Enter the Seahaven Business Awards 2025
Contact usThese awards celebrate professionalism, creativity, innovation, resilience and business excellence.
We are delighted to announce that the Seahaven Business Awards 2025 will take place on Friday 9 May 2025 at a glittering Awards Ceremony and Dinner. Our celebrity host for the evening is John Young, a BBC presenter and reporter for over 30 years.
Our 2025 awards are now open for entries and nominations.
The awards are open for entries from all businesses, and you don’t have to be a member of a local Chambers of Commerce to enter.
Enter via the online form or download an entry/nomination form.
Entries welcomed from Newhaven, Seaford, Peacehaven & Telscombe areas.
The SBA awards are for all businesses located or operating in the Seahaven area (Seaford, Newhaven, Peacehaven and Telscombe district). We are keen to invite a wide range of entries from a wide variety of businesses.
As your local chambers of commerce, Newhaven, Seaford and Peacehaven & Telscombe district provide this unique opportunity for local businesses and business people to showcase their success and raise their company’s profile.
Why enter the Seahaven Business Awards?
Nominating a business or person, or putting forward your own business, is free and easy. Completing an application form will showcase some of the great things that you, and your staff, have done over the past year or two and highlight your achievements.
Eight award categories:
Business of the Year – sponsored by The Newhaven Enterprise Zone
Business Person of the Year – sponsored by Swindell’s Chartered Accountants
Best Environmental Business – sponsored by Fine Marketing
Best Customer Service – sponsored by The Sussex Sign Company
Best New Business (under 2 years old as of 1/1/2025)) – sponsored by The Newhaven Enterprise Centre
Best Health, Fitness and Wellbeing Business – sponsored by Experience It Now Travel
President’s Award for Artistic Enterprise – sponsored by Mike Shorer Fine Jewellery
Lifetime Gold Business Award – sponsored by Tomsetts Distribution Ltd
New Lifetime Gold Business Award!
To celebrate our 20th Anniversary in 2025, jeweller Mike Shorer has designed a new trophy for the business who has achieved 20 years. This special trophy has been sponsored by Tomsetts Distribution and will be the highlight of the awards. Find out more about the criteria for this new award and how it was made.
Three businesses will be shortlisted in each category.
All finalists will be invited to the Awards Ceremony and Dinner at Amex Stadium, Falmer on Friday, 9 May 2025. Our VIP guests will include the Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex, the Vietnamese Ambassador for the UK and Ireland, H.E. Mr. Do Minh Hung and his wife, Mrs Dang Tu Anh, and our local MPs.
Many thanks to Gold Headline Sponsor Charles Cox Property Group, Silver Sponsor Lewes District Council, Bronze Sponsor Newhaven Port & Properties, Cleankill Pest Control, Leather4craft, AuroraHR, V R Flowers & Son, Seaford’s Secret Fairy Bookshop, Arlette Florist, Seahaven FM and our seven trophy sponsors mentioned above.
On the judging panel will be consist of the three Chamber of Commerce Presidents from Seaford, Newhaven and Peacehaven; James MacCleary, MP and Ana Christie, CEO of Sussex Chamber of Commerce.
Closing date for nominations is Friday 14 March, 2025. The winners will receive trophies designed by Mike Shorer Fine Jewellery.
On behalf of Newhaven Chamber of Commerce, we wish you the best of luck.
