Responsible Business Awards

Local Impact Awards will also be awarded in the North West. The categories are as follows:

• The Employee Volunteer of the Year Award - recognising an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to their community through volunteering

• The Employee Volunteering Company of the Year Award - recognising a business which has engaged employees across the business to make volunteering culturally normal

• The Building Stronger Communities Award - recognising genuine partnerships between businesses and community organisations, which identify and address a key social issue.
  
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• The Work Inspiration Award - recognising employers that are inspiring young people through their work experience programmes and enabling those young people to make the connections between the classroom and the world of work

• The Business Class Award - recognising businesses that have demonstrated how, through a Business Class partnership, they are making a measurable difference within their partner school

• The Business Resilience Award supported by the Environment Agency - recognising companies that have considered the potential impacts of a changing climate (e.g. extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, storms, snow and heat waves) on their business and have taken creative steps to adapt to these impacts