celebrating 20 years

WYEC celebrated its 20th Anniversary, by hosting it's first ever Business Trade Fair and evening Gala Awards Ceremony. This event took place on September 18th 2008 and featured guest speakers Levi Roots (Reggae Reggae Sauce & Dragons Den fame), Tim Campbell (winner of The 2005 Apprentice & Founder of the Bright Ideas Trust) and Dave VJ (Choice FM presenter).

The Business Trade Fair showcased extremely young talented individuals who had successfully completed WYEC's business training and counselling programme, and had outstanding ideas and products on the general market.  Also in attendance were youth oriented agencies, business support, and training and education organisations. Free business skills workshops were available, as well as inspirational and motivational talks and a Q & A session from our guest speakers.

The Gala dinner ceremony saw the presentation of a number of awards to young achievers in the business world for categories such as Best Newcomer, Most Environmentally Conscious Business and Most Creative Business among many others.

The evening was a great success with over 250 people in attendance.

Our thanks to the following sponsors and supporters:

Lottery Awards For All
Inbiz
HSBC
Tim Campbell
Dave VJ
Deputy Mayor of Wandsworth
Saffron Catering
Multiform
Versatile Performers
TwiceasNice

London Development Agency
Minerva
Playvybz
Levi Roots
Still Moving
Anna Woolfson
Goodness Station
Cutting Edge Marble
Micky Negro
Purple Vision

Award presenters, sponsors & supporters
Award presenters: Alex Rahaman (WYEC Chair), Dave VJ (Choice FM presenter), Levi Roots (Reggae, Reggae Sauce & Dragons Den), Andrea Photiou (Playvybz.com), Remi Okeshola (Inbiz), Phil Dell (HSBC), Mark Cherry (Minerva)

Winner of the ‘Tim Campbell’ Newcomer Award
Budding entrepreneur, Chris Field presented with the 'Tim Campbell' Newcomer Award

Winner of the Life time achievement award
Winners of the Life Time Achievement Award, Erica Pryke and Kelly Tuson from South West Swimming School

Most environmentally conscious award winners
Winners of the Most Environmentally Conscious Award, Seb Mayfield and Kate Swatridge from Food Upfront

Champagne reception
Champagne reception

Young entrepreneur
Entrepreneur Anna Woolfson entertaining guests at the champagne reception

Announcing ‘Best stall’ award winner
Deputy Mayor Cllr Peter Dawson and wife Linda announcing the Best Stall Award

Supporting community business outreach
Deputy Mayor Cllr Peter Dawson and wife Linda showing their support for Business Launchpad

Q & A panel
Q and A panelists Levi Roots, Tim Campbell and Peter Watkins

Q & A audience
Attentive audience at the Q and A

Young entrepreneur
Entrepreneur Lorraine Booth showcasing her business Akalico

Young entrepreneur
Peter Watkins selling organic food from his business Goodness Station

Young entrepreneur
Budding entrepreneur Vicky Steane showcasing her community interest company Floorless Comics

Tim Campbell WYEC supporter
Tim Campbell showing his support for WYEC

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