Our Awards Journey

The awards are organised annually by Small Business Britain, which champions, inspires and accelerates the nation’s 5.5 million small firms and the winners will be announced in London on May 16.

The Supply Chain Champion category recognises small businesses that are working within the business supply chain. Businesses who work with other businesses large and small, with particular credit to those businesses that include other small businesses in their supply chain.

Judges look for a service company that achieved and succeeded measurable business goals.

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Michelle Ovens MBE is a small business enterprise expert who runs Small Business Britain, an organisation with a world class track record in the conception, management and execution of high profile, national campaigns particularly in the small business and enterprise sectors.

She set up the f:entrepreneur Campaign, which launched on International Womens Day 2017 , because of the growing sense that there should be more recognition for the power women who run so many businesses in the UK.The goal of the campaign is to celebrate the dynamic and inspirational businesses led by women in the UK.

Launching in 2019, the first #ialso 100 campaign celebrated a plethora of talented female entrepreneurs from all over the UK.

We were selected as one of the Small Business 100, part of the national Small Business Saturday 2018 campaign.

The purpose of Small Business 100 campaign is to raise awareness and the profile of smaller businesses across the UK, highlighting one business per day for the 100 days leading up to Small Business Saturday on the 1st December.

About Small Business Saturday:
Small Business Saturday, a grassroots, not-for-profit campaign, places small, independent businesses in communities across the country in the national spotlight. Its aim is to prompt people not only to spend money with small independent businesses in the run-up to Christmas but also to create a mind-set to support them all year round. The campaign highlights one business per day on the run up to Small Business Saturday, being held this year on the 1st December.

Small Business Saturday is the UK’s most successful small business campaign and is in its 6th year. Last year it saw £748m spent with small businesses across the UK on Small Business Saturday, up 4% on the previous year. The campaign trended at number one in the UK on Twitter on the day with more than 115,000 campaign-related tweets being sent, reaching over 115 million people globally.

The campaign also benefits from the backing of the Prime Minister, Mayor of London and leading business organisations including the Federation of Small Businesses, Enterprise Nation and American Express.

Applications for Small Biz 100 open in June.

Each week, Theo rewards small businesses that tweet him @TheoPaphitis and describe their businesses in one tweet including the all-important hashtag #SBS. Only tweets made in the time slot between 5.00 PM and 7.30 PM each Sunday count.

Every Monday night at 8pm, Theo reviews and chooses his favourite lucky six who are then re-tweeted. As he has over 500,000 followers, this provides a massive boost to the chosen lucky businesses.

The benefits range from increased Twitter followers, to positive media publicity and crucially for many, increased sales! Of course, none of this is guaranteed as it is largely down to perseverance and hard work. A smidgen of luck comes in handy.