The 2025 Winners
The winners of the 2025 Goole & Howdenshire Business Excellence Awards were an-nounced at a sell-out black tie awards ceremony on Friday evening, 11 April. They are…
New Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Danbrit): KeepSpace Storage.
Training and Development Award (sponsored by Bridge Employment Solicitors and HR Specialists): FMG Repair Services.
Charity of the Year Award (sponsored by Jos Richardson & Son): Goole and District Community Transport Group.
Hugh Walton Contribution to the Community Award (sponsored by H Walton Ltd): Rotary Club of Howden.
Environmentally Friendly Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce): Hawk Furniture.
Family Business of the Year (sponsored by Link Agency): 4 Cladding Services.
Marketing Excellence Award (sponsored by Fil): Selby College.
Large Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Chronicle Publications Ltd): Fullers Quality Bakers.
Team of the Year Award (sponsored by Fisher Security): William’s Den.
Long-standing Business of the Year (sponsored by Invest East Yorkshire): AM Dairies.
Self Employed/Micro Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Sowerby Chartered Accountants): Heartmade By Kirsty.
Small Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Grotech Productions Ltd): Yorkshire Financial Planning Limited.
Overall Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Siemens): Hawk Furniture.
The Tim Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Longthorp (OBE), a well known local farmer and businessman. Richard was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2011 for services to the farming industry and has also raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity.
Garrey Haase, Chair of the organising committee, which is made up of volunteers from the local business community, said: “Our panel of independent judges - Martin Usher of Grotech Production Limited; Phil Jones of Link Agency; Jan Bromby of For Entrepreneurs Only; and Paul Taylor of Filstorage - had the mammoth task of reading through a record number of entries this year. We’d like to thank them for giving up
their time to help us by whittling the entries down to come up with a really strong shortlist for each award category and then selecting our incredibly worthy winners.
“Huge congratulations to our winners, well done to everyone who was shortlisted and thank you to all those who took the time to enter.
“Finally, I’d like to thank my fellow committee members, without whom this popular annual celebration of businesses from the Goole and Howdenshire area wouldn’t happen at all.”
