PEOPLE and development manager Lottie Mason is passionate about her role – and that’s official.

Lottie works at Cottons Hotel and Spa at Knutsford, and was awarded the Passionate People Developer at the North West Employee Engagement Awards (NWEEG).

Hotel and spa general manager Steve Ogden said: “We’re super proud of Lottie Mason, whose positive attitude and ability to get people to believe in themselves to fulfil their potential impressed the judges.

“We put a lot of time and effort into employee engagement because we believe that having a happy team all helps to create a fantastic guest experience.

“I’m delighted that has been recognised by the judges – even for Lottie to be shortlisted when there was such tough competition is a great achievement, but the win was the icing on the cake for us.”

The awards encourage and help businesses across the north west to engage better with their staff, their customers and stakeholders, to make the region the best place to work.

The annual awards celebrate best practice and innovation across the region and around 200 nominations were submitted, spanning 11 categories.

Steve Smith, CEO of NWEEG, said: “I am sure that all the judges will agree that it has been an almost impossible task to just choose the finalists this year.

“The calibre of nominations has been out of this world and really shows that everyone has some amazing people in their companies.”