YOUR free All Together NOW! charity paper is among the finalists in this year’s Morgan Foundation Entrepreneur Awards.
All Together NOW! – set up eight years ago to raise awareness about disability and health issues – is one of five organisations short-listed in the category, Best Small Charity or Social Enterprise making a Social Contribution.
The category also includes Knowsley Cancer Support and Birkenhead-based Women’s Enterprising Breakthrough, with Rural Community Services (Tarporley) and Power Pleas Trust (Wolverhampton) completing the line-up.
In total, there are 34 finalists across seven categories – with cash prizes, totalling £115,000, up for grabs, as well as a package of professional services.
The annual awards, now in their sixth year, attracted hundreds of entries from charities, social enterprises, businesses and entrepreneurs from Merseyside, Cheshire, Shropshire, North Wales and the Wolverhampton area.
The winners and runners-up will be revealed on Thursday November 15 at a gala dinner to be held at the Carden Park Hotel, Cheshire.
The finalists are:
Best New Business
Coopers Gourmet Sausage Rolls; Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Engage Web (Sheer Media Ltd); Ellesmere Port
Jungle HR Ltd; Shifnal, Shropshire
Love Frocks; Runcorn
Navigate IT Ltd; Bretton, Chester
Best Young Entrepreneur
Dogan Dogan; Hellofoto Booths Walsall, West Midlands
Laura Green; Serendipity, Runcorn
Anna Jenkins; Silky Bouquets Ltd, Liverpool
Liam Payne; LP Equestrian, Dudley, West Midlands
Danielle Walton; Coco Hair, Wolverhampton
Best Entrepreneurial Individual working in a Charity or Social Enterprise
Jacquie Johnston-Lynch; The Brink, Liverpool
Kim March; Longmynd Adventure Camp, Church Stretton, Shropshire
Dawn Roberts; Empowering Youth Foundation, Wrexham
Lawrence Santangeli; Eldonian Group, Liverpool
Best Small Charity or Social Enterprise making a Social Contribution (turnover less than £150k)
All Together Now; Liverpool
Knowsley Cancer Support
Power Pleas Trust; Wolverhampton
Rural Community Services; Tarporley
Women’s Enterprising Breakthrough; Birkenhead
Best Charity or Social Enterprise making a Social Contribution (turnover in excess of £150k)
Active Community Enterprise; Prescott, Merseyside
The Brink; Liverpool
FRC Group; Liverpool
Multiple Sclerosis Centre; Saltney, Flintshire
YKids; Bootle, Merseyside
Best Entrepreneurial Charity or Social Enterprise
Can Cook; Speke, Liverpool
Diverse Road Safety; Dovecot, Liverpool
Gourmet Meals CIC; Kingswinford, West Midlands
Harlech and Ardudwy Leisure; Harlech
Longmynd Adventure Camp; Church Stretton, Shropshire
Against All Odds
Rachel Cooper; BNR, Brierley Hill, West Midlands
Jayne Fletcher; Signsong, Walsall, West Midlands
Amy Garton Hughes, Amy and Friends; Wallasey, Merseyside
Dave Kelly; Daisy UK, Tuebrook, Liverpool
Hayley Wright; Romantic Eccentric Jewellery, Wolverhampton
