Cambridge letting agent Martin & Co has been shortlisted for two categories in the Negotiator Awards 2011.

 In November, the specialist lettings agency will be among a handful of the UK’s foremost sales and letting agents competing in the finals of both the Community Champion of the Year and Employer of the Year categories.

The Negotiator Awards were launched in 2008 and aim to identify, reward and celebrate industry excellence and promote best practice. In the past few years the awards have grown in popularity and recognition to become one the major highlights of the UK’s annual property industry calendar.
 
Martin & Co is shortlisted in the Community Champion of the Year category for its fundraising efforts and wider engagement with the local community in Cambridge. Each year Martin & Co is involved in the sponsorship of two local primary school fetes, while the firm also raises money for Arthur Rank Hospice Charity at the annual Mill Road Winter Fair street-event.

The firm is also shortlisted in the coveted Employer of the Year category for the comprehensive training programmes and the other opportunities it provides to its staff; as well as its focus on best practice, team-building and out of work social events.

Nick Diggle, company director, said: “We’re delighted to make the shortlist this year in these prestigious awards - in particular in what we feel are two very important and worthwhile categories.”

Martin & Co Cambridge has won a wide range of industry awards in the past few years. This year alone, the firm was named a Top Ten Service Provider in the East of England in Business Weekly’s New Years Honours 2011; the firm won the Silver award at the Estate and Letting Agent of the Year Awards 2011, and in June, Nick Diggle, owner and company director in Cambridge was awarded as the National Federation of Property Professionals’ and ARLA’s lettings Student of the Year 2011.

• PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS: The Martin & Co Cambridge team