Congratulations to the Winner!
We are delighted to announce the winner of the UK Health Insurance Investing in Dorset Award 2017:
Signature Catering Group
Signature Catering Group, based in Ringwood, is a catering company with an extraordinary passion to deliver true hospitality, whilst ensuring raw ingredients and other products and services are purchased from other local businesses.
They also run two restaurants, ‘Seasons Restaurant’ and ‘Marshall’s on the Green’, both of which take advantage of the abundance of resources in their local area to support other local businesses.
The judges were particularly impressed that in order to stay true to their local suppliers, Signature Catering create menus, including the children’s menu, based on the local produce available, and will never substitute to a lower quality product if the main ingredients are not available.
Huge congratulations to everyone at Signature Catering and very well done to our other two finalists too, A-One Insurance Group and Summer Lodge Country House Hotel. Each of the finalists showed a really passionate determination to build relationships locally and purchase goods and services from within a few miles of their business wherever possible.
You can find more information about all the Dorset Business Awards’ winners here.
Why is supporting Dorset businesses so important?
If we all source goods and services more locally we can all win, generating a host of benefits and opportunities for the region’s businesses:
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More locally successful businesses
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Higher productivity
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More personal service
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Greater customer satisfaction
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Improved local employment prospects
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Lower delivery costs
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Lower carbon footprint
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Less traffic…
Looking after our local economy is very important to us as a business and this award is one way that we can showcase and reward other Dorset companies that endeavour to source goods and services locally.
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You don’t have to fill in every section. If a section isn’t relevant to you, just type “Not applicable” to allow you to submit the form.
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It doesn’t matter what style you use for entering the information on the form. Some people find that a narrative, or story, is a useful way to describe how you support other Dorset businesses, and others prefer to use simple bullet points. Feel free to use whichever way suits you best.
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If you have relevant additional information to support your entry, please include this, but supporting documentation is not essential.
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If you choose to add supporting evidence, this could include pie charts or graphs, company endorsements, press cuttings, photographs or a short online video of yourself telling the judges about your passion for supporting local businesses. If you do a short video, this can be taken using your mobile phone - the judges are not looking for a professionally produced video! (If you include a video, please locate it online, accessible via a web link.)
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If you would like any assistance with completing the entry form or more details about the sort of information the judges are looking for, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Call Adam, Suzy or Kirstie at UK Health Insurance on 01202 756352. We’re here to help.
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Don’t forget, the closing date for entries is Sunday 3rd September 2017, so don’t leave it too late!