The winners of this year’s SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards will be announced at the end of this month at a glittering gala ceremony at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Stadium MK. Ahead of the ceremony, meet all the businesses that have made it to the final and hear their thoughts on being shortlisted among the best across Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire. BAME Business of the Year
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Akhand Armour D’Rose Development Consultancy Ramtech Consultant REAS Group Rivaro Travel Yumchop Foods “D’Rose Development Consultancy Ltd is proud to be a focused Ethics and Equity Change Maker. With over 20 years’ experience in creating equitable cultures, empowering people from diverse backgrounds and developing inclusive learning opportunities, D’Rose Development Consultancy Ltd has created a holistic approach to supporting organisations develop and implement their diversity and inclusion strategies. Our tailored packages are founded in the D’Rose Resilience Model (trademark pending) which establishes core competencies and best practice in ethics, equity, diversity, inclusion and sustainability. Our framework helps to embed best practice throughout the organisation’s structure including policy development, procedural implementation and staff training.”
MyMiltonKeynes Best Business in BID District Bluecube Technology Solutions Business Live Global iFLY Indoor Skydiving Milton Keynes YMCA Milton Keynes
Sandler MK Best Customer Service Public Vote
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La aesthetics/ La Academy MDB SERVICE CONSULTING Olivia Cole Treat Street Wealth And Tax Management Your Cloud Works
DoubleTree by Hilton Best Enterprising Business Active in the Community CIC Bucks Star Brewery & Tap House Champagne Fire Truck Kimbletech Nutshell Creative Marketing Profile Resourcing Queensbury
Taking your HR from ‘TO DO’ to ‘DONE’ Outsourced HR Service that provides efficient, direct service saving you time and money to concentrate on your business. www.hrresultsltd.co.uk
Building Excellence in Development Solutions ETHICS & EQUITY
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MK Pulse/Business MK Best New Business Carlys Candle Company Fierce Gym Go Car Charge HR Results Ltd. La aesthetics & Academy Lovegrove Consulting Rivaro Travel The Willen Ice Cream Company “We are very excited to have made it onto the shortlist for both ‘Business of the Year’ and ‘Employer of the Year’, as this has validated our core values. The Engineering Quest is people focused; we pride ourselves in the care and attention we give to Health and Wellbeing, which is embedded in our top level strategy. The business has grown through innovation and high customer service. Our team thrives on finding solutions.”
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“The Willen Ice Cream Company is absolutely delighted to be nominated in both the Best New Business and Family Business of the Year categories. We are a small, independent business with family at the heart of everything we do. This recognition is testament to the hard work we put into producing the most delicious ice cream around, which includes a range suitable for gluten free and vegan diets. We’d like to thank all our customers and everyone who has continued to support us. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. We’re beaming with pride. It’s true… ice cream does make you smile.”
Buckinghamshire Business of the Year The Engineering Quest Voucherline “Voucherline are SO excited to be a finalist in this super award ceremony, and know we’re going to have a great night and mix with lots of other fantastic companies too. Thank you to the judges and organisers. Voucherline have been providing fun incentive and loyalty programmes since 2003 and our customers have access to over 300 UK gift cards and e-codes in our self-serve corporate platform with API capability. We also have Reward Panda, an employee, member or customer rewards/benefits platform costing from £1 per member for life. Visit www.voucherlinecorporate. com and revolutionise your incentive programmes today.”
Business Chameleon Brettish Services Bucks Star Brewery & Tap House MDB SERVICE CONSULTING Mia Tui
Complete IT Business of the Year (less than 50 employees) Kimbletech Nutshell Creative Marketing Treat Street WSA The Communications Agency
Beauty Aesthetics Training
The natural choice for emotional, befriending and advocacy support to cancer patients, their families and support groups. www.alspals.org.uk
We are absolutely delighted to announce that HR Results Ltd is a finalist for this year’s SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards in three categories: Best New Business, Business Woman of the Year, and Service Excellence. “HR Results Ltd was founded in the middle of a pandemic to provide, outsourced human resources consultancy service, with a personal, bespoke touch working like an ‘in-house’ person. I have a deep understanding that each client’s needs are unique and therefore providing the result that meets their requirements is very important. I am immensely grateful to all the clients that I have gained and retained and the positive feedback.
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www.enhance-aesthetics.com
123 Internet Group Business Innovation Air For Life Business Live Global MSP Dark Web MumPod Company Nutshell Creative Marketing Red Giraffe Vibrant Fit Vinyl Interiors “WSA The Communications Agency is immensely proud to have been announced as finalists for Business of the Year and Service Excellence categories at the 2022 SME Milton Keynes & Buckinghamshire Business Awards. We are particularly excited to have been recognised in the same year that Milton Keynes has deservedly achieved city status. WSA has remained vocal advocates for business in MK and the wider Buckinghamshire region ever since its inception in 2005, supporting organisations such as Ride High, YMCA, Willen Hospice, MK SNAP and Worktree; as well as commercial involvement with local institutions such as Milton Keynes University Hospital and MyMiltonKeynes Business Improvement District.”
Franklins Solicitors Business of the Year (50+employees) Ashridge Home Care Bluecube Technology Solutions Lucid Support Services SMS Cleaning The Engineering Quest YMCA Milton Keynes “Lucid Support Services is an awardwinning, established, reliable and trusted employment services and IT project delivery provider throughout the UK. We believe in a karma-neutral policy, creating transparent, successful partnerships from inception to delivery. To have reached the final shortlist of the SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards 2022 Business of the year: More than 50 employees means so much to the team as we pride ourselves in putting our people first and supporting the local Milton Keynes community through partnering with MK-based businesses and fundraising for local charities.”
Business Woman of the Year Mandeep Meena Hanspal Akhand Armour Charlie Roberts Enhance aesthetics Jessica Sussex Floors At Fourteen Daxa Patel HR Results Ltd Nicole O’Grady Olivia Cole Hazel Scanlon SMS Cleaning Natasha Barnes Hutchinson Spoilt Rotten Dog
01908 370 788 info@join-the-quest.co.uk First Avenue, Bletchley Milton Keynes MK1 1DY Also at Great Gransden
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