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Ethicall: Bristol team wins award at gala awards ceremony in London
A Bristol fundraising service for charities has been crowned one of the UK’s best new businesses at an awards ceremony attended by Lord Mandelson and Dragons’ Den star Duncan Bannatyne.
Tenple Street-based Ethicall provides outbound telephone fundraising services to over 40 charity organisations based in the UK.
Started by Cristy Cunnick, James Wheatcroft, Alex Smyth and Bernie Perks, the company has succeeded in raising £6 million for its charity clients as well as donating significant funds to local charities though its corporate social responsibility policy of giving 10% of its pre-tax profits.
Since its birth in July 2007, Ethicall has won contracts with the RSPB and the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association – and its success should, according to Start-Up Stars awards sponsor HSBC, inspire new business ideas.
Head of Business Banking for HSBC, Huw Morgan, said: “We hope the success of Ethicall in this year’s Start-Up Stars Awards will help it go from strength to strength, as well as prove to other budding entrepreneurs that business dreams really can be turned into reality.”
Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, who also attended the Awards, added: “The HSBC Start-Up Stars represent the very best in British enterprise. Defying some of the toughest economic conditions for decades, these companies are succeeding in sectors across our economy and markets across the world.
“The dynamism, innovation and hard work of Small to Medium Enterprises like this, is what will power Britain’s recovery now and growth in the future.
“Britain has the entrepreneurial talent to be the most enterprising economy in the world. Awards like the HSBC Start-Up Stars and the British enterprise it celebrates will help us fulfill that potential.”
Start-Up Stars supporter, Google, provided £11,000 worth of free services, to the winners. Supporters of the awards also included Sky News, The British Library Business and IP Centre, the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship and The Carbon Trust.
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