Social Enterprise Awards
Winners announced for inaugural Social Enterprise Awards Wales
Two organisations from Cardiff and one from Machynlleth have been unveiled as winners in the first ever Social Enterprise Awards Wales. Deputy Minister for Regeneration, Leighton Andrews, presented the successful companies with their prizes during a ceremony, today, at the Wales Millennium Centre. The awards scheme is a brand new, nationwide competition to find the best social enterprises in Wales, and ultimately Britain.
The three category winners are as follows:
Best Social Enterprise (turnover of £1 million plus)
Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Machynlleth
Delivers a range of services, courses and projects on environmental issues including climate change, sustainable living and renewable energy.
Best Social Enterprise (turnover of less than £1 million)
Pack-It Promotions, Cardiff
Provides training opportunities and permanent paid employment for people with learning disabilities within a packaging, storage and distribution environment.
Best New Social Enterprise – operating for less than three years
Cycle Training Wales, Cardiff
Provides National Standard Cycle training and support to people, communities and organisations throughout Wales, to encourage greater participation in cycling.
Congratulations also to Antur Waunfawr, Dynamix and Llanmadoc Community Shop who were runners up in the competition.
VOTE FOR THE WINNERS
Each winner receives £1,000 and has been automatically shortlisted for next month’s UK wide competition, the winners of which will be decided by an online public vote that runs from the 20th until the 30th of November at www.socialenterpriseawards.org.uk.
Winners of the UK wide competition can receive up to £5,000 as well as business support packages and a national media platform to promote themselves. Anyone can vote for the social enterprise they think deserves to be named the best for the whole of the UK in each category. The public vote will also name one winner the Social Enterprise of the Year.
