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YTKO has helped entrepreneurs start, sustain and scale their businesses for over 40 years, through strategic consultancy and hands-on operational support over the full lifecycle, creating measurable results and contributing to economic and social prosperity.

An independent evaluation of YTKO’s Social Mission concluded that over a 15- year period, covering recession, austerity, Brexit and Covid, YTKO helped nearly 31,000 entrepreneurs, over 22,500 growing businesses and raised £73m in finance, creating over 10,300 new jobs and an estimated £691 million GVA.

“Being honoured with a Queen’s Award is a wonderful recognition of the work and the impact that the whole team has achieved,” said CEO Bev Hurley CBE, previously awarded the Queen’s Individual Award for Enterprise Promotion, and current Chair of the Institute of Economic Development. “Everything we do is all about making a tangible, positive impact, changing the life chances of individuals, measurably transforming and accelerating business success, contributing to the economy and the communities in which our business operates.”