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Enterprise promoters urged to enter Queen's Award

North East residents are being urged to nominate local business people for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion. The Award recognises individuals who have played an outstanding and significant role in promoting business enterprise skills and attitudes in others – for example amongst young people or those in disadvantaged communities or under-represented groups. Entrants could be working in business, education, training or youth work. Also, those who are involved in social enterprise who achieve business outcomes or equip others with business skills may be nominated.

Each year there are up to 10 standard Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award for someone who has shown outstanding, consistent and effective enterprise skills over 10 years or more. The QAEP is reportedly very competitive and they look, in particular, for those who contribute more than the requirements of their paid employment. The nomination form asks what makes the nominee stand out from someone else performing a similar role.

The Awards are presented at a reception held at Buckingham Palace hosted by The Queen in July, to which nominators of successful candidates are also invited. The closing date for nominations for the 2008 Awards is midnight on 31 October 2007.

Three recipients of the 2007 Award come from the North East. Three of the standard Awards this year went to: Robert Ford, Chairman of Ford Component Manufacturing Limited in South Shields, Terry Owens, Chair of Business Link Tees Valley in Middlesbrough, and Caroline Theobald, Managing Director of Bridge Club Limited in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Further information can be found on the Queen’s Awards website www.queensawards.org.uk/individuals.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .