Why enter the awards?

Entering an award can bring enormous benefits to your business. Even if you don't walk away with the top prize, you'll gain insights, information and ideas that you can build into your own business.

It's free!

Our small business awards are free to enter and open to all.

Exposure

Get your business in the spotlight with local and national media attention, as well as on social media.

Networking

Connect with small business owners in a wide range of sectors both locally and across the UK.

Recognition

Whether you're shortlisted for an area award or make it all the way to the UK final, celebrate your achievements at our awards.

Benchmarking

Reflect on your success, see how far you've come and position yourselft against your peers.

Put your business in the spotlight

We’ve gained national and international recognition from winning the award, including an article in the Flybe in-flight magazine and lots of other media coverage. I would definitely recommend other businesses enter as it gives your business so much credibility ... even if you don’t win it’s such a great networking opportunity.

Julianne Ponan, Creative Nature.

The press coverage from FSB’s promotion of the awards was incredible exposure for the business at such an early stage. I was even interviewed by Money Week.

Matt Dyson, Rocket

Realise your dreams

“It goes to show that if you’re someone who has ever had the dream of running your own business - take the leap! There were so many amazing and inspirational people in that room today, all of them started somewhere."

James Calderbank, The Transform Hub

Building our business is such an exciting and rewarding journey, and we’re thrilled to win the UK final. We’ve taken risks, and had to deal with a lot of market uncertainty over the last 12 months. But those risks have paid off, and I hope other would-be young entrepreneurs are encouraged to make their dreams a reality.

Declan Christie, UK Trade Furnishings Ltd

Build your reputation

Winning the West Midlands FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards in 2018 in the Environmental Category gave us the impetus to put up for further awards. We went on to enter and win the FSB’s West Midlands Environmental Award in 2019 and 2020 and have also picked up their national Environmental Award for 2020. We have also won awards with the Chamber and Keele University and been awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise 2021: Sustainable Development. All of this has stemmed from entering that first FSB award!”

Graham Oakley, Laundry Efficiency

Share your expertise

“It is a real honour to receive this high-profile national award from FSB, and I am very proud of the business I have built and the many people across the world who have been helped and supported. I am focussed on making hypnotherapy mainstream by equipping other practitioners globally with the skills to build their own practices, and look forward to developing my business further over the coming years.

Sheila Granger, Shelia Granger Ltd

Find out more about FSB

At FSB, we’ve been helping small businesses and the self-employed achieve their ambitions for over 45 years.

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