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6 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2020 TAMWORTH HERALD NEW YEAR HONOUR Knighthood for Hamilton Susan was left delighted SEVEN-TIME Formula One world title winner Lewis Hamilton has been given a knighthood in the New Year honours list following and emotional by news pressure on the Prime By daN NewboUld express my thanks to my excellent, and have been since 2006. We have Minister to approve the News Reporter professional and skilled team, who won Small Company Business Excel- accolade. share my values, goals, vision and lence Awards on numerous occa- Despite being one of the EMOTIONAL and delighted is how a aspirations; our learners and employ- sions, we are Matrix accredited and a UK’s most successful Tamworth managing director felt ers who have shown great loyalty and runner up as Training Provider of the sportsmen, Hamilton had after hearing she would be awarded a achievements; the support received year for the 2019 Apprenticeship previously been repeatedly New Year’s Honour. from my fellow Directors of the Bir- Awards. overlooked, reportedly due Susan Tipton MBE, aged 66, now of mingham and Solihull Network of “Alongside running this training to his tax affairs. Harlaston but formerly of Tamworth, Training Providers, colleagues from company I also ran the Gungate The honour rounds off a has received her honour for services West Midlands Combined Authority Hotel and I brought a bit of fame to bumper year for Hamilton to apprenticeships and charity in the and of course my grateful and heart- Tamworth because I went on the which saw him equal Michael West Midlands. felt thanks to AELP (Association of Hotel Inspector show in 2014. We had Schumacher’s record with a The Protocol Consultancy Services Employment and Learning Provid- articles in the Herald. I eventually seventh Formula One title managing director beamed: “I am ers) who nominated me.” sold it in 2018 so I could focus back and being voted Sports absolutely delighted. It is fabulous. It Susan set up Protocol Consultancy on the training company.” Personality of the Year for a makes me very emotional. I never Services in 1996 as a small Midlands Through Protocol Consultancy second time. ever thought anything like this would based apprenticeship training pro- Services, she has supported numer- Elsewhere, continuing the happen to me. I haven’t quite got vider and over the last 25 years has ous national and local charities trend set by the Queen’s used to it especially as I haven’t been supported more than 5,000 learners, including the Roy Castle Lung Cancer him when I am ready to. We make an Birthday Honours list, there able to talk about it yet! engaging with over 2,500 employers Foundation and Alzheimer’s Society excellent team working together. are a slew of gongs for those “This award is testimony to the sig- and helping 2,000 NEET (Not in Edu- and Dementia Friends. “This has been the most gruelling, seeking solutions to the nificance of working with apprentices cation, Employment, or Training) “It is important to be able to give challenging year because of Covid - problems posed by and traineeships. It is so important young people into apprenticeships or back,” says Susan. “We champion the trying to keep money ticking over and coronavirus as the pandemic helping them get on the career ladder employment. Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation. keep the business going which we drags on. and seeing them develop into suc- Over the 25 years, she has Over the years, bearing in mind we have been able to do, it has been Veteran footballers Jimmy cessful employees with responsible employed 40 apprentices in her own are only a small organisation, we tough times and I don’t feel like the Greaves and Ron Flowers positions and gives great satisfaction. business, some of whom are now have raised about £70,000 through worst is over yet with everything that are also made MBEs after a Their success is Protocol’s success directors or senior managers. organising balls at Moor Hall or Dray- is going on in the world right now. long-running campaign to and now more than ever in these She recalled: “I had taken redun- ton Manor. I would raffle off gourmet “Perhaps after next year I can slow ensure every surviving challenging times we need to support dancy from my previous company, I nights at the hotel. down a little bit and enjoy life while member of England’s 1966 each other and help in making the was 40 and I wanted to have a go at “I became a Dementia Friend still feeling I have a role to give with World Cup-winning squad lives and career prospects of local starting something so that is what I because of my mother who had Alz- my expertise.” gets an honour. young people better. did. heimer’s for the last 10 years of her Susan has also led a Peer Review There is a damehood for “We are only a small organisation “I grew the business. First I oper- life so that is dear to me. We also do Group within the Birmingham Net- actress Sheila Hancock, who and usually in our industry most of ated out of Tamworth and then I Air Ambulance, Save the Children, work of providers that support made her name in the West these go to college principals and a moved into a premises in the centre Sport Relief, Christmas Jumper Day. benchmarking and sharing of good End before becoming a few to independent training provid- of Birmingham. Within the first year I “I would also like to take this practice with the learner and appren- perennial figure on British ers but mostly national ones so it is had grown to 60 people on my books opportunity to thank everyone who ticeships as the focus for activities for TV screens. an excellent achievement. through word of mouth. I was a sub has supported me with the charity the last nine years. People striving to end “Even though I have been hon- contractor to a local organisation and work both locally and nationally that She volunteers her experience and issues such as oured with this it has never been just then I managed to go solo myself we have undertaken over the years.” expertise by attending Birmingham homelessness, domestic me except for the first five years or so. after a further five years and get my So what does the future hold? Employment & Skills Board, post-16 abuse and social isolation Particularly in the last 10 years I have own direct contracts. “I am still there and I am still forum, AELP and West Midlands net- also receive awards, had an excellent team around me, “We are an independent training active,” said Susan. work meetings. including Kim Leadbeater - many of whom have been appren- provider that primarily work with “I am coaching, mentoring and She has previously chaired and is sister of murdered MP Jo tices themselves and grown up with apprentices. We do traineeships now working closely with somebody who the current treasurer of the Birming- Cox - who becomes an MBE. the organisation. It really has been a as well, working to try and get on the started as an apprentice with me and ham & Solihull Work Based Training Many people looking out team effort. We are going to celebrate career ladder. is now operations director. Providers and she has also been a for the health and wellbeing our 25th anniversary in 2021 so what “We have won various accolades “There is a fantastic synergy KPMG mentor and QCF champion of NHS staff during the a way to start. over the years and I am a grade one between us and I would like to feel supporting other independent train- pandemic received “I would like to acknowledge and Ofsted outstanding training provider that I can hand over the company to ing providers and colleges. recognition for their efforts. One example is Greta Westwood, chief executive of nursing charity the The British Honours system: How does it work..... Florence Nightingale Foundation, who is THE release of the New Year Honours and “committed themselves to services and civilians. oversees the honours system. recognised with a CBE for list provides another opportunity to serving and helping Britain”. How are people nominated for Someone who has made an her work highlighting the celebrate individual outstanding It acknowledges long-term honours?: Any member of the public exceptional contribution to the mental health toll of the achievements and contributions to volunteers, innovators, entrepreneurs, or an official body can nominate response to the coronavirus crisis in pandemic on frontline British society. individuals displaying “moral someone for an honour. the UK can also now be nominated. workers. But who decides how honours are courage”, those making a difference UK nationals and citizens of 15 Non-British or Commonwealth In music, star of the ‘90s handed out, and what exactly do they in their community or field of work or Commonwealth “realms” to which the country citizens can be considered UK garage scene turned recognise? people improving life for others less Queen is monarch are eligible to be for “honorary” awards. music producer and DJ Here we take a look at the inner able to help themselves. nominated. Who approves nominations?: Craig David is recognised workings of the honours system: Honours are given to people involved People living or working overseas, Consideration of nominations can with an MBE. What are honours for?: Honours as in a range of fields, including sport, whose achievements were made in take 12 to 18 months, but recent Other film and TV stars to part of orders of chivalry have been health, science and technology, another country or in the UK and honours recognising services during make the cut include former given by monarchs since the middle education, business and the arts and have a significant international the coronavirus pandemic were EastEnders actress Nina ages.