Whale of a Time was nominated and duly recognised in the London Peace Awards 2011, for their valuable contribution to peace and justice in London.
Whale of a Time was the London region winner of the Future Friendly Awards 2011, which recognises great environmental efforts and community projects across the UK and Ireland. Due to amazing public support Whale of a Time topped the votes in the whole of UK and Ireland.
Whale of a Time was nominated for a Peace Award 2010 in recognition of our outstanding contribution to making London a better City. The prestigious awards were a celebration and recognition for a positive contribution to the peace and safety of London and were taking place as part of the London Week of Peace.
Whale of a Time was nominated a finalist of the Archant London Business Awards 2010 for the category Community Involvement. This prestigious award seeks to recognise significant achievements in such categories as innovation, customer services and marketing.
Whale of a Time won the Community Wellbeing Competition sponsored by the NHS Lambeth as part of Lambeth Psychological Therapies Service, a part of the national IAPT programme with the aim to increase people’s awareness of ways to help wellbeing.
Whale of a Time is a Green Community Champion and we're proud to announce that we won the Making a Big Difference Award 2010 in Lambeth.
Left: Irwin Lee, UK and Ireland Managing Director & Vice President of Procter & Gamble, Middle: Irene Schleining, Founder Whale of a Time, Right: Gabby Logan, Television Presenter, BBC Sports and radio presenter
Whale of a Time was the London region winner of the Future Friendly Awards 2011, which recognises great environmental efforts and community projects across the UK and Ireland. Due to amazing public support Whale of a Time topped in the popularity stakes getting more votes than any other nominated project. The Future Friendly Awards was hosted by Gabby Logan, Television Presenter at BBC and special guest Irwin Lee, UK and Ireland Managing Director of Procter & Gamble.
Left Irene Schleining, Founder Whale of a Time, middle Nims Obunge MBE DL, Chief Executive of The Peace Alliance, right Mel Larsen, Founder Little Big Peace
Left Irene Schleining, Founder Whale of a Time receives a certificate from Nims Obunge MBE DL, Chief Executive of The Peace Alliance
Whale of a Time is delighted to announce to our nomination for the London Peace Awards 2011, which recognises Londoners who made a significant contribution to safety in the capital. This event forms part of the Annual London Week of Peace 2011.
The Annual Week of Peace Awards Ceremony was hosted by Reverend Nims Obunge MBE DL, Chief Executive of The Peace Alliance / Freedom's Ark with the Mayor Boris Johnson as the guest of honour at City Hall, London 20 September 2011.
Whale of a Time is delighted to announce to have won the category of best sustainable business / organisation running the Whale of a Time Workshop for the local community at our first ever Redbridge Carnival.
We are delighted and grateful that Whale of a Time was nominated for the Peace Award 2010 in recognition of our outstanding contribution to making London a better City.
The prestigious awards were a celebration and recognition of individuals and organisations who, through various initiatives and projects, positively contributed to the peace and safety of London and were taking place as part of the London Week of Peace 2010.
The Annual Week of Peace Awards Ceremony was hosted by Reverend Nims Obunge MBE DL, Chief Executive of The Peace Alliance / Freedom's Ark with the Mayor Boris Johnson as the guest of honour at City Hall, London 22 September 2010.
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Whale of a Time was a winner
at the Making a Big Difference Award
organised by Lambeth Council
Whale of a Time is a Green Community Champion and we're delighted to announce that we won the Making a Big Difference Award in March 2010 in Lambeth. As part of this award we participated in the Lambeth Country Show and organised the Whale of a Time Workshop for the local community in Lambeth.
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Lambeth Green Community Champions Programme supports individuals and groups who want to work with others in their communities to reduce their impact on the environment and ‘make a big difference.’
Archant London Environmental Award
Whale of a Time is proud to announce that Whale of a Time was nominated a finalist of the Archant London Environmental Awards 2009.
Award Cathegory: Best Environmental Project/initiative
The Archant London Environmental Award acknowledges the achievement of talented people, organisations or groups for their contribution they have made to the
local environment via membership of an eco-friendly organisation or on a
larger scale through involvement with a local community project.
It was absolutely wonderful to be part of the Archant London Environmental Awards. It's great to see green initiatives to support a sustainable community in London and we'd like to thank Archant, Tate and Lyle, Swiftflow, Thames Water, The POD for greener schools, Hackney Council, LRS Consultancy and Xero for their sponsorship of the awards. It's so important to recognise the work for the benefit of our community and our environment.
Photo below: Irene Schleining, Director of Whale of a Time (right) and Penney Poyzer, Queen of Green, who stars in the BBC series "No Waste Like Home" presented the winners of the Archant London Environmental Awards 2009 in which Whale of a Time was nominated a finalist in the category for Best Environmental Project!
On behalf of the great whales we'd like to thank everyone who has, is and will be supporting Whale of a Time creating sustainable and environmental change for the global community whilst improving community well-being and taking care of our planet.
We're wishing everyone to have a whale of a time and may all of you live in peace and harmony with all beings on our planet!
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NHS Lambeth sponsored two 
