Business Oscars to recognise SME wellbeing initiatives

News | HSP
04.07.2008

This year's National Business Awards will feature a new category to recognise small firms that have improved the health and wellbeing of employees.

The cross-industry awards, described by Gordon Brown as the "business Oscars", will include a Health, Work and Wellbeing Award and a Health, Work and Wellbeing Award for SMEs (open to organisations with fewer than 250 employees), both sponsored by the government's Health, Work and Wellbeing programme. Barclays Commercial Bank (Customer Servicing) won the 2007 wellbeing award.

There is also a Better Regulation Award, sponsored by the Better Regulation Executive, which recognises organisations that have simplified regulation to increase business efficiency. Last's year's winner was Cambridgeshire County Council.

The deadline for entries is 31 July and the finalists will be announced next month. The awards ceremony will be held on 18 November.

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