About the awards
The Overall Winner in the Best Social Enterprise category will collect a cheque for £10,000 and a year’s membership of the Social Enterprise Coalition. Three other winners will receive £5,000 each, as will the winner of the Best New Social Enterprise award.
The brand new Social Enterprise in Schools award will go to the UK's most enterprising school. The winner will receive £1,000; an exclusive mentoring master class from last year's Overall Winner, Divine Chocolate; and other fantastic prizes.
Students from the winning school will be invited to take a private tour of the Houses of Parliament; and join the other winners for tea, before attending a prestigious award ceremony in London.
All of the prize winners will be featured in a special supplement in the Times Public Agenda and will also be profiled on a DVD following the award ceremony.
Representatives from each shortlisted organisation will be invited to attend the award ceremony in London in October.
The promoter reserves the right to provide prizes of equal or greater value in the event of unforeseen circumstances.
It also goes a long way to help recognise the efforts of everyone who has worked so hard to prove that being Fairtrade and farmer-owned can be a commercially successful business model.
We feel it is a very special business award to win - and it has certainly made the business community and City sit up and want to know more about Divine.
Sophi Tranchell, Managing Director, Divine Chocolate Company
