Recovery In Sight … photo diary
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The Recovery In-Sight Centre received a finalist award for Best New Business from The Federation of Small Businesses in their 2010 Awards ceremony.
Held at Tewin Bury Farm, Welwyn on 13th May at a Black Tie reception and dinner, the awards ceremony came shortly after the launch of the Centre, now one year old.
Heather and Laura outside the marquee
Benit and Laura at the reception as the band played in the background …
Laura proudly holding the award
Well done to all the team for their hard work, and for this, our 5th award since The Recovery In-Sight Centre started only a year ago!
The Recovery In-Sight Centre celebrated its 1st birthday at an exclusive conference launch on 29th April 2010, with the theme “Service Users in the Lead”.
Two honoured guests attended, the Worshipful Mayor of the Borough of Welwyn Hatfield, Councillor Kim Langley and the Mayor of Hatfield Town, Councillor Caron Juggins.
They helped Heather cut the ribbon to mark the occasion.
More photos to follow … for the launch presentations, please see ‘News’.
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Heather and Jan presented on the effectiveness of the In-Sight training at the EMILIA
Conference held at the Ministry for Health in Paris, 11th & 12th February 2010.
dressed warm for sub zero temperatures ...
Their presentation took place in the Salle P. Sternberg of the Conseil Regional d’Ile-de-France, 57 rue Babylone.
The theme of the presentation was “empowerment” which has no translation in French..
a historic room for a new theme
Heather did some sight-seeing around the Latin Quarter where Jan and Heather were staying … Notre Dame de Paris, with 5 below freezing!
Rupert Young and Linda, after his brother Will’s concert at the Bournemouth International Centre
December 2009, where Rupert was promoting his charity, The Mood Foundation.
An interview with Rupert Young will follow in the next edition of The Recovery In-Sight Centre’s newsletter .. so watch this space!
Rupert and Linda meet up
At the Hertfordshire Business Awards Black Tie Dinner held at Knebworth
November 2009, Heather, Linda, Gwyn and Ruth are happy to be among the finalists in the Creative Innovation Category.
Best Dress goes to Ruth!
All the team vote for Ruth for Best Dress!
The team captured around the table before the evening’s celebrations.
Linda and Ruth collect the Finalist Award for Creative Innovation in the Herts Business Awards 2009 from Bill Turnbull.
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Heather in her PhD gown at the graduation ceremony at St Albans Abbey,
November 2009. A strange thought: being a person with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and actually being able to wear this sort of get-up in the main high street and for it to be perfectly ‘normal’…
completely acceptable attire …
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Linda, Communications Lead for The Recovery In-Sight Centre, takes some photos around the offices.
One of our awards from the two wins in the University of Herts Flare competition and the Federation of Small Businesses in 2009.
Team photo in our offices
Another photo taken by Linda - capturing Ruth, Heather
and Paul in our more quieter breakout meeting room with
some of our awards and the In-Sight manual.
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Ila, Liz and Heather met Peter Jones, the multi-millionaire from The Dragon’s Den fame, when he visited their new 
offices at the MacLaurin building at the University of Hertfordshire in June.
Peter was especially impressed by the team’s winning business plan and their Recent Graduate Award from the Federation of Small Businesses, and by the social purpose of the new initiative. Peter mentioned that 35% of his business is carried out with social enterprises.
Whilst he admitted to the services that The Recovery In-Sight Centre provides were not in his own area of business interest (the telecomms/IT field), Peter was happy to have his photo taken with the team when informed about its plans to enable people in their recovery from mental ill health.
Thank you Peter!
The Recent Graduate Award 2009 from the Federation of Small Businesses
The Recovery In-Sight Centre team - Heather, Ila, Liz and Linda - take to the stage to receive their Recent Graduate Award from the
Federation of Small Businesses 2009 awards for Hertfordshire.
Prizes were awarded by compère Susie Fowler-Watt of BBC Look East who told the gathering, “It is great to hear some good news! Words like ‘brave’, ‘focused’ and ‘innovative’ kept cropping up among the judges. These are the characteristics that allow business to thrive.”
Said Head Judge Carol Undy, former FSB National Chairman, “It is such an achievement to get to the finals. I hope that everyone found the exercise of putting forward their application enjoyable and rewarding. It makes you realise where your business has strengths and weakness lie, and this is a very valuable insight.”
Event Organiser Damian Cummins added, “These are the companies that stuck their necks out to join in on an award scheme dedicated to small businesses.
This is the first of its kind and I hope we will see many more in the coming years in Herts and the rest of the UK.”
Please have a look at the news to read more
The team wins Best Business Plan in the University of Hertfordshire’s Entrepreneurial competition FLARE 2009
The Pitch … the team conferring
Liz, Ila and Heather work hard on last minute conferring before they pitch to the three Dragons in Tower Bridge on May 1st 2009 in the competition.
A serious pitch for a serious issue - a social enterprise helping people with experience of mental health issues return to work and to enable their own recovery.
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The Pitch … the business initiative behind the idea 
A pitch that needed to present a viable business idea too …
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The Pitch … strategy
Ila and Heather exchange a few strategy ideas for business development of the social enterprise after the pitch.
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After the pitch … 
All business competition finalists were pleased to have finished their pitches, and to be leaving Tower Bridge.
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Outside Tower Bridge … all finalists together
All finalists were happy to be finally let out of Tower Bridge and into the sun.
Outside Tower Bridge … the Recovery In-Sight team 
The Recovery In-Sight team with the judges.
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Prize-Winners … the Recovery In-Sight team receive their crystal trophies
The Recovery In-Sight team wins its way to Best Business Plan, with awards presented by the Business School Director at the awards ceremony at Beales Hotel, Hatfield on 8th May 2009.
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Prize-Winners … all winners together
Recovery In-Sight, and other winners with awards, and in the frame the book This is Survivor Research which was released a few days earlier on 5th May
2009 in Kings College, London.
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A photo of Heather, taken by Katherine from adeoDesign, website designer and graphic artist at Adeo Design.com, Lyons, France which she then made into a pop art. Catherine, who also has experience of mental health issues, designed the Recovery In-Sight website. Un grand merci Catherine!
