I cannot believe that it’s over a week since TeamSLB were at Creative Head’s Most Wanted Awards, guests of clients, presenting an award and celebrating client wins. Not to mention seeing people we haven’t seen for two years - IN REAL LIFE! No wonder my head hurt a little the next day!
We love an award - well, we love an award ceremony. Actually compiling awards is a bloody hard job - but we like to think we’re pretty good at it. In 2021 we have achieved the following (so far) for our clients:
National Association Awards - July 2021
National Hair & Beauty Federation (NHBF):
GOLD WINNER - Best Membership Organisation (1-10,000)
GOLD WINNER - Best Social Media
SILVER WINNER - Best COVID Response
Salon Business Awards (Hair) - July 2021
B.E Ironbridge WINNER - Best Local Salon
B.E. Ironbridge FINALIST - Best Green Salon
Hazel & Haydn, Birmingham FINALIST - Creative Salon
Hazel & Haydn FINALIST - Curl Specialist
Architect Hair, Leeds FINALIST - Business Salon
Architect Hair, FINALIST - Ultimate Salon
Creative Head Most Wanted Awards (Hair) - September 2021
Brooke Evans, B.E Ironbridge - WINNER - IT List Entrepreneur of the Year
Katie Cooke, B.E Ironbridge - FINALIST- IT List Rising Star
Architect Hair - FINALIST - Best Salon Team
Hazel & Haydn - FINALIST - Best Salon Team
Verity Ollerenshaw, Routed, Leeds - FINALIST - IT List Entrepreneur of the Year
Business Insider Yorkshire Property Awards - September (29th) 2021
The Harris Partnership - FINALIST - Best Architect
Pure Beauty Awards - September 2021
ALFAPARF Milano - Best New Hair Product
British Hairdressing Business Awards - October 2021
Hazel & Haydn - FINALIST - Best Salon of the Year 1
Hazel & Haydn - FINALIST - Customer Service Award
Katie Cook - FINALIST - Assistant of the Year
Heffy Wheeler, HX Hair, Rugeley - FINALIST— Social Stylist of the Year
COVID Response Awards - November 2021
NHBF - FINALISTS in THREE categories
Salon Awards - January 2022
Hazel & Haydn - FINALISTS in FIVE categories
Architect Hair - FINALISTS in THREE categories
B.E. Ironbridge - FINALISTS in THREE categories
We’re also very proud to be a sponsor of, and look after the social media for Variety Northern’s Yorkshire Property Awards, Yorkshire Resi Awards and Yorkshire Business Awards.
However, like cobblers and shoes, builders and their own houses, we struggle to find the time to do our own awards, despite having finalised and won when we have in the past.
But having entered and looked at our sector specific awards this yea I do have a bit of a gripe. So much of the criteria is about how profitable an agency is, it’s size, showing off continued growth etc. Whilst the money is important it’s not our only driver.
We are about the team and working on interesting projects. We often turn down potential clients who don’t fit into our portfolio or don’t share our ethics - which has made our FD cry a little bit in the past. We don’t worship at the alter of money, but we do bow down to the gods of disruption, talent, kindness and project briefs that make us do a collective WOW!
This doesn’t mean we’re cheap either. It means that we care about flexible working and I personally really care that my team are happy, fulfilled and enthusiastic about what they do. And they generally are - I know because I talk to them, see the results they achieve and hear what clients say about them. I think I’m still in touch with pretty much everyone who’s ever been employed at SLBPR.
Next year we will enter all our sector specific awards, so if you are an expert at these and can help, pop over your fees - I could be interested!!
