{"id":1536,"date":"2018-12-12T11:09:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2021-08-19T16:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:58:47","slug":"paddy-scotts-founder-receives-honorary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/paddy-scotts-founder-receives-honorary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"PADDY & SCOTT’S FOUNDER RECEIVES HONORARY AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The University of Suffolk has recognised the hard work and dedication of Scott Russell, founder and CEO of Suffolk-based coffee<\/a> brand Paddy & Scott’s<\/a>, during its graduation ceremonies this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary awards recognise notable contributions\nto the educational or cultural well-being of society, in business, industry,\ncommerce or enterprise, for academic distinction, for public or community\nservice or an exceptional contribution to the University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Russell is one of ten individuals who\nreceived awards from the University this year. He becomes an honorary fellow.\nComments Scott, “I am honoured, shocked, but so incredibly proud to accept\nthis award. It goes to show that hard work, determination, self-belief and\nambition can drive you forward no matter how humble your beginnings.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott is a former EADT East Anglian Business Person of the Year and the driving force in making Paddy & Scott\u2019s<\/a> one of the UK\u2019s top independent coffee brands. He’s a proud member of Accelerate 250 (the UK\u2019s top 250 companies geared for growth) after being championed by the Prime Ministers Enterprise Advisor, Lord Young, and ex Tesco CEO, Sir Terry Leahy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, Scott founded the Meru Farm and Ruiga\nSchool project in Kenya, a world first collaboration between the consumer and\ncoffee grower driving sustainability and education, whilst breaking down trade\nbarriers that encourage free trade amongst the whole coffee growing community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2017, Scott was named by Grant Thornton as\none of the country\u2019s top 100 influential business leaders joining the\nillustrious list of \u201cFaces of a Vibrant Economy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The honorary awards were presented during\ngraduation ceremonies celebrating the successes of students from the\nUniversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Suffolk has recognised the hard work and dedication of Scott Russell, founder and CEO of Suffolk-based coffee brand Paddy & Scott’s, during its graduation ceremonies this month. Honorary awards recognise notable contributions to the educational or cultural well-being of society, in business, industry, commerce or enterprise, for academic distinction, for public or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}