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Sage Confirmed as Category Sponsor at this Years Awards

We are delighted to welcome back Sage as category sponsors at this year’s Stockport Business Awards. Sage will be sponsoring ‘The Taste of Stockport Award’.

Sage are joining a superb line up of category sponsors this year including Clarke Nicklin Financial Planning, Marketing Stockport, Edgeley Park, Mayfield Floors, Dawn Creative, The Business Growth Hub, Pioneer Group, Creative Support, Stockport Council and Stockport Economic Alliance. This Year’s Headline Sponsors are Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants, Gorvins Solicitors and Music Magpie.

Sage is the global market leader for technology that provides small and medium businesses with the visibility, flexibility, and efficiency to manage finances, operations and people.  Sage is trusted by millions of customers worldwide to deliver the best cloud technology and support.

Entries are now closed for the awards which will take place on Thursday 6th October. The shortlist is available to view HERE. If you would like tickets for this year’s awards dinner please contact laurafrost@clarkenicklin.co.uk for more information.

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Tickets Now on Sale!!

Tickets are now on sale for the event which will take place at Edgeley Park, Stockport, on Thursday 6th October, where the winners will be announced.

Tickets can be purchased by emailing laurafrost@clarkenicklin.co.uk Individual tickets are £95 and a table of ten is £950.

Andrew Baggott, Managing Partner of Clarke Nicklin, commented “Stockport is home to many successful businesses and we anticipate another great turn out on the night to celebrate the achievements of those that have made it onto the shortlist. The event is set to be bigger and better than ever this year and we already can’t wait!”.

The 2022 Stockport Business Awards Shortlisted businesses are:

Business of the Year (over £5m) – Sponsored by Pioneer Group

  • GCP
  • One+All
  • Starkey

 

Business of the Year (£1-5m) – Sponsored by Gorvins Solicitors

  • Grassroots Recruitment
  • Jobwise
  • Hollingworth Design

 

Business of the Year (up to £1m) – Sponsored by Mayfield Floors 

  • Envance
  • Hatters
  • Stockport Gin

 

Family Business of the Year – Sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Financial Planning

  • Almond Family Pubs
  • MyPay
  • The Waltzing Matilda Boat

 

Most Promising Young Business – Sponsored by The Business Growth Hub

  • bMindful Psychology
  • Envance
  • Faber Joinery

 

Employer of the Year – Sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants  

  • Almond Family Pubs
  • Smith Goodfellow
  • Vernon Building Society

 

Best Marketing Campaign  – Sponsored by Marketing Stockport

  • Stockport County
  • Totally Stockport

 

Best Not-for-Profit Organisation – Sponsored by Creative Support

  • Pure Innovations
  • SignPost Stockport for Carers
  • Together Trust

 

The Innovation Award – Sponsored by Stockport Borough Council & Economic Alliance

  • GroundWOW
  • HOME Marketing
  • Local Gardens

 

Best Creative/Design Agency – Sponsored by Dawn Creative

  • Create 8
  • E2E
  • Platform 81

 

The Corporate Social Responsibility Award – Sponsored by Music Magpie

  • E2E
  • Local Gardens
  • Smith Goodfellow

 

The Taste of Stockport Award – Sponsored by Sage UK

  • The Milliner – Not Cool Ltd
  • Silver Apples
  • Stockport Gin

 

The Stockport Award – Sponsored by Edgeley Park

  • Grassroots Recruitment
  • Kate O’Brien Art
  • Stockport Gin

If you would like anymore information please contact laurafrost@clarkenicklin.co.uk. 

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Shortlist Announced for the 2022 Stockport Business Awards

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2022 Stockport Business Awards. Many Stockport businesses entered the 13 categories this year, and the judging took place on Tuesday 5th July. The judging panel consisted of headline sponsor representatives from Clarke Nicklin, Gorvins Solicitors and Music Magpie. Representatives from Stockport Borough Council, the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Dawn Creative were also on the panel. After many hours of discussion and debate the shortlist was agreed.

Andrew Baggott, Managing partner of Clarke Nicklin, commented “Judging day is always challenging, so many admirable business enter each year and it never gets easier choosing the winners. Reading through entries really highlights all the good things that are going on in the borough. We’re looking forward to another fantastic evening celebrating the success of the Stockport business community”.

This year’s shortlist is:

Business of the Year (over £5m) – Sponsored by Pioneer Group

  • GCP
  • One+All
  • Starkey

 Business of the Year (£1-5m) – Sponsored by Gorvins Solicitors

  • Grassroots Recruitment
  • Jobwise
  • Hollingworth Design

 Business of the Year (up to £1m) – Sponsored by Mayfield Floors  

  • Envance
  • Hatters
  • Stockport Gin

Family Business of the Year – Sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Financial Planning

  • Almond Family Pubs
  • MyPay
  • The Waltzing Matilda Boat

Most Promising Young Business – Sponsored by The Business Growth Hub

  • bMindful Psychology
  • Envance
  • Faber Joinery

 Employer of the Year – Sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants   

  • Almond Family Pubs
  • Smith Goodfellow
  • Vernon Building Society

Best Marketing Campaign  – Sponsored by Marketing Stockport

  • Stockport County
  • Totally Stockport

 Best Not-for-Profit Organisation – Sponsored by Creative Support

  • Pure Innovations
  • SignPost Stockport for Carers
  • Together Trust

 The Innovation Award – Sponsored by Stockport Borough Council & Economic Alliance

  • GroundWOW
  • HOME Marketing
  • Local Gardens

 Best Creative/Design Agency – Sponsored by Dawn Creative

  • Create 8
  • E2E
  • Platform 81

 The Corporate Social Responsibility Award – Sponsored by Music Magpie

  • E2E
  • Local Gardens
  • Smith Goodfellow

 The Taste of Stockport Award – Sponsored by Clarke Nicklin

  • The Milliner – Not Cool Ltd
  • Silver Apples
  • Stockport Gin

The Stockport Award – Sponsored by Edgeley Park

  • Grassroots Recruitment
  • Kate O’Brien Art
  • Stockport Gin

The winners will be announced at an awards dinner which will take place on Thursday 6th October at Edgeley Park. Tickets will be on sale in the coming weeks

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Edgeley Park Confirmed to Sponsor The Stockport Award

Organisers and main sponsors, Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants, are delighted to welcome back Edgeley Park as category sponsors at this year’s awards. Edgeley Park will be sponsoring ‘The Stockport Award’ for the second time. This year’s awards will also be held at their fantastic venue.

 

Edgeley Park are joining a superb line up of category sponsors this year including Clarke Nicklin Financial Planning, Marketing Stockport, Mayfield Floors, Dawn Creative, The Business Growth Hub, Pioneer Group, Creative Support, Stockport Council and Stockport Economic Alliance. This Year’s Headline Sponsors are Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants, Gorvins Solicitors and Music Magpie.

 

Managing Partner of Clarke Nicklin, Andrew Baggott commented “we are thrilled to be joined and supported by so many great Stockport Businesses. We are looking forward to another excellent evening celebrating the borough and all it has achieved this year.”

 

Entries are now closed for the awards which will take place on Thursday 6th October. The shortlist will be announced next week. There are still sponsorship opportunities available and charity raffle prizes are needed. Please contact laurafrost@clarkenicklin.co.uk for more information.

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Entries Now Open! SBA 2022

We are so excited to announce that entries are now open for the 2022 Stockport Business Awards!

There are fourteen categories businesses can enter this year, its free to enter and multiple categories can be entered.

This year’s categories are:

Business of the Year (up to £1m) sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants
Business of the Year (£1-5m) sponsored by Gorvins Solictors
Business of the Year (over £5m) sponsored by Pioneer Group
Family Business of the Year sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Financial Planning
Marketing Campaign of the Year sponsored by Marketing Stockport
Best Digital/Creative Agency sponsored by Dawn Creative
Best Not-for-Profit Organisation – sponsorship still available
The Innovation Award sponsored by SMBS & Stockport Economic Alliance
Corporate Social Responsibility Award sponsored by musicMagpie
Most Promising Young Business sponsored by GC Business Growth Hub
Employer of the Year – sponsorship still available
Taste of Stockport – sponsorship still available
Best Bar/Restaurant – sponsorship still available
The Stockport Award sponsored by Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants

Submit your entries here.

Entries will close at 5pm on Friday 27th May with judging set to take place in June.

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Seashell Trust Announced As Official 2022 Charity Partner

We are delighted to announce this year’s charity partner is Seashell Trust, a leading learning disability and autism charity in Stockport.

Seashell Trust operate a special school, specialist college, 17 four-bedroom residential homes and a host of sport camps and training programs for families all from their 30-acre campus in Cheadle Hulme.

Over 500 Stockport residents benefit directly from Seashell’s services, including 150 children and young people who are educated and live at Seashell Trust, which has been based in Stockport since the 1950’s.

Relationships Director of Seashell Trust, Dominic Tinner, commented: “As a charity that has had its home in Stockport for over 60 years, Seashell is thrilled to have been chosen as the charity partner for this year’s Stockport Business Awards.  As we look forward to our Bicentenary in 2023, our association with the awards will help to raise local businesses’ knowledge of our valuable work with children and young people with the most complex needs and their families not only in Stockport but across the country.”

The Stockport Business Awards team is now appealing to businesses within the borough to once again donate a prize for the charity raffle on the evening. If you would like to donate a prize, please email aliceatkinson@clarkenicklin.co.uk.

Check out more about Seashell Trust here.

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GC Business Growth Hub Confirmed as Category Sponsors

Organisers and main sponsors, Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants, are ecstatic to be welcoming back GC Business Growth Hub as a category sponsor again for the second time running at the 2022 Stockport Business Awards.

GC Business Growth Hub are a community of specialists with a passion to help a wide range of businesses from all different sectors by providing professional advice including one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, specialist programmes, funding and more, usually provided at no direct cost to those businesses who seek help.
Account Manager at GC Business Growth Hub, Liam Connors, added: “After sponsoring Employer of the Year at the Stockport Business Awards in 2021, GC Business Growth Hub are incredibly proud to be a part of the event in 2022. We had a great night at the last awards ceremony and can’t wait to continue to show our support to Stockport businesses!”

This year, GC Business Growth Hub will be sponsoring the ‘Most Promising Young Business Award’ which aims to uncover new talent that has been trading for less than three years but are up-and-coming within the Stockport borough.

Managing Partner of Clarke Nicklin, Andrew Baggott, said: “It has been a delight to welcome back the GC Business Growth Hub as our sponsor for the Most Promising Young Business award this year. There is a lot of talent in Stockport, with many new businesses prevailing, which we enjoy uncovering and celebrating and will continue to do so this year.”

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Headline Sponsors & Date for 2022 Confirmed

Organisers and main sponsors, Clarke Nicklin Chartered Accountants, can now reveal the Stockport Business Awards 2022 headline sponsors. Gorvins Solicitors and musicMagpie will once again join Clarke Nicklin in headlining the event which will take place on the 6th October at Edgeley Park, aimed to celebrate businesses of all sectors and sizes in the Stockport community.

Christian Mancier, Corporate/Commercial Partner at Gorvins Solicitors, said: “The Stockport Business Awards are a staple event in the local business calendar. We are proud to have sponsored these awards from the start and look forward to sponsoring the 2022 awards alongside Clarke Nicklin and Music Magpie. There are so many fantastic businesses in Stockport who, despite a challenging environment for business during 2021, have done, and continue to do, amazing things. I can’t wait to hear all the stories from the nominees over the coming weeks and months and then come together in October to celebrate the best of what Stockport business has to offer.”

Steve Oliver, co-Founder and Group CEO at musicMagpie, adds: “We are thrilled to once again be sponsoring the 2022 Stockport Business Awards, alongside Gorvins Solicitors. 2021 continued to present challenges throughout the Stockport business community, but once again businesses demonstrated their resilience! I’m looking forward to hearing more on the recent successes of our local businesses and celebrating together in October with all of the winners and worthy nominees.”

Clarke Nicklin are still on the lookout for businesses who would also like to be involved in category sponsorship this year and encourage anyone who is interested, to get in touch.

Managing Partner of Clarke Nicklin, Andrew Baggott, said: “We are very thankful for the continued support businesses show in sponsoring our awards each year, and we’re looking forward to having musicMapgie and Gorvins Solicitors joining headline sponsors Clarke Nicklin again this year.”

If you are interested in sponsoring this year’s awards and would like more info, please email aliceatkinson@clarkenicklin.co.uk

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