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Local Enterprise Agency Wins National Award

Best Outreach Programme 2007

The Enterprise Agency for Wear Valley & Teesdale is thrilled to announce that it has won a highly prestigious award, in the most subscribed category, at the first National Enterprise Awards sponsored by Yell.com

The Enterprise Agency won the National Enterprise Award for Outreach, highlighting the lengths the Agency goes to proactively taking the enterprise message out to communities and businesses.

The Agency extends its sincere thanks to all its local partners for their ongoing support and partnership working: Upper Teesdale Agricultural Service (UTASS), Teesdale Village Halls Consortium (TVHC), Teesdale District Council, Teesdale Local Strategic Partnership, Teesdale Marketing, Wear Valley District Council, Weardale Visitor Network, Wear Valley Forum for Business and all our Local Community Partnerships.

In its nomination for the Award, the judges said that the Teesdale and Wear Valley Agency demonstrated unparalleled local knowledge and very innovative methods of engagement.

The Outreach category nomination was for the following outreach activities delivered in Wear Valley and Teesdale: Enterprise Coaching; Road Show Workshops; Community Partners; Community Networks; Local Portals www.teesdale.co.uk & www.durhamdales.co.uk ; Community Radio

Yell’s senior advertiser acquisition manager, Philip Barwell, said: “We are delighted to sponsor the NFEA awards as we’re committed to championing and supporting emerging enterprise. Enterprise agencies play a crucial role helping small businesses to start and grow and these awards showcase the fantastic support that is being offered across the country.”

Shaun Stuart, Agency Chief Executive says, “We are obviously delighted to have been recognized in this way for our work, we’ve a strong team of dedicated staff and the fact that we are a relatively small Agency compared with others around the country makes this a significant achievement. It is immensely encouraging that our hard work is recognized and that the different ways in which we do things have been considered exemplar”.

The National Enterprise Awards were hosted by NFEA Chairman Kevin Horne at the formal dinner of the NFEA Annual Conference, held at Chesford Grange in Warwickshire. Each National Enterprise Award winner was presented with an engraved trophy and champagne by NFEA Chairman Kevin Horne and Philip Barwell, Yell’s senior advertiser acquisition manager.