Deadline Date: September 08, 2026
The King’s Awards for Enterprise recognise outstanding achievement by UK organisations across key areas of business performance, innovation, sustainability, and social impact
The focus areas of these awards include young founder entrepreneurship, innovation, international trade, sustainability, and promoting opportunity through social mobility.
The King’s Awards for Enterprise honour UK businesses, non-profits, and public sector organisations that demonstrate excellence and measurable impact across different areas of performance and contribution.
The Young Founder category recognises young entrepreneurs leading organisations with evidence of commercial success or growth potential, based on age requirements and financial thresholds such as turnover or external funding.
The Innovation category recognises organisations with market-ready innovations that demonstrate sustained commercial success, recovery of investment, and strong performance across products, services, marketing, or related business functions.
The International Trade category highlights organisations with strong and consistent growth in overseas sales, including significant year-on-year export performance over multiple years.
The Sustainability category rewards organisations that go beyond compliance requirements, integrate sustainability into their strategy, and demonstrate measurable environmental or social impact.
The Social Mobility category recognises organisations that support disadvantaged individuals through skills development, mentoring, training, and inclusive employment practices over a sustained period, benefiting individuals and wider communities.
Eligibility requires organisations to be UK-based, maintain compliance with tax and regulatory obligations, operate as self-contained entities, employ at least two UK-based staff, and demonstrate strong environmental, social, and governance practices.
For more information, visit GOV.UK.
