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Objective

This award will recognise the achievements of individuals or businesses that make an outstanding contribution to their local and/or wider community in terms of social, economic, or environmental improvements.

 

Criteria:

  • Social enterprises (an enterprise that trades for a social/societal purpose and is separate from government)
  • Companies excelling in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

 

Note:

  • A Social Enterprise is a business that focuses on tackling social problems, strengthening communities, improving people’s life chances, or protecting the environment, as opposed to generating income for private individuals or bodies. Profits are reinvested in the business and/or in the community to further the social aims of the enterprise.
  • For example, excellence in CSR in the following areas will be recognised:
    • Environmental – focusing on eco issues such as climate change
    • Community – improving the quality of life for people in the community
    • Workplace – improving the wellbeing of staff
    • Charity partnership – working with a charity to help in fundraising, promoting or assisting in other areas of their work

 

Application Questions:

  1. Briefly describe your business, including your vision and mission statement.
  2. Demonstrate the Social Enterprise nature/CSR ethos of your organisation. As a Social Enterprise, what is unique in terms of your products or services. As a business with a CSR ethos, what value does your CSR engagement add to your business environment, community, workplace, or charity?
  3. Showcase details of any collaborative working arrangements, joint ventures, or other initiatives undertaken with other County Wexford regional, national, or international businesses, or social enterprises, organisations, clubs, societies to address and find solutions for a particular issue.
  4. Outline your organisation’s policies/commitments/investment, formal or informal, that ensure the consistent delivery of your added value service/CSR engagement and how you monitor feedback.
  5. Outline two examples of marketing activities your business engaged in to grow your social enterprise/promote your CSR activities in 2023. How did you measure the impact of your work?
  6. Outline any sustainable practices your social enterprise implemented in the past year. Or any sustainable practices your CSR activities supported in 2023.

The above will be assessed in the context of the size and resources of the business.

 

Please note: Financial details will be requested at time of interview, and entrepreneurial characteristics with dynamic and measurable systems in place, to monitor performance, financial controls, marketing and sales growth will be taken into account.

 


Company/Individual Information

Note – please use the group name you wish to be used in publicity

Detailed Information

Please provide clear and concise information in each of the following areas. These criteria have been agreed by the Judges and will form the basis of the interview process.
I hereby consent, if I am selected as a County Wexford Business Awards shortlisted applicant or winner, to the release and use of my name, business name, and photographs, which may be taken of me, and I agree that no compensation shall be due to me or my company for such usage. However, all competitive and financial information shall remain confidential unless I give express written approval for its release. Furthermore, I confirm that the information provided to and with this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. I acknowledge that whilst every care has been taken to ensure that advice/feedback given on this programme is correct, neither County Wexford Chamber nor our sponsors will accept any responsibility for loss, damage, etc., arising from or occasioned by the implementation of such advice.

Completed application forms must be submitted online by 5.00pm on FRIDAY, 8 March 2024.
An independent judging panel will review all applications received and shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

ALL SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW ON THURSDAY, 11 April, at Clayton whites Hotel | Business Centre – time will be advised. Telephone Interviews are NOT an option.

County Wexford Business Awards Gala Ceremony
Friday, 24 May 2024| Clayton Whites Hotel, Abbey Street, Wexford
Dress: Black Tie
Drinks Reception: 6.45pm sharp
Seated: Promptly 7.30pm

Tickets: €120 plus VAT per person

Company/Individual Information

Note – please use company name you wish to be used in publicity

Give clear and concise information in each of the following areas. This criterion will form the basis of the judges decision.

I hereby consent, if I am selected as a County Wexford Business Awards shortlisted applicant or winner, to the release and use of my name, business name, and photographs, which may be taken of me, and I agree that no compensation shall be due to me or my company for such usage. However, all competitive and financial information shall remain confidential unless I give express written approval for its release. Furthermore, I confirm that the information provided to and with this application is true and complete to the best of my knowledge and belief. I acknowledge that whilst every care has been taken to ensure that advice/feedback given on this programme is correct, neither County Wexford Chamber nor our sponsors will accept any responsibility for loss, damage, etc., arising from or occasioned by the implementation of such advice.

Completed application forms must be submitted online by 5.00pm on FRIDAY10th March 2023.
An independent judging panel will review all applications received & shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

ALL SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW ON THURSDAY 23rd March at Clayton whites Hotel | Business Centre – time will be advised.  Phone Interviews are NOT an option.

County Wexford Business Awards Gala Ceremony
Friday, 5th May 2023| Clayton Whites Hotel, Abbey Street, Wexford
Dress: Black Tie
Drinks Reception: 6.45 pm sharp
Seated: Promptly 7.30 pm
Music: Divine Invention


Tickets: €105 plus VAT each / Corporate Tables of 10 €1000 plus VAT