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The 2025 NPWAwards Debrief
The #NPWAwards isn’t just one night—it’s a movement that keeps growing, inspiring, and driving change every single day.
In this special episode, we catch up with some of our incredible 2025 winners and commended to hear what the awards have meant to them, their organisations, and the communities they support.
Joined by Natalie from Nuvo Wellbeing, Kirsty from DWF Law, Afra from Savera UK, Julie from Digital Voice for Communities, Susan Mulholland, Catherine Millan, Juliet Sanders, Jo Clarke, and Kayleigh Laverick from Mamma Social Co, we explore:
💡 How they described the #NPWAwards experience
🏆 The meaning of winning—for them, their teams, and the causes they champion
🎉 The emotions of the night—tears, shock, and even screaming in the car on the way home!
🕺 Dancing around the trophy bag to keep it safe (priorities, right?)
🚗 The unexpected trophy tour—because when you win, everyone wants to celebrate!
🚽 The moment of realisation… even if they were in the toilet when their name was announced!
🌍 The awareness the awards have brought to their work, making an even bigger impact
✨ The reminder that you never know where that first step will take you
This episode is packed with powerful stories, unforgettable moments, and proof that the #NPWAwards is more than just a ceremony—it’s a celebration of real people making real change.
Find out more about We Are PoWEr here. 💫
Welcome to a special edition of the we Are Power podcast and we are going to be talking to some of our amazing winners and commended of the Northern Power Winner Awards 2025. With our co-headline partners Barclays and Bank of America, we've held two drop-in sessions to have conversations and chats and hear about the stories behind some of our winners and commended. Let's get started. Miss Natalie, over in the North East, the North East had a good night, didn't they? On Thursday night, I think.
Speaker 2:Yes, there was lots of people in the room that we knew, lots of people that have messaged since, that were saying that they were cheering for us in person as well. I did hear a few when I got on the stage and I was like who's that? And they've messaged me. So, yeah, lots of people from the North East in the room. It was really nice to see, definitely.
Speaker 1:I had Amar Mirza on the table next to me and every he kept going it's more from the northeast, there's more from the northeast, and I'm like they get everywhere. It was a good night. It was a shame the wonderful uh, kim McGuinness, couldn't be with us. Uh, she was poorly recovering from appendicitis the day before. Um, we sent her her best, but what does it feel like? We only saw you over in the tune just before Christmas, didn't we, um, and so it was wonderful to see you on that stage on Thursday yeah, I mean we're we're thrilled, we're all thrilled.
Speaker 2:Like everyone has said, I think we were shocked as well. Um, I think it was just like it was really nice for us as well, because it was like a full circle moment for us. Um, myself and Millie were the ones who accepted the award, but we used to be new role participants when we were children, so it was just it's nice that we've been able to develop and grow with the company, and I think that shows the work that NUVO does do and the impact that it has on the people we work with that we could be up there celebrating and celebrating on behalf of Bethany as well, our founder, who used to be our dance teacher 100%, and Bethany has been nominated in probably the early years of Northern Powering Awards as well.
Speaker 1:Tell me what your three words are.
Speaker 2:I would say thrilled for the first one, motivated to do even more and grateful as well to be have been recognised as our micro organisation at such a big event. It's so prestigious and lot of people have already got in touch and celebrated with us. So lots of good things already. It's not even been a week yet, so definitely better things to come as well it's an amazing.
Speaker 1:It's a beautiful full full circle story, isn't it? Now? The trophy we know has made it to the northeast, but it was touch and go after that, after show party, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, lots of dancing, lots of trying to protect the bag as we were dancing. A lot of people dancing around the bag as well.
Speaker 1:That's what Emma said today. She was really. When you speak to Natalie, she was. I literally watched them dancing around the bag. That's proper old school disco, that Natalie.
Speaker 2:Well, it had to be protected, but it made it back up and now it's on on the on the windowsill in our office for everyone to see.
Speaker 1:So it's nice and safe now it's amazing, and what I love to see is we'll catch up with you later on. We'll see you at the. We'll invite all of you to be judges, which I always think is a great thing. Every year we get the chance and you'll sit in that room going oh my goodness, did you talk about us like that? We're like yep, that's exactly how it works so really excited to get you involved in the judging. I want to just send you a big, massive congratulations again. It is the highlight of the whole team's year. It's hard work, as you know, but the hard work is nothing in comparison to the hard work that all, each and every one of you and your teams do to make a difference every day. Kirsty, DWF, Law, winners of our large organisation how did you feel? Oscar-esque, I'm sure.
Speaker 4:Elated, privileged to be among such big names, surprised, although we had done a lot, everyone's done a lot in that room, so it was, it was a shock to say, but we were so over the moon, and it was exactly what we need.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I'm thrilled for that. Tell us a little bit about DWF Law, what you do, what you're, what you're proud of, because, like you just said, you do a lot. You know you do a lot, but so does everybody. But tell us what you do.
Speaker 4:So we're a leading global provider of integrated legal and business services. So we're across 26 countries and we run across three different sectors legal services, insurance services and legal operations. So we do a lot of tech that supports the legal solution. So it's not just a bunch of lawyers, it's a bit more than that and we have about four and a half thousand people, edging up towards 5000 at the moment. So quite hard to corral.
Speaker 4:But the ESG and sustainability strategy, which incorporates our DE&I strategy, is something that's global because we align it to the sustainable development goals and it's something that we can all really get behind. And it's very different depending on the locations that we're in, but it is driven from Manchester, which is our head office and where we started. We started in Liverpool and Manchester, so the majority of people be about two and a half thousand in those two offices. So, and that's that's where we supercharge everything but then get it out and elsewhere. So so proud of the fact that we we run from the north, but we run globally and it's truly global, global. And you know, it was delighted to see the questions that you had in relation to the category of what do you do around the sustainable development goals. So it was like well, actually we've got this big campaign on sustainable development goals, so that was wonderful.
Speaker 1:It was like it was written for you, kirsty.
Speaker 4:That week it was.
Speaker 1:And I don't think I've ever had anyone on the podcast before. Use the word discombobulated.
Speaker 4:I nearly didn't get that out, so I nearly didn't use it either, kirsty.
Speaker 1:Congratulations DWF Law. We look forward to catching up. Oh, afra, welcome and congratulations, severa UK. So excited to see you up there. How does it feel?
Speaker 3:give me your three words yeah, it's, uh, it's, it's been like absolutely my three words, probably on the night was shocked because I had to look down twice and say was that? Was that us really um, speechless, um and proud, um to get this prestigious award? I did have a big scream on my way home from the car driving because I came on my own, because we couldn't bring some of the team. I had a bit of a scream in the motorway going back to Liverpool.
Speaker 1:Please tell me that was safe, afra, please tell me, that was safe.
Speaker 3:No, it was safe.
Speaker 1:It was. It was, yeah, it was. Tell us a little bit for those people who are not aware. I know the wonderful Nazir Afzal OBE is one of your patrons and he spoke on the evening. He's an amazing human. We're very blessed to have him in what we do Tell.
Speaker 3:very blessed to have him um in what we do. Tell us, tell us about the work that you are thankfully doing so severe. Uk is a national uh based in merseyside. Uh charity established in 2010 and the reason was um.
Speaker 3:I found the charity yourself and other members is because there was no um. Nothing was um kind of working to end honor-based abuse and harmful practices. There was no data, there was no uh service to help those who's at risk um, so it was a quite long challenge in terms of risk um. So it was a quite long challenge in term of um wanted to, if anybody at risk. So I made it on myself to establish an organization just to raise awareness. I never knew, really, that it will come to where it is today and the aim of it is to end on the base to be used for um, for good um and um. The part of it is to provide a service to those at risk um and then the threat of on a base to be used in harmful practices like forced marriage, child marriage, um on a base to be used female gender mutilation, convention therapy, and then the other part is around campaigning in terms of policy change, in terms of training and education, in terms of raising awareness in terms of community engagement what.
Speaker 1:What does it mean to the team? When you were shouting to the team from the motorway safely, we hazard um what. What does it mean to them?
Speaker 3:yeah, I think it's that recognition, because as a small charity sometimes it's really hard. So by seeing that and being recognized that our work is really important afro what is next for you?
Speaker 3:I think, as a, as a small charity, as we just started, and I think our dream is quite big and our mission is very, very big as well. Our mission is to have a world without honour based abuse and harmful practices. But we feel a step at a time from five years ago started with just three staff to five years later been working really hard to bring our staff into a 15 member of the team. So myself and the board are now we're looking at where our next stage is. It's just ensuring that sustainability, but also how do we expand to the northwest, because we know this issues it's still a huge gaps within services and how can we make sure we we reach out as many people as possible through our campaign, through our education, but also having services within the northwest that deal with these?
Speaker 1:well, I'm dafra. Massive congratulations to you and your small yet mighty team. It's phenomenal, the work you're doing, thank you. Thank you so much. Now I'm delighted to introduce Julie Nicholson, who is the winner of the Inclusive Innovation Award. Julie, welcome Welcome to the podcast. I know you're not feeling too well. Welcome to the podcast.
Speaker 5:I know you're not feeling too well. I still feel proud and delighted and and I was I was surprised on the night. To be honest, I was with Susan because she she works with us as well and, uh, she had to give me a nudge because I just didn't quite believe it. She's like you.
Speaker 1:I love the little as we know. We get you all to write like little bios or little sort of um, and you talk about show the world, tell the world, change the world. Digital voice works with participants often excluded from digital media. I love that. Show the world, tell us, tell us what digital voice is, what you do thank you.
Speaker 5:So, yes, we help people to use creative digital media, to have a voice about things, to be creative. Susan, as you know, is an amazing creative writer and empowers young women and children. She's going to go into a school for us today to prep for working with some children. They're going to do some creative writing that will be used in a soundscape for the National Trust. It's their Blossoms Festival coming up and there's going to be an amazing video installation at the Hancock the Great North Museum in Newcastle soon, and so we're creating the soundscape for that. So we work with um amazing film and media professionals from across the northeast to to bring that to people, so to give them the opportunity to, to get involved with things like that and also to have a voice about really important issues and try and make a difference I love it.
Speaker 1:I love the whole concept of the soundscape. Now tell me where is your lovely piece of art?
Speaker 5:no-transcript um well, not to be unmodest, but it's on our awards shelf, but it's right in the middle absolutely, julie.
Speaker 1:Thank you, uh, thanks so much for joining us. Please get well and look forward to seeing you. And congratulations, susan, um, congratulations, tell us, tell us what. Tell us in a nutshell, if you can yeah, it's um.
Speaker 6:So I've only been um freelance for four years. So I lost my full-time job, um, due to the pandemic I worked for in a theatre company, um, but it was. I worked there a long time, um, and it felt like the universe was going hey, those things that you've been thinking about doing, maybe you could do them now, um, so I've kind of built up a sort of, I guess, a portfolio of work. So my work as a writer means that I write plays. That's how I started in the theatre industry, um, I also write copy and content and, as Julie says, I've um, I facilitate other people's creativity through writing, um, and that's, I think, getting this recognition, this commendation in a way, has kind of like packaged it for me.
Speaker 6:Like you know, when you do I don't know what other people on the call, if you do lots of different things and you kind of have to condense it and go like I do about 15 different things, but I need to be able to say, especially on LinkedIn, I need to be pithy, particularly as a writer um, this, this empowerment champion sort of it's almost like, it feels like it is the, the USP.
Speaker 6:It's the thing that inspires me to do what I do. I love working with young people, primarily young girls in the Northeast, and getting them to primarily see themselves a bit differently and expand their horizons and see that creativity isn't a thing that just happens to some people, like artists, like that visual creativity that you could see, but that it's a way of problem solving, it's a way of thinking. It's a way of thinking it's, it's just a human trait. So I try and remind them that they are creative and and how powerful a force it is. So I wasn't pithy at all. There was, do you know what?
Speaker 1:you. You've got accommodation. Who cares? Like Susan, tell, give me those three words that you well can you do three words. Or are Susan give me those three words that you well can you do three words? Or are you going to give me 30?
Speaker 6:Who knows, I'm going to try Give me three. So definitely pride. I think excited. Like I felt excited on the night, I still feel excited now and I'm going to say emboldened, which I feel is like if you put empowerment and brave together.
Speaker 1:Susan, thank you so much uh for joining me uh today. Catherine, catherine, I think yours is one of the the most emotional uh responses on the night. Um, because you weren't going to come were you at one point.
Speaker 8:No, because I, my mum, had actually been in hospital and she literally came out the day before, but she was just like just go, I'll be fine. So it was a bit hit and miss, really, and even being honest, I just wasn't expecting to. I wasn't expecting to win, I wasn't expecting to do it. I was so shocked. Throughout the whole process I was like, oh, I've got through this, but oh, it's fine, I won't make the. So, yeah, it was just a complete shock, to be honest oh, and tell us what.
Speaker 1:What are your three words?
Speaker 8:um, so I've got pride. Um, happy and motivated. I don't. I think with motivated it's more around like being given, like the person with purpose. I think it just gave me that massive boost that I've needed at this stage of like being an entrepreneur, because it's so, it's, it's like a roller coaster. Um, I was saying to my team, it just came at the right time when there'd been so many hurdles, and then now I'm like. The next day, I was literally like right, okay, what are we doing? Let's go out again like. I think, yeah, motivated, it's like the one word that mainly stands out, because it was definitely.
Speaker 1:It was like the boost that I needed tell us, tell us what, what you do and what you drive, and what you're going to drive more of yeah, so be what.
Speaker 8:Byc Consultancy is a equity, diversity and inclusion training company, but we specialize in workplace discrimination prevention. So essentially I go into the both private and public sector and I create training programs in areas of being an active bystander, anti-racism, lgbt inclusion and neurodiversity awareness, and we do training to both adults and young people, and some of our clients include premier league football clubs, nhs trust universities and schools across the northwest wow, amazing.
Speaker 1:Now tell me you've shared with your team. Where is your trophy now?
Speaker 8:my trophy is actually here next to me. It's gone on a bit of a tour. Everyone's everyone's been like oh, can you bring the? I think they're more excited to see the trophy than me. So no, it's being by my side, because, yeah, I've been. Um, just people have like been messaging me, like wanting to meet up, take me for coffee and say thank you.
Speaker 8:So I've actually got a dinner tonight back home. Um, in liverpool, look at that, look at that today, and um, yeah, so yeah, I feel like we're like taking it on tour everywhere and everyone's like, oh, let me see it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that. Thank you so much for dropping in today. Thank you, I really appreciate it. Thank you, juliet, you've been billed as a legend Welcome.
Speaker 9:I don't know about that. I mean, the legends come with age. I think that might be my Experience.
Speaker 1:Age is just a number. Juliette, your three words, Juliette.
Speaker 9:I think, for the night. Glamorous because here I am sitting in a warehouse at the moment. My life isn't very glamorous, so, you know, it's just such a great experience to sort of share in that. Inspirational because there were just so many amazing stories, amazing women, and not just the people who won awards, but the people sitting on the tables that we talked to on the way in and out. Um, and, I think, connected as well. Um, connected is a really important word for me because I think, where I've come from, it's felt very isolated at times, that sometimes you're in your groove, doing your thing and no one's recognizing you, no one's giving you an award for it, and you're just slogging away sort of unrecognized, unnoticed, and just to feel that connection and I think you know the power of women coming together and supporting each other is just absolutely priceless. Um, you know we've got to be cheerleaders for each other, whatever we're doing, and I think you know that's something we've all got the ability to do and we need to do more of 100%.
Speaker 1:Just tell us about feeding families.
Speaker 9:So feeding families, um, just started on my dining room table, just helping one family who I found, who were in food poverty. And I've come from quite a difficult background myself. I've had quite a lot of challenges in life, but at this point, when I came across this family, I had the ability to go to the supermarket, fill my car with food and give it to them and I just felt so blessed that my life had turned around to such an extent that I was able to do that. And you know, it wasn't a grand gesture in in lots of ways. But what happened from that is I met other people who said, well, I would do that, um, and I thought, you know, it's just a matter of enabling people to give that kindness, to share that love. And I just started to match up a family who needed help with somebody who would help them, and it went from there.
Speaker 9:So we started as a Christmas charity the first year, um, I hope, to help 50 families have a lovely Christmas.
Speaker 9:We helped 719 the first year and the last few years it's been over 10 000000 just at Christmas, oh my God. And last year we haven't done the stats for this year We'll do it at the end of March, but last year it was 46,500 families that we supported through the year, with over a million items. Wow, and it's all the power of one. You know, I say to people it's not that you're all going to give me a thousand pounds, but if you could give me a can of beans, if you could give me an hour of your time, if you could just give me something small, together we can make an absolutely massive impact. And that's what's happened. People have just bought into it and come on the journey and are still coming on the journey. The need's there it's increasing. We've got more demand all the time. But the more people I can get on side in whatever way, whatever contribution anyone can make, then we can harness that, we can do something with it.
Speaker 1:Wow, and we saw you, didn't we, when we were over in Newcastle just before Christmas when we were doing an event over there, and Wasn't there some kind of rumor that you're trying to retire?
Speaker 9:So I have a date. No, we're not listening. The Lion in the Sand. 19th of December will be my last working day with feeding families. I am then going to go away for a holiday and decompress. But that is not the end of me, so I'm looking for my next challenge. I think it's time to have this wonderful work onto somebody else to do who can take it to the next level. But I think I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I want to start another fire somewhere else. So, um, you know, open to offers, ladies. You know what can you suggest? I'm up for it.
Speaker 1:Juliette, you're amazing. Um, I'm so glad to hear nothing's been hung up and you're, you're ready. You're ready for post 19th of december. Well, should we give you into 26, you could have christmas off. There you go, yeah, and then you will get where you're getting back. And thank you, juliette, you are truly amazing. Um, joe joe clark, hi, a very, very, very, uh emotional evening for you, I know. Um, congratulations, I was. You were in the loo, weren't you?
Speaker 10:yeah, because, I sorry, my bus was just about to go. I I absolutely didn't think that I'd win at all and then, when I came back from the load, my friend was saying you've won, you've won. I was like what? So? Yeah, so you don't need to ask them what likely words were, because they were shocked, stunned, um yeah, which was just very typical and a bit gutted that I didn't get to see how the nominees are and do the whole bit.
Speaker 1:I just literally walked in and went oh right, okay so, yeah, yeah, you just re-watch back on the live stream, jo, it'll be fine, you can, you can. You can sit there this Thursday evening and replay. Jo, it was.
Speaker 10:You've been through a lot, right yeah, yeah, I'm actually um, I think because of this I'm getting used to talking about it without falling about in tears. So the reason I got Agent for Change is I want to change the law for women that have suffered domestic violence. So I went through a difficult time with domestic violence. My partner, who was a detective sergeant, was arrested and sent to prison and I thought that would be it. But he's come out of prison and he now posts about me on Facebook, but because he doesn't put my name on it, it's not a breach. So I want to get the rules changed or the law changed that my restrictions say can't contact me through social media directly or indirectly, but it doesn't stop him posting.
Speaker 10:And how ironic is this? The reason why I was in the toilet is because my daughter messaged me and said he's posted all over Facebook about your mum. I actually went to the toilet to compose myself, came back and everybody was like you've won. So I just think the whole event was amazing. So thank you so much, and I met some wonderful people. But the reason why I did it and told my story is because I weren't really sure how I get the law changed. I've got court again next month. I'm still right in the middle of it, but I feel really empowered because it won't just be me. There'll be a million victims having rubbish put about them. On Facebook they've put pictures of me, pictures of my bedroom. It's just cringe really, um so yeah. So, agent for change, I want to get the law changed to help other people not go through what I go through.
Speaker 1:Jo well, you, you're not Jo well, you're not on your own. You're not on your own. There's a room, there's a community. There are 1200 people watching online, 120,000 people across this community. I remember thinking, gosh, you had no idea that you'd won, and it's only Emma and I knew, and Emma and I had to have lots of conversations because we want you've got to be be. This is a very sensitive issue.
Speaker 10:And then I had to go to work to see whether they wanted my company name under, whether it linked to domestic violence, and then, just you know the whole point of what I want to do I just thought, well, if he sees that I've won it, he's going to post even more, which is just ridiculous. So, yeah, so I'm so grateful. Um, emma has been fantastic. Um, because I didn't even fill out the application form. I was like, oh, I pass the date. I tell you what.
Speaker 10:Just read the BBC article, because with it was being a police, it was all over the papers as well. Um, and then obviously she's like uh, well, my friend, sarah paris, said you, you've got to do your video. Um, so, yeah, it's been an emotional ride, but I feel so much better because I've been able to talk to people about it and obviously the the pod, uh, the uh thing that we did prior to the awards was quite emotional for me because I didn't expect to be speaking, so I cried on it and lots of people watching crying. So it's all been difficult but all positive and hopefully we'll get to the end of the process and I've made some changes.
Speaker 1:Jo, thank you, you have. We have your back. We have your back. We're with you. You're not on your own. I know you've got a great support community, but you now have accelerated that and amplified that. And, yeah, please stay strong and thank you for being our agent of change. Thank you so much. Thank you, kaylee. Kaylee, you swooped in. You swooped in. Look best backs. I thought my back set was my, my back set, what do you even call this my? But look at that. That's very cool, kayleigh. Congratulations. How are you?
Speaker 7:I am very good. How is everybody?
Speaker 1:else. Oh well, you're talking to awesome role models, kayleigh. No, you sashayed upon that stage. I'm not gonna lie. There was this. It was a sashay. It was like hell, yeah, I've got a commendation. What were the three words that you felt?
Speaker 7:seen, heard and connected am I?
Speaker 7:oh I think as a mother, we are often silenced in so many ways to just get on with life and this is the card we've. We've decided and we've dealt and we absolutely love being mothers. But I think to have the recognition is really important, to know that we are seen, we're heard and obviously the whole mission of mama social is combat and isolation and loneliness and being connected. So being in that room was really inspiring and the table I was on was fantastic. We had a, we had a real good natter and a laugh and it was great and where is your trophy?
Speaker 7:oh, it's on my desk out there what?
Speaker 1:what do you think this? Well, you know, catherine's already said like the day after the awards, it's like I've been the team and we're on it. We're going to do it. Joe's taking on court next week. Susan's off to a school in a short while and has already said stuff out loud that she's going to have to make happen now. So what are we holding you to account for, kayleigh?
Speaker 7:I think the mission of Mama Social is bigger than me, it's bigger than team it's it's something that it's everybody's now. It's not a need for me to heal, it's a community need to heal. So it's really just about getting in front of them big corporates, getting in front of them big brands, and just making them aware that they can support and um push the movement forward and how long have you been at Mama Social, been around?
Speaker 7:Two years. Officially. The first year it was just, you know I was on maternity leave. It was never a business, it was. How do I stop myself from? This is so frank to say and because of the therapy I've done, I can say it with just so clear clarity is I tried to kill myself.
Speaker 7:So, standing on the bridge, that I was trying to find a way to put either the baby down so that she could be saved, was was something that I couldn't do, knowing that she was not going to be okay, and if I had aam I wouldn't have been here today because I knew somebody would see a pram. So I had to go back home and as soon as I walked back home and opened the door, it was as if every emotion I'd not felt in five months had all came rushing back at the same time. And I spoke to my husband. We set up therapy. We just really got deep into how to get me back. Now, one of the ways was I just put on Facebook anybody finding parent crap. I'm going for a walk at this time at this location tomorrow. I turned up the next day and nine mums were stood and I had a little cry and I was like, okay, I'm not alone, I'm not like disconnected from reality anymore.
Speaker 7:So that first year it was just let's go for a walk, let's go for the gym class, let's go to a dance class, let's just feel everything. And then I went back to work and I felt like I needed to be doing that. There was a reason. My story is not unique. That's the terrible thing about it. We all know somebody or have felt the challenges of becoming a mother, and I knew I needed to do more. So within two years well, since two years, we've now got over 20 000 members across the country, over 70 parent leads that walk every single day, really across the country, just providing and facilitating the growth of the new modern village. Like it's it. They say it takes a village to bring up a child, but it actually does. It's that sentence that's been like oh, it's like it takes a village. But we're not actually meant to do this disconnected. We're meant to do this in a community. Like, well, how do you do this in this modern world where we're so disconnected and so isolated? So we facilitate the modern village.
Speaker 1:Wow, my God, it's just that, oh, I've got've gotten. I'm without words, kaylee. That's, it's. What you created is a moment in time that could have been so horrific, so tragic, that took you to go back, start a conversation and that moment began a movement with your nine mums the next day. Or you know that this is what. This is what I'm always. You know, we just talked with, we had Juliet before talking, it starts with a tin of beans, so you know it comes up. Everyone can do something.
Speaker 1:So I thank everything that you didn't have your pram with you that night and you, you were brave enough to have that conversation. Thank you for sharing this out loud, because there'll be people listening or people who know it's that not alone, this loneliness. So, honestly, you know what this is. I was just saying at the start okay, this is. I've woken up this morning to the.
Speaker 1:10 years ago today, probably this very moment, 9 30, we were just about to kick off the launch of Northern Power, women, with um 300 people in in a room and and you never think for one minute will that lead. You never think for one minute with that conversation, the conversations that you started, the fight back that you started. Jo, susan, the stories that you share and the voices you amplify, kaylee, that that conversation you had. You never know where that will start. It is 100. This, this, all your acts become a movement.
Speaker 1:Some brilliant words, some brilliant three words in there delighted, thrilled, connected, proud, uh, just amazing. And I love where people keep their trophies too. Thank you all so much for joining us. A huge congratulations to all of our finalists, to all of our winners, all of our game changers. Massive thanks to all of our judges and thanks to all of you for supporting and staying connected. With the northern power minimum awards community. Thanks so much, and we will see you very soon. With the Northern Power Minimal Works community. Thanks so much and we'll see you very soon.
