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Sept 2022
Last Updated: 28/09/2022
Business Breakfast: Harrogate district hotels win national awards
In this morning's briefing, hotels in Ripon and Masham win national awards and a Harrogate company secures £763,000 of government funding.
Andrew Mackay, General Manager Swinton Park; Countess of Swinton, Felicity Cunliffe-Lister; Iain Shelton – CEO Swinton Estate; Simon Numphud MD of AA Media
Business Breakfast is sponsored by Harrogate law firm Truth Legal.
Two hotels in the Harrogate district have won national awards.
Grantley Hall in Ripon won hotel of the year for 2022/23 at the AA Hotel and Hospitality Awards.
Meanwhile, Swinton Estate near Masham won the sustainable award at the ceremony, which was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Iain Shelton, chief executive at Swinton, said:
“We are delighted to be recognised for the work we are doing and look forward with working with the AA over the next 12 months in championing sustainability and launching their new initiatives.”
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Harrogate firm awarded £762,522 for heat pump project
A Harrogate company has been awarded £762,522 of government funding to carry out a project to make heat pumps cheaper.
GenGame, which is based at Hornbeam Park, has outlined a scheme to use data from smart meters to help optimise the running of a heat pump in a household energy system.
The project comes as part of funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
A total of 24 projects in England and Scotland have won funding in the second round of the Heat Pump Ready programme.
Lord Callanan, business and energy minister, said:
“In light of rising global gas and oil prices, getting low-carbon heating technology into homes is a priority for this government as it will help households ditch the costly fossil fuels that are driving up bills.
“Heat pumps are a proven, reliable technology that uses cheaper renewable energy produced in the UK."
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