A young entrepreneur, Dean Rhodes-Brandon, who runs his own home business for deaf people called ‘Your Local Cinema’, has entered The Remote Worker Awards and hopes to achieve national recognition if he wins.
Remote Employment, a job site specialising in remote working and home working positions, has launched The Remote Worker Awards in association with BT Business to highlight how home working benefits the British public and their working life.
Dean runs on remote fuel. His whole business is run from a laptop with a mobile broadband USB stick. As Dean is profoundly deaf, and rarely ventures out to meet people face to face, he prefers to correspond almost entirely by email, so being a remote worker suits him perfectly.
Dean’s business, Your Local Cinema, is an information service for people with hearing or sight problems. Winning awards is great for creating awareness for a new business and Dean is hoping a possible win for him will result in local and national media coverage for more people to hear about his service.
Dean has an incredible story about how his own need and desire to watch films blossomed into a budding business, which now serves the needs of thousands of people across the country!
His company 'Your Local Cinema.com' has successfully ensured that the UK now leads the world in the field of cinema access. 'Your Local Cinema .com' is the only cinema listings service of its kind in the world and is sponsored by the UK film industry. The service aims to create awareness of - and increase audience figures for - subtitled and audio described (narrated) cinema releases and shows, for people with hearing or visual problems.
Dean was attracted to The Remote Worker Award Dean because he has never heard about a specific award for remote workers and believes it is great that remote and home workers are now being recognised with this Award.
Being profoundly deaf and having mild cerebral palsy, Dean has overcome adversity to get his business off the ground. He cannot undertake most trades or jobs so he started his business with the aim of persuading the cinema industry to become accessible to people with hearing problems, like himself, and somehow provide on-screen subtitles.
Over the years the industry has spent millions of pounds ensuring that most UK cinemas are now accessible to people like Dean.
Along with a trophy to honour the remote worker of the year, Dean would like to win the fantastic array of prizes to improve his 'home business' as well as the wonderful eco garden office up for grabs in the Vivid Green Award.
Dean works from his garden when the weather is good, his dining table when it's not, his bedroom in the evenings and the library when he is at College. He enjoys the flexibility of working for himself, from wherever he fancies working. Dean is certainly a young man with places to go and films to see. Even though he is at college three days a week, he is clearly not afraid of hard work and long days.
There are nine different award categories in the Remote Worker Awards, which includes a national search to find the most innovative business that demonstrates how remote working and home working has made a beneficial impact on their business and home life. Dean is now in the running to win the The BT Home Business Award.
Paula Wynne, founder of Remote Employment and The Remote Worker Awards, said, "The Home Worker Awards comes at a time when thousands of people across the UK are faced with job losses or reduced hours. The Awards aim to raise awareness of remote and home working as an alternate solution the traditional nine to five office routine. We want to unearth inventive pioneers who champion home working and show the UK why more enterprises should give it a go!"
There are other categories including The Remote Worker Award and The Remote Employer Award.
For your chance to win one of these fantastic awards, enter at www.remoteworkerawards.
Notes:
The Remote Worker Awards will highlight how remote and home working benefits the environment, business productivity and employees' quality of work life.
The Remote Worker Awards will change lives!
Everyone who works remotely or works from home and employers who have remote workers are able to enter. And anybody who wants to work from home can also enter to win a £15k home based franchise of their very own as well as other great prizes, one of them being a Garden Home Office worth £10k! The Open University Skills Award gives someone the chance to train or re-train for a brand new career!
About Your Local Cinema
The cinema industry uses Dean’s service to reach out to people with hearing or sight problems who are interested in going to the cinema. All cinemas with a subtitle & audio description system email my service their listings each week.
Dean sorts them all out, and every week sends out an e-newsletter to more than 60,000 addresses, containing those subtitled and described films, locations and show times. There are around 500 subtitled shows every week, and thousands more audio described shows in more than 300 cinemas nationwide.
Dean’s company is an advocate for the public, and deals with representatives of the cinema/film business on behalf of the public.
It's a member of the film industry's 'Disability Working Group', a collection of representatives from cinema, distribution and technology companies, as well as representatives from the main charities for people with hearing or sight problems. This group meets regularly to review and plan the future of 'accessible' cinema.
It began with a campaign, with a petition to the cinema industry. Dean trialed it in his school, which had a dozen deaf students and the petition got over a thousand names from that school alone. So he launched a website to publicise the petition nationally and over the next year or so got many, many thousands of names. Eventually Dean took the petition to the UK Film Council, who spend millions of pounds annually on film- related projects, and persuaded them to seriously investigate the 'cinema access' issue.
They looked into the matter and after more than three years of campaigning for better access, and actually working with the film industry, his company was hired by the film industry to be the 'marketing arm' of cinema access. The main cinema companies and film distributors, as well as a few technology companies and the UK Film Council now sponsor his service.
For more information please contact:
PAULA WYNNE
Remote Worker Awards
Office: 0844 800 8355
Mobile: 077 8986 2746
Skype: 'remoteemployment'
Email: paula@remoteworkerawards.com
Web: www.remoteworkerawards.com
Dean’s contact: subtitles@yourlocalcinema.com
Dean’s website: http://www.yourlocalcinema.com
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Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.
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Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.
Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.
Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.
If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.
Your Home Office
Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.
Pick your desk location
You should be able to see the door of the office from where you are sitting or at least more of your surroundings. Beware of facing the garden and the bird bath – too tempting to watch the world go by! A hard chair will give you backache so spend a little extra on a good one.
Working Hours
Working outside 'normal' working hours helps to balance your work and home life so don't feel guilty dashing off to take the lads to footie after school, as long as you get your work done. Catching up in the early morning or later in the evening works well, but also watch out for going OTT. Make sure you close down and walk away at some point or the family will go hungry.
Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.
Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.
Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.
If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.
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