[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":659},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-\u002Fnews\u002Fhampshire-business-awards-season-2026":3,"site:reading-news-hampshire-business-awards-season-2026":328,"news-rows":411,"site:og:\u002Fnews\u002Fhampshire-business-awards-season-2026":657},{"id":4,"title":5,"answeredBy":6,"atAGlance":6,"author":7,"blocks":6,"body":8,"date":278,"description":279,"events":280,"extension":285,"gettingThere":6,"image":286,"imageAlt":287,"imageCredit":288,"interview":6,"kind":289,"lifted":6,"means":6,"meta":290,"navigation":291,"now":6,"organisers":6,"path":292,"photos":6,"pick":6,"pull":6,"questions":6,"quote":6,"readMins":293,"scene":6,"seo":294,"source":6,"sources":295,"span":6,"standfirst":321,"stem":322,"steps":6,"tags":323,"town":6,"updated":326,"venues":6,"was":6,"__hash__":327},"news\u002Fnews\u002Fhampshire-business-awards-season-2026.md","Awards season: Hampshire's business awards this autumn",null,"hampshire.events",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":269},"minimark",[11,15,24,29,32,46,62,69,86,103,114,118,127,163,166,170,173,193,196,200,203,235,239],[12,13,14],"p",{},"Late autumn is when Hampshire's business awards are handed out. The evenings are a mix of black tie and buffet, county-wide and very local, and the people in the room range from the shortlisted to their suppliers, sponsors and guests.",[12,16,17,18,23],{},"The awards evenings still to come are listed below this article, with their dates, places and prices drawn from each listing. Earlier in the season the calendar also carried the Portsmouth and Chichester Apprenticeship Awards and the People Planet Pint and Better Business for Good Awards. Find them all, as they are listed, on the ",[19,20,22],"a",{"href":21},"\u002Fformats\u002Fawards","awards page",".",[25,26,28],"h2",{"id":27},"four-awards-four-kinds-of-patch","Four awards, four kinds of patch",[12,30,31],{},"Each of the awards on the calendar covers a different area, and the rules on who can enter follow from that.",[12,33,34,38,39,45],{},[35,36,37],"strong",{},"Gosport Business Awards."," Gosport Borough Council ",[19,40,44],{"href":41,"rel":42},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gosport.gov.uk\u002FGosportBusinessAwards",[43],"nofollow","runs these"," in partnership with The News, St Vincent College and the Powder Monkey Brewing Group, with StandardAero as headline sponsor. The council says 2026 is the third year since they were reintroduced. 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On the calendar, the evening is listed under ",[19,66,68],{"href":67},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fst-vincent-college","St Vincent College",[12,70,71,74,75,79,80,85],{},[35,72,73],{},"INSPIRE Business Awards."," Hosted on the ",[19,76,78],{"href":77},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fdestination-basingstoke","Destination Basingstoke"," website, these exist, in their own words, \"to showcase and celebrate business excellence in Basingstoke and Deane\", with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council among the supporters. The ",[19,81,84],{"href":82,"rel":83},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.destinationbasingstoke.co.uk\u002Finspire\u002Finspire-award-categories-2025-new-2\u002F",[43],"categories page"," runs from apprentice or trainee of the year and new business, through small, medium and large business of the year, to awards for rural business, wellbeing, sustainability, business and the community, best place to work and young business person, with a \"winner of winners\" at the end.",[12,87,88,91,92,96,97,102],{},[35,89,90],{},"New Forest Brilliance in Business Awards."," The ",[19,93,95],{"href":94},"\u002Forganisers\u002Fnew-forest-business-partnership","New Forest Business Partnership"," sets the rules in its ",[19,98,101],{"href":99,"rel":100},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nfbp.org.uk\u002Fawards\u002Ffaqs\u002F",[43],"FAQs",": entrants must have business premises within the New Forest District Council boundary, or be paid members of the partnership. A panel of judges assesses every entry, up to three nominees are shortlisted in each category, and shortlisted businesses are invited to talk through their entries with the panel in October. The partnership says the awards begin each year with a launch evening in August or September.",[12,104,105,108,109,113],{},[35,106,107],{},"Hampshire Business Awards."," The county-wide awards are listed on the calendar under ",[19,110,112],{"href":111},"\u002Forganisers\u002Finsider-media","Insider Media",", and the listing describes them as celebrating the year's standout Hampshire companies and leaders. Check the organiser's own site for the categories and how to enter.",[25,115,117],{"id":116},"how-many-businesses-could-be-in-the-running","How many businesses could be in the running",[12,119,120,121,126],{},"Awards shortlists are short and the pool is large. In March 2026, the ",[19,122,125],{"href":123,"rel":124},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ons.gov.uk\u002Fbusinessindustryandtrade\u002Fbusiness\u002Factivitysizeandlocation\u002Fbulletins\u002Fukbusinessactivitysizeandlocation\u002F2026",[43],"ONS business count"," gave these numbers of VAT or PAYE registered businesses:",[47,128,129,135,145,151,157],{},[50,130,131,134],{},[35,132,133],{},"Hampshire County Council area:"," 59,420, of which 52,295 had fewer than ten employees.",[50,136,137,140,141,144],{},[35,138,139],{},"Southampton:"," 7,285. ",[35,142,143],{},"Portsmouth:"," 6,095.",[50,146,147,150],{},[35,148,149],{},"New Forest:"," 7,855, of which 6,965 were micro businesses.",[50,152,153,156],{},[35,154,155],{},"Basingstoke and Deane:"," 7,020, of which 6,265 were micro businesses.",[50,158,159,162],{},[35,160,161],{},"Gosport:"," 1,860, of which 1,675 were micro businesses.",[12,164,165],{},"Roughly nine businesses in ten in each of these areas employ fewer than ten people, which is why several of the more local awards have categories by size of business or for independent firms.",[25,167,169],{"id":168},"what-the-research-says-awards-are-worth","What the research says awards are worth",[12,171,172],{},"There is little published research on local business awards. The best-known studies are about large, listed American companies winning national quality awards, and their findings are modest and contested.",[47,174,175,184],{},[50,176,177,178,183],{},"In 1996, Kevin Hendricks and Vinod Singhal ",[19,179,182],{"href":180,"rel":181},"https:\u002F\u002Fideas.repec.org\u002Fa\u002Finm\u002Formnsc\u002Fv42y1996i3p415-436.html",[43],"studied share prices"," on the days quality awards were announced and found a positive reaction, with mean abnormal returns of between 0.59% and 0.67% depending on the model, stronger for smaller firms and for independently run awards.",[50,185,186,187,192],{},"In 1999, Greg Adams, Grant McQueen and Kristie Seawright ",[19,188,191],{"href":189,"rel":190},"https:\u002F\u002Fideas.repec.org\u002Fa\u002Feee\u002Fjomega\u002Fv27y1999i6p595-604.html",[43],"revisited that work"," and urged caution: the effect for the leading national award was only marginally significant, state awards showed none, and about half of individual winners had positive abnormal returns.",[12,194,195],{},"Neither study tells you what a Gosport or New Forest award will do for a ten-person firm. What they do suggest is that the value of an award lies less in the trophy than in what it says about how the business is run, and in what the business does with it afterwards. The evening itself, a room of local owners, suppliers and sponsors, is the part anyone can use.",[25,197,199],{"id":198},"what-this-means-if-youre-going-to-events","What this means if you're going to events",[12,201,202],{},"An awards night is networking with a seating plan. A few things make it easier:",[47,204,205,211,217,223,229],{},[50,206,207,210],{},[35,208,209],{},"Read the shortlist first."," Where the finalists are published before the evening, knowing who is up for what gives you an easy first line to anyone at your table.",[50,212,213,216],{},[35,214,215],{},"Ask your host who else is coming."," If you are a guest on someone else's table, a short introduction from them to the rest of the table goes a long way.",[50,218,219,222],{},[35,220,221],{},"Plan the journey home."," Evenings run late. Each listing links to its venue page, with parking, the nearest stations and how to find the door.",[50,224,225,228],{},[35,226,227],{},"Follow up in the week after."," Congratulate the winners you met, and the shortlisted firms that didn't win. People remember who got in touch.",[50,230,231,234],{},[35,232,233],{},"Thinking of entering next year?"," Read the categories and the rules early. Gosport's 2026 entries closed at the end of September, and the New Forest awards start with a launch evening in August or September.",[25,236,238],{"id":237},"where-to-look","Where to look",[12,240,241,242,244,245,249,250,254,255,254,259,263,264,268],{},"The awards still to come are listed below, as listed on hampshire.events. For the whole season, see the ",[19,243,22],{"href":21},". 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