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Candice spent a day at the Edinburgh International Convention Centre in October networking with Scottish tourism and hospitality professionals, in between presentations from leading experts giving insights, trends and forecasts for travel and hospitality. An enlightening event, not to mention a tasty lunch served by Leiths!

Hannah and Claire attended the QEII Centre to enjoy some very interesting and insightful discussions on our Foodservice sector:

Thank you to EP Business in Hospitality, AlixPartners & Compass Group UK & Ireland.

Graeme Smith detailed some positive indicators on food service demand.

Julie Ennis MBA covered market trends and keeping ahead of the curve.

Jonathan Davies focused on the vital and urgent efforts required on sustainability.

Catherine Brien guided us through the developing world of AI.

And thank you to the panel on your vision and insight in to future growth and development:

Alan Beddie 

Simon Houston 

Alex Head 

Christina Ronsyn 

Dan Kelly 

Sam Tate 

It is always such an honour attending this prestigious event at Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, celebrating the UK’s most successful hotels, hoteliers and employees. Fiona and Candice represented Cartwheel this year, and were treated to a delightfully delicious meal and outstanding hospitality.

Hannah is honoured to be invited to judge The Food Service Catey Award 2019.
The shortlist will be announced soon and the winner revealed at the glittering Awards Dinner on 2^nd July at the Grosvenor House, AJW Marriott Hotel.

This year we are proud to announce we are sponsoring the Hotel Cateys, Front of House Team of the Year award. The prestigious event takes place this Friday, 23rd November at the Park Plaza, Westminster Bridge. It is sure to be a glamourous event, as ever celebrating the most successful hotels and hotel employees from across the UK. We will be live tweeting on the night to announce the winner! Good luck to all nominees.

We are very proud to let you know that Claire, our Client Services Director has made the shortlist for the Permanent Recruiter of the Year Award at the IRP Awards later this year. Here’s wishing Claire lots of luck for the big night. Bring home the trophy!!

https://www.irpawards.com/shortlist

Our MD Hannah Horler has been supporting the Springboard Charity for a number of years now and this year her support takes the form of a new and exciting challenge. As part of their annual fundraising Hannah and a group of 30 others will be trekking in Vietnam and joining a community project there.

The 70km trek will take them away from all the hustle and bustle and deep into the Hoa Binh Province where they will be hiking through valleys, rice paddies, bamboo forests and mountains.

Their journey will take them to a very poor community in Ham Yen.  Here the average monthly wage is a mere $15USD per month! This is where they will be rolling up their sleeves and over four days help to build a school alongside the locals.

This is one of Springboard’s key fundraising events and makes a significant difference in helping those who need someone to give them a chance in life and support them into employment.  If anyone wishes to donate to this worthy cause you can follow the link below.

https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/hannahhorler

The Nottingham team dusted off our posh frocks and black ties last night to attend the 2018 Nottingham Restaurant and Bar Awards held at Colwick Hall Hotel.

We had been invited to help judge one of the categories, the Young Front of House award and after selecting a short list we were able to go and see the finalists in action at each of their restaurants.

The awards night itself was a great celebration of all the amazing eating and drinking venues in Nottingham and of the people who work at them.

Congratulations again to Daiva Steponaviciute from La Rock in Sandiacre who was our chosen winner. (Pictured here with the award sponsor Kathryn Greenwood from Eden PR Consultants)

The New Year starts with an exciting new addition to the Cartwheel team. We are delighted that Amanda Afiya joins us as Non-Executive Director.

After a brief period working as a personal assistant at the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park (then owned by Trusthouse Forte), Amanda trained as a journalist with The Caterer. She has spent more than 25 years writing about hospitality and was most recently editor of The Caterer magazine, where she worked for 27 years, latterly overseeing its digital edition, daily online content, the group’s other market products, such as the Acorn Awards and the Cateys, in addition to the market-leading title.

Amanda now runs her own business offering editorial services and advising operators on PR, marketing and communications, and careers.

As well as being on the Board of Directors for Cartwheel she is chair of Hospitality Action’s fundraising and marketing communications national committee and a trustee of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Adopt-A-School charity.

Once again Cartwheel are proud to be partnering with The Caterer to bring you the Food Service Forum. The Forum is specifically geared towards the Foodservice sector. As a fast moving sector, always aiming to keep one step ahead, we have put together a great line up.

The event takes place on 9th June at Kings Place and again brings a broad, interesting line up of speakers.

Keynote speaker this year is Sarah Linton, Director of Zircon Management Consulting, who will be sharing her company’s Winning Attitude research. We also have Sarah Jayne Stanes OBE and Alex Taylor talking about food education in schools. Mike Hanson from Baxterstorey and John Campbell from Woodspeen join us to talk about Protein Challenge 2040.

For more information on this years event please go to –  http://www.foodservice-forum.com/foodserviceforum2017/en/page/new-home-page

On Tuesday 2nd January 2007 Cartwheel Recruitment began trading. This month sees us celebrate our ten year anniversary. Much has changed over the years, with several office moves, new openings and a growing team. May the next ten years be just as exciting. We thank you all for your continued custom and support.

Cartwheel Recruitment are again partnering with The Caterer for the Foodservice Forum on the 16^th September 2016.

This event offers a great line up; including Ross Walker, Senior UK Economist for RBS, who will be giving us a macroeconomic forecast post Brexit.  We also have Karen Forrester, MD for TGIF, who is a truly inspirational leader and speaker!

And for fun, we have devised ‘The Caterer’s Room 101’ where Bill Toner, Noel Mahoney and Wendy Bartlett will be discussing their pet hospitality industry hates to be banished to Room 101…..

For more information on the event visit: http://www.foodservice-forum.com/

Cartwheel had the honour of sponsoring The Cateys 2016 Special Award at the glamourous annual dinner at the Grosvenor House on Tuesday 5^th July. The award was presented to Jill Stein and Rick Stein for their wonderful achievements in creating an enduring restaurant business that has steadily expanded over more than 40 years and for developing a strong food-led tourism culture in Cornwall. To view the full article click on this link: https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/367615/cateys-2016-special-award

This month saw Hannah Horler take to the South Coast to complete her final half marathon on behalf of The Springboard Charity’s 25^th Anniversary. She battled high winds and driving rain in order to complete her challenge for 2015! A huge thank you to all who have donated. Hannah has exceeded her target of £5,000 and funds are still coming in to support this amazing Charity!

The evening of the 2^nd November was a very special evening for Cartwheel Recruitment. Not only did we have the honour of sponsoring the Best Recruitment Initiative with Hannah presenting the worthy winner, Diageo with their trophy,

Hannah also won an award herself! At the end of the evening Hannah was presented with the Chris Beaumont Special Award 2015 for her services and support towards The Springboard Charity, which have spanned 15 years.

This month Hannah Horler took to the streets of Birmingham to join in the Morrison’s Great Birmingham Run. Again this half marathon was all in aid of The Springboard Charity’s 25^th Anniversary and totaled Hannah’s 4^th run out of 5 completed for them. With her funds steadily growing, she still has one more to complete in November.

Hannah Horler took to the streets of Nottingham on Sunday 27^th September to run her 3^rd of 5 half marathon’s for The Springboard Charity’s 25^th Anniversary Year. As Chair of their Fundraising Committee, Hannah set a challenge of completing five half marathon’s; one for every five years they have been helping disadvantaged and under-privileged people gain access to training and embark on a career within the Catering & Hospitality Industry. She aims to raise £5,000.