CELEBRATING ENTERPRISE

2013

Welcome

Today is about celebrang the very best in EnterpriseLearning and Skills whether that be an individualwho has used enterprise learning to help set up andrun a successful business or an organisaon who hasdeveloped learning materials which have helped togive a small business a much beer chance ofsurvival.

As a number of you will know first-hand, starng andgrowing a business takes a lot of energy anddeterminaon. The range of skills required to run asuccessful business is oen underesmated.

Everyone being recognised today is contribung intheir own way to the growth and sustainability of thesmall and micro business sector forming the lifebloodof the UK economy.

We are proud to be part of this celebraon ofenterprise and hope that you leave today’s eventinspired to connue to do whatever you can toensure small and micro businesses have the rightskills to start, survive and thrive.

Ruth Lowbridge,

Execuve Chair,

SFEDI Group

SFEDI and IOEE Celebrang Enterprise 2013

Programme

Arrival of guests 12.30

Opening of event Master of Ceremonies David McQueen

Welcome Fabian Hamilton MP Ruth Lowbridge, Execuve Chair, SFEDI Group

Awards Presentaon Enterprise Learning Provider, presented by Nic PrestonWinner - Results Consorum Ltd

Enterprise Educator, presented by Andy PenalunaWinner - The Prince’s Iniave for Mature Enterprise

Enterprising IOEE Member, presented by Leigh SearWinner - Adrian Ashton

Enterprising Learning Product, presented by Malcolm TroerWinner - Sage UK Ltd

Enterprise Mentoring Champion, presented by Jackie JenksWinner - Alan Goward

Enterprise Influencer, presented by Tony RobinsonWinner - Andrew Sale

IOEE Centre of Excellence, presented by Stephen PeggeWinner - The Centre for Enterprise Development and Research, Anglia Ruskin University

Enterprising Learner, presented by Cav.Uff. G T Mascolo OBE KCSGWinner to be announced

IOEE Lifeme Achievement Award, presented by Stefan TöpferWinner - Cav.Uff. G T Mascolo OBE KCSG

Acceptance Speech The Toni and Guy Story

Final remarks Nathan Hardwick, Execuve Director, SFEDI Group

Closing of event David McQueen

Networking 2.15

Enterprise Learning Provider

Results Consorum Ltd

Results Consorum has become an influenalorganisaon in enterprise skills development, havinggrown from a small regional base to a business withnaonal presence.

The number of customers it supports has increased by488% in one year and it has achieved a 96% success ratein the number of people compleng their enterprisedevelopment journey. Through its Equip programme thecompany now also supports the long term unemployed toget back into work by using their newly developedenterprising skills.

Results Consorum’s acvies demonstrate a clearcommitment to the long term success of its learners andthe wider enterprise skills agenda.

Enterprise Educator

The Prince's Iniave for Mature

Enterprise (PRIME)

The Prince’s Iniave for Mature Enterprise (PRIME) isthe only naonal charity that helps people over the ageof 50, who are unemployed or facing the threat ofredundancy, set-up their own businesses. Its onlineresources, mentoring schemes, networking events andbusiness training help people adapt their skills andexperience to self-employment.

PRIME has helped more than 24,000 people explorethe possibility of self-employment, with more than10,000 people accessing loans and training courses. Afurther 3,300 people have gone on to set up a businessthanks to PRIME's support.

Pictured above: HRH The Prince of Wales speaking at PRIME's

Celebrang Enterprise event in September

SFEDI and IOEE Celebrang Enterprise 2013

Enterprising IOEE Member

Adrian Ashton

Adrian offers support, training and consultancy to alltypes of enterprises and has become a thought leaderwithin the IOEE community through his commitmentand energy in sharing his knowledge and experiencewith others. Adrian champions small businesses bycontribung stories and arcles that both emboldenand educate business owners.

Adrian is a worthy recipient of this award and wethank him for his contribuon to the IOEE communityover the last year. His work is an inspiraon tobusiness owners and enterprise support professionalseverywhere, through his commitment to sharing hisknowledge and experience with others to contributeto the success of the wider business community.

Enterprise Learning Product

Sage UK Ltd

There are 845,000 users of the Sage book keeping andaccounng soware in the UK. In line with theircommitment to support the smaller business community,Sage offers a range of comprehensive learning materialswhich are made available through classroom learning,self study courses, e-learning and CD rom.

They range from basic bookkeeping for the very smallbusiness beginners to a range of learning modules whichadd value to a variety of business operaons, includingfinancial forecasng, creang and managing databasesand geng the most from Microso Excel.

We are parcularly impressed at the way Sage works witha variety of partners to ensure that their learningmaterials and products reach the businesses who mostneed help and support when managing the financialaspects of their business.

Enterprise Mentoring

Champion

Alan Goward

Alan employed by Lloyds Banking Group and volunteers asa mentor with Business Mentors South West (BMSW). Alanmentors many businesses, including short term mentoringfor those with an urgent need for support. He is a strongadvocate for mentoring and works hard to promote itsbenefits, and to encourage new mentors, amongst hiscolleagues and the wider business community.

Alan regularly supports his organisaon's communicaonsacvies and has recently wrien a blog on his experienceof undertaking the Level 5 mentor champion qualificaonassignments to help others. He regularly aends businessevents arranged by Business Mentors South West and wasa guest speaker at a recent business growth event.

Alan champions mentoring in every aspect of hisprofessional life and we are delighted to recognise his hardwork with this award.

Enterprise Influencer

Andrew Sale

As Head of Department for Enterprise andEmployability at The Sheffield College, Andrew not onlychampions enterprise skills for his community oflearners but has also championed the importance ofdelivering quality enterprise learning at a naonallevel.

Andrew is always on hand to share his experse andknowledge with other enterprise skills developmentorganisaons and has developed his networks withgovernment, private, and not for profit organisaons,to raise the profile of naonal iniaves and theenterprise skills agenda.

IOEE Centre of Excellence

The Centre for Enterprise Development

and Research, Anglia Ruskin University

CEDAR seeks to blend theory and pracce to createknowledge, improve understanding, and challengethinking in the area of enterprise andentrepreneurial management. CEDAR comprises aunique mix of leading academics, expert praconerteachers and world-class entrepreneurs.

The Centre's objecve is to help all those whoengage with it to develop an entrepreneurialmindset.

The acvies of CEDAR show a clear commitment topromong and developing enterprising learning andskills amongst different groups of learners, bothwithin the UK and internaonally.

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SFEDI have been an excellent partner in the

development of the naonal bank mentoring

scheme and mentorsme.co.uk

<hp://mentorsme.co.uk> . They approach

things from a pragmac angle with a 'can do'

atude. Central to Sfedi¹s success is the

team's underlying passion to help business

and business owners develop the skills for

sustainable success. We are immensely

grateful for the work they have undertaken

with the banking industry as our mentoring

programme evolves.

Irene Graham, Managing Director, Business

Finance, Brish Bankers' Associaon

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Nominaon for the Enterprising Learner Award

Rod Boyes

Nominated by the Prince’sIniave for MatureEnterprises (PRIME)Rod completed the SFEDIAwards Level 2 Cerficate inPreparing to Run Your OwnBusiness aer being maderedundant from an EducaonSoware Company. Finding itimpossible to seek paidemployment in a similar role,he was directed to PRIMEwho were offering selfemployment training courses,leading him to createPinegrove Leather, a leathercase company. Rod is thrilledwith his business success andfeels a million miles awayfrom the person he waswhen he was maderedundant.

Danielle Steed

Nominated by CoventryUniversityGraduang last year with adegree in Business &Markeng, Danielle hasalways demonstrated greatcommitment andentrepreneurial flair. Whilststudying Danielleformulated the idea of anew product for theequestrian market calledHay Cube. She is nowworking with an expertmentor and is movingforward with a bright futureas an entrepreneur.

Callum Earl

Nominated by South & CityCollege, BirminghamCallum Earl is workingtowards the SFEDI AwardsLevel 3 Diploma inEnterprising Skills in aBusiness Environment whileemployed as an apprenceat Eventmasters Ltd. Callumhas brought a new energylevel to the business, andhas led its social mediapresence helping to find newroutes to market and leadingto increased sales. Thecompany has now gainedthe confidence to take on 6more apprences within thenext 3 years.

Theresa Wedderburn

Nominated by Milton KeynesCommunity Enterprise CICTheresa completed theSFEDI Awards Level 2Cerficate in Preparing toRun Your Own Businessqualificaon and has sinceset up Branch-out MK CIC, a social enterprise inBuckinghamshire whichencourages emoonal andphysical well-being throughhorculture. The companyoffers Horcultural andHeritage Cra Workshops, as well as services todisadvantaged individualsand those with disabilieswithin the community.

Alicia Nang

Nominated by The SheffieldCollegeAlicia set up Alicia Nang Hair andBeauty, an African/Caribbeanhair-styling business, with adeterminaon to make it asuccess following the compleonof her SFEDI Awards Level 2Cerficate in Creang and Starngyour Business and Level 3 Awardin Principles of Social Media.Alicia has proven that with hardwork, drive and determinaon,your entrepreneurial ambionscan be achieved.

Amber Webster

Nominated by the Real IdeasOrganisaonAmber completed the SFEDIAwards Level 2 Cerficate inPreparing and Delivering aSustainable Social EnterpriseAcvity qualificaon as part of herapprenceship at Aster Living.Amber and a fellow studentapplied their newly acquiredbusiness skills, creavity andexperience of the client group, todevelop a mobile app transformingthe way Aster communicates withits foreign speaking customers.

Lesley Rogers

Nominated by Quality Recognion LtdLesley completed the SFEDI AwardsLevel 8 Diploma in Business andEnterprise Support at SCQF Level 8while working with Dumfries andGalloway Council. The course notonly developed her core businesssupport skills but hugely developedher confidence and self belief.Lesley now feels she is able to giveher clients a much improved level ofsupport through the furtherdevelopment of her personalknowledge and skills.

IOEE Lifeme

Achievement Award

Cav.Uff. G T Mascolo OBE KCSG

Cav.Uff. G T Mascolo OBE KCSG, co-founder of theTONI&GUY empire has enjoyed a career that spansnearly 50 years and has changed the face of modernhairdressing.

Throughout the decades, the group has grown to8000 employees, with over 400 salons in 41 differentcountries, and an annual turnover in excess of £175million.

Widely recognised for introducing franchising the UKHairdressing industry, in addion to his businesssuccess, Toni has redefined the educaonal structureof hairdressing by creang a unique ongoingeducaonal system for TONI&GUY. It's worldwideacademies have become the backbone of the businessand provided the blueprint for modern hairdressingand business enterprise educaon.

SFEDI and IOEE Celebrang Enterprise 2013

Advisory Council

We are delighted to have the support of our AdvisoryCouncil comprised of representaves from naonalenterprise and enterprise support membershiporganisaons, government, financial instuons,organisaons who influence small and micro businesspolicy and pracce along with private sector businesses.

The current Advisory Council includes:

ACCA BIS

BBA Skills CFA

Enterprise Educators UK FSB

FPB IAB

LANTRA Lloyds Banking Group

Winweb CREME

COSLA PRIME

CBI Young Enterprise

IFA NBWN

ICAEW Enterprise Rockers

Partnerships

We are proud to work with a range of partners whohelp bring our standards to life through thedevelopment of specialised enterprise relatedqualificaons and learning resources. Partnersinclude:

ASIQUAL

Brish Bankers Associaon

Business Mentors South West

Climate Change NE

Climate Change SE

COSLA

Instute of Supply Chain Management (IOSCM)

IBD Business Advice Group Ltd

Lloyds Banking Group

Naonal Enterprise Network

Real Ideas Organisaon (RIO)

Skills CFA

SureTrax

Winweb

Our partnership with SFEDI has enabled us to

deliver a respected and high-quality business

training course, now a recognised qualificaon,

for our clients as well as vital training to our

mentors. We look forward to connuing our

successful working relaonship as the charity

develops its offering to older people.

Teresa Folkes, Director of Client Services, PRIME.’

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About us

Passionate about what we do, we are thegovernment-recognised Sector Skills Organisaon forenterprise and business support. Established in 1996,we have earned recognion as the experts in skillsand know-how development for small, medium andmicro businesses. The group includes SFEDI, SFEDIAwards, SFEDI Soluons and the Instute ofEnterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE).

Originally the Small Firms Enterprise DevelopmentIniave, the founding company SFEDI is now focusedon raising the quality of enterprising skills byidenfying and delivering programmes of supportwhich increase start up and survival rates amongstsmall and micro business communies. Recentprojects include:

• Get Mentoring - a £1.8m project to recruit andtrain 15,000 volunteer business mentors

• Small Business Finance Taskforce mentoring strand- developing and delivering a training andaccreditaon programme for 1000 volunteerbusiness mentors from the banking industry

• Naonal Apprenceship peer to peer mentoringproject - enabling business owners to share theirexperiences of apprenceships with those thataspire to do so

• Developing standards and qualificaons forBusiness Support professionals working inScotland

We have partnered with the SFEDI Group

since 2010 and have worked together on the

development of standards, qualificaons and

apprenceships in Enterprise and Business

Support disciplines. They are a key and

valued member of our partnership, made up

of a leading group of trusted partners in the

professions, in helping to deliver the largest

footprint of apprenceship training in the UK.

They are a unique business and are making a

key contribuon to the Government’s growth

strategy, and consequently the UK economy.

David Holland, Chief Execuve,

Skills CFA

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SFEDI Awards is the Ofqual-approved AwardingOrganisaon which develops and delivers Enterprise andEnterprise Support qualificaons through its network ofdelivery centres. Qualificaons are built on extensiveresearch and are designed for those who wish to startand grow their own business, and the business supportprofessionals who work with them. Core services include:

• The design and development of a range of bespokeenterprise and business support qualificaons

• Delivery of qualificaons through a network of over130 centres based throughout the UK, Europe andSouth Africa

• Endorsement of learning programmes underpinned bySFEDI standards for Enterprise and Business Support

• Development and publishing of best pracce materialsand resources to support our qualificaon offer

SFEDI Soluons works with a diverse range oforganisaons in the public, private and third sector toprovide enterprising soluons for the challenges andopportunies faced in understanding and supporngenterprise learning and skills development.

Its core services are standards seng and research,development and delivery of best pracce enterpriselearning and skills development soluons and advocacy.Recent projects have included a review of the policy casefor supporng graduate recruitment to SMEs, researchinto understanding and supporng enterprise mentoring,a review of internaonal indicators on learning and skillsdevelopment, the development of a apprenceshipframework on business innovaon and growth and anevaluaon of a enterprise coaching project.

SFEDI Soluons track record in enterprise knowledge andresearch means that it brings a wealth of knowledge andexperience to all projects with an ambion to introducenew ideas and iniaves to the world of enterprise.

The IOEE is the first learning instute dedicated todeveloping and recognising the skills of enterprisingpeople. It respects and recognises everyone that takesthe risk, to control their own desny by starng andrunning their own business. It also supportsenterprise professionals that develop their skills andknowledge to a high standard to provide outstandingenterprise support.

Members receive:

• A membership offer which includes ConnuousEnterprise Development

• An online community where members can makeconnecons, ask quesons and develop mentoringrelaonships

• Access to enterprise learning resources

Organisaons receive:

• Recognion as a premier league enterpriselearning organisaon

• The opportunity to demonstrate their commitmentto developing and supporng an enterprising andentrepreneurial culture

• IOEE membership for their staff and learnersproviding access to a wealth of resources andexperse

We are proud to work closely with both

SFEDI and the IOEE who connually work

towards raising the levels of skills within the

business community, especially mentoring.

Jenny McDowell, Manager, Business Networks,

Lloyds Banking Group

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Thank you

A big thank you to Lloyds Banking Group for theirgenerous contribuon to today’s event and toDavid McQueen for entertaining us and acng asMaster of Ceremonies using his own inimitablestyle! Congratulaons to all of our award winnersand runners wishing them well in their futureenterprising journey.

And finally, thanks to all of the people who haveworked with us over the years and connue tohelp us raise the quality and extent of ourenterprising skills remit, helping hundreds ofthousands of individuals become moreenterprising.

Lloyds Bank is delighted to be supporng the CelebrangEnterprise event at the House of Commons and wecongratulate all the individuals and organisaons beingrecognised today.

Lloyds Bank works with SFEDI and the IOEE to train,support and match volunteer bank mentors with new andgrowing businesses that request mentoring support.Lloyds has pledged 20,000 hours of me to the BusinessFinance Taskforce's mentoring scheme, led by the BrishBankers Associaon, and has an exceponal breadth ofmentors from across the company.

“Mentoring has a crucial role to play in helping businessestake the necessary steps and to succeed. Banks of courseneed to support businesses through our lending and, bygrowing lending at 5% net, Lloyds Bank are certainly doingthat but we should also play our part in helping firmsdevelop the capabilies, contacts and confidence tosucceed to start, run and grow. 400 Lloyds Bank colleaguesthemselves volunteer as enterprise mentors and we wantto help many more of our customers find the right mentorfrom the across the mentoring community.”

Stephen Pegge, Group External Relaons Director, Lloyds

Banking Group

David McQueen

David McQueen is an internaonal speaker, presenter andfacilitator, who is passionate about empoweringprofessionals to tell their story. A raconteur and lover ofresearch and data David delivers his content to his clientswith a unique style that is remembered long aer theevent.

Specialising in presentaon skills, public speaking andleadership David works with clients to make them lookgood both on-stage and off. As a presenter he has workedwith Channel 4, BBC and Virgin Media Pioneers TV, he hasalso facilitated events and delivered speeches for blue chipcompanies and SME’s.

David is always looking to work with people andorganisaons that are ready to tell their story.