Banbury Innovation Award 2012

The Banbury Innovation Award was inspired by the work of Colin Sanders, a local entrepreneur and inventor whose name lives on in The Colin Sanders Innovation Centre Banbury. (The Centre supports a range of innovative media and technology businesses and is managed by Oxford Innovation). His mixing consoles have achieved world-wide fame in the recording industry allowing producers to automate their settings by computer control. This award seeks to replicate his example by bringing innovative and fresh ideas to light and reward the winners with a trophy, a cash award and the opportunity of developing their idea or business with a superb package of support from a range of local professional services.

Over the past three years we have had the pleasure of seeing a host of fantastic ideas and met some inspired people in the search for a winner. In the following pages you can see how easy it is to enter The Banbury Innovation Award 2012.

John Davis, Winner of the Banbury Innovation Award 2009/10 said:

"Winning the Banbury Innovation Award has afforded me a fast track to the cutting edge of business in this country and has enabled me to grow and promote my business activities as an SME. In these challenging economic times the award provides much needed encouragement for businesses to focus on innovation and creativity."

Steve & Lesley Cooley, Safe-Point Healthcare Ltd, Winners of the Banbury Innovation Award 2008 said:

"Winning the Banbury Innovation Award 2008 gave us renewed confidence and confirmed our belief in our product. It helped us to refocus and recognise that other professionals considered our product to be a great achievement."