A SLOUGH accountancy firm has announced the winners of its Young Entrepreneur of the Year programme.

Lauren Prentice of Sense Theatre, and Bruce Casalis, of Bruce’s Doggy Day Care (BDDC), scooped the 2017 prize.

Jane Wills, Partner at the Slough office in Farnham Road, said: “The winners received cash, free mentoring and publicity as part of their prizes. Congratulations to them both.”

Mr Casalis, from Slough, was 24 when he started multi-award-winning business BDDC in 2009. He now has two dog crèche centres in Cobham and Ripley, Surrey, each set in the countryside.

He said: “I identified a gap in the UK market for a better alternative to dog walking services and now BDDC has grown into the UK’s largest dog day care provider of its kind.”

Ms Prentice started Sense Theatre in 2011 when she was just 21. It originally offered children’s after-school drama clubs, however in 2016 she sold this side of the company to focus on ‘Sense Parties’ – children’s themed parties.