About the Sponsors
Main Sponsor
Barclays Commercial Bank provides relationship banking to 151,000 larger and medium business customers in the UK (£1m to £1bn turnover). Customers are served by a network of relationship and industry sector specialist managers who provide local access to an extensive range of products and services, as well as offering business information and support. Customers are also offered access to the products and expertise of other businesses in the Group, particularly Barclays Capital and Barclaycard. Barclays Asset and Sales Finance – a specialist business within Barclays Commercial Bank - provides customers with asset financing and leasing solutions.
Event Partners
Deloitte support entrepreneurs across the region working with businesses such as Peel, Beetham, Warburtons, AJ Bell, 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 ten 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 2007 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.
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.
Your Space Plc offers a range of innovative office solutions including both serviced and virtual offices. As a company we understand the pressures involved in setting up a new business and that a company’s office is one of the most critical decisions to be addressed. At Your Space, we meet the needs of entrepreneurs by creating unique offices in ideal locations throughout the UK backed up with the latest technology and great service.
