This award is for the employees or trainees making an exceptional contribution to their workplace and can demonstrate commitment to personal development, dedication to career progression, and outstanding levels of success. The judges will be looking for an outstanding contribution to the organisation and its success. 

Individuals should be nominated by their employers or line managers.

Has your business been a roaring success in its infancy? Has it exceeded all your expectations, or is it exactly on the right track, looking strong and with excellent prospects for the future?

You may be a one-man band looking to expand, or you may have started on a larger scale and already proved your ideas work. This award is open to companies in business for up to three years from the date of the launch (i.e., in business post-June 20, 2022).

This award is open to charities and social enterprises in and around Grantham that can demonstrate the significant commercial and social impact of their activities. Judges will want to see clear evidence of commercial awareness and innovative strategies that complement the altruistic aims of the organisation.

This award celebrates new ideas, processes, products, services, technologies and applications that have had an impact on an organisation’s success. This award will go to the organisation that can best demonstrate an ability to create, grow and develop innovations or processes that substantially improve the commercial performance or prospects of the company.

This award is open to a business trading for more than three years with a minimum of five employees that can show evidence of business growth, a commitment to the local community, a business strategy and vision for the next three to five years, proven success and achievement during the past two years, management with the ability to drive the business forward and a genuine commitment to staff.

The winner of this award will be an individual who stands out from the crowd, has an entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrates outstanding achievement, and inspires others around them.

They will have been instrumental to the success of their business, growing the reputation of both their business and the area in which it operates.

This award will recognise the company, irrespective of size or sector, that can prove it really does put the customer first. Has your business excelled to help one customer in particular or perhaps you have introduced new ways of working to help every customer? 

The organisation must have objectives for high-quality customer service and clear methods of monitoring and evaluating standards.

Individuals may nominate themselves or be nominated by their employers or colleagues. The judges will be looking for an outstanding contribution not only to the organisation and its success, but also to colleagues’ welfare and enhancing the working environment and customer experience.

Presented to the business that can demonstrate a commitment to reduce its carbon footprint with projects such as cutting its use of fossil fuels, caring for the natural environment, improving the use of resources by cutting waste, reducing pollution, and increasing its environmental understanding.

This award is in memory of John Cussell,  a true craftsman and much-respected Grantham businessman who sadly passed away in the summer of 2021.

The category is open to all independent retail businesses and will be awarded to the business that can best display ‘first-class’ customer service, market and customer engagement excellence, product and services innovation and differentiation, and the ability to adapt to consumer/trading trends.