2023 Winners
The Lloyds Bank Small to Medium Sized Business of the Year Award
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Cleanology
About Cleanology
Cleanology, established over 20 years ago, provides office and commercial cleaning, property maintenance, and support services in London and major UK cities.
With 1400+ employees, we prioritise technology, innovation, quality, sustainability, and social responsibility. Accreditations: Living Wage Foundation, ISO:9001, ISO:14001, Green Organisation membership.
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Quest Waste Management Ltd
About Quest Waste Management Ltd
Highly Commended
Quest Waste Management is a drainage and waste specialist offering proactive and reactive support to customers in a range of industries including utilities, highways, agriculture and manufacturing. We’re proudly independent, and have grown rapidly, now with three depots and three satellite locations meaning we operate UK-wide.
The Mid-Sized Business of the Year Award
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Net World Sports
About Net World Sports
Net World Sports is a global eCommerce business that innovates, manufacturers and supplies high-quality sports, fitness and leisure equipment. Their expansive range of predominantly own-brand products can be found in homes, schools and clubs worldwide. Offering innovative solutions and global shipping, they are a one-stop-shop for all your sporting needs.
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Findel
About Findel
Findel is an eCommerce educational resources supplier catering for the UK and international schools and nurseries marketplace. Today, our brands offer more than 32,000 products to customers worldwide. This means we provide full coverage for primary, secondary and early years teaching, alongside specialist supplies for business managers, science and PE.
The Tech Business of the Year Award
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disguise
About disguise
disguise is a real-time production platform, combining 3D visualisation software, cloud solutions, hardware and creative services to deliver the next dimension of visual experiences. Recognised as a 2022 Financial Times Tech Hero, disguise is also a recipient of the Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy Award and Queen’s Award for Innovation.
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Octopus Energy
About Octopus Energy
Octopus Energy has demonstrated exceptional exponential growth offering a robust and agile model to deliver sustained customer and financial success. By leveraging the unrivalled advantages of innovative Kraken technology to lower energy costs, increase customer engagement and exploit game changing levels of efficiencies we are re-writing the energy sector rulebook.
The Lloyds Bank New Business of the Year Award
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Upholstery2u Limited
About Upholstery2u Limited
We're Upholstery pioneers! For decades the upholstery industry has stood still. At Upholstery2u, we've ripped up the rule book to deliver a super-fast, affordable mobile upholstery service that makes life simpler for the businesses and sectors we serve.
Simply, we've got it in the van!
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IDM Energy
About IDM Energy
IDM Energy is a traditional trade and renewables business based out of Inverness covering the North of Scotland and the Scottish Islands. We work with business owners and homeowners to provide them with top class services ensuring they get what they like when they need it whilst continually ensuring compliance.
The JetBlue Business Enabler of the Year Award
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Parser Digital
About Parser Digital
At Parser we are committed to building, nurturing, and empowering a diverse, multi-disciplinary organisation, where every team member can grow professionally and achieve their ambitions, while helping our clients design new innovative products, and by building, scaling, and managing the technology teams that bring these products to life.
The LDC Entrepreneur of the Year Award
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Sian Jones, CEO, Correla
About Sian Jones, CEO, Correla
At Correla we help customers navigate the complexities of the energy market while creating cost efficiencies that guide the way forward to a net-zero future. We do this through our fully adaptable SaaS platforms, comprehensive managed services and unrivalled energy industry knowledge, delivering solutions for customers where data drives decisions.
The Lloyds Bank Sustainable Business of the Year Award
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Clean Planet Group
About Clean Planet Group
Clean Planet Group tackles the plastic and climate crises by building advanced recycling facilities which turn hard-to-recycle plastics, otherwise heading for landfill or our oceans, into circular products and low-carbon fuels. With the revenue generated, the group's Foundation is funded to educate and take action with social impact initiatives.
Highly Commended
E Co.
About E Co.
E Co. is an international climate finance and development consultancy, uniquely specialised in the design of low-carbon, climate-resilient projects and programmes. We provide multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral market assessments, develop strategies and formulate projects to provide long-lasting solutions for the environment and communities across the globe.
The Gateley Business Transformation of the Year Award
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Bramble Energy
About Bramble Energy
Bramble Energy is powering a net zero world today - and is proving to be a real game changer in solving key challenges in the production of traditional fuel cell systems including: lead times, up-front investment, manufacturing cost and scalability. Dr Tom Mason is CEO & CTO of Bramble.
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Simply Asset Finance
About Simply Asset Finance
Simply is a specialist business lending provider founded 2017 in response to the overly-complicated SME financing process in the UK. It’s a rapidly growing business that uses its approach of ‘technology with a handshake’ to offer a complete rethink of what lending should be, improving service levels without added complexity.
The Department for Business and Trade Exporter of the Year Award
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Rockit
About Rockit
Rockit design innovative, award-winning products to help babies sleep. Their launch product was the 'Rockit Rocker', a game-changing device that fits any pram or stroller and gently rocks it. Other Rockit products include 'Zed' a clever vibration sleep soother for cots and 'Wooshh' a small but mighty rechargeable sound soother.
The Employer of the Year Award
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Quality Bearings Online
About Quality Bearings Online
A simple idea back in 2012 has grown Quality Bearings Online into one of the leading online bearing distributors. Supplying metric products into an imperial market is our forte. We’ve developed strong partnerships and purchasing capabilities, enabling us to minimise down time whilst providing an excellent customer experience.
Highly Commended
xDesign
About xDesign
xDesign is an award winning digital consultancy on a mission to unleash the world’s potential. What started as one person’s ambition is now a team of 450+ experts across Product, Design, and Engineering. This has seen us work with a variety of companies across a multitude of industries.
The Scale Up Business of the Year Award
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Utility Line
About Utility Line
Utility Line is a fast-growing privately owned SME, operating in the utility sector. We provide a full turnkey electrical service to residential developers and charge point operators to design, install and maintain electric vehicle charging points throughout the UK.
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Test Driven Solutions Limited
About Test Driven Solutions Limited
We are Test Driven Solutions, a technology consultancy specialising in software development and delivery. We provide first-class consultants to clients across a variety of industries. Our HQ is based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and we have also become established in Calgary (Canada) and Wroclaw (Poland).
The Small Business of the Year Award
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Get A Drip
About Get A Drip
Founded in 2017 by Richard Chambers, Get A Drip is an international wellness clinic offering IV Vitamin Drips, Booster Shots, Diagnostic Testing and innovative Wellness Therapies. Experience our complete collection of bespoke health and wellness services - regain control of your own wellbeing today!
The Lloyds Bank DE&I Champion of the Year Award
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UK Black Business Show Limited
About UK Black Business Show Limited
Through exhibitions, workshops, interactive panels and seminars, delivered by industry pioneers, UK Black Business Show is a platform that enables personal, professional and corporate development. Highlighting the achievements and contributions Black-led businesses and professionals have made to the economy and society. Attendees gain cutting-edge insight in entrepreneurship and leadership
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Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing
About Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing
Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing is an inclusive wellbeing agency based in Preston. Founded by psychologist Lee Chambers in 2020, they support organisations in building and delivering effective and inclusive wellbeing strategies, and deliver bespoke training including VR experiences and topics where wellbeing and inclusion meet.
The Purpose Before Profit Award
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The Housing Network
About The Housing Network
The Housing Network is a socially purposed business that provides accommodation and support services to public bodies to support their homelessness prevention activities. THN accommodates and supports some of the most vulnerable people in society at particularly stressful points in their lives and seeks to provide more than a roof.
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Wildflowers of London
About Wildflowers of London
At Wildflowers of London, we're proud to have an all-female team of talented freelancers passionate about making a difference. Founded by Lou Nylander in the Spring of 2021 with a mission to help businesses achieve their full potential through innovative and effective marketing strategies.
The Growth Business of the Year Award
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Sweet Projects
About Sweet Projects
Sweet Projects create the built environment that enables our client partners to thrive. From inception in February 2020, with historical, well established client relationships, the business expanded to deliver secure, complex, specialist and challenging projects at pace.
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The Housing Network
About The Housing Network
The Housing Network is a socially purposed business that provides accommodation and support services to public bodies to support their homelessness prevention activities. THN accommodates and supports some of the most vulnerable people in society at particularly challenging points in their lives and seeks to provide more than a roof.
The Innovation Award
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Flare Audio Ltd
About Flare Audio Ltd
Flare Audio is a technology company that design innovative audio products. Founded in 2010 Flare started life as a loudspeaker designer. Passionate about developing meaningful technologies we miniaturised our designs into in-ear consumer products to improve everyone’s relationship with sound. We ship to 180+ countries and have over 900,000 customers.
