Applications Now Closed!
We’re here to celebrate the UK’s small business sector and to give recognition to the nation’s best small companies, sole traders, entrepreneurs, creatives and makers.
Take a look below to see how winning a BizBubble or Modern Makers Award could help boost your business.
Enter up to 21 categories, 1st Category FREE *for a limited time only
Which awards should I enter?
We have split the awards into 2 main categories, the BizBubble Awards and the Modern Maker Awards.
If your business is relevant to both then you can enter both of course!
For service or product based businesses, B2B’s, bloggers, charities, community based, online or high street shops.
Our Judge
Natasha Francis
BBC’s The Bidding Room
& The Urban Vintage Affair
For the 2nd year running we proudly welcome back the wonderful Natasha Francis to the BizBubble panel who will be selecting all the winners for this years awards.
With over 20 years experience in sourcing, development and production, including brand set up and department set ups, Natasha now shares her knowledge and valuable contacts with like minded entrepreneurs. She has worked with many premium, casual and international designer brands, managing the whole product cycles from initial concept through to retail.
Additionally Natasha also runs her own award winning online lifestyle brand ‘The Urban Vintage Affair’, where she sources products, manages a creative blog and implements collaborations and media publications.
“Forever learning and forever experiencing, my mindset shifted several years back to take opportunities and ‘Do Things Differently’ and today, am one of the main Dealers on BBC1 Programme ‘The Bidding Room.’ Now my story begins and I am super excited to learn about your brand and be the special guest judge for The Biz Bubble Awards for the 2nd time running.”
the star prizes
The ‘Small Biz of the Year’ and ‘Modern Maker of the year’ will receive:
£500 to spend on BizBubble advertising packages
One 2 One consultancy session with Brandstorm Consultancy
Lifetime Business Pro Membership on the Bubble Network
the category winners prizes
The ‘Small Biz of the Year’, ‘Modern Maker of the year’ and all category winners will receive:
- Complimentary winner logo and badge for use across all marketing
- Business website analysis report and guide
- Winners Media outreach - Press release, blog post & newsletter
- Featured business advert on BizBubble homepage for 3 months
- Listed in the BizBubble Top100 Small Businesses
- 1 year Free Business Pro Membership on the Bubble Network Directory
- Exclusive website placement in the 'Winners Hall of Fame'
- Blog post interview posted on our website and social media platforms (with a collective following of 18k+)
- Advert on sidebar in the blog for 3 months
the categories
Applications NOW CLOSED!
Choose below which award you think your business has what it takes to WIN!
This award is for exciting new start up businesses, less than 18 months old
This award recognises the small businesses where community is at the heart of what they do
This award recognises small businesses that operate only online through digital channels
This award recognises small businesses that are committed to operating in an economically, socially and environmentally responsible manner
An award to recognise the small business or sole trader that has a positive impact on the planet and the people around them
This award will celebrate businesses with a physical premises on the high street, businesses that contribute something extraordinary to their local area
This award will go to the overall best most inspirational and innovative sole trader
This award will celebrate businesses that are working within the business supply chain in the UK
This award will recognise the best service businesses in the UK. Such as restaurants, bars, media companies, gardening, accountancy and hairdressers
This award recognises the wonderful work of Britain’s bloggers in all industries whether that be lifestyle, retail, travel, creative or personal
This award will celebrate businesses that are working within the business supply chain in the UK
This award will celebrate businesses with a physical premises on the high street, businesses that contribute something extraordinary to their local area
This award recognises the wonderful work of Britain’s bloggers in all industries whether that be lifestyle, retail, travel, creative or personal
This award will go to the overall best most inspirational and innovative sole trader
This award will recognise the best service businesses in the UK. Such as restaurants, bars, media companies, gardening, consultants, accountancy and hairdressers
The
People’s Choice
Award
One of the categories we have at this year’s awards is The People’s Choice Award where we put all successful nominated small businesses to the public vote!
VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!
the categories
Applications now closed
Enter the categories that best represents your creative business.
dates for the
diary 2023
The awards process begins in April 29th 2022 when small businesses, sole traders, makers & creators all across the UK will be welcome to apply via the BizBubble website.
This award recognises the wonderful work of secondhand, vintage and antique businesses who are keen to make a positive impact in their field.
FAQS
Please do familiarise yourself with our updated FAQs.
The awards are open for any small business, micro company or if you’re a sole trader based in the UK with no more than 20 employees. For example you can apply if you are an independent business, freelancer, service based business, community based, online or high street shop, artist, crafter or maker!
There are many great reasons to enter the BizBubble or Modern Makers Awards.
GREAT EXPOSURE
Business awards are a great marketing tool. Just being shortlisted can improve brand awareness and promote your business to new customers. Short listers and Winners will maximise PR exposure by placing the award logo on all marketing materials including business cards, literature, email, website and social media.
NEW BUSINESS
Awards celebrate hard work and success and are great PR opportunities. It’s a chance to be recognised for all your hard work, winning a business or maker award can open doors to getting contracts or customers as well as finding new supply channels and breaking into new markets.
MORALE
Awards recognise the hard work and achievements of your business (and it’s employees) so winning one can help boost morale and improve motivation. Everyone gets focused on what’s great about the company they work for and can feel proud to be a part of it.
BENCHMARKING
Entering your business for an award can often make you look at your business from a different perspective, comparing yourself to competitors helps to evaluate your business to see how you could improve whether that be your branding, position, growth, customer service or strategy. Ultimately will help you think about ways you could be doing things better and identify areas for improvement which in turn could be more valuable than the award prize itself!
INCREASED CREDIBILITY
Being shortlisted or winning a BizBubble or Modern Maker award can act as a 3rd party endorsement for your business. They give a seal of approval to your business quality for potential customers, so can form part of your sales pitch as well boost relationships with suppliers. It’s a great way of differentiating your company from competitors and will send out positive signals to potential customers.
It’s FREE to enter your first category with code FREEENTRY
(this is an early bird offer and for a limited time only)
Additional categories are £10 each
Enter in to more than 2 categories and get a FREE 1 years membership on the Bubble Network
More info about joining our network and all membership benefits HERE
Yes, you can enter into more than one category but a maximum of one entry per category will only be considered
28th February 2023 via our website and online media channels, more details to follow soon.
Head over to the application page HERE where you will tell us all about your business and choose which categories that suits your business the best
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