About the Business Awards 

The Bass Coast Business Awards highlight and acknowledge the achievements of local business. It is an opportunity for Bass Coast's business community to network and celebrate their successes. This year will be the 17th annual Bass Coast Business Awards. We encourage innovation and business excellence in our community. 

Judged Award Categories 

The judged categories are self-applied by Bass Coast-based businesses and events. Each category has a series of questions to answer which will be judged by an independent panel of experts from the business community. 

The judged awards are an opportunity for businesses to reflect on their achievements during the past year and showcase their business successes to the community. 

Please read the Terms and Conditions and category descriptions and questions before you start to assist with completing the application process.

If you're looking to nominate a business for the People's Choice Awards, head back to our website to vote.

How to complete your application

Saving your application as you go

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

Submitting your application

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.