Best Small Business Award

Sponsor: Richmond Council

Richmond Council is delighted to be supporting the Richmond Business Awards this year and to be sponsoring the Best Small Business Award category. With one of the country’s highest rates of self-employment, entrepreneurialism is a defining characteristic of our workforce. Celebrating the success of new and established small businesses is particularly important now in a time of increasing economic uncertainty, a challenging retail environment and ever increasing overhead costs.

This Award also compliments business support programme – Richmond Enterprise Challenge: Step Up; Start Up and Scale Up which is aimed at pre-start-ups, early stage and growing businesses to give them the focused support they need to develop and grow – building a firm foundation for our future local economy.

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Entry Form for Category: Best Small Business

    Your Name

    Your Job Title

    Your Email

    Your Phone Number (mobile and/or landline)

    Name of business or organisation

    Please indicate your business sector, type of activity, approximate turnover & no. of employees

    1. Is your business either based or does it trade significantly within The Borough of Richmond upon Thames?

    2. Can you demonstrate a good financial performance within your sector? Please provide evidence in confidence. 500 words

    3. Describe your business strategy and your plan for now/the future and how it delivers for your business. 500 words

    4. Do you communicate a clear vision, mission and strategy and how? 200 words

    5. Have you developed a brand and how? 500 words

    6. Show how you innovate either technically or in other aspects of your business such as people management or marketing. 100 words

    7. Via examples show how your business is flexible and adapts successfully to challenges such as difficult market conditions, raising capital, fast changing technology and rapid technological and management related innovation. 200 words

    8. Do you have good stakeholder relationships so for example with: customers, investors, employees, environment and so on - please evidence this. 100 words

    9. If your business meets these criteria - are you prepared if short-listed to CONFIDENTIALLY share your business' key data with our independent judges? Yes/No - any questions email: ceo@richmondchamberofcommerce.co.uk

    10. Who will collect the Award at the awards ceremony should you win?

    Please upload your company logo (high res and low res versions please) and any other documents relevant to your entry here (max. 5Mb)

    Entry Guidelines:

    Businesses with a turnover under £5m are invited to enter this category. To enter you need to be a business or organisation in Richmond upon Thames or do significant work in the borough. When completing the entry forms please use metrics for example proportion of turnover, %, numbers in your evidence – this will assist in the judging. All sizes of businesses and organisations are invited to enter and all will be judged according to their size. If you do not have all the answers you could still win – our independent judges will judge you fairly. The number of characters allowed per question indicates the maximum – by no means do you have to use all of these to answer the questions fully. Please attach any additional evidence such as press releases or testimonials or confidential business balance sheets to support your entry.

    Prior to entering the Awards this year, please pay the entry fee using the PAY ENTRY FEE button below. This entitles your business to: enter multiple Richmond Business Awards; 2 tickets to attend The Awards Ball, so you and your colleagues can enjoy the fun event including a drinks reception, fine dining and dancing at the iconic Twickenham Stadium; and last but not least so you can pick up your Award should you win. Before paying the fee, join the Richmond Chamber of Commerce to access the subsidised Awards Entry Fee, the extensive business network, compelling advertising and PR packages, free mentoring services, varied weekly events, facilitation services and more. These Entry Fee seats can be added to a table for 10 should you wish to purchase a table so that we can accommodate tables of 12. Please note that the entry fee is paid only once and entitles your business or organisation to enter multiple Awards.

    If you have any questions about entering any of the categories, the process or anything else please contact us at email@richmondchamberofcommerce.co.uk and the team will be delighted to assist you.