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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
TV star and comedian announced as host of EADT Business Awards 2025
Tickets are now on sale for the EADT Business Awards 2025, which will be hosted by a popular TV quizzer and comedian. The awards aim to recognise the very best businesses in the county, with a range of varied categories ensuring a selection of firms are represented in this year's cohort of winners. The judging is now complete and finalists advised - all will be revealed in our special Business Awards supplement in paper on Wednesday, June 25. The winners will be announced at a black-tie event on Thursday, July 10 at Kesgrave Hall, Ipswich, which is also the venue sponsor of the awards. Kesgrave Hall, Ipswich is the venue sponsor of the EADT Business Awards 2025 (Image: Matthew Potter Photography & Videography) The event begins at 6.15pm for the drinks reception, sponsored by East Coast College, and guests will be seated at 7pm. All guests will enjoy a delicious three-course meal, and there will be plenty of opportunities for networking, sharing successes and celebrating the Suffolk business community. The host for this year's EADT Business Awards ceremony will be comedian and 'chaser' on ITV's The Chase, Paul Sinha, who will be entertaining the audience before announcing this year's winners! Sinha began doing stand-up as a break from his studies as a junior doctor, and went on to become both a practising GP and an Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee. The winners of the EADT Business Awards 2024 at the awards ceremony (Image: Matthew Potter Photography & Videography) He combined his experiences on the frontlines of the NHS with his witty observations on life, developing a friendly story-telling comedy style that entertains audiences across the country. Today, Sinha can often be heard on Radio 4 and 5 Live speaking on current affairs and sport on programmes including The News Quiz, Just A Minute, The Now Show, Fighting Talk and Yes It's The Ashes. Sinha also wrote and hosted his own documentary for Radio 4, The Sinha Test, which explores the relationship between sport and nationality. He also hosted the Olympics-themed The Sinha Games and History Revision, and has appeared on QI, Would I Lie to You? and ITV4's Football Genius. A passionate quizzer, Sinha has appeared on several quiz shows, mostly notably on The Chase where he is known as 'The Sinnerman'. He also writes and hosts quizzes of his own and released his first book, 'The Real British Citizenship Test: What You Really Need to Know to be a UK Citizen', in 2015. Paul Sinha will host the EADT Business Awards 2025 (Image: JLA) The categories at the EADT Business Awards 2025 are: Customer Excellence Award, sponsored by Greater Anglia; Businessperson of the Year, sponsored by Churchmanor Estates; Employer of the Year, sponsored by Ashtons Legal; Growth business of the Year, sponsored by Vertas; Large business of the Year, sponsored by Larking Gowen; Medium Business of the Year, sponsored by Pound Gates Chartered Insurance Brokers; Small Business of the Year, sponsored by Suffolk Business Board; Startup business of the Year, sponsored by Chassis Cab; Environmental & Sustainability Award and Positive Impact in the Community. The winner of the ultimate accolade of Suffolk Business of the Year, sponsored by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce and Sizewell C, will also be announced by Paul Sinha at the awards evening. Tickets for the EADT Business Awards are available to purchase online now, with both individual tickets and table packages available. There are a limited number of tickets on sale, so be sure to get yours while you can to be part of one of the Suffolk business community's biggest celebration of the year! Visit to book your tickets.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Business awards spotlight Suffolk's visionary businesses
The East Anglian Daily Times is delighted to announce the launch of the EADT Business Awards 2025 - celebrating the very best of Suffolk business. From the moment I started my first job in journalism at the East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star in 1992, things have been changing. There was still a typewriter on one of the desks on my first day at Lower Brook Street in Ipswich. It wasn't in use, but not so long ago that it had been. Back then, we used clunky computers with green flashing blobs and everything you typed would hover in the blob (or so it seemed) before flashing across the screen all at once. When I moved to London, we had Quickmail and Quick Conference – a terrifying system where your message could fly up on the recipient's screen. Woe betide you if you sent a message to your friend about your annoying boss – only to discover that because you'd been thinking about him, your message had gone to your boss instead! EADT editor Liz Nice at the EADT Business Awards 2024 (Image: Matthew Potter Photography and Videography) From there, we got Apple Macs (mine was pink) and we really thought we'd made it. But the internet hadn't even been born yet and when it did appear, after the brief period of disaster they called the crash, suddenly the game changed yet again. It has been changing, more or less monthly, ever since. And yet I'm still here. Still in this business. Most of my contemporaries are not. I can't say why that is the case, but I can say what I've had to do to still be here: stifle a heck of a lot of eye rolls, smile when I didn't mean it, laugh when it wasn't funny, stay awake through a lot of not very interesting monologues. But hey, we've all done that, haven't we? That isn't enough. The real secret to longevity, along with sticking at it and loving what you do, is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances with optimism, not dread. If you stay looking forward, not back, you'll keep going. And if you support your colleagues and stick up for them, they will go with you and hold you up when you need it, because it was you who held them up when they needed you to. We have a great, forward-looking business community in Suffolk, facing innumerable changes and challenges. And we will keep on embracing those changes and challenges and making them work for us because that is what we do if we want to stick around. I will look forward to seeing you all at our beloved Business Awards, to be held at Kesgrave Hall on July 10, where we will be celebrating the new, the bright, the beautiful and the brilliant – if you're still here, still doing the thing you love with hope and passion, that's you, by the way. If you want the rest of the county to know about it and be inspired, then please visit our website at and get your entry in by the deadline on April 6 – because everything will change again tomorrow and I promise you this – it's always good to remember where you've been and how far you have come. Suffolk Business of the Year - sponsored by Suffolk Chamber of Commerce & Sizewell C Businessperson of the Year - sponsored by Churchmanor Estates Customer Excellence Award - sponsored by Greater Anglia Medium Business of the Year - sponsored by Pound Gates Large Business of the Year - sponsored by Larking Gowen Employer of the Year - sponsored by Ashtons Legal Small Business of the Year Start Up Business of the Year Environmental & Sustainability Award Positive Impact in the Community Growth Business of the Year
