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The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the UK

Deadline: 6-Sep-22

Entries are now open for The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for outstanding achievement by the UK.

Categories
  • Innovation: which recognizes businesses that demonstrate strong commercially successful innovative products or services.
  • Sustainable Development:   whose winners demonstrate sustainable products, services or interventions for more than two years and can provide evidence of the benefits or positive outcomes of their actions and practices.
  • International Trade:  which recognizes businesses that have demonstrated substantial growth in overseas earnings and commercial success within their sector;
  • Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility) – which recognizes and rewards employers for their work in providing high quality social mobility initiatives and programs that specifically reach out to and support people from disadvantaged backgrounds, in order to inspire and guide the best talent into their organization and beyond.
What happens if your company wins?

If you win you’ll be:

  • invited to a Royal reception
  • presented with the award at your company by one of The Queen’s representatives, a Lord-Lieutenant
  • able to fly The Queen’s Awards flag at your main office, and use the emblem on your marketing materials (for example, on your packaging, advertisements, stationery and website)
  • given a Grant of Appointment (an official certificate) and a commemorative crystal trophy
  • The awards are valid for 5 years.

Winners have reported benefiting from worldwide recognition, increased commercial value, greater press coverage and a boost to staff morale.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise your organization must:

  • be based in the UK (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man)
  • have a good compliance record with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) – for example, showing you pay the right amount of tax on time
  • be a self-contained enterprise that markets its own products or services and is under its own management
  • have at least 2 full-time UK employees or part-time equivalents
  • demonstrate strong corporate social responsibility
  • Your organization can be a business or non-profit.
  • Each of the award categories has additional entry criteria.
  • International Trade
    • To apply for the International Trade award, you must also:
      • have made a minimum of £100,000 in overseas sales in the first year of your entry and show year-on-year growth
      • prove that your organization has achieved outstanding growth in overseas earnings relative to your business size and sector
      • prove steep year-on-year growth (without dips) in overseas sales over 3 years – or subs tantial ye ar-on-year growth (without dips) over 6 years.
  • Innovation
    • To apply for the Innovation award, you must also:
      • have an innovation that has not been sold before
      • have had your innovation available on the market for at least 2 years
      • have recovered all the investments made in your innovation or show that the innovation will recover its full costs in future
      • show outstanding commercial success as a result of innovation over 2 years – or continuous commercial success over 5 years
    • Your innovation should be in one of the following categories:
      • invention, design or production of goods
      • performance of services
      • marketing and distribution
      • afte r-sale support of goods or services
  • Sustainable Development
    • To apply for the Sustainable Development award, you must also:
    • show how you have achieved outstanding sustainable development for more than 2 years
    • provide evidence of the benefits or positive outcomes of your actions or interventions
  • Promoting Opportunity through social mobility
    • To apply for this award, your organization must also have supported people from disadvantaged backgrounds in improving their job skills and their chances of finding work.
    • This includes doing one or more of the following, for at least 2 years:
      • providing work experience or careers advice
      • mentoring
      • offering interview and job-related training
      • making sure your recruitment process is open to everyone
      • You’ll need to prove the benefits for:
        • the people you’ve supported
        • your organization
        • your employees
        • the wider community.

For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise