th. There are seven categories and nominations include:
Business Start up: AIB foods, Miles Pierce, Chok and Wok ltd, Fiesta World
Young Entrepreneur: Aman Bhandal, Mandeep Kohli, Faheem Yousufzai
Community Excellence: Sweda, Xtra Learning, Sanjhi Awaaz Radio
Regeneration Award: CBS packaging, Grand Station
Innovation and Enterprise: Zeel Solutions, Perfection Foods, Sunny Electricals
International Award : Perfection Foods and Walsall College
Business person of the Year : Sumeet Chadha of Latifs, Ravinder Singh Cheema of Zeel Solutions and Manjeet Kumari Lal of Walsall College.
Sponsors include Walsall Council, KTC (Edibles), Wolverhampton University, Citroen Autobase, Wolverhampton Council and the Black Country LEP.
Cure Leukaemia is the charity on the night. Host for the evening is Tommy Sandhu, a BBC presenter.
Prominent guest speaker is Baroness Usha Prashar CBE of Runnymede who was appointed inaugural Chairman of the Judicial Appointments Commission in October 2005 –a post she held until September 2010. She is also a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, a Trustee of Cumberland Lodge and President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, having previously served as the Society’s chairman. From 2000 to 2005 she was the First Civil Service Commissioner. Before that she was Chairman of the Parole Board for England and Wales (1997-2000), Director of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (1986-1991) and Director of the Runnymede Trust (1976-84). She was also a member of the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1991-1993) and was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (1992-1997). A Crossbencher in the House of Lords, she is Chair of the Sub-Committee on Lords’ Interests, a member of the Privileges Committee and a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. She was educated at the independent Wakefield Girls’ High School. She read politics at the University of Leeds and undertook postgraduate studies in social administration at the University of Glasgow. Previous keynote speakers have included Lord Paul, of Caparo Industries, Warwick Manufacturing Group founder Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, Perween Warsi CBE and MP Keith Vaz.
