Join the Region's Biggest Celebration of Business!
The People's Choice Award is now OPEN!
With 70 businesses all competing for regional recognition at the Doncaster Business Awards, this award allows YOU to vote for YOUR winner!
From promising start-ups to established employers...
Who will you vote for?
Voting is open from 22nd October - 5th November.
The winner will be announced at the awards on Thursday 12th December 2024!
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MEET YOUR FINALISTS
With 16 categories and 70 businesses in the running for a Doncaster Business Award, the competition is has never been so fierce!
Check out all of our finalists below, and click their logo to find out more about them on their websites.
Vote via the link above!
A W Aluminium
Established in 2007, AW Aluminium Ltd has rapidly become a leading name among aluminium fabricators and installers in Doncaster & throughout the UK. Our commitment to excellence has positioned us as a trusted name in the industry. With one of the largest and most advanced aluminium fabrication facilities in Yorkshire, we take great pride in delivering exceptional quality services and products to our esteemed clients.
Acacia Creative
Acacia Creative Studio are passionate about creating unique floral designs for all occasions. Merging their artistic and creative skills with the fundamentals of flower arranging, inspires them to stand out from the norm. From their Rossington Studio, they run workshops, build installations and provide florals, both locally and nationally.
Active Fusion
Active Fusion put children and young people at the heart of everything they do because they believe every child should be given the best start in life. They deliver their charitable objectives through good governance, a highly skilled team and a passion to make a difference everyday to those who need them the most.
Active Lives Active Communities
Active Lives Active Communities is a Community Interest Company. They formed in June 2018 and are a not-for-profit organisation based in Doncaster. They manage and deliver a wide range of community projects and programmes to help children, young people and older people overcome personal and health barriers. Such barriers can prevent people of all ages from living a healthy, active and engaging life within their local community.
Ambispace
AmbiSpace is leading the way in specialist design and manufacture of inclusive sensory solutions. With a passion for accessibility and inclusion, we are making the world a more accessible place through innovative products and creative expert services that make sensory support readily accessible to all.
Automated Analytics
Automated Analytics Group was founded in 2013 by Mark Taylor and is based in Doncaster, a city on the cusp of becoming the UK’s leading destination for innovative digital and technology businesses to locate and grow. The company was founded on the belief that Artificial Intelligence can be a force for good, from enabling business transformation to enriching people’s lives.
Berjen
As a small family business, the team understands the importance of working alongside you to create a home that is the perfect fit for you and your family. They offer a friendly, personal service and strive to deliver the highest quality workmanship conducted by experienced craftsmen and apprentice-trained staff who they have developed to provide you with the true service you deserve.
BST Detectable Products
BST Detectable Products were first founded in 1985 by former British Bakeries engineer, Brian S Teasdale. The company initially focused on providing engineering supplies to UK bakeries, before inventing the concept of metal detectable products and the world’s first detectable pen.
cast
Through our partnerships with theatres and artists across the region and country we offer the very best performing arts, with visits from world renowned companies such as the National Theatre taking place alongside the newest freshest work from emerging artists in our second space.
Certex
Certex offers a full solution for lifting products and services. Certex provides steel wire rope, lifting equipment and services to customers in the industrial, oil & gas, renewable and elevator markets.
Changing Lives
Changing Lives is a national registered charity with a base in Doncaster who provide specialist support for vulnerable people and their families. Our unique community hub in Doncaster provides a multi-agency based one-stop-shop service.
Chef's Counter
Chef's Counter is a hospitality events company. We run ticketed public dining events in unusual, iconic and underused spaces and also provide bespoke corporate hospitality packages through our 'business bites' service. Chef's Counter is also a social enterprise that provides supported employment to people who have experienced barriers to entering the work place.
Clean N Bright
Over 30 years in the cleaning business, starting from a small family business, we’ve grown to be a leader in our field as a cleaning company in Doncaster and the entire South Yorkshire region, covering Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley. Believing that customers’ needs come first.
Club Doncaster Foundation
Club Doncaster Foundation works alongside Doncaster Rovers FC, Doncaster Rovers Belles and Doncaster Rugby League to bring professional sport into the local community.
Connectus Business Solutions
Connectus are a leading Business Managed Services Partner (MSP) with almost 20yrs of proven experience of mitigating cost, complexity, and risk for our clients. They are a dedicated, customer focussed and technically capable team who work with their clients at their pace and level of technical understanding to ensure they achieve great outcomes.
D&K Accounting
We specialise in helping small business owners. Whatever the niche, we understand the challenges you face; long hours, relentless pitches, tight cashflows and all the while, a steady squeeze on your entrepreneurial juice.
Death By Fudge
Death by Fudge is a family run business that started in our little home in Rossington near Doncaster. Within just our first year and dozens of weekly sell outs, we opened our very own shop in the beautiful market town of Epworth. Since then , we've relocated the shop back to Rossington where you can now find our brand new flagship store.
Discover Financial
We are committed to helping individuals and business owners Discover and achieve the financial future they deserve. We focus and pride ourselves upon maintaining long-term, trusted relationships with our clients, showing distinct quality, integrity and excellence, which in turn gives both private and business clients financial peace of mind.
DN College Group
At DN Colleges Group, we are working towards a common goal: to transform our communities through learning.This vision reflects our belief in our students and in our ability to transform their lives so positively. Our students are at the heart of everything we do.Together, we can ensure they reach their full potential as they move forward to successful futures, contributing to their communities and to the social and economic needs of our region.
Dolphin ICT
Dolphin is a well-established, full-service Managed Service Provider (MSP). We provide organisations throughout the UK and beyond with professional IT services combined with innovative telephony and CCTV systems.
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Every year, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals Charity invests £750,000 back into our hospitals which funds various projects across the trust. From the small things like teddy bears for children having their first hospital stay, to care packages for patients who arrive at hospital with none of their belongings, to the big investments which enables the purchase cutting-edge technology that detects deadly infections like meningitis and the flu.
Doncaster Racecourse
For sheer spectacle, atmosphere and excitement a day at Doncaster Racecourse is a tradition that is hard to beat. Racedays at Town Moor have been drawing appreciative crowds for centuries and Doncaster has long been regarded as one of the finest racecourses in Europe and the best place for horse racing in Yorkshire.
Doncaster UTC
Doncaster UTC will be a distinctive school led by employers to provide an innovative and engaging learning environment and unique learning experience. This will equip young people with the education and qualifications required for future success and will create pathways into university or higher levels of education and to the most significant areas of growth in employment, locally, nationally and internationally.
Enviro Electronics
Since 2009 we have become a trusted name among many IT support networks within the public and private sector due to the fact that we can offer a safe and secure, fully environmentally accredited IT disposal service which is flexible enough to cater for any type of e-waste, no matter what the condition or quantity.
Euro Pool
Euro Pool System is the leading logistics provider of reusable packaging in the European fresh supply chain. With our reusable, folding trays, we not only optimize your supply chain, but also build a sustainable future.
Exceed Learning Partnership
At Exceed Learning Partnership our vision is to equip young people with the knowledge, skills and mind-set to thrive and then take on the world!
We will achieve our vision by every child developing a greater understanding of themselves as a learner, recognise what their strengths are, how they can share their strengths with others, and understand what steps they need to undertake for their continual learning journey.
Fireplace Studio
Family-owned Fireplace Studio has had many names over the years, but since 1955 the values have been the same, providing only the highest quality materials and products for the best prices. Fireplace Studio has a top of the range showroom with plenty of models to view, Emma and Chris are on hand for any questions you may have.
First Bus
We believe the bus is the future for society, for local economies, for the planet, for all. At First Bus we're dedicated to providing a friendly, reliable, and hassle-free service for our customers and will continue do everything we can to move people out of their cars and onto the bus. As one of the UK’s largest bus operators, we connect communities from Aberdeen to Cornwall, helping get to work, school, college, appointments, and leisure activities effortlessly.
Fiximer
Fiximer is a South Yorkshire-based supplier of Internal Joinery Components, Stair Parts, and Decorative Elements. We are a family business created out of a passion for wood, handed down from generation to generation for over 50 years. Over the past decades, we have gained expertise in staircase renovations which gave us the opportunity to select the best quality materials we can now proudly supply our customers with.
Flourish Enterprises
Flourish Enterprises is a CIC housed in a stunning listed building that provides inviting office space, conference and function hire, community events and volunteering opportunities, historic walled garden & shop and cafés all surrounded by lots of beautiful green spaces.
Godiva Hair Loss & Wig Specialist
Godiva Hair Hair Loss & Wig Specialists is one of the UK’s leading hair loss specialists salons working in our beautiful decorated salon in the village of Epworth near Doncaster.
Harrison College
A specialist post-16 institution providing a challenging, future focussed provision.
Their mission is to create an inclusive, business and enterprise provision where learners can thrive, placing no limits on what can be achieved no matter their background or starting point, leading to a secure and prosperous future.
Highfield Coffee Social
We are a family business dedicated to creating a space that combines great tasting, high-quality, nutritious food with exceptional service. Our team members are chosen for their passion for hospitality and commitment to providing an excellent customer experience. We offer a relaxing ambience with various amenities, including a children's menu, dog-friendly items, and a meeting room available for hire. We pride ourselves on offering something for everyone.
Highfield
We’re a global leader in compliance and work-based learning and apprenticeship qualifications and one of the UK’s most recognisable awarding organisations. As such we’re regulated by Ofqual, Qualifications Wales, SQA Accreditation, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA), and the Security Industry Authority (SIA). In addition to this, we’re also a government-regulated end-point assessment organisation (EPAO).
Highland Carbon
Highland Carbon was founded by a Zoologist with experience working in international conservation projects. We use that expertise to shape and to vet carbon offsetting projects undertaken right here in the UK. Highland Carbon also offers international offsetting opportunities which can be purchased individually or combined with UK offsetting for a blended solution.
Hill House School
Hill House School is an award-winning independent day school for children aged from 3 to 18 years. Since 1912, we have provided high quality independent education to families in Doncaster and beyond.
Holiday Inn Doncaster A1 (M)
Full service hotel with accommodation, conference, event and meeting facilities. Just 1 minute drive from the A1(M) with extensive free parking the Holiday Inn Doncaster is ideally located for business and leisure.
Home Instead
At Home Instead, we work with you to provide flexible, personalised home care based on your specific requirements and when you need it. You’ll get to stay in your community and live under your own roof, surrounded by your own things and continue to live by your own rules. Our home care services span home help, companionship, personal care and dementia care.
Hybrid Air Vehicles
We are the future of zero-carbon aviation. Sustainability is no longer simply a nice to have. It is a global imperative. Airlander is by its very nature good at being green. It creates efficiency through technology. But we can, and will, do more.
Jiggle Staffing
Jiggle provide bespoke staffing and recruitment services to our clients across all sectors. We truly believe that temporary, fixed term and interim workers can provide safe, effective, responsive staffing solutions.
Juratek
Juratek has been involved in the development of high quality vehicle components since 1995, specialising in discs and brake pads, and more recently, suspension components too.
Keepmoat
We plan, design and build developments. Going beyond bricks and mortar to create thriving communities where people want to live. Working closely with our partners, Keepmoat Homes delivers thousands of much needed homes every year. More than 70 per cent of the homes we sell are to first time buyers, which makes us one of the most experienced organisations when it comes to helping people take their first step on the property ladder.
Kingswood
Kingswood Chartered Accountants was formed when Kingswood LLP bought Doncaster and Rotherham based Allotts Chartered Accountants in 2021. Allotts was established in 1927 and ever since then they have continued to build their reputation for good sound business advice and financial know how across the local community.
Master Your Performance
Empowering individuals and businesses to reach their peak potential through personalised performance coaching. Our transformative programs unlock untapped capabilities, instil a winning mindset, and guide clients to achieve unprecedented success. Join us on the journey to become unstoppable in 2024!
Million Goals
Million Goals is all about personal finance coach to individuals between the ages of 25 & 40, enabling them to lead a fulfilling life. Workshops are provided in two formats - 1-on-1 and group workshops for employees in businesses.
Mind Wellbeing
To address the stigma surrounding mental health, we have to turn awareness into tangible action by reshaping our language. Our mission is to actively change the way we speak about mental health, so we can effectively dismantle the stigma associated with it.
Partners in Cost
Established in 1996, we are a nationwide leading firm of Costs Lawyers who are located throughout the country. We provide dedicated and bespoke solutions, specialising in personal injury claims, ranging from clinical negligence to catastrophic injury, as well as dispute resolution claims.
Polypipe Building Products
Part of the Genuit Group Plc, our Polypipe businesses focus on developing and delivering engineered water and climate management solutions for the built environment, specialising in residential, commercial, public non-housing and civils and infrastructure sectors.
Premier Partnership
Premier Partnership allows organisations to easily source every type of learning solution and increase the impact of their Learning and Development (L&D) strategies.
Quinlan Couture Bridal
I am a bridal designer with my own boutique and Specialise in bridal, prom and pageant dresses and alterations.
Rotherham Doncaster & South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHs Trust Foundation operates services in 200 locations across Rotherham, Doncaster, North Lincolnshire and North-East Lincolnshire. Our Trust headquarters, Woodfield House, is based on Tickhill Road Hospital site in.
RSPCA Doncaster (Rotherham & District Branch)
RSPCA Doncaster, Rotherham and District Branch is a local, self-funded charity responsible for rehabilitating and rehoming animals in need, as well as providing animal welfare and education within the local community.
Sheffield Churches Council for Community Care
This involves helping the older members of our community. We aim to enhance their quality of life through volunteers who offer the kind of support a ‘Good Neighbour’ might give. The service is provided free of charge with the basic aim of helping to combat loneliness for people over 65 living in Sheffield.
Southwell-Kelly Recruitment Services
Southwell-Kelly Recruitment Services was founded in August 2022. It was bourne out of over 20 years working in technical IT recruitment although we also have experience recruiting in a range of other fields including Marketing, Finance, HR and more general leadership. Southwell-Kelly takes pride in approaching recruitment differently.
St Leger Homes
We are owned by Doncaster Council & set up in 2005 to manage the running of 21,000 council homes and deliver a major programme of investment. We are a top ranking organisation with many awards. We work in partnership with Doncaster Council and customers, and other agencies, providing homes in neighbourhoods that people are proud to live in.
Stride Yorkshire
Stride Yorkshire (Social Transformation in Disabilities Everyday) was established in 2022. Stride is a specialist organisation with the sole aim of supporting adults with Learning and Social Disabilities on their journey to leading independent lives.
Switalskis Solicitors
A leading and long established law firm offering high quality legal support for clients across the region. The firm has the largest clinical negligence department in the Yorkshire area and is ranked in both Chambers and Legal 500.
The Sleep Charity
The Sleep Charity, incorporating The Sleep Council, provide advice and support to empower the nation to sleep better. We campaign to improve sleep support and access to high quality information, raise awareness of the value of a good night’s sleep and promote understanding around the complexities of sleep.
Today Publications
Production & Distribution of Community Magazines to many local communities in Doncaster
Trinity Academy - Emmanuel School Foundation
We are confident that at Trinity we provide a rigorous and productive learning environment where children are both challenged and supported. Our conviction is that education should address the whole of what it means to be a happy, fulfilled and successful adult.
TwentyFour IT Services
At TwentyFour IT Services, we are experts in providing the best IT, Infrastructure & Cyber Security support across the Doncaster and South Yorkshire region. We cover everything from being your virtual IT department, strategic virtual CIO, desktop support to cyber security services, proactive 24/7 monitoring and project installations.
Urban Burgers Group
Doncaster’s favourite burger spot, URBAN Fresh Burgers & Fries, is a quick-service restaurant concept centred on freshness and quality. Launched in 2017 by Doncaster locals Mehmet and Zerin Kent, the husband-and-wife team have grown URBAN to four thriving sites across South Yorkshire.
Unipart Rail
Unipart Rail addresses the challenges of the rail industry across the asset lifecycle by working collaboratively with our partners to deliver technology and supply chain solutions that improve performance, reduce risk and optimise cost.
We’re part of Unipart Group, a global business that brings together manufacturing, logistics and consultancy in a set of products and services that create imaginative solutions for its customers
Virtual Reality Machine Training
VRMT provide a unique software tool for the glass container industry which enables training to be undertaken in a safe environment without any negative impact on production. VR allows the trainees to fully immerse themselves in a real-time manufacturing exercise, honing their skills and familiarising themselves with the pace and equipment of machine operation.
Virtue Health Services
Virtue Health Services provides residential living, offering support and care in small, community homes with a focus on restoring and developing the skills to allow people to live independently. We care and support young people who have complex needs with various diagnosis.
Willow & Semp
Willow and Semp is a HR consultancy, built around a commitment to providing exceptional and expert advice. Aiming to be your perfect HR and legal business partner, the team can work on an ad hoc project basis for you, or as your outsourced HR department, offering a full HR service to your business.
Yorkshire Adoption Agency
Established in 1946, YAA works hard to support, assess, train, & approve adoptive parents. We are a voluntary adoption agency & registered charity meaning we are smaller & more flexible than most statutory agencies & offer a personalised service. Our vision is that children who need an adoptive home will grow up in a safe & loving home, will be happy, healthy & lead fulfilling lives.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Built on a former riding school and farm, Yorkshire Wildlife Park has come a long way since it opened in April 2009. A dynamic centre for conservation and welfare, the park has over 250 animals and over 45 different species of animal.
*Terms and Conditions
- Finalists may promote their involvement across social media channels and invite employees, clients and business contacts to vote for them.
- Doncaster Chamber of Commerce have no involvement in the decision of the winner of the People’s Choice award.
- The People’s Choice award has no structured judging process and is purely decided by the Doncaster business community.
- Voting limited to one vote per person, any duplications will not be counted..