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The Inaugural 2015 Sass Member Awards.
Saturday 5th December saw the launch of the first Sass Place Awards. Opened in 2014, Sass Place is located in Parkside, South Australia and is the first co-working space of it’s kind in Australia. Dedicated to supporting female change makers, it provides a range of services to enhance, support and encourage women to bring their dreams to life including co-working and permanent working space; room hire and event space; relationship building; community forum; mentoring and business support and more – find out more about Sass Place
Tash, our Chief Bean counter, was fortunate to be nominated in three categories including: Quite Achiever Award, Member of the Year and Business of the Year… Tash ended up taking home the All Rounder Award, recognizing her contribution to Sass Place and the members of the Sass Community. Tash has assisted many of the business owners with general queries surrounding their bookkeeping, provided 1:1 training and also ran an “Introduction to Cloud Accounting using Xero” workshop from the Sass Place boardroom. The other winners on the night included a great line up of women in business.
MEMBER OF THE YEAR
• Belinda Ryan – Ignite Art Therapies
Art therapy is not about creating masterpieces to hang in a gallery but it is about expression and discovery.
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
• Piped Dreams – Karen Zanker
Beautifully hand-decorated cookie art to suit all of life’s occasions
STARTUP OF THE YEAR
Nikki Munn – NM • ARTS Creative Studio
Freelance graphic designer and artist
Bec Weatherill – Rebecca Weatherill Life Coaching
Life Coach and Workshop Facilitator based in Adelaide, South Australia
QUIET ACHIEVER
Natalie Buckingham – Industry Events & Markets Australia
Connecting Stallholders, Event Managers & Suppliers
Carly Thompson-Barry, Sass Place founding director, experimented with broadcasting the event live online using Periscope video streaming. Periscope is owned by social media giant Twitter and provides the ability to stream live video for iOS and Android devices. Using technology, Sass Place enabled fellow Sass members who were unable to attend the special occasion, as well as members from the broader Periscope community, to be able to login live and listen firsthand to the presentation. Periscope is another example of how technology can be used effectively to bring people closer together.
Sass Member Awards 2015 – Member Award 2015 Winners