The Webbie Awards, hosted in style this year at the Imperial War Museum, have become a traditional feature of the Web Apps Christmas Party. This annual event gives us the opportunity to pay due deference to the people who make Web Applications the fantastic organisation that it is today – the hard workers, the characters and the personalities!

The Awards, hosted by Craig Dean with a host of willing assistants, was conducted with all the excitement and glamour of the Oscars. All winners were awarded an original glass Webbie Award trophy, formulated especially for the 2011 ceremony by our designers, as well as a token gift to reflect the sentiment of their award!

The categories, the valiant nominees and the heroic winners (in red) are as follows:

The Pride of Web Apps Award (The Employee of the Year)

Cheryl Diskin
Jeffrey Ng
Peter Bettison 

The Directors’ Choice (The employee selected by the Directors for their outstanding contribution)

Jeffrey Ng

The Stephen Fry Award (The fountain of knowledge)

John Sampson
Peter Bettison
Vivienne Dean 
 

The 007 Award (The smoothest operator)

Fahim Mukhtar
Herman Ho
Shaun Austin
 

The Apple Award (The person at the forefront of technology)

Andrew Stanley
Robert Lindley
Chris Sweeney 

The Walking Dustbin Award (The person who can and will eat anything)

Allan Lowe
Herman Ho
Shui Ip 

The Julie Andrews Award (The person most likely to spontaneously burst into a song)

Naomi McKenna
Sophia Argyropoulos
Sara Barlow 

The Huggable Teddy Award (The loveliest person in the office)

Helen Burnett
Sara Barlow
Vivienne Dean 
 

The Gordon Burns Award (The person who did a great job in the UGS video interview)

John Sampson
Joseph Taylor
Mark Walker 
 

The Nike Award (The person who “just does it”)

Jeffrey Ng
Naomi McKenna
Peter Bettison 

Huge congratulations to all our Webbies who, nominated for an award or not, certainly deserve recognition for working as tirelessly as they do!