Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Awards
The Shell LiveWIRE programme supports innovative young entrepreneurs in the UK with ideas that meet the energy and resource needs of a fast-growing population.
Over the last 30 years, Shell LiveWIRE has helped over 880,000 young people in the UK to explore starting their own business and provided £5 million of funding. They champion creativity and innovation, fostering a culture of peer support that has led the Shell LiveWIRE online community to grow to over 230,000 members.
Shell LiveWIRE also provides The Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Programme, which awards £5,000 in start-up funding and exclusive mentoring sessions with Shell business experts to one winner per month to help programme winners to fulfil their potential. These monthly winners are then considered for the annual £25,000 Shell LiveWIRE Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Deadline: Ongoing
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Customer Service Excellence Awards
The UK Customer Service Excellence Awards will return for its third year to Café de Paris, London, to celebrate customer service success in the insurance and broker markets. Launched in 2018, in association with Modern Insurance Magazine, this unique event focuses on purely customer service in the insurance industry, benchmarking success, innovation and positive business change for the customer.
Categories: Best Customer Engagement, Customer Retention and Loyalty, Best Use of Customer Feedback, Investment in Company Culture, Best Use of Customer Service Technology, Best Customer Service Product, Fight Against Fraud, Best New Business Initiative and more.
Deadline: 28th February 2020
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The Business Excellence Awards
Categories:
Best Community Impact
Two of the biggest Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) that we measure in ActionCOACH are how many jobs do you create and how much extra revenue do you put into the marketplace? You will demonstrate your ongoing commitment to the community locally and globally, you will describe specific activities the business engages in that have a positive impact on the community.
Best Company Culture
You will demonstrate how your company creates a positive culture within the business and outside with customers, sponsors and the local community. How do you celebrate team member achievements and what does it take for someone to be successful in the company? You will provide evidence to show your ongoing efforts to build and improve your company culture and this will be backed up with testimonials from your team members.
Best Customer Service
Customer service is something that every business has to do to survive, but some businesses go the extra mile which make them stand out from the rest. You will demonstrate how the company promotes ongoing customer service improvement across the organisation and how your team participates to improve their development. Customer testimonials will be provided as supporting evidence.
Best E-Commerce Business
The company will work with multiple e-commerce platforms or specialise in one. You will show an understanding of the customer journey and demonstrate how the e-commerce experience plays a role in this journey.
Best Import / Export Company
In these times of uncertainty planning for the future is paramount, so has your plan and innovative ideas put your company to the forefront of it’s sector? A detailed plan of your business goals for the future, and how you plan to achieve these will be provided.
Best Manufacturer / Wholesaler
You will demonstrate what has driven your company’s success and why. A detailed plan of your business goals for the future and how you plan to achieve these will be provided along with the milestones you have achieved in the last 3 years.
Best Marketing Campaign
Marketing rewards are measured by the return on investment. You will provide the details of your marketing campaign including the target market, the marketing message and how you delivered this campaign. You will demonstrate how the campaign was innovative and stood out from other competitors. Evidence to show the results of the campaign and ROI will also be provided.
Best Retailer
This company will have growth in sales since launching / the past 3 financial years. This could be in a face to face setting or online. You will provide evidence of how you show longevity, innovation and excellent customer service.
Best Service Based
This company will be based on providing a service for customers rather than on manufacturing. Growth in sales will have increased year on year, your USP will clearly be defined along with the actions you’ve taken to drive your companie's success and a detailed plan for the future.
CEO of the Year
You will demonstrate effective and innovative leadership to strengthen your business, as well as how you serve as a role model and mentor to your team. A detailed growth plan to reach your business objectives will also be demonstrated.
Engage & Grow Business of the Year
You will demonstrate what issues you were aiming to solve before starting the Engage & Grow programme. Quantifiable results will be listed and backed up by testimonials from team members who took part. You will also show what plan you have in place to keep the momentum moving forward.
Entrepreneur of the Year
Entrants must be 31 years old or over. You will demonstrate effective and innovative leadership to strengthen your business and how you add creativity and vision to the business. A detailed plan of your business goals for the future and how you plan to achieve these will be provided along with the milestones you have achieved in the last 3 years.
Fastest Growing Company
The turnover growth of the company will be assessed over a four-year period for this award. You will also demonstrate what has driven your company’s success and why. A detailed plan of your business goals for the future and how you plan to achieve these will be provided.
Most Innovative Company
You will provide details of the processes you use to research and develop new products or services and also demonstrate how you introduce them to the market. Details of your current strategy for development of the business will also be provided.
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Entrants must be 30 years old or under. You will demonstrate effective and innovative leadership to strengthen your business and how you add creativity and vision to the business. A detailed plan of your business goals for the future and how you plan to achieve these will be provided along with the milestones you have achieved in the last 3 years.
Deadline: 28th February 2020
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National Building & Construction Awards 2020
Categories:
Apprentice of the Year, Architect of the Year, Architectural Designer of the Year, Practice of the Year, Community Engagement, Consultancy of the Year, Contractor of the Year, Sustainability Award, Health & Safety Award, Innovation Award, Project of the Year.
Deadline: 26th February 2020
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The National Recycling Awards 2020
For over two decades, MRW’s National Recycling Awards has been on a mission to find, recognise and celebrate those making a difference in the recycling and waste management industry.
Back for 2020, The National Recycling Awards will take place on 25 June at the prestigious London Hilton on Park Lane for a day of industry talks at the annual NRA Conference, followed by an evening of celebration and awards ceremony.
This year we have 17 categories (all of which are FREE to enter) including Recycled product of the year, Food waste initiative and Recycling excellence. Have a look at the full list and start your entry today.
Deadline: 14th February 2020
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The Responsible Business Awards 2020
The Responsible Business Awards are Business in the Community’s (BITC) annual recognition celebration which celebrates businesses that are making a significant impact in eight responsible business areas, plus our flagship Responsible Business of the Year 2020 Award.
Free to enter, the awards are open to all private sector companies, firms, LLPs and partnerships of any size. Public sector businesses may apply if they are BITC members. Hundreds of influential leaders and c-suite executives celebrate the winners, making the Responsible Business Awards an exclusive networking opportunity.
Winners will be announced at a celebration event in London in summer 2020. This event will have a new format with increased network opportunities to allow organisations to share ideas, make new connections and enjoy great new content from BITC.
Deadline: 21st February 2020
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UK National Contact Centre Awards 2020
The longest established awards for the UK contact centre industry are in their 25th year. They recognise the individuals and teams in our industry who are working to make their contact centres professional and industry leading.
The awards have an excellent reputation across the industry for being of a very high standard. All of the nominees go through a comprehensive judging process, including personal face to face interviews, panel judging and site visits.
The judging panel are all people who work in the industry full time. They are experienced operational judges including previous award winners. None of our judges are vendors or suppliers.
Deadline: 21st February 2020
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Best Places to Work in Hospitality 2020
These awards are designed to identify the best places to work in hospitality by asking the people who truly know – your employees.
We have built a unique survey which asks your people to tell us what characteristics make a best place to work for them, against which they mark you, their employer.
Your opportunity to be listed as a Best Place to Work is therefore entirely dependent on them completing the survey.
Deadline: 21st February 2020
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The Loyalty Magazine Awards 2020
New this year: Loyalty Re-defined and Eco-loyalty Initiative of the Year
It has been a transformative year for customer loyalty, with many programmes revamping their offerings, and most companies looking afresh at how they reward their customers and how they connect with them.
The Loyalty Magazine Awards reflect this feeling of transition and new ways of thinking. We have renamed the Loyalty Without a Name category to Loyalty Re-defined because to some extent, this is what we are all doing with our businesses.
Other changes this year are that Best Loyalty Programme of the Year Retail and Best Loyalty Programme of the Year Non-Retail have been merged because there is so much cross over – and Best Use of Mobile Within a Loyalty Strategy (including mobile wallet) has been renamed Best Use of Mobile & Social – to reflect the evolution in the way we live our lives.
Lastly and significantly, we have a new category, called Eco-loyalty Initiative of the Year. Recent studies are showing that sustainability, a call for a reduced use of plastic, and the urgent need to address climate change are major concerns for customers. It seems only right that customer facing organisations should use positive eco behaviour both to reward customers for their actions, and to demonstrate their own commitment to helping the environment.
Deadline: 28th February 2020
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