Steve Morgan Launches Awards 2008
£150k’s worth of prize money and professionsal services to be won
Thursday 3rd July, 2008
Steve Morgan is today launching The Morgan Foundation’s 2008 Entrepreneur Awards with over £150,000 of cash prizes and services on offer to the winners.
Following the huge success of last year’s inaugural awards, the awards have this year been extended to encompass businesses and entrepreneurs from the Wolverhampton area as well as from Merseyside, West Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales who will have the opportunity to compete across five categories for a potentially major boost to their enterprise.
Designed to encourage a whole new generation of entrepreneurial role models, the return of the awards for 2008 were today being marked at a launch at Barclays Commercial Bank in Chapel Street in Liverpool.
With Steve now chairman of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and the Morgan Foundation providing substantial annual support to the club’s Wolves Aid charity, the initiative has this year been extended to include the Wolverhampton area.
With main sponsorship provided by Barclays Commercial, there are dual launches to this year’s award scheme, with today’s event following a similar one held at Molineux Stadium yesterday.
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: “I am delighted to announce that we are once again running the Entrepreneur Awards for 2008 and including the Wolverhampton area. The inaugural event last year proved a huge success, with over 150 high quality entries received from a diverse range of businesses across the North West. The idea is to stimulate the idea of entrepreneurship whilst also providing some real financial encouragement as well.
“There was nothing like this around when I was starting out in business and it can really make a huge difference. The North West and the West Midlands have always been real leaders in the field of industry and business and I’m wondering if we still have the same sort of entrepreneurship as our forefathers did. The two areas were at the heart of development in this country and we’re just trying to encourage that to happen again and to help would-be entrepreneurs to hopefully go on and create wealth and prosperity for themselves and the economy. I would urge any young business or entrepreneur to put together an application because last year’s winners have already proved just what a difference the prize money can provide to their business.”
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.
The final judging panel for the awards will include Steve himself.
Various business leaders and civic dignitaries were due to be present at today’s launch, which will feature an introduction from Steve, details of the application criteria and a review from two of last year’s winners of how the awards made a difference.
For more information and to apply visit the dedicated website at: