The Yorkshires.
Business Awards

Date: Friday 4th December 2026
Time: 11am-5pm
Venue: The Queens, Leeds
Tickets: £130pp
Dress code: Business attire

Celebrate all things excellent in the Yorkshire business sector, including the opportunity to network with 420 peers and to celebrate the achievements of our Yorkshires Young Entrepreneur Challenge.

Tickets

Our events are as much about fundraising as they are fun. Tickets for you, your staff or guests helps to change young people's lives.

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Event Name

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Contact Details

These are the details of the person booking the tickets. Should anything change; this is the person we'll contact.

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Tickets

What tickets are you buying and how many would you like to reserve?

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Billing Details

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Card Payments

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Awards

The Yorkshires. Business Awards celebrate the best in entrepreneurial excellence. Whether big or small we say thanks to the people that make the world of work a better one.

Meet our guest speaker:
Sir Richard Harpin

Born in Huddersfield, Sir Richard Harpin is a leading entrepreneur, investor and business leader. He founded HomeServe in 1993 with £50,000 and grew the business into a FTSE 100 company before its £4.1bn acquisition by Brookfield in 2023. Richard remained as Chair for a further two years.

Today, he invests through Growth Partner and is Owner and Chairman of Business Leader, helping founders and CEOs to scale their businesses.

Named EY UK Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008, Richard is also passionate about supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs through The Enterprise Trust, which he founded to help young people develop their entrepreneurial potential.

Friday 4th December 2026

Queens Hotel

New Station Street City Square, Leeds LS1 1PJ

Sponsors

What to wear

Dress code: Business Attire

Gallery

Here are just a few photos from our recent event. You can always find more by following us over on Facebook.

Previous Business Award Winners

Whether you're there for the dinner, for an award or there to help children in Yorkshire; you know you'll be in good company. Take a look at some of the previous years winners.

2025

2024

2023

ESG Excellence – Harrison Spinks
Large Corporate of the Year – Cranswick
Mid-Market Corporate of the Year – Kelling Group
Innovation in Business – Glide Group
Business Leader of the Year – Edward Naylor

2022

Yorkshires. Young Entrepreneur Challenge – Nature’s Jewels, Lawnswood School
Large Corporate of the Year – MKM Building Supplies
Mid-Market Corporate of the Year – BigChange Ltd
Board of the Year – Bettys & Taylors Group
Business Leader of the Year – Debbie Bestwick

Are you interested in helping make things better?

If you want to make things better, you can. Donations of money is always great; but we also need volunteers to help out; or people willing to donate valuable skills from PPC to plastering.