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The search is on for Yorkshire and The Humber’s most outstanding small businesses and self-employed

The FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards 2019 are now open and small businesses and the self-employed in Yorkshire and The Humber are being urged to enter before the closing date of 18th January 2019. The area winners will be announced at an award ceremony on Friday 1 March 2019 to be held at The Principal York.

The awards, run by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), will recognise and celebrate the best of Yorkshire and The Humber’s small businesses and the vast contribution they make to both regional and national economies and to local communities.

Eleven award category winners, from digital innovation to family business and from international business to employer of the year, will be then go forward to the UK final of the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards, held in London in May 2019. Here, as well as UK category winners, the FSB Small Business of the Year 2019 will be announced.

FSB Yorkshire & The Humber Chairman Simon Williams said:

“For a chance to be recognised as one of the best small businesses in Yorkshire and The Humber as well as in the whole UK, I’d encourage all small businesses to enter the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards. SMEs are a vital part of our area – contributing so much to the economy and making Yorkshire and The Humber a more exciting place in which to live, work, study and visit, and this is our chance to celebrate their achievements.”

The 11 FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards area categories are:

· International Business of the Year

· Ethical and Green Business of the Year

· Business and Product Innovation Award

· Digital Innovation of the Year

· Micro Business of the Year

· Start-Up Business of the Year

· Scale-Up Business of the Year

· Family Business of the Year

· Young Entrepreneur of the Year (aged 30 and under)

· Employer of the Year

· Community Award (area level only)

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Shona Nutter .