Midlands Business Awards Community

Please find useful contacts below:

Manufacturing Growth Programme

The Manufacturing Growth Programme is the UKs largest and leading business support programme aimed at making improvements to manufacturing SMEs. It is a £11.8m ERDF funded programme that delivers across 16 LEP areas.
The programme has supported more than 3,000 SME manufacturing businesses and created over 4,400 new jobs across England since October 2016. Due to the success of the programme, funders have extended the support until June 2023.
Website: www.manufacturinggrowthprogramme.co.uk
Email: enquiries@egs.live | Phone: 01664 501 301

Peter Roper - The Family Business Practice

Do you want to make new connections and grow your business?
We created the Family Business Practice in 2015 to support family businesses of all shapes and sizes and with their own unique brand of circumstances and needs.

Needs we totally understand because we are all family businesses too and probably facing the same challenges as you do every single day!

We are the natural home for solopreneurs, partnerships and established family businesses. Conceived, created, and operated by family businesses perhaps just like you. Whether you have been in business for five minutes or fifty years we will have something for you.

www.familybusinesspractice.com

Dhiren Katwa - Karma PR

An award-winning leader in Communications, Dhiren continues to freelance for national newspapers and runs Karma PR. Honoured in 2012 by the President of India for his contribution through journalism to the British Indian community, Dhiren champions the Equality, Diversion & Inclusion (EDI) agenda and sits on various Boards and Committees as a voice for the voiceless. He has been on the judging panel of the Midlands Business Awards since their inception

http://www.karmapr.co.uk

Henrik Court - Henrik Court Events

More than thirty years experience in business - marketing, PR, business development, sales, customer service and events roles. Works with individuals and businesses they own or work for to raise their profile, promote what they do, grow their network, generate new customers, sales and profit. An experienced introducer and networker - Past winner of the 'Midlands Networker of the Year' and 'Networking Group of the Year' awards, Midlands Business Awards judge since 2019.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/henrikcourt

Jay Ryder - BBP Media

For more than ten years BBP Media has been an invaluable resource for regional entrepreneurs and SME owners, offering advice, information and understanding on the topics of the day, across a broad range of industries and sectors. The striking digital magazines deliver their message through a free subscription to decision makers providing a them with fantastic platform to communicate with other businesses in their region.

We are proud to have been involved with the Midlands Business Awards for over 7 years.

www.bbpmedia.co.uk

Rebecca Fahy - New Dawn Creative

Rebecca Fahy is the founder and owner of New Dawn Creative and works with companies and business leaders across all sectors, helping them with their growth and development. Rebecca has that very rare combination of being a strategic thinker with a practical and methodical approach to business processes as well as being a talented designer, creative professional and artist. She has helped hundreds of businesses to create and develop memorable brand identities to help them flourish.

www.newdawncreataive.co.uk

Martin Sparrow – Suretax Accounting

Suretax Accounting is a sole practitioner accountancy practice based in Coventry serving the needs and requirements of the small owner managed business. The practice is run by Martin Sparrow who offers a full accounting & taxation service, but from a personal, hands-on and pro-active perspective. He is focused on smaller businesses, setting them up to be self-sufficient, and helping them reduce costs and tax. His clients benefit from an initial consultation, (free of charge) plus his commitment that all his billable work is quoted for in advance and on a FIXED PRICE basis, which includes FREE unlimited telephone support.

Tony Probert - Light Media Communications

LightMedia Communications Limited

LightMedia are a Midlands based award-winning web design and development agency who are passionate about helping businesses get the best from the web.

As a digital agency we understand that each of our clients is unique and that their websites should always reflect this, which is why we work hard at identifying what makes each client different and conveying this in the web solutions we build.

Over the last 16 years our projects have varied from working with small start-ups through to large multinationals, helping them to deliver expertly engineered solutions such as eLearning portals, intranets and extranets, innovation platforms, web applications, websites and management systems.
www.Light-media.co.uk

Ninder Johal - The Business Influencer

www.thebusinessinfluencer.co.uk

Past and Present Winners and Finalists

Hadley Farms Ltd

http://www.polledsouthdevoncattle.com

Bradford Estates

http://www.bradford-estates.co.uk

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University of Worcester

http://www.worcester.ac.uk/community/entrepreneurship.html

Staffordshire University

http://www.staffs.ac.uk

The University of Wolverhampton

http://www.wlv.ac.uk

University of Derby

http://www.derby.ac.uk

University of Birmingham

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk

University of Leicester

http://www.le.ac.uk/departments/informatics

University of Northampton

http://www.northampton.ac.uk

University of Warwick

http://www.university of warwick.co.uk

Aston University

http://www.aston.ac.uk

Birmingham City University

http://www.bcu.ac.uk/

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Jatt Life Drinks

http://www.jatt-life.com

Flexi-Films U.K. Ltd

http://www.flexifilmsuk.com

The bank academy

http://www.thebankacademyofaesthetics.com

AJB Group

http://www.ajb-group.co.uk

Talent Today Ltd/ FurLearn

http://www.furlearn.com http://www.talenttoday.co.uk

Mereway Kitchens Ltd

https://mereway.co.uk/kitchens