Ingatestone, Fryerning Essex businesses win King’s Awards for Enterprise

11 Essex businesses have won the prestigious King’s Awards for Enterprise. 2024 is an outstanding year for Greater Essex businesses. It shows determination amid rising costs and economic uncertainty.

The winners can now use the King’s Awards emblem to enhance their prestige and commercial value.

The winners are:

• Innovation: Dura Composites Ltd, Clacton-on-Sea

• International trade: Select Tech Limited, Billericay

• International trade: RSS International Ltd, Stanford-le-Hope

• International trade: Skysmart MRO Ltd, Great Dunmow

• International trade: Atlantic Pacific Global Logistics Ltd, Basildon

• International trade: Airline Component Services Ltd, Braintree

• International trade: Kestrel Liner Agencies Ltd, Stansted

• International trade: Direct Meats (Knights Farm) Ltd, Colchester

• International trade: Titan Airways Ltd, Stansted

• Promoting opportunity through social mobility: Ipeco Holdings Ltd, Southend-on-Sea

• Sustainable development: Climbing Trees Online Marketing Limited, Colchester

Applications for this year’s awards are now open.

Essex County Council encourage all local businesses to apply. You can see if you’re eligible and start your application via www.gov.uk/kings-awards-for-enterprise

ECL partnership

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fire service ensures safety of the sensory impaired

ECL, an Essex-based sensory support service has developed a formidable partnership with Essex County Fire and Rescue Service to ensure its services are accessible to everyone with sight and/or hearing loss.

ECL’s Sensory Service, which supports people with sensory impairments to live independently, leads the Sensory Action Alliance, a network of organisations across Essex that work together to improve the lives of people with sensory loss.

A key member of the Sensory Action Alliance since 2020, Essex County Fire and Rescue Service is sharing how its partnership with ECL has benefitted the organisation and the community it serves with the release of a film to encourage others to join – this can be viewed via youtu.be/adVIFpIKHiI

Essex County Fire and Rescue Service plays a key role in helping to ensure that individuals supported by ECL’s Sensory service are safe in their homes by providing safety checks and specialist alert equipment.

For more information about the Sensory Action Alliance and how to join, visit www.ecl.org

For more information about Essex County Fire and Rescue Service visit www.essex-fire.gov.uk