Best Small Family Business

For family businesses with a turnover not in excess of £5m and a business plan designed to ensure continued growth and sustainability. This is our most popular category. Sponsored by Ward Recycling

The Best Small Family Business award celebrates the outstanding achievements and contribution of family businesses with a turnover not in excess of £5m and a business plan designed to ensure continued growth and sustainability. Businesses across all sectors can enter, sharing their success stories our judges who are looking for strong family values combined with commercial success within its sector, despite their smaller scale.

This is always the most popular and hard-fought category of the Awards.

What the judges are looking for

How the family values and the family members have guided the development of the business
The Board and ownership structure of your business and how decisions are made
How you balance the interests of the family with the interests of the business
Information on the key qualities that make the business a candidate for the Best Small Family Business award. For example: product and service development, financial growth and success, family representation, people development, innovation, overcoming adversity or your commitment to the community
Your future plans for the business, including how current and future generations will be involved

Sponsored by WARD

2023 Results

Winner: Slenderella

Highly Commended: Flame UK & Quarry Walk Park

Finalists: Allen Signs, Recruit 2 You & The Lincoln Tea & Coffee Company