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Tomlinson Hall donates £2000 prize to local school
Tomlinson Hall & Co, manufacturer of Liquivac, has donated its £2000 prize – awarded when it was named SME of the Year in the recent 2015 North East Process Industries Cluster (NEPIC) Annual Awards – to a nearby school.
The donation to Priors Mill Church of England School in Billingham was presented at a special assembly on February 13 attended by Colin Simpson, business development director of Tomlinson Hall, Ian Dunkley, director of engineering services company Haden Freeman, which sponsored the NEPIC SME of the Year award and Dr Stan Higgins, chief executive of NEPIC.
Gill Wild, head teacher at the school, received the donation at the assembly, and said: “We were overjoyed to be nominated and are very grateful to receive this donation from the Tomlinson Hall team.
“It is an unexpected financial boost to school and will help us fund additional projects in science, engineering and technology that we hope will capture the children’s imagination and help raise career aspirations for the future.”
Colin Simpson added: “It was a huge honour to be named SME of the Year in the NEPIC Awards, and a great achievement for the company and its staff. We hope by reinvesting our award win into a local school we will help inspire our engineers of the future’.
The NEPIC Annual Awards recognise outstanding achievement in the process sector. NEPIC – the first cluster in the UK to receive the Gold Label for Cluster Management Excellence - boasts hundreds of member companies from across a wide range of sectors including the petrochemical, polymer, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and biofuel industries.
Commenting on Tomlinson Hall’s success, Haden Freeman’s Ian Dunkley stated: “The phenomenal business growth by Tomlinson Hall & Co has been outstanding. SMEs continue to be the driving force behind economic recovery and the makeup of the work force sector is varied and interesting, covering scientific, engineering and technological roles.
“Tomlinson Hall is also commended for its continued support of apprenticeships for young people and its support of local community sports projects. It is a pleasure to recognise such outstanding growth and development through the work delivered by the Tomlinson Hall team.”
NEPIC’s Dr Stan Higgins added: “We encourage all of our members in NEPIC to support local schools where possible, to help inspire and develop the core STEM skills needed to work in the process industries that surround Teesside.
“I hope through this investment by Tomlinson Hall, we may see some of these young students at Priors Mill become our future scientists and engineers who then travel the globe using their skills.’’
Pictured above: Children from Priors Mill Church of England School in Billingham hold the cheque presented to the school by Tomlinson Hall, with representatives of NEPIC, Tomlinson Hall and Haden Freeman, and head teacher Gill Wild.
