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id	name	position_in_organisation	organisation	address	town	county	postcode	country	year_of_award	type_of_award_lifetime_l_standard_s_or_honorary_h	citation	qa_ref	region	notes
0535adb8-0ab8-46fd-81d0-1a8752e84aa9	Mr David Benstead	Director HR, IT and Quality	Diodes Zetex Limited	#NA	#NA	Greater Manchester	#NA	#NA	2011	S	Dave Benstead has made a significant voluntary contribution to enterprise promotion in Oldham whilst pursuing an active career as a Director of HR, IT and Quality. His wide-ranging enterprise promotion activities include start-ups and work with young people, some of whom are disadvantaged and in a deprived inner city area. Mr Benstead uses his roles on the NW Manufacturing Forum, EEF (formerly the Engineering Employers Federation) and his contacts with Westminster to drive and promote enterprise throughout Oldham. He also drives enterprise policy as chair of various economic forums in Oldham. He engages other businesses to commit to partnership working with young people and schools. Mr Benstead works with schools to break down barriers to engaging with business. He designs and delivers demonstrator programmes which help disadvantaged young people to respond to the enterprise message.	0001/10EP	NW	#NA
0eb40a12-f654-4d9d-aef1-cfe196a8f31b	Mr John Vernon	Business Advisor	Oxfordshire Business Enterprises	#NA	#NA	Oxfordshire	#NA	#NA	2013	S	Works in supporting new and small businesses, he has been active in mentoring and assisting pre-start and start-up businesses for the last 14 years and has contributed the breadth and depth of his extensive previous management experience to younger and growing enterprises. He has been a voluntary advisor with Oxfordshire Business Enterprises (OBE) for eight years during which time he has worked with some 500 clients, mainly start-ups, but also some more mature SME businesses. In addition to his advisory role, John has also become substantially involved in the management of OBE, joining the Board of Directors as Advisor Representative to the Board. He spends up to three days per week on this activity, provided on a voluntary basis.	0003/13EP	SE	#NA
10650581-b434-4310-b80d-3acae370e99c	Lady Cunningham	Enterprise Development Coach	Ways into Successful Enterprise	#NA	#NA	Cumbria	#NA	#NA	2013	S	An Enterprise Development Coach on the 'Ways Into Successful Enterprise (WISE)' project that works in West Cumbria. The area suffers extensively from rural and social deprivation, with high levels of worklessness and child poverty. She has been involved in activities that support and mentor disadvantaged individuals and groups to set up or continue in business, to enter employment and/or to become self-employed and she has worked with, and mentored on a one to one basis, over 300 other potential start-ups. She has promoted enterprise by conceiving and co-ordinating high profile events celebrating the successful new business start-ups across West Cumbria, and also works with Young Enterprise and organises events with colleges and schools.	0029/13EP	NW	Christian name is Anne
12e8f9d8-ae06-4245-b173-28174abb6fd2	Mr Nigel Brown	Chairman	NW Brown Group Limited	#NA	#NA	#NA	#NA	#NA	2007	S	Nigel Brown is an established entrepreneur who has used his financial services business as a means of gaining financial support from organisations for new and developing businesses. These organisations include the Cambridge Gateway Fund and the Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF) which he chairs. Over 70 businesses have benefited through GEIF business angel activity. Nigel Brown’s activities have spanned 33 years and he is considered to be one of the key players in creating Cambridge’s reputation as a home for entrepreneurial clusters.	#NA	E	#NA