1/ First, we recommend familiarising yourself with our categories, our entry fees, our key dates, and our eligibility / criteria.
2/ Entry opens on 4th January 2027, when our online entry forms will be made available until the entry closing date, 14th February 2027. Once entrants complete and submit their entry forms, they receive an automatic notification that organisers have received them.
3/ Once organisers check that entries satisfy our criteria, we will send an acceptance note to the entrant. This will include an ENTRANT logo that brands may use to share their participation in the Awards on social media, and a request to send us six samples of each entry.
4/ Organisers will ‘welcome’ entrants to the Awards on their social media channels.
5/ Two samples of each entry will be sent out to four appropriate testers from our database of experienced product testers. (The other two samples will be reserved for our judging panels, and for photography / reference / back-up / display / potential further testing.)
6/ Feedback from our testers will be taken forward and presented to our judging panels during live judging sessions in Spring. Judges will combine their opinions and views on all entries with those of testers in order to reach decisions on all winners and medallists.
7/ Winners will be announced, again through our social media channels, in June.
8/ Winning logos will be sent to all winners.
9/ Tester and judges feedback on all entries is available on request once the results have been announced.
10/ The organisers will send press releases to relevant media outlets and lifestyle bloggers, and support winning brands in doing likewise to their own contacts, advising on securing publicity on their successes through, for example, local media outlets.