2025 Winners & Finalists
Employer of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Omny Group
WINNER: Arke Agency
FINALISTS
Clarity Environmental
Graphite Digital
Kingsway Care
Magenta Associates
Spabreaks.com
Leisure & Tourism Excellence Award
SPONSORED BY: Team East Sussex
WINNER: Brighton & Hove Museums
FINALISTS
GLOBALLS
Komedia
One Garden Brighton
The Grand Brighton
Yellowave Beach Sports
SME Business of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Servo Private Wealth
WINNER: Search Seven
FINALISTS
Arke Agency
Best of British Events
Ingenio Technologies
The Float Spa
Yellowave Beach Sports
Best Customer Service Award
SPONSORED BY: Tottington Manor Hotel
WINNER: Shoreham Port
FINALISTS
Bang Tidy Property Management Services
GLOBALLS
Prsnt
SimplyVAT
The Float Spa
Future Talent of the Year
SPONSORED BY: LoveLocalJobs.com
WINNER: Georgina Klovig Skelton - Only 3 Elements
FINALISTS
Annabelle Hodd - Ivy & Whyte Garden Design
Ashley Harrison - PMR Architecture
Emma Vaughan - Mindlab International
Ella Anais Hepworth Gilchrist - Sociella
Oliver Watts - Backstreet Company
Businessperson of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Shackleton
WINNER: Abi Selby - Spabreaks.com
FINALISTS
Dr Carole Gilling-Smith – The Agora Clinic
Chris Rogers – Education Cubed
Francesca Lidbetter – Haybury
James Beresford-Ward – TSS Facilities
Russell Martin – Russell Martin Foundation
Property Business of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Bailey & French
WINNER: Orange Property
FINALISTS
Joint Living
Landsec
Lawton & Dawe Properties
Oakdene Mortgages
The Buyer Agency
Community Hero Award
SPONSORED BY: Elekta
WINNER: Grassroots Suicide Prevention
FINALISTS
Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative
City Academy Whitehawk
Limit Break
Pelican Parcels
Search Seven
Gamechanger of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Sussex Innovation
WINNER: Clarity Environmental
FINALISTS
always possible
BackstreetCompany
BubbleLife
Coached by SGUT
Sea Lanes Brighton
Best New Business Award
SPONSORED BY: City Girl Network
WINNER: Sea Lanes Brighton
FINALISTS
AC South
Apiary
Attercop
hózhó Wellness
Sussex Grazed
Diversity & Inclusion Award
SPONSORED BY: Help To Grow UoB
WINNER: Parable Dance CIC
FINALISTS
DoubleTree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Limit Break
RadioReverb
The Agora Clinic
Green Business of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Kreston Reeves
WINNER: Spark & Bell
FINALISTS
Kindly Shop
Lucy & Yak
One Garden Brighton
Shoreham Port
Tupinamba
Retailer of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Churchill Square
WINNER: The Float Spa
FINALISTS
Harriets of Hove
Kemptown Bookshop
Kindly Shop
Spark & Bell
Timeless Toys Hove
Professional Services Award
SPONSORED BY: RBC Brewin Dolphin
WINNER: Magenta Associates
FINALISTS
Crunch
GoodLaw Solicitors
Lease Group
Rise Accountants
Wave Community Bank
Large Business of the Year
SPONSORED BY: Hyve Managed Hosting
WINNER: Graphite Digital
FINALISTS
Crunch
Lucy & Yak
Riddle and Finns
Spabreaks.com
The Agora Clinic
Company of the Year
SPONSORED BY: DMH Stallard
WINNER: SpaBreaks.com
FINALISTS
Clarity
Crunch
Lucy & Yak
The Agora Clinic
