Welcome to the North East FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards! At the 2020 Awards, we crowned 12 fantastic businesses of different shapes and sizes from across various sectors of the economy. We had self-employed businesses showcase their talents alongside established larger businesses with up to 250 employees. The standard was fantastic and this year we hope to celebrate even more great businesses.
Entries now closed for the North East 2022 awards
North East Winners and Finalists
North East - Family Business of the Year
Winners: BTS Fabrications Ltd TA BTS Facades and Fabrications
Finalists:
North East - Young Entrepreneur of the Year (aged 30 and under)
Winner: Kelly Maxwell - Kelly’s Heroes Private Tuition
Finalists:
Your host - Charlotte Windebank
Charlotte is passionate about empowering people to discover ideas and opportunities within their local networks.
She is MD and co-founder of FIRST (www.youarefirst.co.uk) an accredited learning and development agency that provides students, early-stage founders, job seekers and professionals with practical enterprise and entrepreneurial experiences to develop and enhance their leadership and progression skills.
FIRST was set up 7 years ago in a response to the high unemployment rates and low startup business rates in North East England. Current projects include Startup Awards North East and level 1 qualifications in enterprise.
Charlotte is a trustee of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums and sits on the board Gender Entrepreneurship North East where she advocates, and champions change for underrepresented groups in business. She is currently working towards an Executive MBA at Newcastle University and loves nothing more than being on stage celebrating business success.
www.youarefirst.co.uk/
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Howard Little
I am a Membership Advisor in the Northeast of England.
I have held this position for 5 and a half years and have signed up more than 1000 businesses in the area.
I am ex-forces and have a keen interest in supporting Military in Business #X-Forces.
Mobile: 07833 163578
Email: howard.little@fsb.org.uk
Twitter: @howiefsb
The Venue
Newcastle Gateshead Marriott Hotel
MetroCentre
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE11 9XF
FSB North East are hosting their Awards at the Newcastle Gateshead Marriot Hotel in Newcastle, a conveniently placed venue offering comfort and style.
Awards Final Date Monday 21 March 2022
Timings: 12noon Start - until 16:00
Dress Code: Business Attire
Sponsoring the North East Awards
We're grateful to our headline and local sponsors who are helping us to keep the FSB Awards free to enter! Find out more about our headline sponsors here and our local sponsors below.
North East LEP
The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (North East LEP) is a public, private and education sector partnership.
We are one of thirty-eight LEPs in the country and are responsible for promoting and developing economic growth in the local authority areas of County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland.
We produce our area’s Strategic Economic Plan, which acts as a blueprint for the activities that need to take place to improve our economy.
Aldermore Bank
Aldermore Bank, backing people to fulfil life’s hopes and dreams
We champion equality by supporting the exceptions to the rule and getting finance to where it’s needed. We lend the money people save with us, to help small businesses to flourish by growing and creating employment, buying property and purchasing vehicles to get businesses moving.
Our award winning business savings accounts have consistently competitive rates combined with fast and simple account opening online for savings from £1,000.
We operate exclusively online, by phone and through networks.
Aldermore Group is part of FirstRand Group, the largest financial services group in Africa by market capitalisation.
Sky Connect
Sky Connect is Sky’s new B2B broadband business, offering purpose-built business products, exceptional customer service and simple pricing with no hidden fees.
Targeted at small businesses, we offer ‘Connection Pro’ an automatic 4G internet back-up product and a digital phone service with more call management features than anyone else, to ensure our customers always stay connected.
Our customer service is industry-leading. Our residential Sky broadband, the second largest provider in the UK, has received fewer complaints to Ofcom over the past 10 years, on average, than any other supplier.
As part of the Comcast Group, we’re proud that the foundations for Sky Connect’s offering have been set by Comcast Business, one of the leading providers of business broadband in the United States, who serve more than 2 million customers, with over 15 years of sector experience.
Tyl by NatWest
Tyl is more than a merchant acquiring and payments solution. It was developed to bring together simple and transparent payments with market-leading technology to help businesses better serve their customers and communities.
- Get paid
Take card payments easily, no matter where they are - Manage
Everything in one place for day-to-day management - Grow
Develop and deepen customer relationships - Give back
Support charities and connect withlocal communities
FSB Insurance Service
FSB Insurance Service was launched by FSB in February 2018 as a Joint Venture, exclusively to serve FSB members. At the heart of the offering are the three key principles of delivering good advice, quality products and good value insurance services. FSB Insurance Service spends time with members to fully understand their needs, sourcing the most suitable product as a traditional insurance broker.
Since launch, FSB Insurance Service has welcomed over 45,000 members to its service and 100% of policyholders would recommend it to other members.
Tees Valley Business
Tees Valley Business is the local growth hub for the Tees Valley, established by the Tees Valley Combined Authority and Tees Valley Mayor. It helps ambitious SME businesses realise their growth potential by offering access to a range of practical services, from local business information, assessing growth options through to unlocking finance and funding streams.
The team can help with anything from developing a skilled workforce, accessing finance and grants, developing a growth strategy, finding the right location, product development, sales and marketing and starting up a new business.
NBSL
Established in 2001, NBSL has become the North East’s largest volume provider of funding to growth businesses, helping thousands of companies since being formed twenty years ago.
NBSL operate the North East Business Support Fund and is open for grant applications with up to 40% funding for projects - available dependent on eligibility and location of business. The team also manage the North of Tyne Combined Authority’s Innovation Recovery Grant providing up to 50% funding for innovation projects.
In addition, NBSL provide a range of masterclasses and skills development sessions for businesses to help them reach their potential and deliver a dynamic, inclusive economic landscape for all.
North of Tyne Combined Authority
The North of Tyne Combined Authority is a partnership of three local authorities: Newcastle, North Tyneside, and Northumberland and a directly elected Metro Mayor.
We have landscapes that wow, great people, and a talent for creating jobs and world-leading businesses, but we also have challenges… inequalities and deprivation still exist for many and often as a result of ‘poor work’, this needs to change.
Our residents need access to ‘good work’, reliable work that pays a decent wage as a minimum.
NTCA’s Good Work Pledge recognises businesses that provide good employment and helps others to make improvements, find out more or sign up today.
Northumbrian Water
Northumbrian Water provides water and sewerage services to 2.5 million people in the north east of England. We also supply water to 1.8 million people in the south east of England, trading as Essex & Suffolk Water.
Every day we supply 1,104 megalitres of water, drawn from reservoirs, rivers and groundwater sources. It is treated at our works and delivered to homes and businesses.
In the north east, wastewater is then collected and treated before being returned to the environment.
We are committed to building successful economies in our regions and have a goal to spend at least 60p in every £1 with local suppliers.
Project North East
PNE supports a thriving business landscape. We enable positive social and economic change by helping businesses to start, grow and thrive ethically and sustainably.
Our business and start-up support services include 1-2-1 advice and mentoring, workshops, coaching, management and leadership qualifications and both incubator and office workspaces.
We work with organisations and individuals who share our ambition of supporting businesses that want to harness the power of entrepreneurship to make a difference. We recently won the National Enterprise Network Sustainability in Enterprise Award for our work to both reduce PNE's carbon footprint and promote sustainability in business.
Business Durham
Business Durham is the business support service for Durham County Council, helping to deliver more and better jobs and a strong competitive economy.
As a knowledgeable and trusted guide, we connect businesses with the right funding, advice, and networks they need to grow and thrive.
Working closely with partners, we encourage an enterprise culture, helping entrepreneurs to turn bright ideas into successful reality and students to develop enterprise skills to become our future business leaders.
We manage a portfolio of business property finding the right space for businesses to grow – commercial office space, modern laboratories and industrial property units.
Business Durham attracts capital and inward investment to the country encouraging an innovative economy that enables companies to grow and flourish.
Campaigner
Campaigner is a multi-channel marketing automation provider, founded in 1999 back when the internet and in particular email, was just beginning to reach the masses.
Since then, Campaigner has remained at the forefront in the evolution of email and more recently, SMS, as a marketing channel.
Campaigner looks to help email and SMS marketers be more effective with their customer data, helping businesses create more personalised messaging to improve interaction rates and ultimately drive greater bottom-line revenue.
Campaigner is trusted by 120,000+ happy customers, including Adidas, Subway and Tripadvisor among others. Campaigner has also been rated as a frontrunner in brand management software by Capterra
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