The Heropreneurs Awards 2020

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If you would like to get in touch regarding entering the awards, please contact Esme Jepp – esme@heropreneurs.co.uk

What’s so special about the Heropreneurs Awards?

• Heropreneurs is a charity, run by volunteers. The people that run Heropreneurs, including myself, receive no financial benefit whatsoever for the extensive amount of time that we put into running the charity or the Heropreneurs Awards.
• Warwick Business School, Amazon Web Services, AYR Aviation, Goldman Sachs, OBXtek, Banks Cooper Associates and The Veterans’ Foundation, all of whom are maintaining their support of the Heropreneurs Awards in 2020
• The Heropreneurs Awards are not being run for profit, and if we are fortunate enough to achieve a surplus it will all go to the benefit of the Heropreneurs charity.
• The Judges of the Heropreneurs Awards, chaired by General Sir John McColl, the Chairman of Cobseo and past Lieutenant governor of Jersey, are all highly successful people drawn from the worlds of business, politics, and the Armed forces.
• Our nominees, who represent the best of the ex-Armed Forces in business.

That’s why the Heropreneurs Awards are so prestigious.

The history of Heropreneurs

At Heropreneurs we are celebrating 11 years of helping ex-Armed Forces personnel on the road to creating their own successful businesses, as Heropreneurs was launched as a registered charity in 2009. It’s very tough and lonely creating a new business – formal Government statistics show that 50% of new businesses fail in their first 4 years.

At the core of what we do is a mentoring programme which is free to join. We have a community of highly successful entrepreneurs and business people who give their time entirely for free to our members. They are similar to Non-Executive Chairmen and provide highly experienced sounding boards with whom our members can discuss their business concerns. We know how difficult it is to succeed in business and we don’t promote starting up a business for the sake of it, or for our own personal financial gain; indeed, none of the people that run Heropreneurs obtains any financial benefit whatsoever.

The advice that our highly experienced Mentors give is objective and unbiased – Heropreneurs isn’t trying to sell anything to anyone.

We also encourage our members to connect with each other and help themselves to solve their business issues. We believe that having benefited from the help given by Heropreneurs our members will help others joining our programme. Our ethos is we help people so that they can help others. My colleague Stuart Nicol, who puts considerable amounts of expertise, time and effort, into Heropreneurs, runs networking meetings every month or two for our members to meet each other in the real world.

When I discovered that no British charities were focusing on celebrating the outstanding achievements in business by people from the Armed Forces, the Heropreneurs Awards were born.

Warwick Business School are also continuing their support by funding a bursary to study for an executive MBA; while other repeat sponsors include Amazon Web Services, AYR Aviation, Goldman Sachs, OBXtek, Banks Cooper Associates and The Veterans’ Foundation.

We know other sponsors will be joining us and we hope you will too; either by supporting the Heropreneurs Awards as a sponsor; buying tickets to attend this inspiring event or entering.

I look forward to your involvement and support.

Peter Mountford
Chairman