Nominations
Why not give yourself, colleagues, clients, or other businesses that you admire, the amazing gift of being nominated for a Business Award! It is incredible how just being nominated for an award can change a business or a personâs life!
With 23 different awards designed to capture key aspects of business (21 open for nominations), we are excited to be uniting the absolute best of the nationâs businesses, of all shapes and sizes. The categories you choose should be the ones that most reflect your organisations or the nomineeâs successful business initiative.
ELIGIBILITY
Nominations will only be considered from businesses or candidates living and working within the UK. All nominated companies or individuals must be a maritime SME or work for a maritime SME. An SME is any organisation that has fewer than 250 employees and a turnover of less than ÂĢ43,402,203 (âŽ50 million or a balance sheet total less than ÂĢ37,327,527.00 (âŽ43 million).
The exception to this criteria is for ‘Best Community Engagement Initiative of the Year’. This award is not just open to SME’s, it is instead open to public sector, third sector and community organisations including but not limited to academic institutions, charities & community partnerships.
NUMBER OF ENTREES
Each candidate/business can only be considered for a maximum of 4 categories. If more than 4 nominations are received, only the first 4 will be considered for the shortlisting process.
Please note if you wish to make multiple applications you are encouraged to do so (up to 4) however you must complete a separate submission for each category. Zealous will allow you to select multiple categories at one time, however you will only be considered for multiple categories if you make separate applications (You must select the chosen category you wish to enter, complete the submission and registration forms, submit and then complete the process again for multiple submissions).
PROCESS
- To nominate yourself / third party for an award please check back when the nomination link is live in Spring 2025.
- Zealous is the awards platform we are using this year. You will be required to create a Zealous Account and create your submission and complete the registration form on the platform.
- Please ensure you read the Guidelines page available on the platform before submitting an entry.
- You will be able to save your submission as a draft and complete on a separate occasion if you wish to.
- If you require, you will find a wealth of information regarding how to make a submission via Zealous here: https://zealous.co/help/docs/making-submissions/
- If you have any technical queries with the Zealous platform they have a live chat feature or you can contact them on info@zealous.co.uk. For award queries please National Maritime via events@nmdg.co.uk
Nominations open Spring 2025 and close 15th August 2025, 17:00. We look forward to seeing your submissions.