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Awards open in January to enter right now
It's a new year, and the perfect time to start planning your awards journey for 2026 if you haven't already got your awards strategy in place!
Here's a small selection of awards that are open for entries right now, take a look below;
50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies
2026 marks the 19th annual listing of the 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies™. Applicants are not required to be members, or to join the Women Presidents Organization, and will be ranked according to revenue growth from the past 5 years. In addition to being on this prestigious list, the 50 Fastest Growing Companies have the chance of being published online and in print.
To be eligible, companies must be:
- Privately owned
- Women-owned/led
- The business must have generated at least $500,000 (USD) in revenue in each of the past five years (2021-2025)
- Revenues must be converted to USD
Deadline: 13 February 2026
Company Culture Awards
The Company Culture Awards recognise the organisations that nurture their workforce, reward their staff, and create an environment that proves everyone is valued.
The awards have categories available across the following disciplines; Mental Health Wellbeing, and Health Initiatives, Development and Training, Software/Tools, Working Environment, Individuals, and Teams.
Deadline: 19 February 2026
The UK National Contact Centre Awards
The UK National Contact Centre Awards are one of the longest running and the most highly respected programmes in the UK.
These awards recognise the best industry talent, with judges looking for the individuals and teams who are inspirational role models, deserving recognition for the work they are doing in their contact centre operation.
Among the categories offered are Contact Centre Leader of the Year, Change & Innovation Team of the Year and Best Contact Centre Culture. Plus, newly added categories include Best Colleague Engagement Programme and Best Talent Growth Programme.
Deadline: 27 February 2026
UK Employee Experience Awards
Since 2014, the UK Employee Experience Awards (UKEXA™) has been honouring businesses who are going the extra mile to deliver outstanding employee experience initiatives. These efforts not only drive business growth but also make organisations more attractive to new talent, current employees, and all stakeholders.
There are 21 categories organised into two groups; Leadership & Training, featuring categories designed to offer more opportunities to recognise outstanding leadership and training as a core pillar of employee experience, and Culture & Technology. With categories recognising how company culture shapes business, and how technology enables connection and innovation.
Earlybird Deadline: 20 March 2026
Deadline: 17 April 2026
The Business Book Awards
The Business Book Awards in partnership with Pathway Group celebrates the work of authors who have shared their industry or market knowledge, experience and expertise in published book form.
Past categories have included Sales & Marketing, People, Culture & Management, Work &Life, Smart Thinking, and Specialist Business.
Deadline: 1 March 2026
Are you ready to become an award-winning business?
There are over 4000 awards programmes in the world, and hundreds of thousands of categories.
In this unregulated industry, if you’re not strategic about which awards to enter, how do you know you have chosen the most credible awards, and the categories you are best placed to win?
Your awards strategy is just as important as your marketing strategy, and both should be used to drive engagement, sales, innovation, recruitment, and retention. However, independent research by Sapio Research found that just 12% of businesses rate awards as a ʻtop priority’.
That means 9 out of 10 businesses are overlooking a hugely valuable asset that is proven to support business growth, with 63% of award winners reporting a rise in turnover following an award win.
Are you ready to be part of the 1 in 10 and prioritise awards to achieve your business goals?
Join our next masterclass to find out how awards can help you to grow, find out more information here.
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