The clock is ticking – counting down to the biggest night of the year for the Yorkshire property community, The Variety Yorkshire Property Awards.

This year is a special year for the event as it’s the 20th anniversary.

Melinda Messenger who is supporting this year’s special appeal.

The Awards take place in a glittering ceremony in front of over a 1000 guests at a black tie dinner in Rudding Park, Harrogate on the evening of 4, May…and the evening is a complete sell out.Good Call Media’s Nik Wood, will be on stage for the event, acting as Master of Ceremonies supporting the celebrity speaker for the night and introducing the Awards themselves which celebrate the very best of the property industry in the Yorkshire region over the last 12 months.

We have also recorded a series of special video reports for the event, including a message of support for the appeal of the evening from celebrity, Melinda Messenger.

Watch out for details of the winners and you will also be able to watch our colourful videos highlighting the projects that are identified as Gamerchangers by the judges.

And finally, the evening raises hundreds of thousands of pounds for the organisers, Variety The Children’s Charity so keep an eye out for the special project that has been highlighted as one of the key programmes to be supported in Yorkshire in 2017 and beyond.

Our latest video report for Volition has gone live and highlights the company’s progress with its colorectal cancer screening triage test in both Asia and Europe.

To see the report, click here

Dr Jasmine Kway, VP Asia Volition

The report features Dr Jasmine Kway, Volition’s Vice President of Asia who says: “We are pleased to be working with Professor Chiu Han-Mo and hope to develop a long-term working relationship. ‘This is an exciting time for Volition as we start our first clinical work in Asia. In addition, we are also taking our first regulatory steps in Asia as we prepare the submission of our CE Marked Nu.Q^TM Triage product to the Singapore and Taiwan regulatory authorities. Regulatory approval in Singapore and Taiwan would not only make our product saleable in these countries but also potentially in nine other South East Asian markets.”

Volition is a multi-national life sciences company developing simple, easy to use blood-based cancer tests to accurately diagnose a range of cancers. The tests are based on the science of Nucleosomics^®, which is the practice of identifying and measuring nucleosomes in the bloodstream or other bodily fluid — an indication that disease is present.

New state of the art robotic screening equipment in Volition’s European facility.

As cancer screening programs become more and more widespread, our products aim to help to diagnose a range of cancers quickly, simply, accurately and cost effectively. Early diagnosis has the potential to not only prolong the life of patients, but also to improve their quality of life.

In Europe, Volition has received Ethical Approval to proceed with the second and final phase of the logistics and pathway design study in Denmark for its Nu.Q^TM Triage Test. The study, conducted in collaboration with the Hvidovre Hospital and The Danish Research Group on Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer, deals with the practical issues of how the product fits into Denmark’s current national screening program. Results from the study are expected by the end of the third quarter this year and will be presented to the National Screening Committee.

Volition’s Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Louise Day commented “We are delighted to receive this timely Ethical Approval for the second phase of the logistics and pathway study. We are hopeful that our collaborators in Denmark will determine the very practical logistics of putting into practice the Nu.Q^TM Triage Test and provide a smooth, patient-friendly implementation into the Screening Program.”

The 2017 Ceva UK Animal Welfare Awards were celebrated in a glittering ceremony at the Burlington Hotel in Birmingham UK and Good Call Media’s cameras and presenters were there to highlight the event.

Nik Wood was MC at the Awards

Click here  to see the overview video of the Awards, which which are in their seventh year and celebrate those individuals and teams who go above and beyond when it comes to maintaining and improving welfare for domestic, wild and farmed animals throughout the world.

The Ceva UK team on stage

Good Call Media’s Nik Wood acted as Master of Ceremonies on the night as part of our ongoing partnership with Ceva. Colourful ‘back story’ videos filmed by another Ceva partner, Mike Benjamin, were shown at the Awards illustrating the work of the short listed individuals and teams and interviews with the winners on the night were combined with these films to provide social media clips for all the winners and sponsors within minutes of the end of the ceremony..

The Awards included the Chris Laurence Vet of the Year Award, The VN Times Welfare Nurse of the Year; Charity Team of the Year; Charity Professional of the Year; Volunteer of the Year, Farm Animal Welfare Award, International Cat Care Award and the Special Recognition Award.

The awards are handed out.

Ceva also revealed that, together with the World Veterinary Association, it is to stage the first Global Welfare Awards which will be held in South Korea in August this year and Good Call Media will be supporting that event.

Ceva’s support for the awards are part of their ethos of going ‘Together Beyond Animal Health’ and is the latest of a series of events held around the globe where they are leading the way in areas such as animal welfare, the reduction of antibiotics use in treating animals and helping to provide the world with healthy and sustainable food sources as the demand for protein grows, especially in developing countries.

Our latest video for AC Goatham & Son, the leading British apple and pear grower, based in Kent, has gone ‘live’.

The video celebrates the company’s 70th anniversary but also outlines AC Gotham’s 20 year plan for the future, to grow their business and establish more orchards in the Medway area of Kent and beyond.

Celebrating 70 years in business.

Click here to see the video report.

Overall winner of the Medway Business Awards

The filming project was completed in partnership with Coast Communications, led by co-owner, Alison Baldwin who, together with her team, are based in Kent providing public relations and communications services for AC Goatham & Son as they continue to invest in growing their business in the Kent and Medway area. In 2016, AC Goatham & Son was voted overall winner of the Medway Business Awards and now sell their apples and pears to many of the UK’s leading supermarkets.

The project follows the production of a video for school pupils and younger visitors to the AC Goatham & Son business which we produced, featuring our own young presenter, Jasmine Molloy. Click here to see that film.

“With so much competition from fruit growers from all around the world, including the current European Union, it’s fantastic to see companies like AC Goatham not only growing apples and pears but investing heavily in new facilities and acquiring new orchards in the Kent and Medway area,” said Goof Call Media’s Nik Wood who fronted the new video report.

Young presenter, Jasmine Molloy.

“We have worked with Coast Communications and AC Goatham & Son on several previous projects, including debates on Brexit at major farming exhibitions so it was a great progression for us to be involved in producing these video reports,” he added.

AC Goatham & Son is estimated to contribute over £12 million annually in ‘gross value added’ (a measure of goods and services returned by a company into the local economy) to the Medway region and that is expected to rise to over £28 million a year in the later stages of their 20 year investment plan.

Changes due to Brexit mean that British growers like AC Goatham & Son have new opportunities to compete with foreign producers in the future. Most of the company’s profits are being ploughed back into the business and they are looking for opportunities to acquire new farms and orchards in the Kent area. When the business was founded in 1947 by Arthur Goatham, the family were fruit contractors and did not own their own farms. Today the modern business is managed by Arthur’s son, Clive Goatham and grandson Ross Goatham.