Applicants are invited to apply for the fifth year of the SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards, a credible opportunity to support and share in vision to raise the profile of industrious, hardworking and enterprising SME’s locally.
Sponsoring Agency: SME Business Awards
Type of Fund: Challenges, Competitions or Prizes
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/27/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
Applicants are invited to apply for the fifth year of the SME MK & Buckinghamshire Business Awards, a credible opportunity to support and share in vision to raise the profile of industrious, hardworking and enterprising SME’s locally.
Business awards are a sought after accolade of achievement, a veritable endorsement of success in business which offers exceptional marketing and PR opportunities as well as increasing your credibility and standing in the eyes of your peers and your customers. Of course, it feels pretty wonderful too!
Categories
• BAME Business of the Year
• Best Enterprising Business
• Best New Business
• Buckinghamshire Business of the Year
• Business Chameleon
• Business Innovation
• Business of the Year less than 50 Employees
• Business of the Year more than 50 Employees
• Business Person of the Year
• Business Woman of the Year
• Community Business of the Year
• Employer of the Year
• Family Business of the Year
• High Growth Business of the Year
• Lockdown Leader
• Milton Keynes Business of the Year
• Service Excellence
• Milton Keynes Green Award
• Sustainability Award
• Website of the Year
• Young Business Person of the Year
• Best Customer Service – Public Vote
• Business Hero – Public Vote
Requirements
• You may enter up to 2 awards categories and 1 public vote category.
• All entries as well as supporting documents must be submitted online, if you have any queries about hard copies of evidence please contact the team.
• Entrants must be based in Buckinghamshire and have less than 250 employees at the time of entering or be self-employed.
• Each category has different requirements in terms of length of time in business or age of entrant
• A sponsor cannot enter an award in the category that they are sponsoring.
• The comments made on your application form should be accurate to the best of your knowledge.
• The Judges will be representatives from each of the sponsors and guest judges, who are well respected experts in their field.
• The Judges reserve the right to move your application to another category or to add you to another category.
• The Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Due to the number of entries received, Judges cannot provide individual feedback on applications.
• By entering these awards, you agree to business partners and sponsors having access to your contact details.
• Entrants must be available for consultation with the Judges should the need arise.
• By entering the awards you agree to partake in publicity of the awards, including the use of any images taken.
• Should a category not receive sufficient quality entries, it will be withdrawn from the Awards Ceremony.
• Entries will only be accepted on the official entry form, submitted via the website.
• Entry is completed solely on your application form, there will be no site visits.
Public Vote Categories
• The public vote categories are Best Customer Service and Business Hero.
• Each nominated business in the public vote categories will be required to fill out a short application form to complete their entry.
• Independent Businesses, Franchises, and branches of larger businesses may enter the public vote categories.
• The competition is open to all businesses nationally who commenced business before January 2021.
• Entry into the Public Vote categories is FREE, although an entry form must be completed.
• Scores in the Public Vote categories will be determined by both the entry form (30%) and number of public votes (70%).
• In the case of the Business Hero, only one person from a company can be nominated.
More information at: https://www.buckinghamshireawards.co.uk/
Eligible Countries:
United Kingdom
