PROWESS Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Women's Enterprise Development in the UK

PROWESS has developed the Flagship Award as a best practice standard for excellence in women's enterprise development. To achieve Flagship status organisations must demonstrate that they comply with a rigorous set of criteria designed to measure quality, client focus, inclusion and equality. Using the awards criteria organisations are able to identify, measure and improve their services for women business owners.

Flagship Awards:
At the conference Flagship Awards were presented to representatives from the following seven organisations:

Business Link for Hertfordshire's New Horizons (Inspiring Success for Women) Programme

Incredit

Sheffield Community Enterprise Development Unit's Making a Difference Programme

Beta Technology's South Yorkshire Female Entrepreneurs Network Programme

Rural Women's Network

Women into Rural Enterprise

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	PROWESS Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Women's Enterprise Development in the UK 2004

		PROWESS has developed the Flagship Award as a best practice standard for excellence in women's enterprise development. To achieve Flagship status organisations must demonstrate that they comply with a rigorous set of criteria designed to measure quality, client focus, inclusion and equality. Using the awards criteria organisations are able to identify, measure and improve their services for women business owners. Flagship Awards: At the conference Flagship Awards were presented to representatives from the following seven organisations: Business Link for Hertfordshire's New Horizons (Inspiring Success for Women) Programme Incredit Sheffield Community Enterprise Development Unit's Making a Difference Programme Beta Technology's South Yorkshire Female Entrepreneurs Network Programme Rural Women's Network Women into Rural Enterprise Account 3 For further information about Flagship criteria contact admin@prowess.org.uk.
		This year PROWESS created four new awards for Outstanding Contribution to Women's Enterprise Development in the UK. These were presented at the conference to: Business Support Professional of the Year: Sandy Richardson, Business Link Tees Valley Outstanding Contribution to Women's Enterprise Development: Dinah Bennett, Women Into the Network (WIN), Durham Business School Innovator Award: Asian-e Foundation Business Link Award: Business Link Wessex The winners were recognised for their success and dynamics in promoting and supporting women business owners. PROWESS was overwhelmed by the number and quality of nominations, indicating the huge amount taking place throughout the UK to encourage more women into enterprise. The judging panel included: Isabella Moore, first ever Woman President of the British Chambers of Commerce; Steve Michell, Head of the Small Business Service Women's Enterprise Unit; Tracy Betts from Community Development Banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland and Natwest and Mumtaz Bashir, Director of Manchester Employer Coalition. For further information about awards and criteria for 2005 contact Saskia Kent, Development Manager at PROWESS email: s.kent@prowess.org.uk tel: 01603 762355.