Central Coast businesses are being encouraged to enter the 2024 Australian Trades Small Business Champion Awards which are especially relevant this year as the nation grapples with a housing shortage and urgent need for more skilled tradespeople. The nation’s only recognition awards program 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. There are more than 50 award categories and five individual categories – Apprentice Champion, Champion Tradie, Small Business Trades Entrepreneur (aged over 30), Young Small Business Trades Entrepreneur (aged 30 and younger), and Trades Champion Leader.
This marks the second consecutive year of the Trades Awards, created to celebrate and inspire the nation’s most innovative, dynamic, and top-performing tradies. “Small business owners in trade industries are crucially important to Australia,” Awards Founder and Managing Director of Precedent Productions Steve Loe said. “Their contributions to this country are simply astronomical and so, it’s in the interests of all Australians to recognise the champions of this sector and in doing so, consider how we can better support them so they can continue to support us.
This is the third consecutive.
