Local leading lights receive prestigious royal award
6 May 2009
Local businesswomen Angela Wright, Chief Executive of Solent Skill Quest Limited, has been honoured in the Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion ((QAEP) 2009 – the UK's most prestigious Award for individuals helping to unlock Britain's entrepreneurial talent.
Angela Wright has been promoting enterprise in the Southampton city region since 1995. She introduced to Hampshire schools the notion of involving business volunteers as mentors for under-achieving young people. Through her small not-for-profit organisation she has helped employers underline their corporate social responsibilities by supporting local schools.
The ten other QAEP 2009 recipients include entrepreneurs, trainers, university professors, heads of enterprise promotion bodies and local enterprise promotion volunteers. Collectively, they have helped to inspire and support thousands of budding entrepreneurs throughout the UK, especially young people and those from disadvantaged or minority backgrounds.
The UK's Special Representative for International and Investment, HRH Duke of York, has said about the awards:
"My congratulations to all this year's recipients of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion for their exceptional achievement in gaining this prestigious Award. Each one of them has played an outstanding role in supporting new generations of entrepreneurs, from all walks of life."
The eleven QAEP recipients will now be invited to Buckingham Palace in July to be presented with their Award personally by Her Majesty The Queen.
The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion is one of four categories in the annual Queen's Awards for Enterprise, and the only category honouring individual achievement. The other three categories are for outstanding business success in International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. Seven awards were won by the following Hampshire and Isle of Wight companies received:
Award for International Trade:
Hampshire Fianium Ltd - Hamble, Southampton
Hampshire Helios Technology Limited t/a Helios - Farnborough
FarSite Communications Limited - Basingstoke
Trilogy Communications Ltd - Andover
Award for Innovation:
PhysE Limited - Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
Powertraveller Ltd - Alton
RF Engines Ltd - Newport, Isle of Wight
For further information:
Web:www.queensawards.org.uk/
