Jo Wiley
Red magazine is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Red’s Hot Women Awards, in association with euphoria Calvin Klein, which celebrate British women in the workplace.
This year has seen charity campaigner Katie Piper, who founded the Katie Piper Foundation, receive a ‘Women to Watch’ accolade, Caroline Lucas, the first Green MP in Britain, win the ‘Eco / Green’ Award, and Dr Janine Erler, creator of new cancer treatments, win the prestigious ‘Pioneer’ award.
The awards recognise achievements across industries from fashion to charity, and food to the internet, with winners also including Belinda Earl from Jaeger and Aquascutum for ‘Fashion’, Anne-Marie Huby and Zarine Kharas from Justgiving.com for ‘Internet’, Lorna Clarke from Radio 2 and 6 Music for ‘Media’, Alison Lindley for the dedicated ‘Rose Gray Food Pioneer’ category, and Julia Jones, the leading female conductor and music director, for ‘Music’.
The awards also saw the launch of a new category, ‘Women To Watch’, which includes Katie Piper, for her help to get burns victims the support that they need, and Justice Williams MBE, the social entrepreneur recognised for her outstanding work with young people.
Now in its second year, the star-studded awards ceremony was hosted by Red’s music editor Jo Whiley at London’s Saatchi Gallery, in recognition of British women who have shown impressive talent, success and imagination in their fields of work. Categories include; Fashion, The Rose Gray Food Pioneer (in honour of the co-founder of the River Café), Community / Charity, Creative, Ethical / Eco, Internet, Media, Pioneer, Returners, Start up and Woman to Watch.
WINNERS
Community / Charity
Amanda Rose - 34, Founder, Twestival and Connect the Dots Foundation; for understanding the power of social media to inspire people, raise money and put on a worldwide party, all at the same time.
Creative
Julia Jones - 48, Conductor and Music Director; for breaking stereotypes and showing audiences that, whether a conductor is a woman or a man, it's all about talent and the music.
Ethical / Eco
Caroline Lucas - 49, Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion, Green Party; for leading by example and becoming the Green Party's first MP, bringing ethical and environmental issues into the heart of the parliamentary system.
Fashion
Belinda Earl - 48, Group Chief Executive, Aquascutum and Jaeger; for being a true Brit and revamping two of our most historic brands by keeping one eye on their heritage and the other on their commercial future.
The Rose Gray Food Pioneer
Alison Lindley - 42, Co-founder, Ella's Kitchen; for creating a baby food business that finds new ways to present natural, delicious ingredients.
Internet
Anne-Marie Huby - 42 & Zarine Kharas, 58, Founders, justgiving.com; for making scrappy sponsorship forms things of the past, instead making raising and paying money to charity as easy as an online supermarket shop.
Media
Lorna Clarke - 45, Network Manager, BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music; for creating groundbreaking radio initiatives within the non-commercial sector, and for keeping the commercial sector on its toes.
Pioneer
Dr Janine Erler - 32, Leader, hypo and metastasis team (Institute of Cancer Research); for being the first scientist to identify a single key enzyme responsible for the spread of cancer around the body, so making a crucial step towards new drug treatments.
Returners
Zoe Sinclair - 35, Founder, Employees Matter; for combining a post-motherhood career with commercial savvy, and making the lives of stretched employees that little bit easier.
Start up
Emma Sinclair; 33, Founder and CEO, Target Parking; for recognising a growing market and making her mark in a business not usually associated with female entrepreneurs.
Women to watch
Justice Williams (Charity) - 29, Social Entrepreneur; for using her brush with crime as a catalyst to help other young people, earning an MBE by the age of 28 for her hard work.
Bola Agbaje (Creative) - 28, Playwright; for writing a script on how to represent young black British culture on stage, and opening a new world of performance to theatergoers.
Krissi Murison (Media) - 28, Editor NME; for taking a 57 year old title and making it as relevant today, in an era of music downloads and falling record sales, as it was when it first launched. Krissi is the first female editor of the NME, and for one of her first issues she ran ten covers with half of them being women.
Katie Piper (Inspiration) - 26, Founder, Katie Piper Foundation; for using her terrible experience as a catalyst to help burn and scar survivors receive the best treatment here in the UK.