The Babergh and Mid Suffolk Innovation Awards 2024

The Babergh and Mid Suffolk Innovation Awards are set to return in 2024, celebrating the diverse, innovative, and growing businesses within these districts. Scheduled for 7th November 2024, this prestigious event aims to highlight the remarkable achievements of local enterprises and individuals, fostering a culture of innovation and growth.

Nominations Now Open

Nominations for the 2024 awards are now open, inviting businesses and individuals to put forward their candidates for recognition. The nomination process is straightforward, requiring basic information about the nominated company and the reasons for their nomination. If you know of a business that deserves to be celebrated, or if your own business stands out, now is the time to act. Simply follow this link to complete the nomination form and mark 7th November in your calendar; it could be the day you or a deserving company receive an award.

Award Categories

The 2024 Innovation Awards feature a range of categories designed to acknowledge various aspects of business excellence:

• Business Innovator of the Year: This category seeks the overall winner, recognising a business that exemplifies outstanding innovation.

• Shooting Star (Individual or Team): This award honours businesses and individuals demonstrating successful innovation, creating new opportunities and ways of adding value on a national and international scale. It also recognises contributions to sustainability and eco-friendly solutions.

• Rising Star: This category celebrates young innovators (aged 16-25) who excel within a learning or workplace environment. Whether it’s a new product, a novel way of working, or the use of cutting-edge technology, these young visionaries are paving the way for a sustainable future.

• Growth Business of the Year: Acknowledging businesses that harness emerging and enabling technologies across all sectors, this award recognises inspirational solutions that address tomorrow’s challenges.

• Customer Service Innovation: This award highlights businesses that apply new methods, practices, and technologies to enhance the customer experience or improve sustainability practices.

• High Street Innovation: This category recognises the implementation of innovative strategies, products, procedures, or technologies that promote high street trading, including energy-efficient operations and sustainable product offerings.

• Sustainability Innovation: Celebrating contributions to sustainability, this award acknowledges businesses that implement energy-saving technologies and efforts to reduce their carbon footprint.

• Construction Innovation: This category honours innovation in construction, including projects, materials, and systems that lead to sustainable homes, energy-efficient designs, and future-ready infrastructure.

• Food and Drink Innovation: Recognising creativity in food and drink, this award highlights the use of locally sourced ingredients, energy efficiency, and efforts to reduce food waste.

Get Involved

Local businesses in Babergh and Mid Suffolk are encouraged to participate in these awards. Whether you own or know of a company that stands out in any of the above categories, your nomination can help celebrate and recognise their efforts. The Babergh and Mid Suffolk Innovation Awards provide a fantastic opportunity to showcase the talents and innovations within the community.

Nominate today and join in celebrating the ingenuity and excellence that make Babergh and Mid Suffolk vibrant business hubs. Save the date for the awards ceremony on 7th November 2024, and be part of this celebration of local innovation and success.