Short on time to enter the Business Awards? We can do it for you

Interest in the Torbay Weekly Naturally Inspiring Business Awards 2025 is already gaining momentum - and we want to make it as easy as possible for businesses to enter or to be nominated.

Entries are now open  for this year’s awards with a date of Wednesday June 11 already set for the glittering finals night at the Riviera International Centre in Torquay.

The awards have grown in size and stature since being launched three years ago. Now we are keen for even more businesses and their people to be saluted and recognised.

As before, you can enter a category as a business yourself.  But now you can also nominate a business - and we will do the work for them. You nominate them  and a member of our editorial or commercial team will make contact with them to help with the application process.

Just go to torbaybusinessawards.co.uk to enter or nominate.

We also have two more categories for you to consider. South Devon building supplies firm Inter-Line are on board again with their Apprentice of the Year category and we are also delighted to welcome none other than Torquay United to the awards. They will be sponsoring a new Sport and Health and Wellbeing category.

TIMELINE AND HOW TO ENTER TORBAY WEEKLY BUSINESS AWARDS 2025

Enter: go to torbaybusinessawards.co.uk where you will find out how to enter the awards or how to nominate businesses for the awards, the categories and their criteria.

Entries will close at midnight on Friday April 25.

A judging panel will sit to choose the shortlisted finalists of each category

The finalists will be announced online and in paper on Thursday May 15

They will go forward to the finals night at the Riviera International Centre on Wednesday June 11

This year's sponsors:

TORBAY COUNCIL (headline sponsors and Overall Winner)

WOLLENS (Best New Business)

NEWTON ABBOT RACE COURSE (Best Marketing Initiative)

STAGECOACH (Greener Futures award)

ENGLISH RIVIERA BID COMPANY (Tourism Company of Year)

PRINCESS THEATRE (Rising Star Award)

SOUTH DEVON COLLEGE (Inspiring Employer of Year)

POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER- Alison Hernandez (Commissioner's Business Community Champion) 

TORBAY BUSINESS FORUM (Small Business of Year)

MAJESTIC HOLIDAYS (The James Wright Award for Inspirational Leadership, or ‘Jimmy Award’)

SALLY ALLEN Innovation

INTER-LINE Apprentice of the Year

TORQUAY UNITED - Sport and Health and Wellbeing Business of the Year

Torbay Weekly Lifetime Achievement awards for contribution to business and the community will be announced on the finals night.  

The Overall Business of the Year will be chosen from across the category winners on the finals night and is not a category for entries