North West Young Professionals Awards 2025

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Robyn Hewson catches up with some of the winners from this year's North West Young Professionals Awards, including the winners of some of our new categories such as Young Manufacturer of the Year.

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00:00Hi, I'm Amelia Powell. I am a UK financial advisor and I help clients solve their money

00:15problems and I've also done some other bits in the industry, giving back and volunteering to

00:21help try and educate people on their finances. Fantastic and you've been crowned our winner

00:27tonight. How does it feel to win? Honestly, that was a tough category and some big names in there and

00:34some great people deserving to be shortlisted so I did not expect it so I'm over the moon.

00:40So it's Gabriel John from Gaitley Bindam. I'm an apprentice scientist. Fantastic and you've just won our

00:45apprentice of the year awards. How does it feel to win? Yeah, absolutely delighted. Didn't expect

00:51from where I've kind of started about three and a half years ago. I thought to be here and obviously

00:57to win this award is quite surreal but I've kind of grown into the role. I've got a lot of experience

01:05the past year, leading on projects, doing charity work. So I've taken more responsibilities so it's

01:12been a big year and uni studies have gone well as well so it's just been a successful year really.

01:17Hi, I'm Farah Sargent from WMIW. And you've been crowned our winner tonight so how does it feel to

01:22win? Honestly, I'm so happy. I didn't think it would happen. I've been cheering everyone on so

01:26I'm super ecstatic I won. Thank you. And you founded your own company. So what's the company and what

01:31sort of sectors are you working in? So we're a creative agency. We're a really broad sector but

01:36we've been very lucky to dominate most property sector and major clients in the city. So if you see a

01:42high rise it's most likely that I did the marketing if not created the brand then I've helped advertise

01:48and bring on leads. Fantastic. And what can we expect to see next from you? Any big projects in

01:54the pipeline? Absolutely, very exciting. I can't tell at all but we've got some high brands and

01:59we've also got a big name such as Boohoo so some product marketing and then also some secret work for

02:06America with one of my clients. So I'm James Leifway. I'm co-founder of FuelHub. I'm currently the

02:13Chief Operating Officer. And you've won one of our new categories this year so Young Manufacturer of

02:18the Year. How does it feel to win? Yeah it feels great. It feels really special. FuelHub's coming

02:23up six years since we founded the business me and my wife and it's been a hell of a journey. A lot has

02:29gone into it, a lot of time, a lot of sacrifice so to be rewarded for that is amazing. It's been a big

02:36year. We've seen massive growth, around 100% growth in the business over the last 12 months. We've made

02:42lots of key hires and we've employed a lot of new staff into the business to try and help grow that.

02:48The manufacturing site has just continued to grow. We're actually looking to scale further this year

02:52and move to a new facility. So I've learned a lot of lessons along the way on the journey and

02:59hopefully it continues to grow and we have another big year. So I'm Ollie Chadwick. I've just won the

03:05Young Property Professional of the Year for OBI and it's been great. Fantastic and how's it feel to win?

03:14Amazing. Honestly I couldn't, I came here thinking you know I was not going to get the opportunity and

03:21it was just great to get my name called out in the end. So I started in 2019. I've been there for the last

03:28like six, seven years. It's been an amazing opportunity given to me. I've learnt from the best

03:38in the business and it's just been unbelievable. So I think yeah, alongside doing university and

03:45everything but working at OBI has been a great opportunity for me. You guys have just won our

03:50team of the year awards. How does it feel to win? Amazing. Unexpected as well. There's a lot of

03:56other good candidates in the mix but yeah, thrilled to become winners at the end of it.

04:01Yeah 2024 was our best year ever as an office. We did over six million in fees

04:08and yeah hopefully onwards and upwards. Amazing and what's coming next from Benchmark? What should

04:12we be looking out for? I think more of the same. We've proved we can deal with the most challenging

04:17deals. We've had a tough first quarter but you know things are picking up now. We've got a good

04:22pipeline for the rest of the year so yeah just just you know use our expertise yeah and get some

04:29deals over the line. Oh brilliant. Well I hope you've got lots of good plans for celebrating tonight.

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