2024 Sponsors

BAE Systems

Trophy sponsor

At BAE Systems, the advanced defence technology protects people and national security, and keeps critical information and infrastructure secure.

Always searching for new ways to provide customers with a competitive edge across the air, maritime, land and cyber domains.  BAE employs a skilled workforce over 85,800 people, in more than 40 countries, and work closely with local partners to support economic development by transferring knowledge, skills and technology.

A group of talented second-year craft apprentices at BAE Systems will create handmade trophies for the Lancashire Tourism Awards 2024.   The trophies are a unique addition to the awards programme and it’s another way in which to salute the emerging talent of the county for the winners and those who have crafted these bespoke pieces.

B & D Printing Services

Printing partner

Established over 45 years, supplying quality printing and mailing to customers nationwide.  B & D are committed to delivering a reliable, flexible and responsive service.   Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week and offering a key account management structure.  Each customer having their own personal account handler.  In-house technical support is available to all customers providing a start to finish seamless service.

Continuous investment in technology along with skilled and dedicated staff have made B & D a very successful company.  Being located in a convenient position for the motorway network system, enables easy access the whole of the United Kingdom.

Blackpool & the Fylde College

Category sponsor
New Tourism Business Award

B&FC for Business is the Fylde Coast’s leading workforce development and apprenticeship provider and has decades of experience co-creating solutions which help boost companies’ productivity.  As a college that specialises in technical and professional qualifications, the college are ideally positioned to equip existing and new employees with the latest skills and training to meet the evolving demands of business in the twenty first century.

Whilst B&FC appreciate that businesses need to address their current skills gaps, the proactive approach means that the college are also in the business of helping companies to futureproof their organisations so that they can thrive not just now but in the future.

B&FC understand that in a rapidly changing marketplace, even one which offers numerous opportunities for growth, it can be difficult to keep pace with innovation.   That’s where having a training partner like B&FC by your side to guide the development of your team is invaluable when it comes to meeting the challenges ahead.

Conferences and Events at Burnley Football CLub

Judging host

Burnley Football Club has established itself as the premier venue for conferences in East Lancashire with a variety of lounges that can accommodate anything from 2 – 250 people, with over 250 free car parking spaces.

Eight new super boxes provide the perfect modern meeting or breakout space for up to 12 people.   The Clearly Interiors Longside Lounge and the Centenary Suite offer a flexible, large conference meeting space, with fantastic pitch views.

So whether you are planning a conference for 200, a board meeting for 10 or a breakfast meeting for 80, there is a package to match your budget.

The Centre for Family Business, Lancaster University Management School

Category Sponsor
Family Run / Owned Business Award

The Centre for Family Business in Lancaster University Management School brings together leading academic experts on family business.  The centre’s role is to be at the forefront of family business research and thinking.  To achieve this mission, they produce insights for family businesses practitioners, researchers and policy makers in areas such as entrepreneurship, strategy, place, values, growth, leadership, sustainability, gender, succession and legacy.

Creative Technical Installations

Category sponsor

At Creative Technical Installations, they have over 100 years of combined experience in all areas of the services provided.  From audio-visual and electrical installations to complete event production, they provide everything you need to ensure seamless and successful experiences.

Based in Blackpool, Creative Technical Installations serve clients across the UK with tailored services designed to meet the specific needs of your project, backed by a high level of expertise and a commitment to excellence.

HARRISON DRURY SOLICITORS

Category sponsor
Pub of the Year Award

With over 100 years of experience advising businesses and individuals, Harrison Drury is an award winning and Legal 500 recommended law firm, with offices across the North West in Preston, Garstang, Lancaster, Clitheroe and Kendal.  A people business with relationships at the heart.  The strength of the business is fundamentally rooted in the relationships with clients and communities which are formed, maintained, and enhanced by the people who work at Harrison Drury and the service they provide.  A working environment is created at Harrison Drury which attracts ambitious, talented and dynamic people who will provide the services clients want and need both now and in the future.

Harrison Drury have a team of solicitors across a range of legal disciplines who have significant experience in supporting businesses operating in the leisure sector.   They have a passion for the leisure sector, are advocates for the industry, and have a wealth of experience in providing services to the sector.  Harrison Drury combine the best of both worlds for their clients, providing the latest legal knowledge and insight with real experience of your sector.

Hospitality Action

Charity partner

Hospitality Action’s range of support services helps hospitality people get back on their feet again after a setback.  Each year they assist thousands of people through challenging times.  Whether you work in a hotel, restaurant, pub, bar or café, school, hospital or event venue, you are offered the help, advice and support you need whenever times get tough.  Serious illness, mental health issues, financial difficulties, family problems, or addiction: whatever challenges you might face, Hospitality Action is always there to get you back on your feet and enjoying the job again.  And when it’s no longer possible to work, they can help people prepare for the next phase of their lives.  Whatever you do in hospitality, they’ve got you.

The Lancashire Tourism Awards will be supporting Hospitality Action as charity partner by helping to raise essential funds, so they can continue to give back to the people who give the industry so much.

Insight6

Category Sponsor

Insight6 is a customer experience (CX) specialist with a team covering the entire UK and Ireland.  Working with over 1,200 clients to measure, through the range of CX tools, the entire end-to-end customer journey.

Customer experience is fast becoming the number one reason why a customer would choose your business, overtaking price as the key brand differentiator.  Using their unique icx6 model, insight6 can partner you to map, train and motivate your team to provide an unforgettable customer experience.

The team of highly experienced customer experience directors each have brilliant local knowledge on the businesses within their region.  The CXD team has individual expertise in a number of sectors including law, pharmaceutical, retail and education and provide the very best service when it comes to training and mentoring.  When you work with insight6, transformation comes as standard.

Lancashire Business View

Media partner

The must-read magazine for commerce and industry in the region. Its pages contain news, analysis and opinion on the issues that affect business in Lancashire. There is key information that can help businesses flourish, and entertaining features on the personalities behind the headlines. Lancashire Business View is mailed direct to 8,000 high-ranking decision makers and therefore provides an unbeatable advertising platform for companies and organisations wishing to raise their profile in the county.

Lancashire Tea

Category sponsor

Tea leaves are a wonderful thing, turning plain, old, hot water into a refreshing, warming hug in a cup.  Drinking tea is not just good for the soul but provides a whole heap of health benefits too.  Lancashire Tea originated to complement the county’s water and delivers a delicious blend of only the finest tea to transport you to the home of the red rose.

More than just a tea, they are a community, a moment, a cheerleader, something to lift the spirits.  We’re a gentle nudge to share and talk things over.  Not weak, or watery and never knowingly overpowering.  A cup of humble strength.  Take a sip and savour the Lancashire spirit.  Lancashire Tea are delighted to sponsor the Lancashire Perfect Stay Award category because they know that a good brew is an important part of feeling right at home.

Lancashire Life

Media Partner

For almost 80 years Lancashire Life has celebrated the best of the Red Rose county, the people, places and businesses that make this such a wonderful place to live, work and visit.

In the first issue, in early 1947, the editor wrote of his desire to ‘reveal the county to its natives as well as to those less fortunate in their county of origin’.  That’s what they’ve done ever since.  Lancashire Life have always taken particular pride in promoting Lancashire’s tourism and hospitality industry, which is the beating heart of so much that happens here.

Lancashire Post

Media partner

The Preston perspective on news, sport, what’s on, lifestyle and more, from the north west’s regional paper.

‘The Lancashire Post is delighted to sponsor the Lancashire Tourism Awards.  The creativity, passion and hard work of those individuals, businesses and organisations, putting our beautiful county on the map, is astonishing and these awards are showcasing the very best of those.’

Lancashire Telegraph

Media Partner

The Lancashire Telegraph was first published in 1886 and ever since has been at the heart of the community.  The newspaper predominantly covers its traditional patch of East Lancashire, while the website has a more regional approach to the county.  The team prides itself on providing the very best local journalism to readers, be that live blogging the latest trial at crown court, reporting from the scene of a major incident, holding local power to account, celebrating a new business opening or providing a voice to the voiceless.  In the past year, three campaigns spearheaded by the Lancashire Telegraph have been shortlisted at the Media Freedom Awards and Regional Press Awards.

Richard Duggan, Regional Editor North West at Newsquest Media Group and editor of the Lancashire Telegraph said: ‘We are thrilled to partner and sponsor Lancashire Tourism Awards.  This is a brilliant opportunity to celebrate our amazing county and the people that make it such a special place to call home.’

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS)

Category sponsor
Accessible and Inclusive Award

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) is one of the longest-established business schools in the UK and home to a thriving and truly international community.  LUMS welcomes students and staff from more than 180 countries and have a presence in 24 countries, including campuses in China, Germany, Ghana and Malaysia.

LUMS challenges and supports creative staff, students and partners to realise their ambitions, as they experience a transformational journey that leads to real impact on whole industries, societies and economies.

LUMS has ranked as the top business school in the UK for ‘research power’ and joint-top for ‘research environment’ (REF 2021).  Its research leverages excellence in the key areas of sustainability, social justice and innovation.

LUMS has a proud and established reputation for partnerships and relations with employers, businesses, entrepreneurs and managers across the Northwest, the UK and beyond, offering unique insights and abilities to introduce positive change.

Quadruple-accredited and world-ranked, Lancaster University Management School is an established community for cutting-edge knowledge; the place to be.

Links Signs and Graphics

Category sponsor

Links Signs and Graphics have a long association with the leisure industry and it remains a very important sector to the business, over the years they have formed strong links with many of the major names who are active across the Fylde Coast and further afield.

Links Signs and Graphics are more than just a signmaker, creating full colour signage and display graphics, small, large and super-wide formats for use indoors or outdoors.  This includes applications such as exhibition stands, illuminated displays, signage, billboards, ambient media and many more bespoke items.

Musique

Entertainment partner

Musique deliver outstanding entertainment for exclusive events across the north west and beyond.  Featuring a range of party bands, show bands, acoustic artists and DJ live options for a mesmerising and unforgettable party.

Musique also transform leisure and hospitality venues through music policy and playlists; audio systems and acoustic design and live music programming.

Ready to work with wedding couples, event organisers or venue managers looking to use the power of music to take your guests’ experience to the next level.

Northern Print Distribution

Category sponsor

Northern Print Distribution (NPD) provides an essential link between tourism businesses and their audience.  Distributing over 25 million pieces of print on behalf of tourism businesses large and small to more than 7,000 outlets across the North of England.  NPD can help you implement an effective leaflet marketing campaign, that will drive crucial footfall to your business.

NPD distribution will get your message to the right place at the right time.  Their services involve geographical and digital online distribution; marketing advice and planning; design and print; targeted leaflet distribution; storage and delivery of your marketing materials; leaflet display; monitoring and distribution reporting.  From planning to implementation and reporting, NPD has more than ten years of proven success in the tourism and leisure markets and offers a hassle free service that works.

The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business

Category sponsor
Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Award

Collaborating for a sustainable future.  The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business has the mission to develop knowledge, and to share that knowledge with those working in practice, to make the pursuit of social and environmental sustainability ‘business of usual’.  They believe this is possible if an organisation has a purposeful business strategy and the means for putting that strategy into effect.

The Centre is a network of researchers and professional colleagues drawn from across Lancaster University and collectively working with businesses, professional associations, policymakers, academics and other stakeholders.

The Centre is led by Director Professor Jan Bebbington, Rubin Chair in Sustainability in Business and it is funded by the Rubin Foundation Charitable Trust, a foundation run by the owners of Pentland Group plc.

PM+M

Category sponsor

With over 100 years of experience in advising local businesses and individuals, PM+M is recognised as one of the leading chartered accountancy, business advisory and financial planning firms in Lancashire.

PM+M’s team of over 165 specialists provide services to meet all financial requirements (whether business-related or personal), spanning all areas of audit, accounting and advisory, cloud accounting, corporate finance, financial planning, payroll and tax.  With deep roots in Lancashire, PM+M is incredibly proud to support the local business community, offering fresh thinking, diverse skills and industry insights to assist clients of all sizes across a range of sectors, including a wealth of experience acting for clients in the leisure sector.

Total Foodservice

Category sponsor
Taste Lancashire Award

Total Foodservice is an established leader in the food service industry, renowned for its commitment to superior quality products and exceptional service.  With over a century of experience, Total Foodservice has earned a reputation for excellence in delivering first-rate food service solutions to its customers.  Their focus on quality and value ensures that customers receive nothing but the best, backed by a team dedicated to reliability and trustworthiness.

Known for their flexibility and efficiency, Total Foodservice prioritises customer satisfaction at every touchpoint of their operation.  From the dedicated customer service team to the warehouse staff, delivery drivers, and accounting department, everyone at Total Foodservice works tirelessly to put the customer’s needs first and ensure that quality food remains at the heart of their service.

The University of Central Lancashire

Category sponsor

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is at the very heart of business, education and enterprise in the region and as such is delighted to be the headline sponsor of the highly regarded and much prized Lancashire Tourism Awards.

As a University, UCLan have developed an enviable reputation for innovation and entrepreneurship offering a wide range of hugely effective and highly thought of full-time and part-time courses in many areas including Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management, as well as being fully committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD).