🔊 Relive the
#BIBAs2024
! 🔊
Presenting our highlights from an incredible night at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom! Conrgatulations to all the winners, highly commended, finalists! Thanks to our amazing sponsors and suppliers!
Same again next year???
Sound very much on for
Okay, we have to ask you
#LancashireHour
- who was a better Willy Wonka?
🍫 Gene Wilder, 1971
OR
Johnny Depp, 2005
You have one hour to cast your votes, ladies and gents..... 🗳
What a night that was, thank you to everyone who helped us make Blackpool rock! 🤟🏻
Winners, finalists, sponsors, we hope you had a ball; well done to you all, and thank you for the support.
Check out a few pics from the night, here:
Amazing Community Business of the Year finalist
@Depheruk
provides free or heavily subsidised emergency plumbing and heating services to vulnerable older and disabled people. What a team. A much deserving finalist in this hotly contested award.
And finally, the most prestigious of the night, the Business of the Year award, presented by Dawn Cheetham at
@ckscatering
, and our very own CEO Babs Murphy and President Jane Cole. The richly deserved winner is...
@BoothsCountry
! 👏
#Bibas2021
It is just 24 hours until
#bibas2019
ceremony day. Excited? We are just a bit! That’s the
#bibasfeeling
- we look forward to sharing even more with the best in
#Lancashire
tomorrow night.
Right Guys - Team BIBAs is now off to the Tower Ballroom to make it fitting for the 1000 VIPs we're expecting tomorrow evening
#BIBAs2019
we now hand over to our NWLCC social media guru who'll be taking you through the rest of the day! See you tomorrow Guys x
Nearly time! We’re off to the Tower this aft to make the Ballroom look even more spectacular for you arrival tomorrow.
*** NOTE ***
Last day to get your fabulous outfits ready...go!
Sell out crowd? ✅ Amazing meal by
@chefpaulrowley
? ✅ A fantastic line-up of finalists? ✅ 20 amazing
#Lancashire
winners? ✅ Our first female BIBAs Lancastrian of the Year? ✅ It’s been another special one.
#bibas2019
Right, we’re off! We just want to say a huge thankyou to all our
#bibas2018
applicants and judges who have been involved in the first round of judging over the past couple of weeks! You all put the INSPIRED in the BIBAs. Thankyou and goodnight!
#lancashirehour
The Business of the Year award, presented by Jane Cole, President of the North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
@lancschamber
, goes to worthy winner
@BoothsCountry
. Huge congratulations on this richly deserved win 👏
#Bibas2022
Good morning all! Today’s the day, we’ll be informing the hundreds of
#Lancashire
businesses which have applied for our 18
#bibas2018
categories know who has made our finalists shortlists. Bear with us, there’s a LOT of emails to send!
So our BIBAs army of ants finished at midnight, the ballroom is looking amazing.
We’re off back to the Tower from 8am for production and entertainment rehearsals...we’ll share some pics throughout the day.
See you tonight folks - we cannot wait!
Evening all! We’re coming live from
#Blackpool
where in a little over 24 hours the winners of our 19
#bibas2018
(18 categories + our lifetime achievement award) will be revealed. Excited is not the word!
#LancashireHour
Not sure if the Judges were treated to a cool G&T during their visit to Family Business of the Year Finalist
@CuckooGin
but they've reported back that you guys were just the tonic - great interview by the way!
And the winner of the
#Bibas2018
Medium Business of the Year category is Roccia Tiles & Bathrooms
@rocciatiles
, well done on your fabulous achievement!
Good evening all! We are very excited to say that in one week and 24 hours from now, we’ll be sitting down to a sumptuous
#Lancashire
themed meal at the
#bibas2018
awards night!
#LancashireHour
We’ve totted up everything and the
#bibas2018
spent more than £160,000 with
#Lancashire
businesses. When it comes to spending local, we put our money where our mouth is. 💰
#lancashirehour
Wishing the best of luck to our incredible finalists in all 20 categories of the Be Inspired Business Awards! We are now signing off and heading to the magnificent Blackpool Tower Ballroom for the two day set up. Looking forward to seeing you all on Friday.
Today we will inform all our
#bibas2019
applicants which of them have made it to our first round of interviews. Emails will start landing from a 2.30pm today.
#Lancashire
Good evening all! What were you up to last Friday night? We got together with a 1,000 or so friends at
@TheBplTower
- you might have heard about it!
#bibas2018
#LancashireHour
Imagine sitting down to eat at a restaurant filled with 1200 guests - Now imagine being served in the time it takes to serve 100 - that is the fabulous job that the Campbell & Rowley
@campbellrowley
is delivering tonight at
#bibas2018
Morning all! How are your heads feeling after an amazing
#bibas2019
ceremony night,
#Lancashire
? The headlines were: 20 amazing winners, our first Lancastrian of the Year, Ann Dean DL,
@rocciatiles
was our Business of the Year and Jason Donovan entertained our sell-out crowd.
When the BIBAs comes to town, there isn’t a better looking venue anywhere in the land.
Thanks to our suppliers for helping to bring our vision to life.
Good morning all! Today’s the day, we’ll be letting our
#bibas2018
applicants know which of them have made it through to our first round of judging starting on May 14. Keep a watch on your email inbox.
An impressive meeting with the team from Third Sector Business of the Year Finalist
@CGAPreston
- according to the judges ‘there is so much good work going on in the business’ - take a bow folks!
That is all, folks! We have sent out all the emails informing our
#bibas2019
applicants which if them have made our first round of interviews. Thanks to all who applied.
#Lancashire
Good morning
#Lancashire
! Today’s the day, we get our
#bibas2019
first round of interviews underway. We’re hosting our Service Business and Small Business of the Year applicants at
@NWLChamber
’s Fylde Coast offices in
#Blackpool
. Good luck everyone!
Good evening all! Thanks to everyone who applied for our
#bibas2019
categories. We closed for entries today and cannot wait to meet all our wonderful applicants.
#PrestonHour
A HUGE well done to all our winners and finalists last night - you did Lancashire proud!
A BIG thank you to all our sponsors, suppliers and guests too; you make the BIBAs!
Next week, we will be taking our BIBAs 2018 winners to look at the world-class
@BAESystemsAir
Academy for Skills & Knowledge in
#Lancashire
for the first of our exclusive BIBAs Academy programme of visits. Just one reason why we’re more than just a business awards.
#bibas2019
Good evening all! There’s less than a month to go until
#bibas2018
ceremony night. The tickets are out, we’ve made our final recce to
@TheBplTower
and the final touches are being applied - we can’t wait!
#LancashireHour
Good evening all! We’ve received our first applications from businesses across
#Lancashire
for the
#bibas2019
- take a look at the categories up for grabs: - the deadline for entries is March 29.
#LancashireHour
There are three
#Lancashire
businesses which have made the shortlists for FIVE
#bibas2018
prize categories. In one of the most hotly-contested awards around, that is a serious achievement. They’ll find out who they are tomorrow......! 😉
Right, ladies and gents, there is a long night ahead of us at
@TheBplTower
setting up for
#bibas2018
ceremony night tomorrow. Our final plea is to make sure you set off in plenty of time to beat the
#Blackpool
traffic - see y’all tomorrow.
#lancashirehour
Good evening all! We’d like to use this
#LancashireHour
to make a special
#bibas2019
announcement of
@ACCentralLancs
as the sponsor of our Family Business of the Year Award, helping celebrate the amazing family firms in our county.
The winner for Professional Service Business of the Year in 2018 is Hestbank Dental Care!
#Bibas2018
Hestbank Dental Care is the
#inspiring
winner for the
#Professional
#Service
Business category - truly inspiring!
On Monday, our
#bibas2019
judges put the rubber to the road and get our second round of judging, The BIBAs On Tour, underway in partnership with
@RK_Dining
. Who’s expecting a visit?
#LancashireHour
Today our Family Business of the Year and Growth Business of the Year judges are meeting their applicants for the first round of
#bibas2019
interviews. We’ll let those
#Lancashire
firms which have made it to the next round know on June 3.