An entrepreneur credited with introducing Hull to global brands from Amstrad to Take That will be remembered for his lifelong commitment to training with a new award bearing his name.
Vic Golding, who died last November aged 86, supplied many businesses in Hull and East Yorkshire with their first computers. As founder and MD of Golding Computer Services, in 1982, he recognised that the hardware was worthless without training in how to use it.
The company won numerous awards for excellence from Sage software, from the International Association of Bookkeepers, and from Hull City Council’s Making Changes for Careers project.
Many of the accolades were for the training, delivered by Vic’s colleague Di Garbera, to equip young entrepreneurs and others in business with the vital skills they needed in computerised accounts.
Now MC4C has announced that one of its annual awards will be named after Vic in recognition of his support for young people and for his remarkable business career.
Charles Cracknell, Hull City Council’s Youth Enterprise and Microbusiness Manager, said: “Vic was a force of nature committed to supporting young people either as apprentices or entrepreneurs. He would often ask for updates on how they were doing as he felt encouraging them was the key to ensuring their success.
“He was as proud as punch whenever one of the young entrepreneurs supported by MC4C passed their Level 2 book keeping course, and even more so when one former homeless young man won a national award organised by the IAB, which Goldings worked with very closely. It was the first recognition the young man had ever received.
“It was obvious to me that we should recognise Vic’s commitment to Hull and to young people, hence we have decided to honour his service and memory by naming a youth enterprise award after him. We will present it at our annual awards evening during Global Entrepreneurship Week.”
