celebrating you & your small business
Because you are the life blood of the UK economy.
Because you run your business with passion, energy and enthusiasm as a small business, and you should be rewarded for your contribution and committment.
Entry is free for all categories and regions, and you can enter as many categories as you wish.
If you are a winner in multiple categories, you'll simply pay the fee for each category.
There's nothing to pay to enter, and you will only be invoiced the Award Acceptance Fee if you are a winner.
There's no charge to be a finalist.
We want to showcase as many small businesses as we can, and so all winners will receive social media and email exposure, PR opportunities, business directory inclusion and SEO benefits.
At SAMs, we want to shout about small businesses, and provide regular posts across our social media platforms to raise awareness of you and your business.
We will send you details of PR opportunities or ideas, press releases and ways to make the most of your win. If we all share together we have a louder voice and all grow.
Launching in the summer of 2024, our Business Directory is free for 12 months for all winners, providing additional exposure, and SEO benefits to help you grow.
Award Acceptance Fee
Always free
Per extra trophy
We have a number of business experts from across a variety of industries evaluating all applications independently from each other.
Our team have over 25 years experience of being in business themselves, and have seen everything that running a small business can experience.
We'll be judging applications from all areas of business - your application, client feedback, online sources as well as our experience and observations.
FREE opportunity to increase awareness of your business, SEO benefits, grow your audience and gain new customers.
Join our Waitlist to find out more first!
Yes, if relevant, you can enter in as many categories as you wish. Please be aware that all categories are reviewed and judged separately, so if you win in more than one you will have to pay the Award Acceptance Fee again.
Yes, if relevant, you can enter in as many counties/ location as you wish. You just need to have an office or registered address in each location. Please be aware that all locations are reviewed and judged separately, so if you win in more than one you will have to pay the Award Acceptance Fee again.
Entry is completely free, you only have to pay the Award Acceptance Fee if you are the category winner.
Yes, you need to have a registered address within the region you've entered in.
We will send you an email to congratulate and advise you of the win.
We will ask you to confirm that you accept the Award Acceptance Fee, and to let us know if you'd like any further trophy's.
Once confirmed, we will then invoice you and announce you as the winner.
We look at a variety of details during the judging process. This includes whether there are testimonials and client feedback included, your energy and passion for your business, how well you stand out from others within your category and the quality of your application.
The simple answer is yes, as we have a team of judges from a variety of business backgrounds and industries.
We won't judge applications from within our industry to ensure there is no conflict.
We also use a scoring matrix, and do so independently from each other before collating all final scores together.
We will send you an invoice for payment, along with our bank details for processing. All payments are to be made within 14 days.
Once payment has been made, the customised trophy and certificates are then ordered. We aim to get everything sent to you within 2-4 weeks, quicker if we receive the trophy and certificate faster than this.
Once payment has been made, we will email you details of how you can take advantage of the promo package and PR opportunities.
The directory will be live in the summer.
Register your interest here and we will email you details of how you can create your profile to be included.
You can follow us on Instagram @small.and.mighty.awards
You can email us on hello@smallandmightyawards.co.uk