McCormicks is an award-winning Yorkshire firm, offering a full portfolio of cutting edge services to businesses and individuals.

McCormicks has been involved with the Awards since their inception, as Main Sponsor and sponsor of the Young Personality of the Year Award. Senior partner Peter McCormick OBE is Chairman and Patron of the Awards and Chairman of the Judges.

"At McCormicks we believe it is the duty of any successful business to put something back into the community. These Awards represent one of a number of charitable and community-based projects that we are proud to support," said Mr McCormick.

DFS is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of upholstered furniture, with a nationwide store network offering an exceptionally wide and exclusive product range. Established in Doncaster in 1969, the business made a successful stock market debut in 1993 and returned to the private ownership of founder Lord Kirkham and his family through a £507m buyback in 2004. DFS sponsors the Youngster of the Year Award.

Martin Penny is the founder and former Managing Director of ghd, whose styling products have revolutionised the beauty industry since their launch in 2001. 

             
Martin started his first business, OHS, while studying for a PhD at Leeds. OHS, an environmental services company which, now expanded into a full service health and safety consultancy, counts the NHS, Ministry of Defence, BP and Marconi among its clients. Mr Penny was Ernst & Young Consumer Products Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2005, and Ernst & Young’s North Region Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005. Martin Penny is proud to be sponsoring the Achievement in Education Award.

Yorkshire’s best-known football club, Leeds United, has supported the Achievement in Sport Award since its inception, as well as hosting the annual gala Awards dinner at Elland Road.

Begbies Traynor, sponsor of the Management & Enterprise Award,  is the UK’s leading business rescue, recovery and restructuring specialist, providing a partner-led service to stakeholders in troubled businesses. Our network of local offices benefits from our national expertise and reputation – and we seek imaginative solutions for the benefit of all stakeholders, whether involving formal insolvency or not, recognising and protecting the rights of each of them. With local offices across the region in Leeds, Halifax, York, Doncaster and Hull we are directly available to respond to the needs of Corporate and Personal clients.

Begbies Traynor is both proud and excited to be able to offer its support to this recognition of the high achievements of our young people in the Yorkshire region.

The Region’s foremost evening paper, the Yorkshire Evening Post, not only supports the Achievement in the Arts category but also provides excellent coverage of the Awards, and further support across all our activities.

Leslie Silver OBE, one of Yorkshire's best known business figures sponsors the Unsung Hero Award. After distinguished service in the RAF in WW2 he founded the Silver Paint & Lacquer Co. in 1947 using his RAF Gratuity. The company became one of the largest paint manufacturers in the world.

Leslie has been awarded the OBE and named Yorkshire Businessman of the Year. He was Chairman of Leeds United AFC from 1982-1995 and Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University from 1999-2005.

The Lift is proud to sponsor the Yorkshire Young Achievers Awards by providing website design and build, maintenance and internet hosting services.