C2S Business Awards 2027 Award Categories
Explore our 20 award categories celebrating outstanding businesses, entrepreneurs, teams and individuals across a wide range of industries.
From business growth and innovation to leadership, sustainability and community impact, the C2S Business Awards 2027 recognise excellence and achievement at every level.
Whatever your business size, sector or story, there’s a category for you.
Entries open 1 November 2026
Discover the categories below and find the right award for your business.
Why Enter the C2S Business Awards?
Celebrate your achievements, recognise your people and raise your business profile through the C2S Business Awards 2027.
With 20 categories to choose from, entering is completely free and open to C2S members and non-members. You can enter multiple categories, showcasing your business success, innovation and the people who make a difference.
Every entrant has opportunities for valuable PR, social media exposure and promotion across our business community.
Sponsors are also welcome to enter categories they are not sponsoring.
Explore the 20 categories below and find your perfect fit.
Entrepeneur of the Year Award
Celebrating Vision, Ambition and Entrepreneurial Spirit.
The Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2027 celebrates exceptional individuals who have turned ideas into successful businesses through vision, determination, innovation and resilience.
From building a business to overcoming challenges and creating new opportunities, we want to recognise the people whose entrepreneurial spirit makes a real difference.
Every entrepreneur has a story. We’d love to hear yours!
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Best Place to Work Award
A great place to work is one where people feel valued, included, supported and inspired to succeed.
The C2S Best Place to Work Award 2027 celebrates organisations that put their people first, creating a positive workplace culture that embraces diversity, encourages inclusion, supports wellbeing and drives employee engagement.
Discover what makes an outstanding workplace and how your organisation could be recognised.
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Community Award
Celebrating Those Making a Real Difference.
The Community Award 2027 recognises outstanding community organisations, Community Interest Companies (CICs) and charities whose dedication, initiatives and services are making a meaningful difference to people’s lives.
From supporting vulnerable individuals to strengthening communities, we want to celebrate the organisations creating lasting positive change.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Responsible Business. Positive Impact.
The Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2027 celebrates businesses going beyond commercial success to make a positive difference through community engagement, environmental sustainability, ethical practices and a genuine commitment to their people.
Show us how your business is making a difference!
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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 ÂŁ24 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.
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Early Careers and Apprenticeship Award
This award recognises organisations that have successfully implemented initiatives which demonstrate excellence in early career development, and apprenticeship outreach.Â
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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 2025 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.
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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.Â
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Large Business of the Year Award
Celebrating Excellence in Business Performance.
The Large Business of the Year Award 2027 recognises outstanding organisations demonstrating strong or sustained commercial performance, resilience, innovation, exceptional leadership and a positive impact on their people, customers and wider communities.
This award is for businesses with 200+ employees.
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Leadership Award
Recognising Those Who Inspire Others.
The Leadership Award 2027 celebrates exceptional individuals who inspire, motivate and develop others, creating positive workplace cultures and empowering people and teams to achieve their potential.
Great leadership deserves recognition at every level.
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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 in the South West, South Wales, Worcestershire and the Midlands operating in any sector and in any part of the supply chain.
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Medium Business of the Year Award
This award is for businesses with 51–200 employees.
Recognising exceptional business performance and leadership.
The Medium Business of the Year Award 2027 celebrates medium-sized businesses demonstrating outstanding achievement through innovation, strong leadership, commercial success and investment in their people.
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Micro Business of the Year Award
Small Business. Big Achievements.
The Micro Business of the Year Award 2027 celebrates outstanding businesses with 1–10 employees demonstrating exceptional performance, innovation, customer service and a determination to succeed. From overcoming challenges to achieving impressive results, we want to recognise the businesses making a big impact.
Great things often come from small teams with big ambitions!
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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 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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Small Business of the Year Award
Celebrating ambition, innovation and business success.
The Small Business of the Year Award 2027 recognises businesses achieving outstanding results through strong leadership, exceptional people, innovation and customer excellence. This Award is for businesses with 11–50 employees.
Every business has a story worth celebrating. We’d love to hear yours!
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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.
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Team of the Year Award
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.
The winning team will be a diverse and supportive group of people working together with a shared belief and value system that delivers business objectives.
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From our open, collaborative, warm and above and beyond approach, to our passion, enthusiasm and love for what we do, the Juice team is focused on ensuring we bring together the most ambitious talent with super exciting and innovative opportunities.
We believe that great people accelerate growth and make vital time for businesses to create new plans and exciting objectives. By recruiting, inspirational, driven, knowledge fuelled teams, businesses can be focussed not only the day to day, but they can also be inspired to drive, growth, change and innovate through their people.
Established in 1998, we have partnered with and represented some of the world’s most driven brands and businesses. This is due to our ambitious, creative approach, which enables us to understand your business in meticulous detail, ensuring that we tailor our recruitment solutions to support your business needs.
Whether you are looking to recruit permanently, require temporary support or you are thinking of a senior appointment, our specialist teams will guide and advise you every step of the way.
Effective and creative thinkers, each of our talent teams have gained industry knowledge and expertise, spending time to understand what great talent and opportunities look like in sales, marketing, PR, creative, customer service, office support, accountancy, human resources and financial services.
With our network of branches across Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham, Swindon and Cardiff, we are able to connect permanent, contract and temporary talent, with the UK’s most ambitious and exciting businesses and brands.
We are proud to have cultivated long-standing relationships that support our partners growth strategies. Working collaboratively, we do hope we can help you build truly exceptional teams!
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Ready to Enter the C2S Business Awards 2027?
Every business has a story worth sharing. Whether you’ve achieved significant growth, introduced new ideas, developed your people or made a difference in your community, the C2S Business Awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate your achievements.
With 20 categories recognising business excellence across the South West, Midlands and South Wales, there’s an opportunity for businesses of all sizes and sectors to get involved.
You don’t need to be the biggest or most successful business to enter. Our judges want to hear about your journey, the challenges you’ve overcome and the impact you’ve made.
Free to enter  |  Open to members and non-members