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Haines Watts Young Entrepreneur 2011 winners announced
Tara Burn, owner of Combined Counties Fire and Surrey First Aid Training, is the Haines Watts Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011
The Young Entrepreneur finals, held in Reading, included a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style presentation from each finalist on their business, followed by searching questions from the judges.
Tara Burn said of her award, “It was fantastic to win. The day was an amazing experience, meeting successful entrepreneurs and other young aspiring business people and exchanging ideas. Winning topped it all off and I was so pleased that my plans for business growth and development were well received and that the judges shared my passion for the concepts I am working on for the future.”
Haines Watts partner Gary Heywood, chairman of the judges, said, “It was extremely close because each candidate was of such a high calibre but Tara took the title for showing true entrepreneurial flair in spotting opportunities and turning them into viable businesses – and for her commitment and energy.”
The other judges from Haines Watts were partners Peter Wright, David Smy and Jane Wills. Guest judge was Nigel Botterill, owner of ‘The Best Of’ online network amongst other franchise and internet- based businesses. As a serial entrepreneur, Botterill was able to share his experiences with the finalists after the judging and they all received a free one-year membership of his ‘Entrepreneurs’ Circle’.
The finalists are also offered a year of free mentoring with Haines Watts partners, who are looking forward to supporting them with advice and ideas as they progress their businesses. In addition the runners-up received cheques for £250 and Burn collected her additional winning £500 prize money.
As well as hearing from Botterill at the finals, Haines Watts was delighted to welcome back inspirational guest speaker, Stafford Carrington. Despite being only 32 years old Carrington, who comes from Reading, is a self-made millionaire. He related how he started out in business, arriving in London with a bag containing his possessions and £513. He has grown Impact Business Group through recognising good opportunities, hard graft, learning from mistakes and keeping it fun.
Jane Gregory of Haines Watts said of the event: “I think we all felt humbled by these young entrepreneurs – it was particularly heart-warming to hear the testimonies of such determined and talented young people. They show that, with enough hard work, courage, passion and imagination, it is possible to not only start up your own business but do well in this harsh economic climate.”
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The finalists
Tara Burn – Combined Counties Fire and Surrey First Aid Training
Combined Counties Fire and Surrey First Aid is a national training company, set up in 2007, which delivers training in all aspects of the Health and Safety at Work Act. This includes safer handling, first aid, food safety, specialist courses in drug administration and fire safety courses. As well as training in the workplace it offers its head office in Guildford for small businesses and individuals. It also provides training in first aid such as a life-saving skill to parents in the local community, teaching them how to look after a baby or child who is ill or injured.
www.surreyfirstaid.com www.combinedcountiestraining.com
Peter Higgs – PGH Pest Control & Prevention
This private pest control business started in 2009 and operates in the south of the UK. It undertakes both contract and single call outs for commercial and domestic customers and covers all pests from crawling insects, bedbugs, fleas and cockroaches to flying insects such as wasps, hornets, flies and moths to rodents, including rats, mice and squirrels. The company is also very involved with preventing pest birds from causing damage to crops, building materials etc. It is supported by the Princes Trust and uses non-toxic solutions.
www.pghpestcontrol.co.uk
Duncan Carter – Compass Estate Agents
Set up in 2010, Compass is an independently-owned estate agency focusing on the whole of the market within Basingstoke. It covers residential sales, property management and letting and in-house mortgage and insurance services. Compass offers a complete ‘all under one roof’ service package from marketing through to sale and financing. It doesn’t position itself in the traditional high street setting, to cut its overheads and to offer a more cost-effective solution to clients. It has developed software applications for the estate agency industry to leverage ‘best practice’ within its agency and provide a more interactive experience to clients.
www.compass-property.co.uk
Enzo Bertolone – Glitterati Hair
Glitterati Boutique hair salon, located in Weybridge, opened in 2007 and is very popular with the local clientele and has a strong celebrity following. The salon and stylists follow a philosophy of “Beautiful Hair: Beautiful People” instilling confidence, pride and individual style into all their clients. All the things new businesses do when they first open – the local paper, the balloons on a Saturday morning, the client evenings ... it still does consistently even four years in.
www.glitteratihair.com
Paul Feakins – Antropy Consulting
Antropy Consulting was founded in 2008 to provide web development and web application development to SMEs and large corporates in London and the home counties. Clients range from SMEs to FTSE 250 companies and the main activity has been the delivery of content management systems for the web. It offers agency level web development at lower costs because it utilises the remote working potential of the Internet. It also uses predominantly Open Source software to keep quality high and costs low.
www.antropy.co.uk
The finalists, judges and speakers at the HW Young Entrepreneur finals
www.businessmag.co.uk THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – DECEMBER 11/JANUARY 12
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