2024 Sponsors

Headline Sponsor and Suffolk Business of the Year

For more than a century, the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce has stood as the bedrock of our region's business landscape. Through 140 years of dynamic growth, challenges, and triumphs, your Chamber has been the steadfast champion of Suffolk's economic vitality and community resilience, as the Voice of Suffolk business.  

We firmly believe in the power of a collaborative and supportive business community, and the positive impact it has on the local economy. It is an honour for us to be a part of an initiative that celebrates the hard work, innovation, and success of businesses throughout Suffolk, reflecting our commitment to supporting businesses of all sizes and recognising their individual contributions to our vibrant local economy. 

By partnering with the EADT Business Awards, we hope to shine a spotlight on the remarkable achievements of Suffolk businesses and generate well-deserved recognition for their dedication and excellence. We believe that the awards provide an invaluable platform for businesses to showcase their achievements, connect with fellow entrepreneurs, and inspire others within the community. 

As a sponsor, we are committed to supporting the growth and success of businesses in Suffolk. The EADT Business Awards aligns with the Chamber’s mission to not only reward the exceptional talent within our community but also stimulate economic growth, foster collaboration, and reinforce Suffolk as a prime destination for businesses.

Sponsoring Growth Business of the Year

Ashtons Legal are delighted to sponsor the Business Awards for the seventh consecutive year and are once again sponsoring the Growth Business of the Year category.

Ashtons’ vision is to be ‘an exceptional professional service provider putting our clients at the centre of everything we do’. Whether a commercial, or an individual client, whatever the legal needs, Ashtons’ focus is on always delivering first class legal advice with exceptional service.

With over 400 staff across six offices in Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Diss, Norwich and Leeds the firm are ideally placed to assist clients throughout East Anglia. However, Ashtons’ also help people in many other parts of the country and internationally through niche areas such as French Property, road transport and regulatory law, franchising and injury services. 

Ashtons is delighted to sponsor the Growth Business of the Year award category and are hoping to see entries from a diverse number of organisations all involved in East Anglia’s thriving business community.

Sponsoring Director of the Year

The Churchmanor Estates Company plc has for 35 years been one of the foremost commercial property developers in the East of England renowned for adopting a collaborative approach to the process of property development. Through Joint Ventures with landowners Churchmanor have helped to unlock the development potential of their landholdings and for individual local and national business Churchmanor has developed new premises for relocation or expansion, for example the new Birketts HQ in Ipswich. 

Churchmanor believe in creating brilliant spaces for work and for life and have developed over 3 million square feet of commercial accommodation which has included research and development parks, business parks, offices, retail and leisure and major town centre regeneration

Sponsoring Environmental and Sustainability Award

The EastWind Cluster established in 2021 will drive the implementation of the Offshore Wind Sector Deal (“OWSD”) objectives in so far as they relate to the Eastern region. Representing and giving a single voice to operators, developers, local government, and the supply chain across the Eastern region.

As a voice for the region’s offshore wind sector the cluster raises awareness of the industry and the opportunities it presents the wider community both locally and nationally.The Cluster presents a platform for anyone interested in the sector to join and support the industry’s growth.

EastWind advocates for the region and encourages development, working alongside existing regional capabilities, liaising with other clusters to cross-pollinate best practice and build on lessons learned.

Sponsoring Customer Excellence Award

Greater Anglia is proud to be sponsoring this year’s Suffolk Business Awards. We are passionate about delivering excellent customer service and ensuring that the railways play their full part in helping our region to be both economically prosperous and a wonderful place to live. 

We are therefore committed to consistently raising customer service standards. We now have a fleet of brand-new trains, operating on our Suffolk routes, transforming the travelling environment, providing more comfortable journeys, increasing seating capacity and helping to deliver record-breaking performance, as part of a £1.4 billion investment programme. Every single carriage has been replaced in the largest ever investment in trains in East Anglia.  In Suffolk, all local routes are now operated with high quality, three or four carriage trains (not mostly one or two carriage trains, as before). They are air conditioned and more accessible, with plug and USB points and free wifi. 

Over the last year we have been taking advantage of the benefits offered by the new trains, as we achieved the highest-ever annual punctuality levels seen across our network.  Our teams have also been doing an excellent job of keeping our trains clean and safe. We’re looking forward to welcoming more and more customers back on our trains as we recover from the pandemic and support the sustainable economic development of our region in line with decarbonisation targets. So excellent customer service really is at the heart of our plans to transform our region’s train services.     

Sponsoring Large Business of the Year

At Larking Gowen, we’re here for the long term. Whether you’re a large organisation or an individual, we take the time to get to know you, your business and your goals. 

We forge long-term relationships, often through generations of families, so we’ll deliver timely advice whenever you or your business needs it.

We'll work with you as your business grows, helping you make the right decisions along the way.

Our values are about service and commitment, both to our clients and our people. We build strong, dedicated teams that share knowledge and expertise for the benefit of all our clients, delivering a friendly one-to-one service you can count on. 

We're committed to the wellbeing and training of our own people, and to making Larking Gowen a great place to work and develop their careers. 

Whatever your financial needs, Larking Gowen is committed to securing your future and helping you reach your goals.

Sponsoring Medium Business of the Year

Pound Gates is an independent, Ipswich-based Chartered Insurance Broker serving businesses in Suffolk and beyond. We provide certainty through commitment, expertise and value added solutions, delivering peace of mind for our clients.

We understand that each business is unique and therefore requires business insurance solutions to match. Our job is to create a tailored business insurance programme to meet the complex nature of the risks faced by our clients. 

Year-on-year we deliver great outcomes for our clients. Annual reviews ensure the best value and widest cover. We do not accept insurers’ first proposals and always look to add low claim rebates, risk management funds and profit shares to make our clients’ insurance and risk investments have a degree of incentive.

As Chartered Insurance Brokers we have a team who are highly qualified and experienced; we are determined and tenacious brokers who always negotiate strongly on our clients’ behalf.

We understand the pressures on margin and outcomes and our role is to relieve the tension and provide quick and proactive responses. We believe business insurance should make you free to take risks, rather than constrained not to. 

The various accreditations we hold evidence our commitment to high ethical standards and business excellence. We have a strong culture of ‘Doing Good’ within our business, a combination of corporate donations and staff participation. We are long-term supporters of Suffolk Community Foundation and regularly award grants to local charities and causes through our Acorn Fund. 

Find out more about our services and culture at poundgates.com or call us on 01473 346046.

Sponsoring Employer of the Year

Hundreds of companies, thousands of roles. For over 15 years, the team at Waddington Brown have been trusted to recruit talented HR professionals at every level for organisations across Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, North Essex and Norfolk.

The team are proud to be HR recruitment specialists and have built a unique candidate network across the region and beyond. Clients benefit from this in-depth investment in industry knowledge, working with an HR recruitment and consultancy partner who can help them achieve their people and culture plans.  

We are unashamedly passionate about living and working in the East of England and believe, through helping companies build and develop great HR teams, we can help create more great places to work in our thriving part of the country.

Alongside HR recruitment, we also provide on-demand HR consultancy, designed to give clients exactly the services they need when they need them. Clients work with us to deliver their organisational reviews, HR investigations, mergers and TUPE support, specific projects such as EDI and internal communication audits, or to work with one of our experienced interim HR Directors to set their people strategy. 

Throughout the year, we support the wonderful HR community in the East of England with skills workshops, networking events and access to insightful speakers live and online.  

If you need to recruit a talented HR professional to join you, or need to access HR consultancy support, you can find out more about Waddington Brown’s services at waddingtonbrown.co.uk or 01473 359159.

Drinks Recpetion Sponsor

Denny Bros was founded in 1945 by brothers Douglas and Russell Denny in response to a simple question – “where can we get dance tickets printed?” The company has since grown into a world leading specialist print company through the simple willingness to learn and develop innovative new solutions in response to customer needs.

The invention of the world’s first multi-page label in the late 1970’s, known as Fix-a-Form®, established Denny Bros as one of the world’s leaders in innovative labelling solutions.

Denny Bros remains an independent, employee-owned printing business with an ethos underpinned by the strong values of our founders – trust, innovation, quality and customer service.

Combining the best of digital, flexographic and lithographic printed label production facilities with custom finishing equipment manufactured by our sister company, Fix-a-Form International, Denny Bros provide innovative and quality driven multi-page label printing for a wide range of industries and applications.

We work in partnership with our customers to develop the best print solutions and strive to provide the very best service.

Denny Bros is recognised as a Net Zero leader, with on-going investments to reduce waste, minimise energy use, and protect natural habitats.

We have reduced our carbon footprint by 65% in less than fifteen years. With more than 1,800 panels on the roof of our Suffolk factory, in favourable weather we are now able to generate sufficient electricity to not only power our entire plant but also generate a surplus to feed back into the grid.