If you’re part of a family business and want to benefit from the profile and experience of entering a prestigious 
Midlands awards scheme you don’t have long to get your entry in for the Family Business Awards. As sponsor of the ‘Best Small Family Business’ category we are keen to encourage businesses to enter not just ‘our’ category but others too!
The deadline for the awards is midnight on 18 July with all entries having to be submitted through the www.familybusinessawards.co.uk website. Entries are free and the website also gives further information about all the categories, and tips on what the judges are looking for.
There are ten categories to choose from including the all-new ‘Best use of Digital’ and ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ awards, and the popular, established ‘Manufacturing Excellence’ and ‘Director of the Year’ awards.
The Awards are organised by third generation family business The Wilson Organisation, and supporters this year include longstanding sponsors PwC, Barclays, Bedrock Tax, RSA and Royal London, alongside new face Bonnington Plastics, a family business and previous Award winner, which is this year’s Awards’ headline sponsor.
The full line-up of categories for 2016 is:
- Family Business of the Year – sponsored by Bonnington Plastics
- Best Small Family Business – sponsored by Bedrock Tax
- Director of the Year – sponsored by RSA
- Employer of the Year – sponsored by Royal London
- Fastest Growing Family Business – sponsored by PwC
- Manufacturing Excellence
- Service Excellence
Three all-new categories have been added for 2016:
- Entrepreneur of the Year – sponsored by Barclays
- Best Use of Digital
- Corporate Social Responsibility.
“The Midlands Family Business Awards are a truly unique, independent, not-for-profit initiative in the region that recognise and celebrate the work and achievements of family owned businesses and their leaders,” says Charlotte Perkins, MD of The Wilson Organisation and part of the Awards’ team.
Year-on-year, the Awards have grown in strength, popularity and awareness, as Charlotte explains: “They bring together a network of 1,000 family businesses that is also an incredible community of individuals and businesses all with one common goal – to raise awareness of the contribution the family business sector makes both in the Midlands and nationally, and to reward and acknowledge their work, successes and sustainability.
Bedrock MD Phill Dann said “The Midlands Family Business Awards are a unique, independent, not-for-profit initiative in the region which we’re delighted to support.” he adds, “they recognise the work and achievements of family owned businesses and their leaders. As a category sponsor we have the opportunity to lend our support, connect with new and established business contacts, and join Wilsons in celebrating the region’s family firms.”
Also new for 2106 is the People’s Choice Award, sponsored by Streets Accountants, which will involve all shortlisted finalists in the Awards’ ten judged categories automatically entering into the People’s Choice Award and facing the public vote to find the overall Winner and Highly Commended businesses.
