2006 winners
The overall winner of Enterprising Britain 2006 was West Kilbride Craft and Design Town in Scotland.National runner-up: The Welland Sub-regional Strategic Partnership in the East Midlands.
Highly commended: Ballykeel Business Centre in Northern Ireland, Knowsley Economic Forum in the North West and the Rotherham Partnership in Yorkshire.
West Kilbride Craft & Design Town and The Welland Sub-regional Strategic Partnership also represented the UK in the 2006 European Enterprise Awardswhere the Welland Sub-regional Strategic partnership was named runner-up in the Enterprise Support category.
The national winner
West Kilbride Craft & Design Town was chosen as the overall winner of Enterprising Britain 2006 because of the way it has gone about revitalising its centre, making it a focus for niche retailing and attracting visitors to the town. The national judges were particularly impressed by the strong sense of team spirit and local involvement surrounding the project, and the fact that the project found its Unique Selling Point right from the start.Although the competition was once again a hard-fought one, West Kilbride Craft and Design Town really stood out for the judges. In many ways, it summed up the spirit of the competition - being all about creating in a community with enterprise at its heart, in a way that many other places across the country could both learn from and be inspired by. Read more about West Kilbride Craft and Design Town