C2S Business Awards Update Special

HOT OFF THE PRESS! 

The hunt is on for the best businesses across the region!

C2S Launch Sky TV Advertising Campaign to promote the

C2S Regional Business Awards 2024!

C2S AWARDS MEDIA SPONSOR

C2S are delighted to be working Adsmart from Sky on promoting the C2S Business Awards 2024 across the region. Inviting the best organisations and talent to enter. A great opportunity to showcase successful businesses like yours, raise your profile, celebrate your successes and your people!

This 80-day long Sky TV campaign will launch on 1st December and run until 18th Feb 2024, reaching business leaders, business decision makers and business owners across Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Oxfordshire, Bristol, Swindon & Wiltshire.

We are delighted to bring you this opportunity to celebrate success and give those organisations in the region the recognition they deserve. We hope as a successful business in the region, you will look to enter your organisation in these prestigious awards.

Please take a look and get your entry in early to maximise on the media coverage and events coming up!

With 17 categories to enter there is one suitable for every business, so please get your entries in now and have a look at all the categories below.

C2S The Voice for Business in the Region!

Who Can Enter?

Free to enter and open to organisations of any sector and size

Open to C2S members and non-members

Entries are open for organisations from across the Midlands to the South West and South Wales. 

Why Enter?

 The C2S Regional Business Awards are a prestigious event that will showcase leading businesses and recognise outstanding organisations that care about their people, the planet and profit.

Building on the success of our 2023 awards we have included several new categories, along with many new events to bring successful organisations together, to celebrate success, and acknowledge their people.

Entering our awards is easy and will elevate your business, acknowledge your achievements and you will receive extensive media coverage.

All entrants meeting the criteria will be invited to our shortlist event on 6t March 2024 in partnership with John Lewis Partners, and have the opportunity to attend our exclusive Knowledge Exchange Forum, bringing entrants together

to share ideas, best practice, collaborate and support each other

on the journey of continued growth.

We hope you will enter and be part of the regions most celebrated business awards!

Category Sponsor

Best Place to Work Award

Employee engagement is a workplace approach resulting in the right conditions for all members of an organisation to give of their best each day, committed to their organisation’s goals and values, motivated to contribute to organisational success, with an enhanced sense of their own well-being.

Business of the Year (Small) Award

This Award is for businesses with under 50 employees.

If you stand out across the board this category could be the one for you. Outstanding products or services coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key, as is an awareness of your CSR commitments. One for the real all-rounder.

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Business of the Year (Medium) Award

This Award is for Business with between 51 and 200 employees. If you stand out across the board this category could be the one for you. Outstanding products or services coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key, as is an awareness of your CSR commitments. One for the real all-rounder.

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Business of the Year (Large) Award

This Award is for businesses with over 201 employees

If you stand out across the board this category could be the one for you. Outstanding products or services coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key, as is an awareness of your CSR commitments. One for the real all-rounder.

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Change Management and Innovation Award

This award recognises organisations that have successfully implemented initiatives which demonstrate excellence in change management, introduced new products or services, or innovated in their place if work. 

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Community Award

This award will recognise the business who has demonstrated responsible business practices across the four areas of local community, environment, their people, and supply chain.

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Culture and Diversity Award

This award celebrates organisations that have developed cultures where diversity and inclusion are at the heart of their business and values, embracing the benefits of a truly diverse workforce.

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Customer Excellence Award

This award is open to outstanding customer champions – businesses that operate customer-centric organisations where the customer is truly king or queen. It is open to businesses operating in any sector.

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Cyber & IT Business of the Year Award

A record £24 billion was invested in UK tech businesses in 2022 and the UK was the first country in Europe to reach 100 tech unicorns, according to Tech Nation.

This award celebrates and acknowledges excellence in this sector, organisations, products, or services that are an exemplar and show commitment to achieving excellence.

Category Sponsor

Family Business of the Year Award

This award celebrates over 5 million family businesses in the UK which generate almost a third of the GDP – family businesses truly are the backbone of the UK economy!

The Family Business Award looks to highlight those that have worked hard, provided a quality service, and innovated their way through recent hardships – we want to recognise and reward those family businesses that are vital to the economy.

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Growth Award

This award will acknowledge organisations that can demonstrate substantial growth in 2022/2023 through revenue growth; headcount and/or service/product development. Successful growing businesses are extraordinarily important to the UK economy, driving innovation, creating wealth and thousands of new jobs. This award is open to organisations in all sectors.

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Leadership Award

True leadership is a representation of the way you work with your team to achieve goals. A true leader makes an effort to help develop their team’s skills so they can reach their full potential. It is a critical part of any organisational success but does not just reside with the person at the top of the organisation. People can show leadership skills throughout an organisation.

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Manufacturing Business of the Year Award

Manufacturing makes up a not insignificant 10% of the economy’s output, and employs 2.6 million people across the UK, with many more in other industries supply chains. The sector is also responsible for a huge 44% of all UK exports. The total value of UK manufacturers’ product sales was £429.8 billion in 2022, an increase of £28.4 billion (7%) from £401.5 billion in 2021.

This award celebrates this critical sector and is open to manufacturers of all sizes and any part of the supply chain.

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Property & Construction Business of the Year Award

If you stand out in the Property & Construction industry, this category could be the one for you. Outstanding products or services coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key, as is an awareness of your CSR commitments.

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Sustainability Award

This sustainability award recognises successful businesses where profitability, concern for the environment and social commitment are in harmony. This award celebrates companies who are driving positive change for the people and the planet.

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Talent, Training and Development Award

Is there a more noble cause than training the workforce of today to cope with the challenges of tomorrow? This award is to recognise and reward those organisations that invest in their people, upskill their people, value continued learning and development, staff retention and talent progression.

Team of the Year

When it comes to business, teamwork is the cornerstone on which a business is built, and this award recognises and champions that. The Team of the Year Award will recognise a team where each and every member of the team plays a fundamental role in delivering success.

DRINKS SPONSORS

CONNECTING TALENT WITH OPPORTUNITY

SAVE THE DATES! 

29th February 2024 - Entries Close

6th March 2024 – Exclusive Shortlist Event with John Lewis Partners

16th April 2024 – Judging Day

16th May 2024 – Finalist Drinks Event

20th June 2024 – C2S Regional Awards Evening

5th July 2024 - Knowledge Exchange Forum

Thank you to all our Sponsors for 2024

Sponsorship Opportunities

We only have a few sponsorship opportunities now left!

* Team of The Year *

* Small Business of the Year *

* Venue Partner *

* Awards Programme Partner *

* Special Edition Awards Magazine 2024 *

EVENT PROGRAMME SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE

VENUE SPONSORSHIP AVAILABLE

Help Spread the Word & Celebrate Success!

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