Creating A Positive Legacy

Tamara Cabey was awarded the ‘Creating a Positive Legacy’ title for her work in creating a system to improve waste management across the Evelyn Partners office in Bristol. Her work has contributed to not only improvements at site-level, but also supported our wider environmental goals.

Our Operations Director, Justin Gray , who assumes ownership of our Evelyn Partners portfolio presented Tamara with the award and personally acknowledged her incredible efforts.

Ensuring Safer Spaces

Carl Haynes and Glen Travers – both stationed at The Cube in Birmingham – were selected as this year’s winners of the ‘Ensuring Safer Spaces’ award.

Carl and Glen received recognition for their professionalism while dealing with an emergency situation on site over a weekend to ensure that the premises and all groups of people were safe. Paul Rogan, our Operations Director who oversees the Midlands region, proudly presented Carl and Glen with their trophies.

Empowering Our People

Central to our business is the development of our people. From attracting and retaining top industry talent to coaching team members through the rankings to achieve their full potential, our ‘Empowering Our People’ award aims to recognise those who have dedicated significant time to building the infrastructure to help others to grow and supporting them throughout their career journey at DOC.

Jose Cavallaro, our Head of Learning, Development and Quality, was selected as this year’s award winner for his continual efforts to enhance employee development and training, in particular his recent work to ensure we achieved our UhUb Gold Engaged status for a third consecutive year and latest BICSc accreditation, as well as the creation of a bespoke suite of training videos for one of our newest clients, the National Theatre.

Jose was presented the award by Jamie Bull, our Joint Managing Director.

Inspiring Bold Action

Our Operations Director, Tony Hall, took to the stage to present Jickson Berrmudez with the award for Inspiring Bold Action. Jickson, who is based at the Courtauld Institute, received the award in recognition of his work and his dedication to helping others and getting involved in tasks beyond his core duties.

In his role, he provides outstanding support to the on-site Estate and Facilities and Maintenance teams, as well as providing a liaison between the café and common room to ensure that consumables are replenished and coffee machine cleaned.

Team Of The Year

Diego Vera, Ricardo Justino, Luiz Davilla, Gustavo Sollis, Javier Penaloza, Oscar Nunez and Maria Espinoza – our team at South Bank Central – received our Team of the Year award at our 2025 Beyond Cleaning Awards, presented by Luke Smith, our Operations Director. The team were gifted the award as a result of their exceptional performance during a recent protest in London. 

Once the crowds dispersed from the protest, the Estate was left in an unnaceptable state with broken glass, copious amounts of litter and puddles of urine. Without hesitation, the cleaning team mobilised on a non-contractual day to restore the area to its usual high standard, ensuring everything was fully prepared for Monday morning. Their dedication and commitment to maintaining safety, order and cleanliness was exemplary.

Bob Andrews Rising Star Award

.To present the Bob Andrews Rising Star Award, we invited our Joint Chairmen, Lee and Danny Andrews – Bob Andrews’ sons to take to the stage. The Bob Andrews Rising Star Award was introduced last year in honour of DOC’s Founder to recognise an outstanding individual’s projectory within the company.

The winner of this year’s Bob Andrews Rising Star award was Carlos Rodrigues. Carlos is based at the London Museum, and was selected for his dedication and professionalism in everything he has done since the commencement of his placement.

With support from his team, Carlos played a significant role in turning a troublesome contract into a smooth running, well-maaged contract. He has been the first to complete all training requested of him and is an excellent communicator with the client. Carlos has risen through the ranks since initially starting at DOC as a porter cleaner, and his level of detail and dinformation provided as part of the recent tender further identifies this.

Roger Odle Lifetime Achievement Award

Similarly, the Roger Odle Lifetime Achievement Award was introduced to honour a long-standing member of DOC and friend of the Andrews family. Presenting the final award was Joint Managing Director Lee T Andrews.

The Roger Odle Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Evelyn Foriwaa who dedicated more than 25 years of her life to maintaining our high standards at one of our key sites in the City of London, Tower 42. Evelyn recently retired and will be sorely missed by the entire team.