Welcome to our Winners at this years Scottish Veterans Awards 2024!
We would like to thank everyone who attended this years Scottish Veterans Awards hosted by Mark McKenzie and held at the amazing 5* Prestonfield House, Edinburgh on the 24th April 2024. The Awards were sponsored by Gone Solar and in Support of The ABF Scotland. It was such a fantastic event with a great atmosphere in the room!
Well done to everyone who was shortlisted as finalists, we had a huge amount of applications and the shortlisting process was extremely difficult. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who put forward nominations, you are all doing amazing things in your relevant fields and you should be so proud of your achievements!
Extremely thankful and very honoured to have in attendance and hear from the Brigadier Jody Davies MBE, James Thomson OBE, Scottish Veterans Commissioner Susie Hamilton, John Donovan MBE and the fantastic Edinburgh Garrison Sergeant Major Ruaridh Tuach during the evening. A special thanks also has to go to the Mini Pipe Band from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland and also the two 5 Scots soldiers who were there supporting in their ceremonial dress.
We are so thankful to all our supporters, volunteers and sponsors who helped put this amazing night together!
The highlights of the night saw NHS Golden Jubilee win Employer of the year! The fantastic Callum MacLeod won four awards – Golds in the Community and Volunteer category, Silver in Inspiration of the year and Callum also became our Scottish Veterans Awards Champion for 2024, ending with a standing ovation and emotional speech!
We want to Inspire our future service leavers that great things can happen. It’s you who will act as role models and in some cases mentors, remember Positivity breeds Positivity.
Our Winners are :
Veterans Awards Champion: Calum MacLeod
Role Model of the Year- Sponsored by Print Inc
Gold : Archie Dryburgh
Silver : Rod Cavanagh
Bronze : Stacy Quinn
Inspiration of the Year Award – Sponsored by Eyes Front Magazine
Gold : Scott Meenagh
Silver : Calum MacLeod
Bronze : Louise Worrall
The Community Award – Sponsored by Forces Employment Charity
Gold : Calum MacLeod
Silver : Laura Simpson
Bronze : Alan Deans
Charity Sector Employer of the Year – Sponsored by Prestonfield house
Gold : Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company
Silver : Wings for Warriors
Bronze : Sight Scotland & Sight Scotland Veterans
Health & Well-being Award – Sponsored by Be-inn Unity
Gold : The Veterans Garden Dumfries
Silver : Scottish Veterans Residences
Bronze : Operation Cairngorms CIC
Leader of the year – Sponsored by Strongmind Resiliency Training
Gold : Chris Shaw
Silver : Craig Murney
Bronze : Christopher Buet
Bronze : Michael Mcmillan
Entrepreneur of the Year- Sponsored by Hugh James
Gold : Jamie Kettyles
Silver : Andrew Patterson
Bronze : Gregg Matthew
Employer of the Year- Sponsored by Joint Force Alba
Gold : NHS Golden Jubilee
Silver : Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
Silver : Lothian Buses
Bronze : Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS)
Veteran Owned Business of the Year- Sponsored by Lairds AV
Gold : Hold Fast Elite Ltd
Silver : Wilkins Chimney Sweep Lanarkshire
Bronze : Forces Manor
Volunteer of the Year – Sponsored by Serica Energy
Gold : Calum MacLeod
Silver : Robert Conquer
Bronze : John Paul Stothard
Bronze : Ian Inglis
Lifetime Achievement – Sponsored by Gone Solar
Gold : Martin Bell
Silver : Steve Erskine
Bronze : Mick Flaherty
Reservist of the Year Award – Sponsored by Pathfinder Magazine
Gold : Christian Jetuah
Silver : John Kane
Bronze : Euan Smith
Veterans Group of the Year – Sponsored by The Army Benevolent Fund
Gold : Military Museum Scotland SCIO
Silver : Lothians Veterans Centre
Bronze : Gen Dit Network
Bronze : Royal marine riders association North
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our Shortlisted Finalists, remember its you who inspire our future service leavers – Keep an eye out on Facebook and our social media sites for pictures and videos of the evening coming soon!
