The director of a local business scooped a prestigious prize at a recent national awards ceremony.

Britain's organisations and businesses leading the way in promoting their employees' wellbeing were honoured in the brand new awards series - including Katherine George from Falmouth.

The Director of Oh So Social was named the Most Inspiring Senior Leader of the Year after her own experiences with mental health and wellbeing struggles inspired her to bring in support policies for all her staff. Most notably, she implemented an open-door policy where all employees are welcome to open up and talk about their feelings.

The Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards were founded last year by the Great British Entrepreneur Awards team and industry specialists Wellity Global to recognise the inspiring response of employers across the UK to the ongoing wellbeing and mental health crisis amongst the working population.

The final was held for the first time at the Grosvenor Hotel in London and was hosted by radio presenter and opera singer Wynne Evans, who also interviewed former world champion boxer Frank Bruno MBE live on stage. Seventeen awards were given out to the applicants whose efforts to innovate their company's wellbeing policy had the biggest impact on the judges.

The awards were judged by a panel of industry experts and campaigners for better standards of wellbeing and mental health support, including Simon Blake OBE, CEO of Mental Health First Aid England, and Amanda Webb from Gymshark.

Co-founder of the awards Francesca James is eager to see the event put on annually following its success, she said:

"Recent times have been tough for everybody, but the commendable efforts of our finalists to push for the workplace wellbeing standards we all deserve are a real glimmer of hope that things will get better with collaboration and understanding. Congratulations to the award winners."

Simon Scott-Nelson, co-founder of the Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards and CEO of leading wellbeing training consultancy Wellity Global added:

"We hope to see this programme continue as more of us commit to improving the welfare of employees and we look forward to seeing how this year's winners will continue to innovate and lead the way."

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