Saffron Cherry’s Creative Director Sally Lindsay and MD Caroline Roberts-Cherry were at the House of Lords as guests of The Baroness Newlove at the launch of the Women of the Year Awards 2024.

The Women of the Year Luncheon and Awards has announced its 2024 Awards will be taking place for the first time in Manchester at The Etihad on the 11th of October, with an expected 500 guests in attendance. The event, in its 42nd year, celebrates the achievements of exceptional women across the UK. This is the first time the organisation has selected Manchester to host the awards, and in recognition of the city where the suffragette movement famously began, there is a new category named The Emmeline Award – Woman of Courage. Sally is President of the Women of the Year Awards and Caroline is the Chair of the Pankhurst Trust.

Tables for the event can be booked here; https://www.womenoftheyear.org.uk/

We welcome our new Executive Producer.

We are delighted to announce that the esteemed actor Don Warrington MBE is joining Saffron Cherry Productions as an executive producer, focussing on developing a slate of Global Majority Writers.

He is the star of our show The World According to Grandpa (Milkshake!) and we first worked together when he starred in the stage to screen film King Lear (Talawa, Royal Exchange, Manchester).

Welcome Don!

Warrington joins Saffron Cherry as exec producer

All at Saffron Cherry Productions wish to pay our respects to our lovely colleague and friend Kay Benbow

All at Saffron Cherry Productions wish to pay our respects to our lovely colleague and friend Kay Benbow, the former Controller of CBeebies who has just passed away.

She was a brilliant beacon within the Children’s sector and will be sorely missed by everyone who had the good fortune to know and work with her. We were lucky enough to work with her for over five years on The World According to Grandpa (Milkshake!) as she was the story editor and steadfast champion of and mentor to the creator and writer Chris Heath. She was a brilliant, loyal friend with passion, intelligence and integrity and she was also incredibly kind. We offer our sincere condolences to Kay’s family and a hug to the industry.

Caroline Roberts-Cherry, Founder and MD

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