CareTech National Awards 2025

Описание: Our 10th annual, National CareTech Care Awards were held on the 20th of November at the Hilton in Watford.

These Awards provided us with a wonderful opportunity to reflect on an amazing year full of high points and celebrate the inspirational staff we have across the group that go above and beyond in providing extraordinary days every day for the individuals we are privileged to support.

All the national winners from every area of the business were recognised and celebrated and we were proud to have so many of them join us on the day.

This year we received a record 1350 nominations in total from across the whole of the CareTech Group, presenting the Judges with an incredibly difficult task of choosing the winners, as the quality of nominations received was also higher than ever!

After much deliberation our two overall National Winners for 2025 were announced and presented with their Awards:

The Overall National Winner for Children’s is Josh Barreto from Cambian who was originally a Winner in the category of "Children’s Champion Award”

The Overall National Winner for Adults and Specialist Services is Colin Davies from Whitecliffs in the South Region who was originally a Winner in the category of “Team Leader/ Deputy Manager of The Year”

Our Group CEO, Haroon Sheikh opened the Awards with an inspiring and heart-warming speech reflecting on the successes of the year and praising the commitment, hard work and dedication of our staff before handing over to this year’s host, Mike Adams OBE (Founder of Purple and Enable All as well as a Group Executive Director of CareTech)

Mike welcomed a number of guest speakers and presenters who we were fortunate to have in attendance on the day, including:

Mr Naif AlSudairy, CEO from Jazala Holdings who presented Certificates of Achievement to three Teachers from The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who have been in the UK to complete the CareTech Scholarship Programme.

Previous National Winners: Joseph Gumbo,who was the winner of the first ever CareTech Care Awards. Lucy Arciuolo, winner in 2017 and Gyorgy Budi who was the overall National Winner for Adults in 2024

Guest Speaker – Jess Smith, Paralympian and Global Ambassador for Purple

Ela Sherlock who is an individual we support in North Wales, Ela graciously told us her story and performed a song

Sarah Ezekiel who is an individual that uses Smartbox Technology extensively.

Mark Wright a resident from Oakleaf who, shared his story and took questions.

Leo Storey from Cambian Somerset School who detailed his journey with Cambian and also took questions with Mike.

Special Recognition Awards were then presented to 17 staff from across the business who have made a valuable contribution and been integral to CareTech’s success and growth over the last 32 years.

The day was an overwhelming success with a strong emphasis on the individuals we support and our amazing staff that care for them. There were many smiles all around as the Awards were warmly brought to a close by our Group Executive Chairman, Farouq Sheikh OBE

Congratulations again to Josh, Colin, all the National and Regional Winners and Nominees as well as everybody else recognised and honoured on the day… Thank you for everything you do, we are so incredibly proud of you all! 🙌🏼🙏🏼⭐️