Computeraid Ltd has enjoyed notable success during the past ten years, and is currently the largest independent supplier of computer training and consultancy company in South Wales. The firm’s current customer base is impressive, ranging from large organisations like British Steel and the Welsh Development Agency to thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises throughout the region. The firm specialises in customised IT training and consultancy services, mainly through PC related software including Microsoft, Lotus and Internet related products and has the added advantage of being able to augment its own capabilities through its close ties with Swansea University. Computeraid Ltd has work closely with the University of Wales Swansea, which holds a minority interest in the firm, on important community driven programmes. For example, Computeraid has offered computer based training to 2,000 unemployed people in order to help accelerate their return to the work place through the acquisition of valuable IT skills. Over the last eighteen months, Computeraid Ltd has sustained its success, securing against national competition an on-going contract with the DVLA to oversee the national retraining of its staff throughout the UK. It was also recognised as the Western Mail Small Business of the Year in 1999 and won the South Wales Evening Post Small Business of the Year Award in 1998. Despite these notable achievements, Computeraid Ltd is committed to further improvement and the firm expects to exceed £1m turnover in 1999 with plans to introduce a variety of new services to augment its current activities and sustain growth.