
It's a new year, and now is the perfect time to start planning your awards journey for 2025 if you haven't already!
Here's your selection of awards that are open for entries and deadlining soon;

UK Employee Experience Awards
Since 2014, the UK Employee Experience Awards (UKEXA™) has been honouring businesses who are going the extra mile to deliver outstanding employee experience initiatives. These efforts not only drive business growth but also make organisations more attractive to new talent, current employees, and all stakeholders.
There are 21 categories available including Best Employee Engagement Strategy, Best Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, Best Place to Work and Team of the Year.
Deadline: 14 February 2025

UK Company Culture Awards
The UK Company Culture Awards recognise the organisations that nurture their workforce, reward their staff, and create an environment that proves everyone is valued.
The awards have categories available across the following disciplines; Mental Health Wellbeing, and Health Initiatives, Development and Training, Software/Tools, Working Environment, Individuals, and Teams.
Deadline: 20 February 2025

The UK National Contact Centre Awards
The UK National Contact Centre Awards are one of the longest running and the most highly respected programmes in the UK.
These awards recognise the best industry talent, with judges looking for the individuals and teams who are inspirational role models, deserving recognition for the work they are doing in their contact centre operation.
Among the categories offered are Contact Centre Leader of the Year, Learning & Development Team of the Year and Best Contact Centre Culture. Plus, newly added categories include Specialist Team of the Year and Contact Centre Excellence.
Deadline: 21 February 2025

The British Data Awards
The British Data Awards celebrate organisations of all types that are busy developing innovative and sophisticated ways of changing the world around us with the power of data. Whether you’re a fresh-faced start-up, a global giant, or something in between, the British Data Awards aim to discover and recognise your data success stories.
Among the categories available are Innovation of the Year, CX Solution of the Year and Technology Company of the Year.
Deadline: 21 February 2025
The Marketing Society Awards
Launched in 1985, The Marketing Society Awards set the standard for marketing excellence in the UK. If you’ve got an inspirational marketing story that demonstrates outstanding creativity and effectiveness – whilst helping to drive growth and ROI – then this is the perfect place to showcase your project.
Categories include Creative Use of Media, Employee Engagement & Experience and Inspirational Marketing Leader of the Year.
Deadline: 5 March 2025

Sussex Chamber Business Awards
The Sussex Chamber Business Awards were launched to highlight and celebrate the expertise, achievements, and outstanding contributions that businesses and individuals continually make to the growth of the county. Bringing Sussex businesses together, showcasing the region's hugely diverse range of businesses and talented entrepreneurs.
Deadline: 27 March 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.