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The King's Awards for Enterprise

The King’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious business awards in the UK. The awards were first established in 1965 and since then over 7000 companies have achieved a King’s Award. 2024 marks the second year of The King’s Awards for Enterprise, reflecting His Majesty The King’s desire to continue the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s by recognising outstanding UK businesses.

The awards celebrate the success of exciting and innovative businesses which are leading the way with pioneering products or services, delivering impressive social mobility programmes, or showing their commitment to excellent sustainable development practices.

The King’s Awards for Enterprise 2025 opened for applications on The King’s Coronation Day, 6th May and closes early-September 2024.

Almost all UK businesses (including non-profit) can apply, and the application process is free. All applications must be made online, and organisations may apply for more than one of the following categories:

International Trade

To apply for the International Trade award, you must also:

Innovation

To apply for the Innovation award, you must also:

Your innovation should be in one of the following categories:

Sustainable Development

To apply for the Sustainable Development award, you must also:

You can include examples, such as showing how you’ve:

Read the United Nations sustainable development goals to identify which goals are relevant to your work.

Promoting Opportunity through social mobility

To apply for this award, your organisation must have a programme that supports people from disadvantaged backgrounds in improving their job skills and their chances of finding work.

This includes doing one or more of the following, for at least 2 years:

You’ll need to prove the benefits for:

You cannot apply if social mobility is the main focus of your organisation.

If you’re a training provider or educational organisation, you can only apply if you do one of the following:

For more information and to apply, please click on the button below.

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