The King’s Awards for Enterprise are recognised as the most prestigious business awards in the UK, with King Charles III continuing Queen Elizabeth’s legacy by giving His Majesty’s name to this award.

Buckinghamshire is full of exciting and innovative businesses, so it's no surprise to see that there have been many winners of the predecessor Queen’s Awards in the past, including Global Infusion Group, JUNE Medical, and Mediplus.

King's Award categories

The King’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of:

• innovation
• international trade
• sustainable development
• promoting opportunity through social mobility

You can apply for more than one award, and they are completely free to enter.

The application deadline is midday on 12th September 2023.

Almost all businesses of all sizes and in every sector can apply. Confirm your eligibility here.

Benefits of winning

Past winners have cited increased growth, sales, exports and staff morale as a result of winning. So, if you want all of that, plus success on the world stage, global recognition of your achievements and a shiny trophy to show off, you need to enter The King’s Awards for Enterprise!

Learn more and enter The King's Awards for Enterprise here >

Launching The King’s Awards for Enterprise

On May 11th, the official Buckinghamshire launch event for the 2024 King’s Awards for Enterprise took place, hosted by The Countess Howe, His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire and organised by Buckinghamshire Business First and MK Business Leaders Partnership (MKBLP).

Those in attendance and speaking at the event included The Countess Howe; Philippa Batting, Managing Director of Buckinghamshire Business First; Nicholas Mann, Chair of MKBLP; Dame Ann Limb DBE DL, Deputy Lieutenant for Buckinghamshire; and Preet Singh of Coutts.

And bringing the benefits of entering and winning awards to life was Angela Spang of JUNE Medical, previous winners at the Buckinghamshire Business Awards and the then-Queen's Awards for Enterprise. As Angela said: it’s good business to apply, it’s better business to win!

Entering The King's Awards for Enterprise

Buckinghamshire is full of outstanding businesses that deserve recognition, and we at Buckinghamshire Business First would encourage you all to think about planning your application now.

Some of the top tips from the event for businesses thinking of submitting an entry included:

• It’s the passion that counts
• Tell a coherent story 
• Answer the question 
• If at first you don’t succeed, try again!

Discover more information and support on submitting a winning entry here >

There were some great images taken at the launch event, which you can see on our Flickr page here.