The team at Kilmarnock Enterprises are
overwhelmed to have been named the 2015 winner of the
Champion Charity Large Enterprise category at this year’s
Champion Canterbury Business Awards.
Kilmarnock is a
social enterprise which leverages business excellence as a
contract manufacturer to provide a unique and enriching work
environment, empowering people with an intellectual
disability to see their value and pursue their dreams.
CEO
Michelle Sharp would like to acknowledge the other finalists
and the incredible contributions they make to
Canterbury.
“We feel honoured to be in such remarkable
company with Canterbury Youth Development Programme, Ronald
McDonald House, and SPCA Canterbury. At the end of the day
we are all winners. Each one of us works very hard to make
our communities a better place. For Kilmarnock this is not
so much a victory as it is reinforcement that the work we
are doing is heading in the right direction.”
As the
2014 winner of the ACC Workplace Safety category, Kilmarnock
really appreciates the opportunity to be included in the
prestigious business awards.
Sharp believes the best way
to change attitudes about disability is to show the
community how much can be achieved when you focus on
abilities. “What Kilmarnock does, is offer a great example
of how a commercially sustainable organisation, with the
help of its community, can deliver real and tangible social
outcomes.
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