Shortlisted for National Diversity Awards 2013

Tina Lannin has been shortlisted for the UK’s Largest Diversity Awards.

Tina Lannin a local entrepreneur from London has been nominated for the Entrepreneurs of Excellence category at The National Diversity Awards.

The ceremony celebrates some of the excellent and inspiring achievements of positive role models and community organisations from across the UK. The awards aim to recognise nominees in their respective fields of diversity including age, disability, gender, race, faith, religion and sexual orientation.

Tina Lannin set up 121 Captions to help other deaf people like herself to obtain better access to information and services through high quality communication support and training courses aimed at inclusion and empowerment. Tina is an experienced deaf awareness trainer, lipreading teacher, and forensic lipreader.

121 Captions was the first agency to bring remote speech-to-text and remote captions to the UK in 2009, making captioning much more accessible to consumers.

Deaf-owned and deaf-led, 121 Captions is unique in providing a service to deaf and hard of hearing people by offering an “inside-out” view of meeting client needs, as opposed to other companies who offer an “outside-in” service.

“I receive accurate word-for-word captions for my teleconference calls and I can now participate in all my business teleconference calls with colleagues around the world. Fantastic!” — Blue chip client, London

“Having a tutor who has experienced deafness and the use of a cochlear implant really adds to my understanding.” — London Deanery

The National Diversity Awards, to be held at the Queens Hotel on September 20^th, will honour the outstanding achievements of grass root communities who have contributed to making a more diverse and inclusive society.

Leeds will play host to the prestigious black-tie event which has been sponsored by a growing list of top employers including Microsoft, Transport for London, Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC), Sky, MI5, The Co-operative Group, The Open University and the Financial Ombudsman Service amongst others.

The awards have gained a mass of celebrity support from the likes of Stephen Fry, paralympians Jody Cundy and Claire Harvey and singing sensation Misha B.

Misha Commented, “I’m Delighted to be a patron of The National Diversity Awards; A great opportunity to recognise and celebrate diversity in all its glory”

TV personality Brian Dowling will take to the stage once again to host the evening, along with British actress and CBeebies presenter Cerrie Burnell.

Brian said; ‘Last year was an amazing night filled with so many inspirational people, and it made a change to be at a national event that recognised the different variety of talent that the UK has to offer’

‘I look forward to witnessing what the 2013 ceremony will bring, but I know another fantastic array of role models and charities will be celebrated’

Veteran activist Peter Tatchell was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at last year’s ceremony, alongside Zita Holbourne, recognised for tirelessly fighting social and racial justice over the last 20 years.

Paul Sesay, founder of The NDA’s said; ‘Well done to all shortlisted nominees. We had an overwhelming amount of nominations this year and the standard has been exceptional.’

‘I know another fantastic spectacle of role models will be delivered and recognised this year’.

Winners will be announced at The National Diversity Awards 2013.

National Diversity Awards 2013 shortlist

This would not have been possible without the help of our fabulous team – so a huge thank you is due to Payal, Jeff, Suzie, Rachel, Jeanette, Mark, James, Kayte, Pete, Jonny, and our group of almost 400 captioners, speech to text reporters, notetakers, lipspeakers, and interpreters.