The winning team from Laurence Jackson school in Yorkshire, with Dave Maisey (far left) and the Lord- Lieutenant of Cheshire, David Briggs, MBE, KStJ (far right).
Exporting excellence… a right royal approach!
D ave and Wendy Maisey are co- founders of ICC Solutions, which has won four Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, winning the rst two in 2012, a third in 2016 and the latest this year. These awards have had a huge impact on Dave and his team, inspiring the company to develop and grow both within the UK and expand its chip and PIN testing software solutions to countries around the globe. In 2015 Dave and Wendy struck up a relationship with the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) – a cause they were both very keen to support. It wasn’t long before a germ of an idea formed about how Dave could enthuse young people about the same career that had inspired him: export and international trade. Dave says: “It was the timing! We’d won our third Queen’s Award for Enterprise and the company had enjoyed huge success, especially in Canada and the US, so we started to think
After several decades spent exploring the globe to seek out export opportunities, one Queen’s Award winner has come full circle to promote the bene ts of international trade on home turf in the UK – and to a right royal crowd no less.
about what we could do to inspire and make an impact on people’s lives for the good. Winning a Queen’s Award last year inspired us to go out and ignite this passion we have for export and international trade and especially in this case – enthusing young people.” Dave’s team worked closely with the local DofE group, which o ers young people the opportunity to take part in a range of challenges and activities in a progressive awards framework. He developed his idea into the Exporting Excellence pilot, which consisted of six schools from all over the north of England undertaking a framework of export education over a three- month period, culminating in a nal held in Warrington, Cheshire. Each school in the nal was represented by a team of up to ve pupils who were DofE partipants. Each team had an exhibition area in which to display their evidence of exporting research, and delivered a 15-minute
“We are favoured because of that marvellous British ‘soft power’ – people enjoy doing business with a British company so we often get favoured”
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