Pack-IT wins Enterprising Solutions 03 Awards
Howard Lake | 3 November 2003 | News
Cardiff-based social business Pack-IT Product Promotions has won the Department of Trade and Industry’s Enterprising Solutions 03 Awards, receiving a cheque for £10,000.
The contract packing, fulfilment and despatch business provides training opportunities and permanent paid employment for people with learning and physical disabilities. Half the staff have Down’s syndrome, are profoundly deaf or have behavioural and learning difficulties.
The National Social Enterprise Awards are designed to celebrate the best social and community enterprises, namely those that are imaginative, entrepreneurial, sustainable businesses. Entries were open to social businesses of any type – non-profit distributing, mutual, co-operative, community or socially directed, with a turnover of less than £3 million.
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Pack-IT’s turnover is now £1.4 million, twenty times what is was nine years ago, after it turned to income generation following the withdrawal of its grant from Cardiff County Council.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.