--- title: The small businesses of Sheffield receive recognition description: Shorts sponsored the Star Small Business Awards which saw ten delighted winners. image: https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/the%20star%20small%20business%20awards.jpg --- [![Shorts_logo_White](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/New%20Site%202018/Shorts_logo_White.svg "Shorts_logo_White")](https://www.shorts.uk.com/) [Blogs & News](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/) > [Team News](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/team-news) # The small businesses of Sheffield receive recognition Jo Grant - 1 August 2018 ###### Select topic - Please Select - [ Audit ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/audit) [ Business Taxes ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/business-taxes) [ Radius – R&D Tax Relief & Patent Box ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/radius-rd-tax-relief-patent-box) [ Corporate Finance ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/corporate-finance) [ GENUS Management Accounts ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/genus-management-accounts) [ VAT ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/vat) [ Private Client ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/private-client) [ Payroll ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/payroll) [ EOT ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/eot) [ International Taxes ](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/topic/international-taxes) ![featured image](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/the%20star%20small%20business%20awards.jpg) ###### Shorts sponsored the Star Small Business Awards which saw ten delighted winners.  Tim Baum Dixon, senior accounts manager at Shorts helped to judge the event and to present the well-deserved awards.The ten awards included areas such as Customer Service, Training and Development and Innovation.  The event featured a guest appearance from Lord Mayor Majid Majid. When asked by Star Editor Nancy Fielder "Why Sheffield" he answered” Well we have an amazing identity you either like us - or you love us." The same question was asked to all the winners that evening, urging them to drop their modesty and sing Sheffield's praises. Nancy Fielder said, "Sheffield is uniquely brilliant and all the contenders in our small business awards show us why." The awards won were:  **New Business - Unwrapped Ltd** a shop focused on providing zero packaging with customers able to buy exactly what they want **Training and Development - Platts and Nisbett** who create hand crafted surgical instruments, their apprenticeships last five years **Professional Services - Gradconsult** placing 80 graduates a year with. Attracting, interviewing, recruiting and training the graduates on behalf of the SMEs **Innovation - Pictorial Meadows** combining science and design expertise to plant beautiful flowers in towns and cities, encouraging wildlife, insects and saving on mowing costs **Customer Service - Summitglow** Unsung heroes in the manufacturing chain that heat-treat products for other businesses **Family Business - Maxons** Traditional boiled sweet makers **Manufacturing - VK Drums** Alan van Kleef hand crafts drums from Sheffield steel, copper, silver and gold **Charity/CSR - Real Junk Food Project** turns five tonnes a week of surplus food into meals at "Pay as you Feel" cafes **Technology - Tribepad** Fields 35m applications online and on mobile for the likes of Tesco, the Church of England and Warner Bros **Personality - Megan Abel** 14 times world martial arts champion and boss of martial arts school Utopia   [![Contact us](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2442072/27ed3297-05cb-4553-843b-b5e5a88bcc03.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2442072/27ed3297-05cb-4553-843b-b5e5a88bcc03)   Other related articles  - [East Midlands Chamber welcomes Shorts as new patron](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/east-midlands-chamber-welcomes-shorts-as-new-patron) - [Advisory Team of the Year winners at Yorkshire Accountancy Awards](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/advisory-team-of-the-year-winners-at-yorkshire-accountancy-awards) ![author](https://blog.shorts.uk.com/hubfs/1678438830033-1.jpg) #### Jo Grant Jo is the Senior Marketing Manager at Shorts Chartered Accountants. 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