Congratulations to Telford Campus Tenants – Scanning Pens


Star-Studded Celebration for Queen’s Award Winners Scanning Pens

 

UK EdTech company Scanning Pens was presented with a Queen’s Award for Business by Mrs. Anna Turner JP, the Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire at a dedicated ceremony held at Hoar Cross Hall earlier this month.

 

The accolade celebrates Scanning Pens’ outstanding success in the field of international trade, and was awarded to CEO Jack S. Churchill and COO Toby Sutton in the presence of their families and co-workers, as well as the High Sheriff of Shropshire, representatives from the Department for International Trade, and members of the local government.

 

Created in 2003, Scanning Pens is a dedicated EdTech company supplying text-to-speech devices to people with dyslexia, as well as raising awareness of dyslexia worldwide and supporting people whose daily lives are impacted by literacy differences. Scanning Pens devices represent a huge quality-of-life change for neurodiverse people, and work by allowing users to scan through and listen to texts via an audio feedback system. Removing the need for in-person readers and modified texts, they make reading an independent act, and help people who struggle with reading able to engage with texts in the same way that a neurotypical person might.

 

CEO Jack S. Churchill said, “We are over the moon to have received the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. As a team we’re over the moon to have our work recognised in this way. Our company came together last week for the first time in 2 years to receive the award and celebrate. This award encourages us to redouble our efforts to support more people to overcome their struggles with weak literacy.”

 

As a multinational business, Scanning Pens has dedicated the past eighteen months to exploring what new opportunities they can offer to people with dyslexia and literacy differences during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as continuing to support the markets that rely on their award-winning text-to-speech technology. The last three years has seen a significant increase in the company’s overseas markets growing from one UK office and 10 UK staff, to two UK offices, and one office each in USA, Australia, Canada, and India with more than 80 staff around the world.

 

The event at Hoar Cross Hall was attended by a number of accessibility and EdTech industry champions, with representatives from Landau, Phonic Books, The Shannon Trust, Novus, Nasen and the Shropshire Dyslexia Association. After a series of short addresses by business management and the Lord-Lieutenant of Shropshire, the company toasted their business successes with a long-awaited celebration in the luxurious surroundings of the Hoar Cross Hall Spa Hotel.

September 22, 2021 Business, IT Comments Off on Congratulations to Telford Campus Tenants – Scanning Pens

Shropshire Business Magazine latest edition

The brand new edition of Shropshire Business Magazine is out today, including a 24-page special report on education, skills and training – download your FREE copy here: https://lnkd.in/dxviA_a

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Change of self-isolation rules in England

The link below provides a summary which,  from 16 August 2021,  applies to anyone who has been pinged or contact traced as having come into contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19:

Details of the summary can be found here…

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Welcome to Build Fifty5 Living Ltd

We would like to extend a warm welcome to new tenants at e-Innovation Centre….. find out more about Build Fifty5 Living Ltd

The business consists of a small team of construction professionals offering Project Management and Construction Development services to clients across the UK and Europe.  Buildfifty5 are often site based.

Build Fifty5 provides a comprehensive range of services through experience and expertise in the construction industry which includes residential, commercial, mixed-use, industrial, leisure and speculative strategic developments.  As Development Managers, Build Fifty5 challenge designers and contractors to maximise potential using fresh ideas and innovative thinking.

The current workload includes residential schemes in Birmingham, Smethwick and Nottingham, and student accommodation in Coventry and Cardiff.  We are also delivering industrial schemes in Avonmouth, Evesham and Gloucester.

Build Fifty5 Living was established in 2019.  Through our wider network of clients and relationships over recent years we recognised an increase in demand from Housing Associations and residential developers for schemes ranging in size from 20 to 100 units and set out to act as both Developer and Development Managers.

Our schemes utilise both brownfield and greenfield settings across the west midlands to improve the built environment through innovate design solutions and to enhance the local areas.  Our aim is to support the local authorities and organisations to help meet the housing need.  For example our current workload  and enquiries include:

  • Our Smethwick scheme utilises land from a previously demolished Public House to deliver 24 affordable units for Citizen housing Association.
  • Our Tile Cross and Coventry Schemes comprises a derelict / disused Convent, Church Hall and Bungalow on which we intend to deliver 100 Move on Accommodation units for the YMCA Heart of England.
  • We are in discussions with a council to deliver two sites in Shropshire with over 100 units for affordable rent on behalf of an institutional investor.
  • An affordable retirement facility in Telford
  • Community led Retirement Living for persons of affordable means in Wolverhampton.

 

 

July 23, 2021 Business, Construction, EIC Comments Off on Welcome to Build Fifty5 Living Ltd
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