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N4 Solutions reaches finals of The Citizen Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards 2006

Contribution to the Community Award

N4Solutions, a leading technology company for the UK financial services industry based in Poulton near Cirencester, has been selected as one of three finalists for The Citizen Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards, under the category of Contribution to the Community, which is sponsored by the South West of England Regional Development Agency.

The Citizen Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards are an editorial initiative, designed to turn the spotlight on successful companies and entrepreneurs in the region. Already a highly respected and established part of the local business scene they have been attracting an increasingly high calibre of entrant as well as major league sponsors.

Steve Jones, CEO, N4 comments, We are thrilled to be nominated as a finalist. We are proud of N4, which has a sense of community at the core of the business. We believe that charitable giving and activities can be combined with business success and add a greater sense of purpose to an organisation.

Judges for the Contribution to the Community Award are looking for a company, which has made a significant contribution to the community in which it operates, such as support for education and learning programmes, provision of work experience and retraining programmes or activities aimed at reducing unemployment.

N4 has developed very strong ties with the National Star College in Cheltenham a Further Education college for 16-25 year olds with complex physical disabilities and associated learning difficulties. As well as financial and business support, N4 also provides the opportunity to gain work experience at its offices. As the students' disabilities are often quite severe, this may be the only real opportunity they get to experience a working environment. In addition, Steve Jones, N4's CEO, who instigated the National Star College initiative, is responsible for the sponsorship of educational achievement within prisons, supporting offenders who demonstrate a commitment to getting back on the working ladder and who are keen to reintegrate into society.

N4 also recently received The Gold Award from the Home Secretary, which is a symbol of excellence and is awarded to employers that have succeeded in generating sustainable income sources for UK charities through Payroll Giving.

The winners will be announced at the Awards Presentation Dinner to be held at The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse on Thursday 12 October.

N4Solutions (N4), founded in 1999, is the UK's leading strategic point of sale partner, specialising in the development of browser-based, multi channel, point of sale systems for the financial services industry. Developed by a management team with extensive financial services industry knowledge, the technology delivers effective and efficient point of sale solutions comprising a complete suite of components supporting the provision of Mortgage, General Insurance and Financial Planning advice, within regulatory frameworks. Based on industry-standard technologies the architecture facilitates ease of integration with existing systems and can be deployed either in its entirety or as a selection of components. (www.n4s.co.uk).

The Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Awards are the local awards for the Gloucestershire area and are now in their 9th year, having built significantly on the prestige and credibility gained in previous years. They are a highly respected and established part of the local business scene and have been attracting an increasingly high calibre of entrant and major league sponsors. This year they are featuring three brand-new awards so the line-up now includes 13 awards.