16/04/16

IT Company Supports Young Entrepreneurs

A Shropshire
IT firm is helping to support young, budding entrepreneurs from across the
region. Network
Support Solutions, based at Shrewsbury Business Park, has become the latest
business to back the 2016 Shropshire Young Enterprise awards by sponsoring an
award.

Hundreds of
people are expected to gather at the Park Inn Hotel in Telford for the awards
ceremony on May 5 where young people across the county will be rewarded for
their achievements. Sponsoring
the Best Use of ICT award Katy Jones, managing director of Network Support
Solutions, said: “We are delighted to be involved with this year’s Shropshire
Young Enterprise awards. There are
so many talented youngsters in Shropshire and the Young Enterprise programme is
a fantastic way for them to develop new skills and strengthen existing ones. “The
programme plays a really important role in educating the next generation of
business leaders and we are really looking forward to the ceremony. We are thrilled
to be sponsoring the Best Use of ICT award. Advancements in technology means
ICT is a critical and crucial part of any business today and it will be
interesting to see the different ways in which youngsters have been using ICT
to develop their enterprise ideas.”

The awards,
will be attended by young people from across the county aged 15 to 19, along
with hundreds of specially invited guests.

Other
sponsors of the awards include Muller, The Alamo Group, Hawk Group, Belton Cheese, Marches Care,
Carewatch, The DDC, The Federation of Small Businesses, Midcounties
Co-operative, Co-op energy, Caterpillar Reman, Shropshire Star, Aarons
solicitors, Lanyon Bowdler, Dyke Yaxley, Befesa Aluminium, both councils, and
Shrewsbury and Telford shopping centres.

This year, the regional Young Enterprise awards are
also being held in Shropshire for the first time on June 21, at Shrewsbury FC
Greenhouse stadium, sponsored by the Federation of Small Businesses.

Ms Jones,
who is also a patron of Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, has been successfully
running NSS for the past 18 years with business partner Paul Coulthard-Jones. The company
is one of the county’s leading providers of IT services to businesses in
Shropshire.

For more
information about the services it provides visit the website www.networksupportsolutions.co.uk.