All businesses must be based in Birmingham or surrounding areas, for benefit of doubt, the nominee must live or operate a business in any of these postcodes; B, WS, WV, DY, ST, NN, WR, TF, HR, CV.

For information about our judges, click here

No, we will contact you if you are nominated across multiple categories.

Votes are only counted on this website. When voting goes live, you will be able to vote for who you think should be made a finalist.

Nominees must identify as black or mixed black. For benefit of doubt, we classify “Black” as anyone who is African, Caribbean, a descendant of an African/Caribbean person and all African/Caribbean diaspora.

Nominees for The Ally award must not identify as black.

Yes.

Yes.

The Black Owned Birmingham Awards are hosted by Black Owned Birmingham CIC. To find out more head to www.blackownedbirmingham.org

Allies play an important role in advancing the cause of Black-owned businesses. The award recognises non-Black individuals who have shown exceptional support for Black-owned businesses and have contributed to the advancement of Black economic empowerment. The award serves to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to encourage individuals of all backgrounds to support Black-owned businesses.

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No, at present there are no discount codes.

Yes, Please reply to the email sent to you.

You can choose to remain anonymous on the application form.

You will only be able to be voted for in one category, we will contact you if this is the case for you to decide which category you would like to be recognised in.

Nominee’s will be contacted after due diligence checks are completed.

Nominations Open 14th April 2023

For information on our categories, click here

No. After due-diligence checks, eligible nominees will be contacted. They may be asked to complete an additional questionnaire if enough information wasn’t supplied in the nominee application, in order to ascertain they are eligible.

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Only nominations placed on this website will be accepted.

You can nominate yourself.

You can nominate multiple people, businesses, colleagues – just repeat the nomination process for each person

Yes, Nominees have to be 18 and over.

You may nominate an individual for any category you think they fall into.