THIS month will see the official launch of the 2018 SME Northamptonshire Business Awards – the third year it has been held in the county – with an additional opportunity to get involved in the nomination process.
Past winners, sponsors and guests will attend the official launch at Northampton College on Tuesday, 24 April between 11am and midday, when details of this year’s competition will be announced.
Two new headline sponsors – last year’s Business of the Year, Technocopy Solutions of Wellingborough, and Northamptonshire County Cricket Club – have been announced. Stanair Industrial Doors, which has been headline sponsor in each of the past two years continues its support, while the awards are presented in association with Business Times.
The 2018 SME Northamptonshire Business Awards are open to any business with fewer than 250 employees. Categories include, among others, Best New Business, Business Person of the Year, Training and Development and Employee of the Year, and each business is eligible to enter up to two categories.
One notable change is that this year the Apprentice of the Year category is welcoming nominations from anyone who would like to put an apprentice forward for the award.
Organiser Damian Cummins said: “It could be that someone has a family member, a friend or a work colleague that they think deserves to be nominated. If they take a few minutes to fill in the details on our website, we will contact the apprentice’s employer on their behalf and, if all parties are happy, put them forward for judging.
“Full details of this years awards will be made clear over the next few weeks, and if anyone would like to join us at the launch, they should contact us via the website and we’ll add them to the guest list.”
Further details about the SME Northamptonshire Business Awards 2018 are available at www.northamptonshireawards.co.uk
