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Entry Criteria
Is your small business thriving? Have you exceeded your expectations and forecasts? The judges will be looking for:
Small Businesses: Independently owned business with 10 staff (FTE) or fewer, whose growth and quality of management has enabled it to outperform the competition.
Sole Entrepreneurs: Exceptional business owners who operate entirely on their own without permanent employees, demonstrating outstanding personal initiative, creative resourcefulness, and the successful leverage of technology or contract partners to achieve viable, scalable business growth.
Guidelines for Submission
Please answer all questions and aim to write no more than 1,500 words in total. You may attach a maximum of two pieces of supplementary evidence, such as photographs, to your submission.
Rules of Entry
- All entries are free and must be received by the stated deadline.
- Once a candidate has been announced as a finalist, it cannot withdraw from the competition.
- All information supplied by entrants will be treated in the strictest confidence, with all judges obliged to sign non- disclosure agreements.
- The person’s whose name is on the entry form as “Contact Name” will be the permanent contact throughout the course of the awards program, and will receive all correspondence, including receipt-of-entry and winning-entry acknowledgements.
- If it is found that any entrant has knowingly provided false information on their application for their entry, the organiser reserves the right to withdraw any entry at any time submitted by that organisation.
- The award winners will be announced at the gala dinner taking place on 15th October 2026. Winners may be requested to participate in post event publicity.
- The decisions of the judges will be final and will not be subject to any appeal. All entrants must agree to be bound by them.
- By entering or agreeing to participate in these awards all entrants agree to the above terms and conditions.