Steve Morgan Announces Return of Entrepreneur Awards

£150k’s worth of prize money and professional services to be won

Wolverhampton Wanderers FC chairman Steve Morgan is today launching an extension of The Morgan Foundation’s Entrepreneur Awards to encompass the Wolverhampton area.

Businesses and entrepreneurs from Wolverhampton and its surrounds will now have the opportunity to compete across five categories for a share of cash prizes and services worth over £150,000.

Designed to encourage a whole new generation of entrepreneurial role models, the extension of the initiative to the Wolverhampton area follows the huge success of last year’s inaugural awards which were open to participants from Merseyside, West Cheshire and North Wales.

With sponsorship from Barclays Commercial, there are dual launches to this year’s award scheme, with today’s event at Molineux being followed by another in Liverpool tomorrow.

Today’s announcement follows the relaunch of Wolves Aid in February in which Steve Morgan revealed that The Morgan Foundation would donate £125,000 of its annual budget to Wolves’ charity, making it the largest such organisation in football.

Having launched his business life by using a £5,000 loan from his father to help found one of the UK’s most successful house builders in Redrow, before moving on to a variety of property and leisure based businesses. Steve is now hoping to help similarly ambitious entrepreneurs and young businesses achieve their potential.

Steve explains: “With The Morgan Foundation already committed to providing support to the work of Wolves Aid, I am delighted to announce we are now extending the Entrepreneur Awards to the Wolverhampton and Shropshire area.

“These awards and the significant prize money are intended to provide a real boost to entrepreneurs and new businesses. The Awards are intended to highlight what can be achieved and encourage would-be entrepreneurs to hopefully go on and create wealth and prosperity for themselves and the economy."

Applications for the various categories must be submitted by September 12 with a panel of distinguished judges then selecting the finalists. Those individuals or companies short-listed will then be assessed and a short film made of their businesses to be screened at the Awards Ceremony at Carden Park Hotel on November 20.

Pictured above: Chris Larkin, So Baby; John Powell, Barclays; Steve Morgan; Nick Ashfield, Championship MiniatureGolf