Home topics news News News Free entry open for Trades & Women’s Small Business Champion Awards Yajush Gupta May 20, 2024 Entries have officially opened to two prestigious and comprehensive Small Business Champion Awards programmes, dedicated to honouring the best of Australia’s tradies and female-led small businesses. FREE online entry to the 2024 Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards is now available until 5.00pm (AEST) on Thursday 4 July 2024. FREE online entry to the 2024 Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards will remain open until 5.00pm (AEST) on Wednesday 26 June 2024. The 2024 Australian TRADES Small Business Champion Awards: Especially relevant this year as the nation grapples with a housing shortage and urgent need for more skilled tradespeople, the second annual Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards pertinently pays tribute to the vital role of small businesses in the trade sector as the backbone of the nation’s construction industry, and a significant contributor to Australia’s overall social and economic prosperity. The nation’s only recognition awards programme dedicated to spotlighting trades-based small business operators from all corners of every Australian state and territory, the Awards further recognise trades-based small business owners’ invaluable contributions to their local communities and to their fields of specialty – including their encouragement of future generations of Aussie tradies. From builders and bricklayers to arborists, architects, engineers, commercial cleaners, plumbers, painters, locksmiths, electricians, gardeners, landscapers and surveyors, the Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards is deliberately diverse in terms of the breadth of represented trades.