Please share the 'Small is Beautiful' Roll of Honour

This 'Small is Beautiful' Roll of Honour can be signed by organisations of any size. Please put in the comments box the name of your organisation and the name of someone in control of the organisation who will uphold the values.

EF Schumacher predicted in 1973 that many large corporations would never say 'enough' and would exploit employees and suppliers, engender inequality and destroy our communities and the planet.

Happily, there are a small number of large corporations and many medium-sized businesses which along with most small and micro business owners do believe in Schumacher's 'Small is Beautiful' values.

It is important that we recognise these organisations and choose to do business with them.

By preferring to buy from those on this 'Small is Beautiful' Roll of Honour we send a message to the exploiters and bullies. Eventually, we will convince sector leading organisations that it is good for their business and good for our communities to subscribe to our 'Small is Beautiful' values.

These values include:

1. #PayIn30Days ALL suppliers ALL the time

2. Promoting equality and diversity

3. A fair day's work for a fair day's pay

4. Protecting our environment and communities

5. Unlimited growth is pathological

6. Small can make a difference and should be supported.

We first published the Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour (includes the #MicroBizMatters Hall of Fame) on our 5th Annual #MicroBizMatters Day on Friday, 11th January 2019. Our social media Day of Recognition, Action and Learning reached over one million people - giving time to help each other. We call this the #PowerOfPlenty.

The Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour will be published in a new book on 'Why #MicroBizMatters?' which will be in bookstores in July 2020. Please add your name NOW if you wish to be included in the book.

This Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour lists the businesses and people supporting EF Schumacher's and #MicroBizMatters' values.

We should all promote and buy from organisations on the Roll of Honour.

Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour

FreeAgent (Ed Molyneux)

Xero (Gary Turner)

rradar (Gary Gallen)

Enterprise Nation (Dan Martin)

The Forum of Private Business (Ian Cass)

International Association of Bookkeepers (Janet Jack)

British Independent Retailers Association (Andrew Goodacre)

Swakeleys Properties Limited (Clare Francis)

Awards International (Don Hales)

#Tweetmaster (Martin Mullen)

Business Achievers (Ron Immink) 

Paid (Tom Howsam)

Micro Business Awards 2020 (Ruairi Devlin)

Electrician - Electrical Safety for the Hearts and Ohms (Ian Simpson)

Supa Designs (Patrick Healy)

Blue Oyster Leading Edge Solutions Ltd (Peter Jones)

The Exploration Habit Ltd (Alan Arnett)

Unique Wakefield (Sarah Firth)

Salbor Ltd (Fran Boorman)

Cocoonfxmedia Ltd & Lichfield & Tamworth Chamber of Commerce (James Blackman)

Farillio (Merlie Calvert)

Wagstaff Recruitment (Ruth Foster)

PANDA - Performing Arts Network & Development Agency (Anne Marie Crowther)

The Talent Finders (Nathan Konstantino)

Empowering Change (Eve V Earley)

Esther Lawson IPA Group (Esther Lawson)

Ariadne Associates (Simon Jones)

Tweeting Goddess & Women’s Inspire Network (Samantha Kelly)

Linda Huckle Training & The Athena Network - Blackwater Valley Region (Linda Huckle)

Itchy Fingers Design (Amanda Lucas)

Bridge Road Consultants Ltd (Debra Levitt)

Small Business Web Services & The Biz Helpers Podcast (Ian Wilson)

Successful Women Academy & The Athena Network - Central London region (AnYes van Rhijn)

Fondatrice Happy Therapy (Emma Meston)

Minutehack.com (Dan Matthews)

Laredofineart.com & Laredoparis.com & Thedevelopmentspace.com (Claire Rose)

Diginnomica (Dennis Howlett)

Essential Communications (Sam Rudland)

Digirank Ltd (Karen Pearce)

John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank (Charles Cracknell)

Essential Business (Julie Stanford)

Cambridge Social Media (Lenka Koppova)

Enigma-Graphics (Roger Crackett)

Sarah’s Style of Art (Sarah Louise Milburn)

Techie Fairy (Chris Carlton)

CrookConsults (Paul Crook)

Business Writers Limited (Huw Sayer)

Holonomics Education (Simon Robinson & Maria Auxiliadora Moraes Amiden Robinson)

B2B Marketing Global Ltd Catrina Clulow

Poppy Design (Simon Cox)

Mums Bake Cakes (Paula Wilkinson)

The Organisation for Business Empowerment Ltd (Elsa Caleb)

Yorkshire in Business Limited (Jenn Crowther)

E Factor Group Ltd (Mark Webb)

Toucan Diversity (Anne-Marie Asgari)

Small Business Solutions(Albert Wright)

Copa Fizz (Gillian Bartlett)

FCM Publishing (Taryn Lee Johnston)

Hottclix.co.uk (Jaqjit Sandhu)

Deals4Worcestershire (Sy Hawkes)

Jagjit Sandhu

adrenalinecontentmarketing.co.uk (Susan Scarre)

Bizradio.co.uk (Paul Andrews)

Mind Fit Ltd & YP2Grow (Neville Gaunt)

Shop Local Club Card (Marcus Naidoo & Sam Naidoo)

N&R Accountancy Services (Richard Holland)

The New Forest Tartan Company (Kate Collison)

Sadie Skipworth Social Media  (Sadie Skipworth)

IRIS Solutions (Averill MacGillivray) assisting with Lovestorm Cakeaway (Leilani Storm, 14)

RaeRae’s Vegan Dessert Sauces

(Avaiyia Rae, 10)

The Positive Pen (Janet Doran)

4 Social Good – Creator of Social Enterprises (Saundra Glenn)

ASAPay (Lorraine W)

ShopAppy.com (Dr Jackie Mulligan)

Clowne Enterprise (Paul Davies)

Swarm Apprenticeships & Norwich Mustard (Robert Ashton)

Problem Solving Company Ltd (Janice B Gordon)

Ashdown Audio Visual (Ian Chisnall)

Bus and Bird Arts (Clare Taylor) 

TryLife Interactive Film Series (Paul Irwin)

North Yorkshire Law (Natalie Foster)

Peter Richardson Estates (Peter Richardson)

CDCS Wirral (David Hall)

Clearwave Enterprise Solutions (Elliott Chandler)

ELECOMM LIMITED (John Hamilton)

AutismAble CIC (Andrew Forster)

Think Design Manchester Ltd (Paul Grogan)

Simply Great Britain (Emily Whitehead)

Sadie Skipworth Social Media (Sadie Skipworth) 

Market Accents (Noreen Cesareo) 

Morgan Walsh Consultancy (Gary Howell) 

Boomerang Consultancy, Boomerang Property & Boomerang Healthcare (Paul Tute) 

Purpol Marketing (Denise O'Leary) 

Leapfrog Mountain (Jackie Jenks OBE) 

Realise Development (Mike Chitty) 

Famous Publicity Ltd (Tina Fotherby) 

John Cracknell Youth Enterprise Bank (Charles Cracknell) 

Upkeep Training (Sarah Bentley) 

Zarywacz and Business Action (Robert Zarywacz) 

International Copywriters Association (Quentin Pain) 

Big Ian Donaghy (Ian Donaghy) 

Far North (Ian Farrar) 

Wenta (Jennifer Condon) 

Always Wear Red and Angelfysh (Michael Owen and Lisa Forster-Owen) 

Print Inc & Design (Angela Windsor)     

Urban River (Carl Buckley) 

GymWolfPT (Ian David Worthington) 

Imvelo Ltd (Tamma Carel) 

Cell Pack Solutions Ltd (Eddie Czestochowski) 

The Digital Gene Sharon (Sinclair Williams)

Somerton Environmental Ltd (Rebecca Bomers) 

MINT Business Club (Nicola Jayne Little) 

Keystone St Neots (Hayley Williams) 

Creative Leopard (Amy Archer) 

Ye Olde England (Stephen Liddell)

WendyGoesGreen (wendy Thomson)

#MICROBIZMATTERS HALL OF FAME

Paul Lancaster

Gaynor Carr

Kanya King CBE (our inspiration)

Charlie Mullins OBE (our Tsar)

Tim Campbell MBE

Penny Power OBE

Kate Hardcastle MBE

Dinah Bennett OBE

Sway

Chris Percival

Laura Henry

Janice B Gordon

Tina Fotherby

Ed Goodman

Jo Harrison

Adrian Ashton

Naomi Timperley

Alex Gajic

Allen Pluck

Elaine Clark

Catrina Clulow

Dee Maria Olajide

Sadie Skipworth

Martin Mullen

Marianne Whitfield

Lorraine Allman

Martin Kirby

Tom Evans

Julia Emelogu

Michelle Dorrell

Patricia van den Akker

Elsa Caleb

Mike Peates

Rhian Kempadoo-Millar

Charles Cracknell

Mike Notarantonio

Kit Hargreaves

Millie Notarantonio

Neal Boden

Sinead Robinson

Eve Lodge

Thomas Arran

Janet Jack

Ian Cass

Dan Martin

Antony Chesworth

Alison Chesworth

Karl Plunkett

Zia Mallick

Ron Immink

Dawn Whiteley MBE

Simon Cox

Clare Francis

Nigel Hudson

Tripp Braden

Paul Crook

Henry Stewart

James Blackman

In memory of:

Stefan Topfer

Roanne Dods

Co-Founders:

Tina Boden & Tony Robinson OBE

Check out the names on this powerful Roll of Honour - then add yours.

Membership organisations, networks, businesses, social enterprises, charities and individuals have watched a 2 minutes video at the end of this article and having agreed to the values expressed in the 'Small is Beautiful' video added their name in the comments box. If you agree with these values please add your name and business name too.

The second version of the Small is Beautiful Roll of Honour will be be published online and in print on the 6th Annual, #MicroBizMatters Day on Friday, 10th January 2020. The Roll of Honour will send a strong message to Government, government agencies and large corporations of the value, importance and power of small and micro businesses (99% of all businesses in the UK).

The names on the Roll of Honour backing Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, will signify that bullying through procurement, policies, behaviour, compliance, tender, licensing, rates, taxes, trade, pricing, contract, media, social media, payment terms and practice must stop in order to create a fairer, healthier, growing economy and better society for all.

Time to commit to 'small is beautiful'?

It is 45 years since Ernst F. Schumacher's 'Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered' was published. It is seven years since we formed our very informal, free, no membership, no contact details required #MicroBizMatters movement. We're best known for our annual social media day of celebration, recognition, action and learning - #MicroBizMatters Day and our campaigns #PayIn30Days, #PowerOfPlenty and #Indie25ER.

We promote and work with all the major small and micro business membership organisations and networks and backed by very many famous entrepreneurs, who you will see on the Roll of Honour, who have given their time totally free of charge

If you are willing for your business, network, social enterprise, membership organisation or charity to be seen publicly to back us, enter your business name or name, if you prefer, in the comments below - no contact details required or requested.

To help you decide

In 2015 I was fortunate to be asked to do my little 'Micro is Magic' show at the second 'Small is Beautiful' Conference in a prestigious Glasgow theatre with an enthusiastic group of speakers and audience of creative micro business owners from all over the world. It remains the most inspiring I have ever attended, and there have been a few.

There was the shared belief at the Conference that we as micro business owners, in collaboration, can change the world for the better. Bigger is not always best for work and self-fulfilment, communities and the environment. The pursuit of ever-increasing wealth is not the reason most people start their enterprises. Human activity shouldn't be about the 'rich get rich, and the poor get poorer' (EF Schumacher & Leonard Cohen). The relentless pursuit of GDP, profits and 'growth' isn't the only way ahead nor is it the best way. Smaller can be better.

As Schumacher said; 'Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction'. Roanne Dodds and Deborah Keogh showed that genius and that courage in co-founding and organising the Small is Beautiful Conference in 2014, 2015 and 2016. #Sadly, in early 2017, the truly inspirational, warm-hearted, dancer, lawyer and creative, Roanne died, aged 52.

Watch this 2 minutes video - it is moving.

Roanne commissioned a two-minute video to turn the ten point, long and impassioned Small is Beautiful Conference manifesto into some concise values we can all share, and we hope your organisation might back.

We recommend this video to help you decide whether to back our 'small is beautiful' values and #MicroBizMatters If you decide to back these values then please leave your name and business name in the comments box. Your name will be added to the Roll of Honour to be published on Friday, 10 January, 2020 #MicroBizMatters Day 6. Here's the 2 minutes video >

Small is Beautiful Conference manifesto in a beautiful 2 minutes video