar |
| Set List | Responsible Business of the Year: Boots UK
The Age Friendly Teams Award : Department for Work and Pensions
The Barclays Developing Resilience Award: Unilever
The Connected Places Award: Barkers & Bolton Family
The Education Partnership Award: A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd
The Environmental Sustainability Award: Morrisons
The Fujitsu Digital Innovation Award: ENGIE
The Gender Equality Award: Deloitte
The Bupa Health and Wellbeing Award: Anglian Water
The Race Equality Award: Royal Academy of Engineering
The Unipart Outstanding Employment Award: Timpson, NEMI Teas
Karim Kamar Set:
'Winter Solstice',
'Sailboats at 10',
'Midday',
'Midnight by the Ocean',
'Big Red Balloon' |
| Performance Notes | The annual Business in the Community dinner returns to the Hall as part of July dinners week. This year's event will be sponsored by Lloyds Banking Group.
BITC offer a number of practical ways for businesses to work together and take action to help tackle some of the key issues facing society.They are a business-led, issue-focused charity with more than 30 years' experience of mobilising business. They also engage thousands of businesses through there programmes driven by core membership of over 800 organisations from small enterprises to global corporations.
This years Gala was in partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, Responsible Business of the Year 2018 and was co-hosted by Gigi Morley, television and radio broadcaster, and Oli Barratt MBE, host of Business in the Communitys podcast, the Lens. The event was the culmination of the 2019 Responsible Business in Action campaign, run by Business in the Community The Princes Responsible Business Network - to celebrate the innovative ways that businesses in the UK and abroad are making a sustained difference and transforming communities.
With mental health as the theme for this years Gala, outgoing Responsible Business of the Year, Lloyds Banking Group, spoke on behalf of the Business in the Community Wellbeing Leadership team and called on businesses to address the challenge of growing numbers of employees who say work contributes to their mental health issues. Yomi Sode, a spoken word artist, poet, MC and one of three writers awarded this years Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship, performed two poems about mental health live on stage. |