
It is with great pleasure that we announce the WINNERS of the Kingston Borough Business Awards 2023.

Outstanding Business Social Impact Award
Winner: Robyn Harper Photography
Robyn Harper Photography is a portrait photography business with a focus on storytelling and giving people a voice. This year I wanted to expose violence and abuse against women through photography, documentary and written stories, and formed the Pearl Project in collaboration with Voices of Hope and other partners.


Best Marketing Campaign Award
Winner: Time & Leisure Media
Time & Leisure is the No. 1 magazine of choice for businesses and readers in South West London and Surrey. The Kingston edition has built a loyal readership over 20 years. Our lifestyle media channels reach over 312,000 readers every month in print, online, social and at events.


Young Professional of the Year Award
Winner: Jade Quirke of Russell-Cooke Solicitors
Established in the 1880s by the Cooke brothers, Russell-Cooke LLP has evolved and significantly expanded over the last 140 years. At present, the firm has offices in Central London, Putney and Kingston upon Thames. The company prides itself on its breadth of expertise and Top 100 status.


Best Charity of the Year Award
Winner: Momentum Children’s Charity
We support families whose children are facing cancer or a life-challenging condition. We partner with nine local hospitals, including Kingston, to offer tailored support both in hospital and at home. Our support services include counselling, creative therapies, experiences and respite breaks. We also undertake ward refurbishments, transforming children’s clinical areas.


Developing Young People’s Skills Award
Winner: TG Consulting Ltd
TG Consulting is an independent consultancy that specialises in connecting educators, students and employers, with a clear focus on social mobility, diversity and inclusion. It provides unrivalled higher education insights to help employers tailor recruitment campaigns
and products, engage academics and reach students from a diverse background.


Excellence in Food and Beverage Award
Winner: The Wych Elm
North Kingston’s award-winning Wych Elm is a great little pub nestled in the heart of its community.
Family-run by independent owner-operators, we are committed to keeping this neighbourhood pub a proper local with delicious food, quality drink and excellent, friendly service.


Creative Use of Technology Award
Winner: JNDC
Our core focus is ‘design for manufacture’. Quite simply, the designs we engineer are aligned to the most ‘fit for purpose’ manufacturing process. Time, quality and cost are the three key elements to consider throughout the design for manufacture process.


Best Start-Up of the Year Award
Winner: Kingston Beats C.I.C.
Kingston Beats is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company set up by recently arrived Hongkongers. We aim to build a support network for Hongkongers who have recently immigrated, or are planning to immigrate, to settle here, maintain their cultural heritage and contribute to the
wellbeing and development of the Kingston community.


Developing Employees Award
Winner: Comfort Care At Home
We are a multi award-winning domiciliary care provider. We support elderly people to remain safe and independent while living in their own homes for as long as possible. We provide peace of mind to family members, so they know that their loved ones are cared for as part of our family.


Excellence in Professional Services Award
Winner: Summers-Inman
Summers-Inman provides a diverse range of construction consultancy services, specialising in quantity surveying, project and programme management, building surveying, health and safety management, and environmental advisory services. They have been operating for over 100 years, challenging convention, applying a can-do attitude, and committing to quality and service excellence.


Excellence in Customer Experience Award
Winner: Visiting Angels North Surrey
Visiting Angels North Surrey provides personalised care to help people remain living in their own home. We know that home is where the heart is. Treating our caregivers well is important to us, as we want the very best caregivers to provide the very best quality care to clients and their families.


Responsible Workplace Award
Winner: 7DOTS
We are an independent creative tech agency who create and build beautiful, frictionless brand experiences. Traditionally, creativity and technology have been seen as two separate disciplines, but we know that blending the two produces the most rewarding human experiences.


Outstanding Green Business Champion Award
Winner: AuLaw Organic Farm UK C.I.C.
Based in New Malden, we connect the community by promoting and practising sustainable co-farming. We provide Asian vegetable seedlings and transform gardens and public space into farming beds to grow your own. We also organise skills workshops and farm-to-table sharing to facilitate a multicultural exchange in the Kingston area.


Best Business Providers Award
Winner: West9 Design Ltd
West9 Design helps businesses and causes to visually communicate their proposition, allowing them to stand out in their market, be proud to show up and attract more of the right connections. From creative design and branding to websites, I help service-based businesses, charities and not-for-profits establish their visual identities.


Independent ‘Love Local’ Retailer Award
Winner: Not My Beautiful House
NMBH is a pop-up shop, gallery and event space made by students with support from Union of Kingston Students and Studio KT1. Staffed by graduates, it sells work from students, alumni and local creatives. Yes, the name comes from the Talking Heads song Once in a Lifetime. Our students quite literally rock.
