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Access Community Trust are a brilliant Lowestoft-based organisation which promotes social inclusion for the community benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society.

We are proud to support them wherever we can and were delighted to sponsor the Team of the Year category in their 2021 Team Awards. Congratulations to the award winners – The entire supported accommodation & NTC team!

If you want to watch something that makes you smile, please check out this online awards event, available to watch on YouTube (you can skip forward to catch our segment at 28 minutes and 55 seconds.)

Citrus were delighted to have received so many very worthy Environmental Awards entries in our role as sponsor of the Environmental Business of the Year Award at The Suffolk Chamber of Commerce in Lowestoft & Waveney Business Awards 2021 which took place last night, & selecting our 2 finalists was challenging!

Runner-up Re-Utilise is a Community interest Charity who have gone the extra mile to engage with business to separate reusable products that would be otherwise be destroyed.. The donated waste items are sold to groups & individuals for art & Craft materials. Donated paint is resold for £1.00 per litre, mostly to the local community, but also farther afield. Citrus felt that the family engagement of the Scraps Challenge was a valuable learning for kids of all ages working together, along with family, carers, & the dedicated team of volunteers to have fun using their imagination to use scrap materials to regularly create models & artwork.

All in, Citrus loved the commitment to sourcing & reusing business waste, which is made saleable, & engendering less wasteful habits in young people is hugely important to save the world.

Winner Cycle Recycle Principles to Promote Cycling, Saving customers money & Keeping bikes out of waste streams ( over 9000 unwanted bicycles in 10 years) has attracted customers of all ages throughout the Eastern Counties to visit Lowestoft & Waveney for services, recycled parts & renovated bicycles. The business is growing because recreational & competitive cyclists value the teams commitment to the hard task of dismantling cycles, making use of all possible parts. Congratulations on your business expansion. Citrus wish you well in your new shop in Long Stratton, improving healthy living & promoting sustainable cycling that reduces our Carbon footprint in the East.

Suffolk Chamber of Commerce’s first Prestige Dinner for nearly two years proved to be a great success as almost 200 guests were entertained to broadcaster and author Clare Balding OBE’s recollections of her career and life experiences.

In her first live public appearance since the first national lockdown in March 2020, Clare Balding spoke to her very appreciative audience for well over half an hour.

She recounted stories from her multifaceted career, including about the Olympics, her interviews with leading sportspeople and her various appearances on Celebrity Gogglebox.

She also spoke about the importance of team building, motivation and core beliefs in delivering successful outcomes whether in the media or in business more generally.

According to John Dugmore, Suffolk Chamber’s chief executive: “It was a great night. I think her stories of aiming high, planning carefully and coping with setbacks resonated with our audience, most of whom have probably experienced such highs and lows in business, especially over the last 18 months.”

Inspire Suffolk recently celebrated the achievements of their young people at their annual staff and student awards. The Ipswich-based youth organisation support young people onto a positive future and Citrus Security Shredding were delighted to sponsor ‘Team of the Year’

The award ceremony which was held on 1st September celebrated staff who had made a positive difference to students, as well as the achievements of the young people who completed courses over the past year. 

The winners of ‘Team of the Year’ were the Sports Team. So, we would like to offer our congratulations to these brilliant guys (seen here with our CEO Jules Shorrock) as well as all staff and students who went the extra mile throughout the pandemic – well done!

We are celebrating our CEO Jules who has had a very busy 2021 as a guest panellist at various events!

July 19^th 
Jules was joined by Access Community Trust talking about recycling & wellness community support, as well as celebrating Freedom Day with East Suffolk WI officers in Stratford St Andrew.

June 25^th 
Jules was pleased to talk on Sustainability in Business to members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICEAW) 

March 21st
Nat West invited Jules onto a panel of 4 female entrepreneurs discussing Sustainable business & the environment, as part of a series of International Womens Day meetings. The lively discussion around Net Zero planning was chaired by news presenter Kate Silverton. 

Our CEO Jules Shorrock has been a long-term advocate of both ecologically sustainable business practise and female entrepreneurialism.

Jules was delighted to take part in The Climate and Sustainability session, a part of NatWest’s recent International Women’s Day event, Championing Change where she explored, along with a female panel, the benefits of being a female entrepreneur and the key challenges for businesses in 2021, such as Covid-19, changing shopping habits and the need to be environmentally sustainable as well as the opportunities that these challenges face and how businesses are responding to both.

We are so proud that NatWest agree that Jules is a great example of female-led entrepreneurship. To read the article, click here or to watch the session, click here.

We are delighted to announce that our CEO Jules Shorrock has been featured in the brand-new campaign ‘Female Focus’ by NatWest and Getty Images to improve the way female entrepreneurs and business leaders are represented in media and advertising.

‘Female Focus’ sees the creation of a new gallery of images on gettyimages.com, including 15 female entrepreneurs, aiming to illustrate the diversity of female-led businesses in the UK.

We are so proud that NatWest agree that Jules is a great example of female-led entrepreneurship. To read the article in full and feature on Jules, click here

Jules believes that 2021 is going to be a great year for female led business and that it will see more women than ever registering their own business! Check out this short video for more thoughts and inspiring words…