The Queen's Awards: Enterprise Promotion or Voluntary Service?
This week I met with the team from The Queen’s Awards for Voluntary Service who wanted to find out more about what we do. We often receive calls from people...
Advice
Advice from assessors, judges and previous winnners as well as practical hints and tips from The Queen's Awards Team.
An MP writes …Celebrating success in Carshalton and Wallington
Tom Brake Lib Dem MP for Carshalton and Wallington emailed us to say he’d recently attended a Queen’s Awards event in his constituency; we asked if he’d like to be our guest blogger this week.
Party time!
Here at The Queen’s Awards Office, we love to find out about all the Award presentations and celebrations going on around the UK , as winning companies are visited by...
Top Tips for entering the 2015 Awards
As we’re fast approaching the summer holidays and many of you will want to complete your 2015 Award entry before heading off to the sun, I thought it might be...
Working with Lord-Lieutenants network (Part 2 - West Midlands and Warwickshire)
Tim Cox and David Burbidge invited me to speak at an event on the 8 May in Coventry. This was joined-up thinking by the Lord-Lieutenants who combined the power of West Midlands with Warwickshire to stage a workshop on behalf …
Scottish Secretary visits Paragon Inks
Alistair Carmichael at Paragon Ink (Licence: Scotland Office/OGL 3.0) Queen’s Awards winners are a fine example of the excellence that Scotland has to offer the rest of the world. That...
Working with Lord-Lieutenants network (Part 1 - Birmingham)
I was invited by the Lord-Lieutenants to attend 2 events in the West Midlands in early May. I will blog about the first visit this week and do a follow up blog in the next couple of weeks.
All systems go at Allstate NI
Last month, while on holiday back home in Belfast, I was invited to visit one of our brand new 2014 Queen’s Award winners, Allstate Northern Ireland. My Allstate NI hosts:...
Peak Scientific: a wee bit special
Recently the Secretary of State for Business and Skills visited Peak Scientific as part of a day visit to Glasgow.
Any answers, any questions?
If you are a recent winner we’d love to hear about any positive impact your business has experienced as a result of winning a Queen’s Award.