Ade Adepitan to host British Parking Awards 2015

Paralympian and broadcaster to reveal 2015 award winners at Lancaster Hotel, London, on 6 March

Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan

Ade Adepitan, television presenter and Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, will present the British Parking Awards, which take place at the Lancaster Hotel in London on Friday 6 March.

Having survived polio as a youngster, Ade Adepitan has gone on to compete as a wheelchair basketball player on an international level and has since built up a wealth of broadcasting experience. An instantly recognisable face, Ade traverses the world for BBC World’s The Travel Show and is a reporter on Channel 4’s foreign affairs series Unreported World, which has seen him report from Honduras and Cuba. Other documentary work includes Ade Adepitan: Journey of my Lifetime, which saw him return to his birthplace Nigeria to explore why polio remains endemic there.

Sporting presenting credits include fronting the BAFTA Awards winning coverage of the 2012 Paralympics and subsequently the Winter Games for Channel 4. Personal sporting achievements include a Bronze in the Athens Paralympics, Silver in the European Championships and Gold in the World Championships.

Ade began his TV career on Tiger Tiger, a children’s wildlife series for Channel Five that saw him traveling the world reporting on endangered species. He went on to report for BBC1’s flagship travel series Holiday and ITV’s Dream Ticket. In 2005 he participated in Beyond Boundaries for BBC2, a groundbreaking series that saw 11 disabled individuals adventuring across Nicaragua.

Ade received an MBE in 2005 and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Loughborough University in 2006 and the University of East London in 2010. He is also patron of the disability sport charity Wheelpower and the Association of Wheelchair Children and an ambassador for the NSPCC and the Prince’s Trust. 

Ade spoke at the launch of the 2012 Olympic bid. In the build up to London 2012, he worked extensively in the UK, giving motivational speeches to schools, charities and businesses planning for the Games. 

Enter the awards for free today

The deadline for the 2015 British Parking Awards is Friday 12 December 2014. 

The entries are assessed by a panel of consultants and experts working in the fields of parking, transport and logistics.

Entry to the competition is free. Entries can be submitted by email.

If you have a question relating to the awards competition please contact Mark Moran, editor of Parking Review by email: mark.moran@landor.co.uk

www.britishparkingawards.co.uk