IN PICTURES: Here are 23 photos from Saint Cecilia's award night in Scarborough

Saint Cecilia’s Care Group hosted an awards evening at the Crown Spa Hotel in Scarborough and awards were presented to recognise the care delivered by staff across the group’s centres in Scarborough, Whitby and Pickering.

Saint Cecilia’s Managing Director Mike Padgham said: “It was an amazing evening and a wonderful opportunity for us to say thank you and show our appreciation to our hard-working staff.

“The feedback we have had from the evening has been excellent and inspires us to make this a regular event.

“Social care staff rarely get the recognition they deserve, and we felt it was time to do something about that. We got a great response, receiving almost 200 nominations across our awards, which made for a tough decision for our judges and a very exciting evening.

“After the challenges of the past three years, including the pandemic, this was a great opportunity to say the very biggest ‘thank you’ to all our staff.

“We presented awards and highly commended certificates to staff on Friday evening, but we were also saying how much we appreciate the work of all our 200 staff – they are all winners in our eyes. We are blessed to have each and every one of them.”

MC for the evening was inspirational speaker and dementia campaigner Big Ian Donaghy.

Unable to attend due to the impact of storm Babet, former politician turned television personality Ed Balls sent a video message of support for the evening.

Check out the pictures below!