About the Sponsors
Main Sponsor
Barclays Bank is committed to supporting customers through the economic cycle. Barclays operates from a position of strength and remains committed to creating and maintaining a platform for customers to succeed.
Barclays Business is the business banking arm of Barclays. It has over 700,000 customers that are a mixture of start ups, sole traders, partnerships and limited companies.
Barclays offers a choice of business accounts that can be tailored to the needs of customers and the provision of up to two years free banking to start-ups, subject to remaining in credit.
Our day to day business banking support is provided through an award winning team of Business Managers who are available over the telephone for everyday and urgent banking needs during the daytime, evenings and weekends. Barclays provides a support line that customers can use to talk directly to a Barclays lending specialist to discuss additional financing options.
Free consultations can be provided for businesses with a local accountant, marketing expert and solicitor to advise on topics such as the best legal status, how to advertise or draft supplier contracts. Barclays runs a free nationwide business seminar and workshop programme, details of which can be found on our website. The events are designed to help business owners network and gain practical help on relevant challenges such as marketing, trading online or how to generate more business profits. Over 12,000 delegates have attended one of Barclays 800 business seminars over the last 12 months.
Another useful business tool is our Business management software that helps business customers complete their account work quickly and efficiently; support their hiring efforts; help back up their business data securely; and avoid late payment and bad debts.
Event Partners
Deloitte are delighted to support The Morgan Foundation. At Deloitte we identify with and celebrate the spirit of entrepreneurship; entrepreneurs’ wealth accumulation and business success are the centrepiece of our thinking. Experience tells us how to best work with entrepreneurs. Already, we advise many entrepreneurs; from early stage through to IPO and valuable exit and those who have already achieved eminence.
In the North West Deloitte advise 7 of the top 10 wealthiest business leaders in the region. Key clients include Peel, Beetham, Warburtons, Gold Medal Travel and Urban Splash, together with the Bridgemere Group owned by Steve Morgan.
That’s why ours is a personalised service providing solutions for determined and established entrepreneurs and their businesses. We build strong relationships with a trusted team, and vice versa – it’s also a service that’s innovative, tailored and worked around entrepreneurs.
Achieving extraordinary business success is a journey: our Entrepreneurial Business Team is well placed to recognise and distil the many growth opportunities along the way. We allow entrepreneurs more time to do what they do best, whilst helping them to develop their business and maximise future wealth.
We consider our relationships and clients and contacts to be key and take time building and maintaining these relationships.
Nationally we were recognised in the 2010 Sunday Times’ best big companies to work for survey. In addition we have been ranked as the second most sought-after graduate employer in the UK in a ranking of the Top 100 Graduate Employers published by the Sunday Times, and have been ranked as one of the Top 50 organisations Where Women Want to Work.
Liverpool Vision is the city’s economic development company. It was established at a critical stage in the city’s urban and economic renaissance. Now the company is enabling Liverpool to complete and accelerate the considerable economic recovery and growth we have witnessed over the last decade. We are focused on building a strong, sustainable economy which can compete more effectively in international markets than ever before.
The success and encouragement the Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards gives local entrepreneurs has led Liverpool Vision to become an event sponsor and offer an additional £10,000 to be awarded to the ‘Best Social Enterprise or Entrepreneurial Charity in Liverpool’.
Head of Enterprise at Liverpool Vision, Nicola Gleave, said “The Entrepreneur Awards are just fantastic. The competition identifies real winners and the funding, the support and the confidence winning brings are a real spur to business success. We’re very impressed with the excitement the awards generate each year and the way the Awards promote the area as one of the top spots for enterprise. We’re proud to be a significant sponsor of the Awards and pleased to be able to team up with the Morgan Foundation to make the Awards even bigger.”
Nicola continued, “We’re looking for dynamic and professional social businesses, entrepreneurs or entrepreneurial charities that are committed to growth and delivering social benefits to the people of Liverpool and the city. We’re sure that there are real winners deserving recognition and access to the support that will ensure a successful future in the years ahead.”
For more information on Liverpool Vision go to: www.liverpoolvision.co.uk
To find out more about how it supports social enterprises, go to: www.liverpoolvision.co.uk/supportbusiness/socialenterprises.asp
Insider Media Ltd is the UK’s largest, independent, regionally focused, multi-media company based outside London. The company produces market leading business magazines across seven regions of the UK. The magazines cover regional business news, analysis and general business facts and information of importance to company directors and owners in each region.
Insider hosts almost 100 regional events, from large, market leading, black tie award dinners for as many as 900 guests to smaller breakfast style events on bespoke topics for up to 100. The daily email newsletter service has a subscriber base of over 100,000 business people across the UK and its online web site insidermedia.com hosts several sector specific business channels giving help, advice and support to director level business executives. The site is fast becoming a regional one stop shop for business advice for busy board directors and company owners. Insider continues to grow and new regions and product launches are scheduled for the next 12 months.
At Mace & Jones there are three things that matter: our clients, our people, and our values. And it’s by sticking to our values that we provide a great service to our clients and a great place for our people to work.
Our specialist teams of lawyers provide a wide range of legal services to businesses, the public sector and individuals alike, with a straight forward and friendly approach. Those services include Banking & Finance; Corporate & Commercial; Corporate Recovery; Dispute Resolution; Employment and HR; Real Estate and Construction. In fact, all the things that any entrepreneur will need from a law firm.
The firm also has one of the best private client teams in the region covering Family; Personal Injury; Residential Property and Tax,Trusts & Estates. Again, things that can be so important to the successful businessman.
We are delighted to be supporting the Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards, for we share Steve Morgan’s steadfast belief that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and flourishing throughout Merseyside and North Wales. Our clients prove it every day and we hope we do so too, as we have now taken the step of opening an office in North Wales to better serve the business community there.
Diana Mather formed Public Image over twenty years ago to provide Public Speaking and Media training, but over the last three years she has begun to include International Business Etiquette, Protocol and Modern Manners.
It is a UK based company with an office in Nairobi and will have branches in Rwanda, Angola, Nigeria and Indonesia by the end of the year. Public Image was one of the first companies in the field of image building to achieve formal approval by the House of Commons for advising Members of Parliament in the UK on the whole range of topics relating to their public performance. Diana has trained politicians in Trinidad & Tobago, Senators in the States of Jersey and First Ladies from Nigeria. Apart from working with individuals, in schools and with large corporations, Public Image has also trained the entire staff of a new 5 Star Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya.
NMC Design+Print
The word unique is a much over used and abused word these days, but in the case of NMC Design & Print never has a word been more apt.
True, NMC Design is a graphic design and print company like countless others producing a wide range of products - logos - brochures & folders - leaflets & flyers - business stationery - newsletters – promotional items and roller banners at competitive prices. We also have a variety of clients from one man bands to plcs, the public sector and charities.
What makes NMC Design unique is that it is a Social Enterprise operating as part of the NeuroMuscular Centre.
The NeuroMuscular Centre is a registered charity based in Winsford, Cheshire providing support and employment for people with Muscular Dystrophy, an aggressive, incurable muscle wasting condition.
All NMC’s designers (we currently employ nine) have MD and all the profits made by the company go towards the running costs of the Centre.
