Enter the BESA Awards 2027

Evidence and Impact Awards

This award recognises organisations that can demonstrate their products and services’ impact on teachers and learners in the UK and overseas.

Primary – Outstanding Curriculum and Assessment Resource

This award celebrates the resources that play a crucial role in enriching curriculum and assessment, including learning materials, books, curriculum resources (online and paper), and assessment solutions.

Secondary – Outstanding Curriculum and Assessment Resource

This award celebrates the resources that play a crucial role in enriching curriculum and assessment, including learning materials, books, curriculum resources (online and paper), and assessment solutions.

Outstanding Educational Furniture and Equipment

This award recognises the positive impact of high-quality educational furniture, equipment and installations, including classroom furniture, specialist furnishings, storage solutions, outdoor structures, and playground equipment, on the learning environment. We celebrate organisations that deliver durable, safe, innovative and value-for-money solutions used across UK educational settings.

Outstanding Support Service

This award recognises excellence in service provision to educational institutions. From finance, HR, and payroll to IT services, compliance, and recruitment, this award is for those delivering indispensable support that enables educational institutions to thrive.

Outstanding Training and Career Development

This award recognises those organisations that can demonstrate the impact their products and services are making on enriching training and career development for teachers.

Outstanding SEND Resource or Service

This award recognises excellence in specialist provision of learning materials, physical products or services to support pupils with SEND.

Outstanding Early Years Resource or Service

This award recognises excellence in the specialist provision of learning materials, physical products, or services to support early years pupils and education.

School and Supplier Collaboration

This award is for partnerships that demonstrate outstanding innovation, service, and impact on educational outcomes between a supplier and school. If your collaboration has brought about significant improvements in learning experiences or environments, we want to spotlight your success.

Sustainability and Social Impact Award

This award recognises organisations that can demonstrate they are playing a crucial role in supporting a move to net zero within their organisation or helping schools and the education industry go green, including curriculum resources, training, products or initiatives.

New! Best Skills Resource, Programme, or Training Provider

This award recognises organisations delivering outstanding skills development, professional learning, teacher training, CPD, careers education, employability programmes, workforce development, or future skills initiatives. The award is open to training providers, skills organisations, CPD providers, and those helping learners or educators develop the knowledge and skills needed for future success.

Best Use of AI in Education

This award recognises those organisations that can demonstrate the impact their products are making on teachers and learners.

Exporter of the Year

This award recognises an organisation that has demonstrated growth overseas in direct sales or via a partnership through a well-executed export strategy.

Start-up of the Year

This award celebrates an organisation that has launched this year and can demonstrate their impact on teachers, learners, schools and the education industry.

Best Place to Work

This award recognises organisations that foster an environment where excellence is pursued and cultivate a culture of trust and openness, recognising contributions and achievements and supporting diversity, inclusion and wellbeing.

Team of the Year

This award recognises teams of all sizes, be it a department, project team, or even an informal group within an organisation, that has displayed remarkable teamwork and collaboration.

Women in Education Award

This award recognises a remarkable woman for ground-breaking contributions to the industry, celebrating innovators who are driving inclusion, impact, and excellence in education.

Inspirational Leader

This award recognises CEOs, managers, and industry leaders who bring out the utmost potential in their teams, offering invaluable insights, providing clear guidance, achieving remarkable outcomes and pioneering industry advancements.

Rising Star – Free to enter for BESA Members

This award celebrates a remarkable individual who has made a pivotal contribution to their organisation, displays the values that make them critical members of their team, demonstrates exceptional talent, and is in the early stages of their career or is new to the industry.

New! Volunteer of the Year

This award celebrates an individual working for an educational supplier who has made an outstanding voluntary contribution to education, schools, young people, or their community. This may include serving as a school governor or trustee, supporting a PTA, participating in reading schemes, mentoring programmes, fundraising initiatives, community projects, or other forms of volunteering that make a positive difference.

Outstanding Contribution – Free to enter for BESA Members

This award recognises a remarkable individual who has made a substantial contribution to their organisation, the education sector, or the wider industry through collaboration, partnership, leadership, mentoring, volunteering, advocacy, or support. We seek someone whose impact extends beyond the boundaries of their role and whose contribution has made a meaningful difference to others.