Showing the skills to succeed
For further information, help or advice with the Blueprint Business Planning Competition, contact the Enterprise Team on 01642 384543.
The Blueprint Business Planning Competition offers a platform to shine and our entrants have really benefited from the opportunities it provides.
In recent years more than a dozen Teesside teams have made it through to the regional final of the prestigious competition. Our Blueprint success stories include:
Cato Solutions
Wade Tovey
Cato Solutions provide an independent service for the gathering of the views of residents of care homes about the quality of care to help staff affect improvements in the service they provide. The use of iPad technology and qualified trained staff ensure an independent, confidential service which is cost effective and quick, and which can also be used to inform stakeholders and commissioners of an ongoing commitment to meeting the residents’ needs, and reassure their relatives. Variants of the service can be provided to meet individual needs.
Little Lost Buttons
Rachel Kelley, Abigail Crapper, Claire Kruger and Rebecca Dring
Little Lost Buttons aims to recycle old, un-loved, donated or sourced buttons and give them a new lease of life as part of a unique piece of bespoke jewellery. With each product being hand-made from previously un-loved buttons every item of our jewellery is individual, with each button having a different story to tell. The aim is for customers to use the jewellery to accessorize their look, adding a touch of vintage and nostalgia. Little Lost Buttons offers a range of different products such as bracelets, brooches, rings and earrings and even ‘make it yourself kits’ to add an even more personal touch to those extra sentimental buttons. The company are continuing to develop new and exciting items to add to the product range.
