Sponsored by Luminus - Here we reveal some of the finalists who have been nominated for an award and will attend our glittering award ceremony at the Marriott Hotel in Peterborough this Friday, July 4.
Anthea CoxIT'S hard to imagine a woman in Peterborough who has a more important leadership role than Anthea Cox.
She is a co-ordinating secretary for the Methodist Church in Great Britain, and has overall responsibility for so
cial justice and public policy.
This role has seen her travel all over the world, as well as attend high-powered breakfast meetings at Downing Street.
Anthea (42) will probably be a familiar face to many in Peterborough as before she started working for the Methodist Church five years ago, she was a councillor for Ravensthorpe, the leader of the Labour group in the city, and a non-executive director for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.
As well as being a high-powered career woman, Anthea is a wife to Gordon, and mother to two boys.
Jo Fuller-GrayJO Fuller-Gray, of JFG Recycling, is a woman who has been determined to create a successful business in the difficult and male-dominated arena of recycling.
Jo has the ability to make a success of a tough business proposal and the enthusiasm and drive to motivate her staff and impress her clients.
She is well informed and knowledgeable about all aspects of the business, which she set up with her father four years ago.
The company initially started with Jo and her dad refurbishing and selling on a load of carpet tiles that were about to be landfilled.
From the early surroundings of her garage Jo now operates from an industrial unit with five employees.
The company's main business is the recycling and resale of carpet tiles together with selling new tiles to businesses and the public. Carpet tiles never decompose, which is disastrous for landfill sites.
Leonie McCarthyAS the manager of new arrivals project New Link, Leonie McCarthy spends her working life helping Peterborough through the biggest period of change it has ever seen.
Her job demands that she listens carefully to the concerns of the city's settled residents, at the same time as helping ease migrant workers into the Peterborough workforce.
Her role also involves talking to and helping people who have fled from scenes of stomach-churning brutality we will only see in our worst nightmares.
Leonie's job is no walk in the park – in fact, the world in which she works is a political minefield.
In 2006 Leonie was surprised and delighted to be chosen to be one of 12 commissioners to work on a Government project to tackle integration and cohesion.
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