Awards Categories

Best New Start Up Award
Sponsored by Smart Sifty
This Award celebrate the achievement of the best, brightest and most innovative new businesses in the area. If you have started your business in the past 24 months, then you can enter this category. Please explain how you came up with the idea, what made you “take the plunge” and start your own business and how you are developing and promoting the business.

Best Small Business Award
Sponsored by Ontoscale AI
This category is open to any business that employs the equivalent of 10 full-time staff or less. You should demonstrate why you think you are the best small business, this can include customer service, staff development, how you work with the community, trading results and anything you think makes your business stand out from the rest.

Team of the Year Award
Sponsored by Azets
This Award recognises teams that demonstrate exceptional collaboration, commitment and impact within their organisation. It celebrates teams that work together effectively, support one another and foster a positive, engaging and inclusive workplace culture. Whether delivering an outlstanding project, navigating changes or consistently contributing to organisational success, this award highlights teams that excel.

Best Hospitality Business Award
Sponsored by Holiday Inn, London - Shepperton
This Award celebrates outstanding hospitality businesses that consistently delvier excellent customer service, demonstrate high operational standards and contribute positively to Spelthorne's local community. Whether a bar, restaurant or café in the borough applicants should showcase what makes their business stand out, whether that's quality of service, great food and drink, a strong team culture or a commitment to providing an exceptional experience for customers..

Business Innovation Award
Sponsored by Heathrow Airport
This Award celebrates businesses that have brought fresh ideas to life, whether by launching a new product or service or by introducing a new process or way of woring that adds value. All types of innovation are welcome, from small improvements to major changes, as long as they were introduced within the past three years.

Sustainability Award
Sponsored by Rosewood Maintenance & Landscaping
This Award honours organisations which demonstrates a passion in influencing their teams or organisation to achieve a more sustainable pathway. It could be a system, product or service that significantly improve sustainability or provides sustainable market alternatives that addresses a critical environmental challenge.

Breaking Down Barriers Award
Sponsored by Shepperton Marina
This Award category champions organisations and individuals who are working to remove barriers to employment and work progression, adapting their employment practices to provide positive impacts. This can include support for neurodiverse, under represented or disadvantaged minority groups, women returning to work, carers, care leavers, ex offenders or careers and advice practitioners in schools.

Customer Excellence Award
Sponsored by Sytner Jaguar Land Rover
This Award recognises businesses that go above and beyond to demonstrate exceptional commitment to customer satisfation. Applicants should demonstrate how they meet customer needs and go beyond expectations; whether customer feedback is collected, acted upon and used to improve your offering; examples of how you create and maintain strong, loyal customer relationships and how you train any team members to deliver consistently high quality customer experience.

Best Leisure Business Award

Sponsored by Places Leisure

This Award recognises leisure businesses that deliver outstanding services and deliver exemplary customer experience. This is open to theatres, cinemas, sports and health clubs, hotels, venues and local visitor attractions. Applicants should demonstrate how they deliver an outstanding customer and visitor experience, innovations or improvements that enhance your leisure offering, how you train and empower staff to deliver a high quality service.

Best Property & Construction Business
Sponsored by Eden Grove, Berkeley Homes
This Award recognises excellence across the property and construction sector, celebrating businesses of all sizes, from sole traders and small contractors to larger firms who deliver high quality work. Entrants may include builders, tradespeople, architects, surveyors, developers, maintenance services, landscapes, interior specialists, estate agents and any business contributing to the built environment. The Award acknowledges the challenges faced in the sector, including recruitment pressures and aims to showcase businesses that are raising standards, investing in people and making a meaninggful difference in the local area.

Best Social Impact Award
Sponsored by Wordwide Energy Logistics
This Award celebrates businesses, charities and community groups making a meaningful difference in the borough. Applicants should demonstrate how their work creates lasting community benefits, strengthens partnerships and delivers genuine, measurable impact.

Rising Star Award
Sponsored by Mova Salons
This award category is open to an individual who has demonstrated exceptional performance and initiative and is regarded as a future business leader. They could be an apprentice who has gone above and beyond the duties of their role, or someone who has shown creativity, resilience, or flair to become an integral part of the business. It could also be an individual who has set up a business and can demonstrate a high degree of entrepreneurship and vision for the future.

Businessperson of the Year Award
Sponsor McDonald's
This Award recognises exceptional people who have made a significant impact within their organisation or industry. Whether leading a team, managing a franchise operation, or excelling in a speclalist role, applicants should demonstrate outstanding contribution, postive influence and a commitment for driving their organisation forward. This is their chance to shine.. 

Charity and Community Award
Sponsored by Just Clear Staines-upon-Thames
This award recognises exceptional charities, not for profit organisations and voluntary groups that can demonstrate how a specific project or initiative has had a positive impact in the community.

Best Business in Staines-upon-Thames and Laleham
Sponsored by Two Rivers
Show examples of why you think you are the best business in Staines-upon-Thames and Laleham. This can include customer service, staff development, how you work with the community, trading results and anything you think makes your business stand out from the rest.

Best Business in Ashford and Stanwell
Sponsored by Brooklands Technical College
Show examples of why you think you are the best business in Ashford and Stanwell. This can include customer service, staff development, how you work with the community, trading results and anything you think makes your business stand out from the rest.

Best Business in Sunbury and Halliford
Sponsored by Place Support Partnership

Show examples of why you think you are the best business in Sunbury and Halliford. This can include customer service, staff development, how you work with the community, trading results and anything you think makes your business stand out from the rest.

Best Business in Shepperton and Charlton
Sponsored by CPG
Show examples of why you think you are the best business in Shepperton and Charlton. This can include customer service, staff development, how you work with the community, trading results and anything you think makes your business stand out from the rest.