Nominations are open for the 2025 Black British Enterprise Awards. The awards honour the distinctive efficiency, innovation and excellent achievements of Black professionals and entrepreneurs throughout numerous sectors within the UK.
For over a decade, the Black British Enterprise Awards have championed significant change throughout Britain’s industries, and help the development of Black professionals into senior management positions.
Via the celebration of the achievements of Black expertise, the awards advocate for an equitable illustration of Black expertise in enterprise.
The Black British Enterprise Awards will recognise senior leaders and rising stars throughout six classes: arts and media; client and luxurious; entrepreneur; monetary providers; skilled providers; and Stem (science, expertise, engineering, and arithmetic).
The theme of the 2025 awards is #Elevate, showcasing the development, contributions, achievements and potential of Black professionals and entrepreneurs within the UK.
#Elevate spotlights the journeys of those that proceed to interrupt boundaries and redefine excellence of their fields regardless of systemic challenges. This 12 months’s theme underscores the significance of making environments the place Black expertise can’t solely thrive however lead.
Sophie Chandauka MBE, chair and government founding father of the awards, stated: “2025 marks the twelfth 12 months of the Black British Enterprise Awards.
“Our marketing campaign works with a number of the most prestigious and systemically essential manufacturers on the earth, with JP Morgan Chase as our key accomplice.
“This demonstrates the enduring dedication of key enterprise leaders striving for racial fairness in enterprise.
“This 12 months’s theme is #Elevate – a celebration of influencers and innovators shaping industries, defining excellence, and elevating the profile of Black expertise in enterprise. We stay up for a cohort of world class nominees!”
Cecil Peters, of JP Morgan Chase, stated: “We want all of the nominees the most effective of luck for this 12 months’s marketing campaign as they proceed to encourage and pave new pathways for future entrepreneurs and professionals.”
JP Morgan will return as the important thing accomplice of the awards for the sixth 12 months operating and, for the eighth consecutive 12 months, The Telegraph will proceed its position as nationwide Media Companion.
Different important sponsors embrace AlixPartners, Baker McKenzie, Barclays, Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, MSCI, Oliver Wyman, Ralph Lauren, S&P World, Wellington Administration, Wells Fargo.
Established in 2014, the annual Awards ceremony confirms the energy of the Black expertise pipeline by highlighting the industrial excellence of Black professionals and entrepreneurs, who stand as position fashions and substantial contributors to the British financial system. Its imaginative and prescient is for companies within the UK to incorporate Black individuals in any respect ranges of decision-making in a minimum of the proportion they’re represented in Britain itself.
Nominations will be made on-line by clicking here.
The Telegraph is the nationwide media accomplice of the Black British Enterprise Awards