{"id":1509,"date":"2017-03-13T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1509"},"modified":"2017-03-15T10:50:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T10:50:55","slug":"michael-congratulates-small-business-on-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1509","title":{"rendered":"Michael Congratulates Small Business on National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1513\" style=\"width: 4000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1513\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1513 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095.jpg\" alt=\"Chevevning Fin_10-3-17_095\" width=\"4000\" height=\"2662\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_095-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with the team from Chevening Financial. (credit: Russell Harper)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael visited Chevening Financial in Sundridge on Friday to congratulate them on becoming the first ever recipient of the Small Business Big Heart Award.<\/p>\n<p>He was met by representatives including David Hawes-Gatt, Managing Director of Chevening Financial, and heard about the business\u2019 work and contribution to the community.<\/p>\n<p>Chevening Financial secured the title after stiff competition from small businesses across the UK.\u00a0 It was selected as the winner in recognition of its eight-year long programme of community support.\u00a0 This includes taking housebound pensioners out for shopping and socialising, with Mr Hawes-Gatt clocking up 4,000 miles in total to date.\u00a0 The company is donating its \u00a31,000 prize money to DEBRA, a charity it supports which helps people with the genetic skin condition Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1512\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1512\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?attachment_id=1512\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064.jpg\" alt=\"Chevevning Fin_10-3-17_064\" width=\"311\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064.jpg 4000w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064-768x511.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064-1024x681.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Chevevning-Fin_10-3-17_064-1200x799.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 85vw, 311px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1512\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael with David Hawes-Gatt and Lucie Robson from DEBRA. (credit: Russell Harper)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Michael said: &#8220;I was delighted to be able to congratulate David and his team at Chevening Financial in person for receiving this award.\u00a0 Becoming a regional finalist was impressive; winning the national competition is a quite remarkable achievement. \u00a0I am proud that a business in my constituency is playing such an active role in the community and I look forward to hearing more about its work in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On his latest day in his constituency, Michael also discussed healthcare with\u00a0local \u00a0commissioners, visited the Parents&#8217; Consortium in Hextable and met representatives from Swanley Town Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael visited Chevening Financial in Sundridge on Friday to congratulate them on becoming the first ever recipient of the Small Business Big Heart Award. He was met by representatives including David Hawes-Gatt, Managing Director of Chevening Financial, and heard about the business\u2019 work and contribution to the community. Chevening Financial secured the title after stiff &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/?p=1509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michael Congratulates Small Business on National Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8,472,496,435,434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.michaelfallon.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}