The Insurance Institute of Ipswich, Suffolk & North Essex Prize Winner's Ceremony 2025

On Tuesday, 4th March, we held our annual event of celebration for our members who had excelled in the CII and PFS examinations during 2024.

This event is always well attended and this year was no different. Our students and their supporters flocked along to partake in some great food and then settled down to listen to our guest speakers....

Neil Laybourn, founder of This Can Happen and Jonny Benjamin MBE had the room engaged for a full hour during which they told the story of how a chance meeting on Waterloo Bridge, changed the course of their lives forever. The Q&A session could have gone on all afternoon and as a result of this, we will be looking to arrange a further session related to some of the questions raised over the course of the next few months. If you are interested in their story and want to learn more, take a look here

Finally, students passing a PFS or CII qualification during the 2024 calendar year were then called up to receive a token of appreciation and a photo with our president and guest speakers.

We were even all treated to a photo in the stands at the premiership club!

If you were present at the event and would like a copy of your photograph and are happy for your photo to be shared, please contact Johanna Mulley for the link (johanna.mulley@mclarens.com)

The session was extremely moving and following the event, our speakers sent through the following links that they thought might be useful to our members.  

Suicide and Co:
https://www.suicideandco.org/

SOBS:
https://uksobs.com/

CALM:
https://www.thecalmzone.net/