Tina Lannin Nominated for the UK’s Largest Diversity Awards

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Tina Lannin Nominated for the UK’s Largest Diversity Awards

Tina Lannin, an entrepreneur from London, has been nominated for the Entrepreneur of Excellence at The 2015 National Diversity Awards.

The ceremony celebrates some of the excellent and inspiring achievements of positive role models and community organisations from across the UK. The awards aim to recognise nominees in their respective fields of diversity including age, disability, gender, race, faith, religion and sexual orientation.

Tina Lannin owns 121 Captions, a company run by deaf people for deaf people, providing live captioning and subtitling services of the highest quality in 17 languages. She is passionate about accessibility for deaf people, being deaf herself. She obtained a university education without captioning support and used captioning herself in the workplace for several years, and has a wealth of knowledge to share about captioning, subtitling, and access for deaf people.

The National Diversity Awards 2015 in association with Microsoft will be held in Liverpool on September 18th. Britain’s most inspirational and selfless people will come together to honour the rich tapestry of our nation, recognising individuals and groups from grass roots communities who have contributed to creating a more diverse and inclusive society.

The largest diversity awards ceremony of its kind has attracted a growing list of top employers such as Sky, Financial Ombudsman Service and Price Waterhouse Coopers.

The prestigious black-tie event has also gained support from a number of celebrities including Stephen Fry, Misha B and Ade Adepitan.

Theresa McHenry, of Microsoft UK, said ‘The National Diversity Awards 2013 were thought provoking, humbling, inspiring, and not least, entertaining. This is the reason Microsoft are delighted to continue to be involved and have committed to sponsoring the National Diversity Awards 2015’.

Amongst last year’s winners was James Partridge, who spear-headed campaigns for social change and pushed for anti-discrimination protection. Jessica Huie took home the entrepreneur of excellence award for race, faith & religion, for setting up the UK’s most successful multicultural Greeting Card and Gift Company. Birmingham LGBT were also recognised for opening the first LGBT Health & Wellbeing Centre in England and Wales

The National Diversity Awards received an astonishing amount of nominations for last year’s event.

Paul Sesay, Chief Executive of The National Diversity Awards said, ‘It is an honour to witness the extraordinary journeys of Britain’s unsung diversity heroes, and we will continue to recognise their extraordinary achievements during 2015’.

‘I know another fantastic spectacle of role models will be delivered and recognised this year’.

Nominations are now open and close June 21st 2015 – so don’t miss out on your chance to get involved!

Shortlisted nominees will be announced shortly after this date.
To nominate Tina Lannin please visit National Diversity Awards or for a nomination form please email: emma@nationaldiversityawards.co.uk

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