Time to Nominate yourself for an Award!
It’s that exciting time of year when numerous awards are up for grabs!
Don’t shy away from nominating yourself for an award—it’s a fantastic way to gain well-deserved recognition and attract more customers to your business.
Submitting an award nomination is the perfect opportunity to feel proud and confident about all that you’ve achieved. Let your business shine as you craft your submission!
Here are a few upcoming awards that have caught our attention, along with their deadlines:
Black Entrepreneur’s Award
BEA is a programme which celebrates Black Heritage entrepreneurs in the UK and provides a platform to market their businesses to a wider audience. Each year there are four winners who receive a cash prize of £25,000 each, and all of the finalists are enrolled onto a bespoke 12-month business acceleration programme, designed to support Black Heritage entrepreneurs and accelerate the growth of their start-ups.
All applications must be received by midnight (GMT) on 25 July 2025.
Apply here.
Santander X Awards
Are you a startup or SME with ambitions to grow?
Enter your business into the Santander X UK Awards 2025 for the chance to win a share of £135K in equity-free funding and the opportunity to compete against the best early-stage businesses from across Europe and Latin America in the Santander X Global Award!
All applications must be received by 16 Jul 25 - 11:59 PM (GMT+01:00).
Apply here.
Advantages of Age Awards
Here’s an award much closer to home! The Advantages of Age Awards celebrates the people and organisations championing pro-ageing. Our last award ceremony was a fabulous and very moving ceremony held at Hoxton Hall in 2023 and, after a year’s break, we’re back on 20th November 2025.
There’s a category for Startup School for Seniors Entrepreneur, so please do consider nominating yourself or anyone else you may have met on the programme. There’s other categories related to Style, Sport and Substack Pro-Ageing Writer and you can nominate yourself or anyone else in any category.
All applications must be received by 1st November.
Apply here.
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