Kirklees Council New Business of the Year

If your business began trading after January 1, 2011, why not enter this award and receive recognition for your hard work and determination? You may have brought a fantastic new product to market, found a niche area to focus on or overcome all odds to achieve success. Tell us about your business, your market place, your performance and your future plans to win the recognition you deserve.

Kirklees Stadium Development Ltd SME of the Year

Whatever your trade, if you employ up to 50 employees and can demonstrate achievements in your marketplace with evidence of an excellent business strategy, good financial performance and your potential for the future, enter this award and highlight your achievements.

Walker Singleton Business of the Year

If you are the best large business in Huddersfield, enter this award! Employing a workforce of more than 50 the business of the year will be able to demonstrate all round business excellence, financial performance, business strategy and future plans.

Stafflex Community Award

Are you a company with a conscience and a commitment to social responsibility? Do you make a positive impact on your community? Make sure you receive the recognition you deserve for your commitment to your community and enter this award.

Green Award

Has your business applied environmental policies in the workplace? Have your products or services made a positive contribution to the environment? This award will highlight the very best examples of environmental actions by local businesses.

HSBC International Business of the Year

Has your business generated a substantial and sustained increase in activity outside of the region? The judges will look for evidence of the barriers that you have overcome and the degree to which national and international sales have created jobs and benefited our region’s economy.

David Brown Huddersfield ‘Place To Make It’ Award

Are you proud to say that your business is based in Huddersfield? Are you flying the flag for our town as well as your products and services? This award will recognise a business who best demonstrates how their products, services and/or campaigns contribute to building a positive profile of Huddersfield, spreading the word that this is a place where businesses make it.

University of Huddersfield Innovation and Enterprise Award

This award celebrates new ideas, processes, products, services, technologies and applications that have had an impact on an organisations success. Judges will be looking for originality of innovation, its impact, practicality of its application and the measurable benefits to the business.

The Pink Link Employer of the Year

We are looking for an employer who can demonstrate excellence in its approach to workforce development. Entrants will demonstrate why workforce development and training is important to the organisation, how training needs and skills requirements are assessed and addressed, and the direct benefit gained by both individuals and the organisation.

Fantastic Media Young Business Person of the Year

Are you or one of your employees aged 40 or under a rising star in your industry, able to demonstrate outstanding achievements to date? Our young business person of the year will display excellent leadership and management skills that drive success for their business.

Chadwick Lawrence LLP Business Person of the Year

The Business Person of the year is a judges’ choice award and not open for entry. The winner selected will be an individual who stands out from the crowd, has an entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrates outstanding achievement and inspires others around them. The winner of this award will have been instrumental to the success of their business, growing the reputation of both their business and the region.