THE Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire is to present a Queen’s Award for Enterprise to a company that has a head office in Wiltshire.

Anna Turner JP, will present the award to Scanning Pens Ltd, of Telford, on Thursday, September 9.

The presentation will take place at the Hoar Cross Hall Spa Hotel in Burton on Trent.

Scanning Pens has received the Queen’s Award for its outstanding international trade performance over the past three years.

The company, whose head office is based at Heywood House, Westbury, also has a facility at Telford, where it collaborates with the University of Wolverhampton.

Scanning Pens produces pens that make life easier for people with disabilities.

Created in 2003 by Oxford Brookes graduates Jack Churchill, its chief executive officer, and Toby Sutton, its chief operations officer, Scanning Pens is a dedicated global EdTech business providing accessibility support to students with reading difficulties.

Scanning Pens devices represent a huge quality-of-life change for people with dyslexia, and work by allowing users to scan through and listen to texts via an audio feedback system.

The company’s assistive technology has been integrated into schools across all ages, aiding dyslexics and English language learners.

Its ExamReader and ReaderPen scanning pen devices allow students to be supported in a classroom without the need of a human reader. They are designed to make reading accessible and simple, so that users can focus on what matters.

As a multi-national business, Scanning Pens has dedicated the past 12 months to exploring what new opportunities it can offer to people with dyslexia and literacy differences during the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as continuing to support the markets that rely on its award-winning text-to-speech technology.

The last three years has seen a significant increase in the company’s overseas markets growing from one UK office and 10 UK staff, to two UK offices, and one office each in USA, Australia, Canada, and India with more than 80 staff around the world.