The 2025 Hyndburn Business Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 12 June at The Dunkenhalgh Hotel.

All sponsorship opportunities can be viewed at this link. They include Award Category sponsorship, Ceremony and Entertainment sponsorships and more and start at just £350.

When nomination opens you can nominate a business by clicking on the Nominate tab on the navigation bar and filling in the form. Before nominations open, and after they close, the form will not be available.

The awards are open to all Hyndburn based businesses and not for profit organisations. One of the three criteria below must apply to a business for it to be eligible for nomination / entry to the awards

1. They have business premises for which they pay business rates to Hyndburn Council

2. They do not have business premises, their business address is their home address and they pay council tax to Hyndburn Council

3. They do not pay business rates or council tax to Ribble Valley Council, they own / operate a purchased business franchise for the Hyndburn area and deliver services in physical locations in the Ribble Valley

NB! We use a Local Authority checker on the .gov.uk website to ascertain which council the business is under, this can be accessed here to check a given business’s location

Hyndburn Business Awards celebrates businesses and organisations within Hyndburn. Only businesses located within Hyndburn can enter. If nominated businesses fall outside of this remit, they won’t be shouted-out or invited to enter the awards.

Please nominate as many businesses as you like, the more the merrier! To nominate again, just refresh / reload the Nomination page after nominating.

There is no voting aspect to the awards. A nomination entitles the nominated business to enter the awards. See below for how the awards are judged.

Yes, of course. Nominations can be made by anyone.

Nominations can be made by anyone outside of your business, why not ask a supplier or customer to nominate you. They don’t nominate you for a given award, a nomination entitles you to enter all categories you’re eligible for. See below for more information.

Our core panel of judges from across Hyndburn will read through all entry forms and decide, collectively, on who should be shortlisted. For each award, the judging panel will also include the sponsor.

The shortlisted businesses / finalists for each category will be announced via social media on Thursday 16 May 2024.

A designated Judgement Day will see the judges meet with each sponsor throughout the day to discuss and debate the winner of each category. This information will remain Top Secret until winners are revealed at the awards ceremony.

Ticket booking will open once the finalists are announced. Businesses shortlisted for an award are entitled to one subsidisded ticket to the ceremony and will be given the option to purchase additional guest tickets.

Ticket priority is given to finalists and sponsors. Tickets can be purchased online, via a unique link, which will be sent to finalists once announced. General admission tickets may be available, please contact us here if you are interested in attending.

For our live ceremony, the doors and bar will normally open at 5.45pm. The meal will be served from 6.45pm and the awards will be presented between 8.45pm and 10.30pm. The final award to be presented will be the Beacon Award.

Please note that the deadline for entering HBA25 is now 1pm on Thursday  24 April. Please note that entries will not be accepted after this time. Judging will commence on Friday 25 April.

Please be aware that it may take anything from one to three hours to fill in the entry forms, depending on the amount you wish to share, so please leave a decent amount of time. As above, late entries will not be accepted as entries will be collated and sent out to our judges that afternoon.

Nominated businesses can register at this link. We are trialling new software AwardX which will handle entries. When you’ve registered on AwardX it will send you an email to verify your email address. When you click the link to verify you can then access the AwardX dashboard

If you have been nominated you can enter immediately and register via this link, you do not need to wait for an email. We are trialling new software AwardX which the applications will be done via. When you’ve registered you will need to verify your email address.

The AwardX dashboard has a short video to watch to tell you how to apply. Just click the ‘View Categories’ box and you can enter up to 4 categories, plus the Apprentice of the Year category. 

Please note that some categories have eligibility criteria, please do check that your business meets these before applying. 

The new process is different to if you’ve applied before, you now submit a different form per Category. The Generic Answers at the top of each form will auto-populate across all your entries, should you wish to enter more than one Category. If you update them on any entry it will also update them across all entries.

There is a Save/Submit button. Please do save your Form(s) regularly in case of any connectivity issues, and do save them if there may be a period of inactivity on the form

You can then see the forms on your dashboard. They can be edited right up to the deadline date. At that point the will be submitted to judging.

NB! If you started to enter a given Category then decide against it, you can delete the form from your dashboard. Any incomplete forms will be checked and not sent through for judging.

If you’ve lost your password please locate the original sign-up email from AwardX and click the button to reset it

Please contact us via the Contact Form, it would be extremely helpful if you can provide as much detail as possible so we can help you as best we can.