About the Sponsors
Main Sponsor
The Barclays Commercial 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 remains very much open for business and continues to assist new and existing customers with their financial needs. We continue to lend to SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises), which we are well placed to do, as Barclays remains well capitalised with a strong balance sheet. We are also working closely with Government to support initiatives such as the EGF (Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme).
All our Relationship Directors are all industry alligned, which means that as well as providing customers with financial advice and solutions, they are also active within their industry sectors enabling them to understand and respond to their customers' challenges and market opportunities. They also act as the local gateway to an extensive range of additional services from across the Barclays Group, including support for international trade, cash management, asset and sales finance, risk management, venture capital solutions and private banking.
Barclays Commercial Bank is also proud to offer customers a range of benefits over and above what they expect. Barclays has invested heavily in providing guidance, business tools and networks as part of our Turning the Corner programme, which can be accessed via our website - www.barclayscommercial.com/turningthecorner.
Event Partners
Deloitte support entrepreneurs across the region working with businesses such as Peel, Beetham, Warburtons, Gold Medal Travel and Urban Splash, together with Bridgemere Group and Harrow Estates owned by Steve Morgan.
The breadth and depth of services delivered by our experienced team have enabled us to work with many individuals from an early stage and support them through the important early years of growth through to their stages of expansion within the UK and internationally.
The team at Deloitte can bring a wide range of skills including advice on audit, tax, transactional work and special consulting projects.
Deloitte employs almost 700 people across our North West practice. Advising seven of the top 20 plcs in the North West and more than half of the region's leading entrepreneurs, we pride ourselves on the quality of service we deliver to our clients.
Nationally we were recognised in the 2009 Sunday Times’ best big companies survey where Deloitte was ranked in sixth place. Deloitte has been ranked as the second most sought-after graduate employer in the UK for the second consecutive year in a ranking of the Top 100 Graduate Employers published by The Times, and have been ranked as one of the Top 50 organisations Where Women Want to Work.
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.
Insider Media is one of the leading independent business information publishers based outside London. The company produces a wide range of monthly business magazines, annual directories and guides, providing a portfolio of professional products covering corporate finance, commercial property and general business activities of importance to company directors. Included in our portfolio are the award-winning Insider magazines covering the North West, Yorkshire, Midlands, Wales and the South West. Insider also organises and hosts many prestigious events and award ceremonies across these regions.
