Key Dates 2026
Award Entries Open - Download an Entry Kit
Early Bird Deadline - 3rd April
Awards Entry Deadline - 3rd July
Finalists Announced - 3rd September
Business Culture Connected Conference - September (View all Events)
Awards Event & Winners Announcement - 25th November 2026, London
2026 marks the 11th annual Business Culture Awards, celebrating organisations across diverse sectors for work which enables better working lives. Each has different areas of focus depending on their ambition and strategy, including future workplace readiness; creating sustainable mindset and behaviour shifts; leading with purpose; building workforce resilience and ability to change and refocussing DEI, wellbeing and employee listening strategies. More than ever, companies need to prioritise their culture to retain the best people.
Benefits of recognition for business culture
The Business Culture Awards gives forward-thinking organisations a way to celebrate work which sets their employees up to succeed; recognising how employee experience is fundamental to business performance. By strengthening your culture and sharing the outcomes you are:
• Creating a sustainable competitive advantage that is much harder to imitate than your products or services.
• Focusing on your employee engagement, one of your leading metrics of organisational performance.
• Applying an effective channel to promote, within and outside of your sector, how your company values its unique culture and its people, with promotional badges and assets provided by Business Culture Awards for your own marketing. Plus further promotional material generated by the Awards team, with your approval.
• Gaining access to the powerful Business Culture network and community, which comprises leading practitioners and thinkers in HR and business.
• Demonstrating value to your investors or stakeholders by aligning a stand-out customer brand to an exceptional employer brand.
View Awards Categories
Your culture is underpinned by all the elements you create and evolve: technology advances; learning initiatives; a drive for diversity, and more. Where does your organisation excel?
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How To Enter
Steps & FAQs
Take a look at the categories, to find out which are best suited to your work.
Request your Entry Kit here
When you're ready to start your entry, create an account on the Award Entry Platform.
Complete the 4 key entry questions, saving this in progress. You can go back to it as many times as you like.
Attach up to 3 supporting documents to your submission.
Submit your entry, according to the Rules of Entry.
You can also refer to these handy FAQs or contact the team directly at team@businesscultureawards.com
Top Tips for Entering
Include specific examples of activities that took place, to underpin the broader story.
Incorporate targets, results and other metrics, including for example, the number of people involved, ROI, other organisational impact measures etc.
Clearly describe how your approach has advanced your workplace culture.
Include the timescales this took place within.
Steer clear of jargon and remember that the judges do not know your business inside out as you do.
Write concisely; and tell a powerful and engaging story.
Keep within the word limits. These have been created to offer enough capacity to fully explain your entry.
Entry Fees
Early Bird Entry - 2 entries for the price of 1 on all entries (Entries paid for and submitted by Fri 3rd April. Entry content can be edited anytime up until Fri 3rd July)
All other Entries - £250 + VAT per entry
Late Entries submitted after 3rd July - £375 + VAT per entry (this includes entries previously paid for but submitted after the deadline)
Payment can be made via credit card on the Award Entry Platform. If you require an Invoice prior to making payment, please select this option on the platform or email us at team@businesscultureawards.com. Your entry cannot be submitted for judging until payment has been received.
Register Your Interest
Award Entry Registration.
If you'd like to see what’s required to showcase your company culture initiative in 2026, download an Entry Kit now. We'll also send you case studies from the latest Winners.
Not ready to enter but want to be a part of the Business Culture Community? There’s still so much to be gained from joining a community of individuals focused on building great workplace culture. You may have embarked on culture work in your business but you’re not ready to share it yet, or maybe you simply want to learn from others’ approaches. Either way, keep in the loop by registering with us here. You’ll also receive award-winning Business Culture case studies.
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Business Culture Connected Events & Research
Join us for fantastic sessions of learning and connection, alongside HR and other business leaders, and focus on how to create and sustain a positive and purposeful culture in your organisation.
Find out about Awards & Events Sponsorship
Evolving and nurturing business culture is a leading concern of those you want to do business with. HR and other business leaders are keen to learn more about innovative solutions which will support them in building positive, productive cultures and exceptional employee experience; including transformation, wellbeing, learning, coaching, talent and inclusion solutions. Find out more about how we work with solution providers to amplify your brand.