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Enterprising individuals get Queen's Award

As we heard earlier this week, two of this year’s recipients of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion hail from the North East.

John Eversley MBE, Director and Vice-Chair of Tyne and Wear Enterprise Trust Ltd, has a thirty year track record of pioneering and supporting enterprise in the North East following the decline of the coal and shipbuilding industries. He received the QAEP Lifetime Achievement Award. Michael Leithrow, Executive Director and General Manager, of the Northern Pinetree Trust based in Birtley, Co Durham receives one of 10 standard Awards. The Trust is a social enterprise dedicated to helping the most seriously disadvantaged in the North East.

The Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 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.

The Awards are presented at a reception held at Buckingham Palace hosted by The Queen in July. The event organisers are reminding people that nominators of successful candidates are also invited to the reception, so if you want to go, get someone nominated for next year’s awards. Further information including the nomination form for the 2009 awards can be found on The Queen’s Awards website, www.queensawards.org.uk/individual.

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