Don't miss your chance to shine at the 2023 Harrogate Advertiser Excellence in Business Awards

Entries for our Harrogate Business Awards, now in their 18th year, opened today (Thursday, February 9).

With the success of our 2022 event, which saw over 365 attendees, we are planning on this year being even bigger and better!

The awards identify and celebrate the cream of the local business community and we are looking for the best businesses and business people in the region.

Open to businesses in every sector, trading anywhere within the circulation areas of this series of newspapers. This area covers the whole of the Harrogate District which includes Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Ripon, Masham, Nidderdale and the Washburn Valley – as well as Wetherby and Tadcaster.

Entries to the awards will close on April 14, 2023 and winners will be announced at the glitzy black tie Awards Ceremony on May 25, 2023.

Last year's glittering occasion saw Fiona Movley of Harrogate International Festivals receive the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

Other winners in 2022 included EnviroVent, who lifted the Sustainable Business Award, The HRH Group who won the award for Best Leisure, Retail or Hospitality Businessm and The Harrogate Bus Company who received the prize for Best Large Company.

A night of high drama in the stunning setting of Pavilions of Harrogate saw award-winning TV presenter and journalist Duncan Wood step in at the last minute as host after the sad passing of Yorkshire legend Harry Gration.

This year's Harrogate Advertiser Excellence in Business Awards will take place on Thursday, May 25 at Pavilions of Harrogate at the Great Yorkshire Showground.

MD of HRH Hotels, Simon Cotton, said: "We were delighted to have been both nominated and then named as eventual winners at last year's Harrogate Advertiser Business Awards. "To win at the Harrogate Advertiser Business Awards is a huge accolade for our business.

"For the past 18 years, these awards have not only graced our town and highlighted the breadth and depth of our business expertise across the Harrogate district, but they also carry with them a level of prestige that is so important when winning an award in your own town.

"This is the award that we want to win and we will be doing everything we can to not only return to the awards evening this year... but to also win again!!!"

Click here to enter the Harrogate Advertiser Excellence in Business Awards 2023… and GOOD LUCK!

The 2022 Harrogate Advertiser Excellence in Business Awards winners in full:

Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Nicholls Tyreman: Fiona Movley of Harrogate International Festival.

Overall Business of the Year award sponsored by Ignition: Picture News

Employer of the Year award sponsored by LCF Law: Smalley Marsey Rispin Architects

Business Community Hero award: Sue Kramer of Crown Jewellers

Entrepreneur of the Year award: Ben Poole of The Travel Journal

Apprentice/Trainee of the Year award sponsored by VQ Solutions: Owen Baxter of The Harrogate Bus Company

Best Large Company award sponsored by Berwins Solicitors: The Harrogate Bus Company

Best SME Company award sponsored by Impression Recruitment: Picture News

Best Independent Business award sponsored by Ison Harrison Solicitors: Cause UK

Sustainable Business Award sponsored by Ignition: EnviroVent

Tourism Award sponsored by Rudding Park: Destination Harrogate

Technology Development Award: Inhealthcare

Best Rural Business award sponsored by The HRH Group: Dale Stores

Best Leisure, Retail or Hospitality Business award sponsored by Destination Harrogate: The HRH Group

Among last year’s guests were Wallace Sampson, the chief executive of Harrogate Borough Council and The Deputy Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, David A. Kerfoot CBE DL.

Click here to enter the Harrogate Advertiser Excellence in Business Awards 2023… and GOOD LUCK!