Winners & Highly Commended 2026
Congratulations to all the Winners & Highly Commended Entries of the C2S Business Awards 2026!
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Best Place to Work Award
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Laithwaites is a proud family-run business, driven by our belief that We Stop at Nothing to bring great wine to our customers. Nestled in the heart of the Cotswolds, with our own working vineyard, we’re passionate about delivering a little ‘magic in a box’.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We champion service excellence, create memorable experiences, and love sharing our passion for wine—always treating our customers like family.
Let the adventure begin!
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Micro Business of the Year Award
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Nomadic UK is a Cheltenham-based strategic video growth agency helping businesses generate measurable results through video content that actually performs. With a team of just five, we’ve delivered over 2,000 videos for 200+ clients ranging from Gloucestershire SMEs and charities to brands including Spotify, Sainsbury’s and the O2 Arena. Our work has contributed to a 40% increase in sales for Renishaw Additive Manufacturing, 23% uplift for Derwent Art’s Inktense range and 27% increase for the O2 Arena shopping outlet. We now hold 81 five-star Google reviews, making us the highest-rated and most reviewed video agency in Gloucestershire. We’re proud to prove that small businesses can deliver serious impact.
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Small Business of the Year Award
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At Wagada, we do things differently. We make the complex simple, believing that less is more, we turn challenges into opportunities. As audience influencers, we shift perceptions and inspire action across Digital Marketing, Web Design, HubSpot, Employer Branding, AI, and more. Our core values – passionate, human, flexible, and honest – guide everything we do.
We never stand still. We’re forward – thinking, creative, and intelligent, continuously pioneering new approaches to keep you ahead of the curve. Our transparency ensures you truly understand our strategies and impact. We build communities of loyal customers who genuinely connect with your brand.
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Medium Business of the Year Award
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Hewer Facilities Management has grown from a sole trader business established in 1965 into one of the region’s leading providers of heating, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and renewable energy solutions. Employing over 160 skilled professionals, our sustainable growth journey is driven by investment in our people, innovative technology, and future-focused services.
Built on reliability, innovation, and sustainability, we deliver exceptional quality and compliance across domestic and commercial projects. From large-scale maintenance to renewable solutions including heat pumps and solar, we help customers improve efficiency and reduce environmental impact while continuing to set high standards across the industry.
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Large Business of the Year Award
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Prosperity Care & Wellbeing is a fast-growing, values-driven organisation delivering over 10,800 hours of high-quality, person-centred care each week. With a 32% workforce increase and strong focus on internal progression, the organisation continues to meet rising demand while maintaining exceptional standards, including an ‘Outstanding’ CQC mock inspection. Investment in digital innovation, leadership development and staff wellbeing underpins its success, alongside new supported living services enabling greater independence for those supported. Active in its community and recognised with multiple national awards, Prosperity Care & Wellbeing combines innovation, compassion and resilience to deliver outstanding outcomes for individuals, staff and the wider community.
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Change Management and Innovation Award
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Hewer Facilities Management is committed to innovation that solves real industry challenges. Drawing on more than 20 years of renewable energy expertise, we developed Heat Saviour and Heat Saviour Plus, smart solutions designed to simplify heat pump installations, reduce material waste, lower costs, and improve efficiency. Using universal fittings and cost-effective components, the system streamlines installation for engineers while delivering greater reliability and sustainability for customers. Heat Saviour Plus further reduces installation time, minimises disruption for homeowners, and provides backup heating solutions, helping make renewable heating more accessible, practical, and affordable while supporting the transition to greener, more energy-efficient homes.
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Community Award
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YMCA Cheltenham has quietly supported people across Gloucestershire for 170 years, becoming a place many turn to in some of the hardest moments of their lives. From homelessness accommodation and family support to children’s services, food provision and our inclusive Sports & Wellbeing Centre, we work right across the community to help people feel safe, connected and hopeful again.
Last year alone we supported over 7,000 people and delivered almost 100,000 nights of safe accommodation. What matters most to us is creating real community, where people are welcomed without judgement and supported to move from crisis towards stability, confidence and belonging.
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Corporate Social Responsibility
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At Crowe, we recognise and appreciate that every business and individual has a part to play in ensuring we look after our planet, people, and communities. We believe it is everyone’s responsibility, including businesses, to proactively encourage, educate and support organisations and individuals. It is in everyone’s best interest to strive for continuous improvement and take action whenever possible, to reduce our negative impacts while having a considerable positive impact on the world around us.
As a professional services firm, we remain committed to being socially responsible, by addressing what is currently happening as well as planning for the future.
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Culture and Diversity Award
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The celebration of culture and diversity is part of Adopstar’s DNA. We’re an advertising, marketing and web development agency with an apprenticeship programme tailored to the needs of those with mental health challenges. We’re proud to have transformed from being an almost all-male business to having a staff complement that’s 53% female. The fact that we’re a multifaith and multicultural organisation is what keeps our conversations so stimulating.
Our company culture is driven by communication, employee engagement and management’s open-door policy. Inclusivity is lived out daily in tangible ways that have shaped the company’s growth and its people.
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Customer Excellence Award
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At our family-run business, customers are at the heart of everything we do. From our buyers who scour the globe to find the finest wines, to our developers who ensure our website runs seamlessly, and our wine guides who are always ready to share their expertise, delivering an outstanding customer experience is our passion.
Our core values, “We treat everyone like family” and “Behind every case is a customer,” reflect our commitment to putting customers first. We understand the importance of continuously adapting to meet our customers’ expectations and pride ourselves on leading the way in customer excellence.
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Cyber & IT Business of the Year Award
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PentenAmio is proud to protect those who protect us. A leading provider of secure mobile communications, AI enabled cyber defence, and electronic deception technologies, our 300-strong highly experienced experts deliver advanced solutions tailored to the evolving demands of modern defence and security across the UK, Australia, and our allies.
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Early Careers & Apprenticesips
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PentenAmio is proud to protect those who protect us. A leading provider of secure mobile communications, AI enabled cyber defence, and electronic deception technologies, our 300-strong highly experienced experts deliver advanced solutions tailored to the evolving demands of modern defence and security across the UK, Australia, and our allies.
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Family Business of the Year Award
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Markey Group, founded in 1963 in Gloucestershire by Brendan Markey, has grown from a local building firm into a multifaceted enterprise. Led by Brendan’s sons Tony and Paul, with third-generation family members Lauren, James, and Richard actively involved, the business employs over 300 people across manufacturing, construction, property development, and accommodation.
Its diverse portfolio includes Premiere Kitchens, Markey Construction, Honeybourne Gate, Student Digs, StayLets, Markey Developments, and Markey Building Services.
Markey Group is committed to corporate responsibility, fair wages, employee wellbeing, and environmental initiatives, reflecting its dedication to sustainable growth and community impact.
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Growth Award
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Celebrating over 30 years in timber, Premier Forest Products is a leading, independent timber specialist operating from multiple sites across the UK. Premier Forest built its foundation on the distribution of panel products and timber supplies. Over the decades, they have evolved and developed their skills, expertise and knowledge to provide panel processing, timber engineering, bespoke machining and specialist joinery solutions to wide and varied sectors across the UK.
Premier Forest’s activities include timber importation, processing, engineering, joinery, merchanting and wholesale distribution. With in-house machining and fabrication facilities, Premier Forest provides comprehensive timber solutions to wide and varied sectors across the UK.
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Leadership Award
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Cheryl Luzet Founder and CEO
Cheryl is the CEO of the multi-award-winning marketing agency Wagada Digital. She founded Wagada Digital in 2011 with a desire to create the kind of agency she would have wanted to work with as an inhouse marketer.
For Cheryl, being a strong leader is about encouraging her team to bring their whole selves to work and she firmly believes that a happy team leads to happy clients.
Training and development forms a key part of life at Wagada, so the team always stays at the forefront of digital trends, and it able to share that expertise with clients to deliver the best results.
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Manufacturing Business of the Year Award
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Permali is a long-established materials science company with deep roots in Gloucester, operating continuously since 1937. We have built our reputation on engineering high-performance composite and polymer materials for safety-critical applications across defence, aerospace, rail, and industry.
From our historic role producing Spitfire propeller blades to today’s advanced laminated materials, we combine heritage with innovation. We design, machine, and test in-house to deliver precision components that perform in extreme environments. With a focus on quality, reliability, and UK manufacturing excellence, we continue to support demanding global applications where performance, reliability, and trust are essential.
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Property & Construction Business of the Year Award
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Robert Hitchins Limited is a family-owned land promoter and commercial property developer and landlord based in Cheltenham and operating in Gloucestershire and the surrounding counties. Operating for over 60 years, we take pride in our community and wherever possible use local professionals and contractors for our projects to create sustainable environments for our occupiers.
In 2025 we delivered the Cotswold Designer Outlet near Tewkesbury, our biggest project to date with 55 retailers on site and associated parking and road improvements – it welcomed its millionth visitor after only 6 months.
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Sustainability Award
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National Star is a charity that takes sustainability seriously in terms of limiting its own carbon emissions and educating students and colleagues about the steps they can take to reduce their carbon footprint. Sustainability is one of the organisation’s core values which is reinforced throughout the charity from staff induction training through to regular internal communication, and staff and student briefings.
People with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change and we intend to do everything in our power as an organisation to limit the effects of global warming.
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Talent, Training and Development Award
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Being shortlisted in the Talent, Training & Development category is a proud recognition of the investment CCP continues to make in its people. At a time when the social care and homelessness sectors face significant workforce pressures, we have focused on creating clear pathways for progression, leadership development and continuous learning.
From trauma-informed practice and wellbeing support, to mentoring, apprenticeships and leadership programmes, we are committed to helping people build meaningful careers with purpose. This recognition is especially important because it reflects our belief that compassionate, skilled and supported teams create better outcomes for the people and communities we exist to support.
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Team of the Year
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The Everyman Theatre Box Office is a small team of 10 full-time and part-time staff. As the first point of contact for over 220,000 visitors each year, they are the public face of the Everyman, representing the heart and voice of the theatre, exemplifying dedication, adaptability and exceptional service, responding to needs with professionalism and care.
Over the past year, they have navigated significant organisational change, embraced additional responsibilities and supported key developments, including the new Everyman Education Centre. Their work embodies the theatre’s mission: welcoming, inclusive, ambitious and committed to enriching people’s lives through the arts. They may be a small team but they play a big role in the theatre’s success.
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