The festive season is here, and we are within reaching distance of 2025.
But until then, there are still plenty of awards open! And we're shining the spotlight on a selection of awards open now and deadline in the next few weeks.
From HR, sales and customer service, to legal innovation and energy, here are just some of the awards open in December for entries.
If you're ready to get started, get in touch with us today and let us help you to win.
The British HR Awards
The British HR Awards strives to discover and celebrate the individuals, teams, and suppliers that are passionate about delivering a world-class people experience.
These awards, which are free to take part, believe strongly in the transformational role that a high performing HR function can play in building brilliant organisations.
A total of 34 categories are available and these are split into People Awards, Supplier Awards and Sector Specific Awards as well as the Overall Awards. Individual categories include ‘Consultancy of the Year', ‘L&D Initiative of the Year' and ‘Best Overall People Experience'.
Deadline: Friday 17 January 2025
The Stevie Awards for Sales and Customer Service
These international awards recognise the achievements of contact centres, customer service, business development and sales professionals worldwide.
You can choose from 14 categories that celebrate all aspects of sales and customer service excellence. Sales-specific categories include ‘Sales Achievement’ and ‘Sales Partnerships Ethics in Sales Award’, while Customer Service and Contact Centre categories have categories such as ‘Customer Service Success’ and Customer Service & Contact Centre Team’.
Deadline: Wednesday 22 January 2025
The National Technology Awards
These awards celebrate the pioneers of technology and encourage excellence in this sector.
Any relevant organisation or individual based in the UK can enter the National Technology Awards.
A total of 38 categories are available, including ‘Smart Tech Project of the Year, ‘Digital Transformation of the Year' and ‘Tech Team of the Year' as well as three new ones for 2025 including Payments Innovation Award, Best Technology Recruiter and Operational Resilience Award.
Deadline: Thursday 30 January 2025
The Change Awards
The Change Awards is an annual, global awards programme that honours the best examples of change leadership and innovation across different sectors. The Change Awards recognises people, teams, and organisations that have made a significant difference in driving and facilitating change in their contexts. They are open to entries from individuals and organisations.
For the 2025 awards, there are 12 categories available, with 6 categories for Individuals including Best Independent Consultant, and Change Manager of the Year. Plus 6 categories for Companies and Teams, including Large Scale Transformation, and Change & Project Partnership.
Deadline: Friday 31 January 2025
European Legal Innovation & Technology Awards
These awards celebrate the trailblazers transforming the legal industry through technology and innovation. They recognise firms, in-house teams, suppliers and individuals who are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in legal services, driving efficiency, accessibility, and value through cutting-edge solutions.
For the 2025 awards, there are a total of 26 categories available, including 18 Private Practice categories such as ‘Client Management Innovation’ and ‘Excellence in Litigation Technology’. In addition, there are three In-House categories and five Supplier Categories, which include ‘Disruptive Technology of the Year’ and ‘Legal Tech Start-Up’.
Deadline: Friday 31 January 2025
The Energy Awards
The Energy Awards celebrate industry achievement and innovation intended to address the crucial need for cleaner and affordable power.
For the 2025 awards, there are 15 categories that aim to recognise best practice in areas such as business leadership, technology development, customer service and industry collaboration. They are open to energy suppliers, brokers, and technology providers in the UK and Ireland.
Categories include ‘Energy Champion of the Year', ‘Low Carbon Initiative Award' and ‘Energy Efficient Partnership of the Year’.
Deadline: Friday 14 February 2025
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?
Book your free awards discovery call to speak to our team about how to get started.
Or you can find out if you're ready to win by taking our short quiz here.
