Awards
SBA Awards celebrating local small business...
I was fortunate to be the recipient of the 2019 Innovation Seeker Award. The application process was very straightforward and while there were some searching questions to answer, it really helped me to focus on the reasons why I had embarked on this journey.
Like many small business owners, it can be pretty lonely trying to bring your ideas to fruition. For me, the biggest benefit was to gain some corroboration that I was on the right path, which gave me the confidence to push on. I am indebted to the Stirling Business Association for their support and recognition. I cannot recommend the Awards highly enough.
Ian von Berg
Wealthguide Australia - Innovation Seeker 2019
Award categories
Find out more about our Award Categories below.
Agile Business
Recognising the adaptability of business to changing market conditions or customer needs, and ability to critically review strategies to adapt and ensure growth or survival.
Digital Pioneer
Recognising businesses who have adopted digital technologies to improve processes or developed new digital solutions for existing problems.
Home Based Hero
Recognising exceptional home based businesses who choose to operate from the convenience of their home but still have a significant positive impact within the business community.
Inspiring Leader
Recognising authentic, positive leadership that demonstrates effective relationships with staff, customers, suppliers and wider networks.
Community Champion
Recognising the outstanding community organisations, not-for-profits or charities who provide significant social contribution to the Stirling community.
Emerging Business
Recognising exciting, new businesses who have been trading for less than two years but have the potential for significant positive impact within the community.
Innovation Seeker
Recognising the entrepreneurial use of innovation to make positive changes either within the business or on a broader scale.
Mayor's Visionary Award
Recognising the impact and contribution of Stirling businesses to the local business community.
Sustainability Crusader
Recognising sustainable business practices that best protects the needs of future generations.
Judging panel for 2023
Our Awards would not be the success they are without the support of an experienced team of judges. Their combined expertise is second to none, elevating the credibility of our award categories.
CEO, WA Leaders
AS CEO of WA Leaders and founder of the CFO Centre Australia, Rupen is able to indulge his passion of supporting business growth and inspiring the next generation of leading companies by surrounding them with the knowledge and networks required to support this growth.
Rupen Kotecha is a strategically and commercially minded UK qualified Chartered Accountant now based in Perth with extensive experience in the aviation and freight industries as well as in the field of logistics.
Having spent three years as CFO on the Board of British Airways Regional Cargo, he has extensive experience in restructuring, merger and disposal of businesses.
Prior to this he worked as CFO for an international logistics and supply chain company. He was responsible for running their UK, Hong Kong & China business units. This included setting up JVs in Hong Kong. He has also worked as a business analyst for a management consulting company with exposure to the likes of Shell, British Gas and Ford. In addition he has had further international exposure through Herbalife Europe where his work included assisting businesses in The Netherlands and Norway.
Over his career to-date, which has included exposure to global organisations, Rupen has acquired invaluable knowledge and experience of the problems and opportunities facing large and small businesses in sales, operational and financial areas.
Evolution Partners
With a Bachelor Degree in Computing Science and an MBA in General Management, Andres is an International strategy growth coach with more than 15 years of experience leading and developing high-performance leadership teams on three continents. Having experienced his own Start Up, Grow Up and Scr@w Up, and later Major Growth, Andres has a deep understanding for business growth needs.
Driven by his relentless passion for learning and empowering entrepreneurs, Andres also has a Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching, International Scaling Up Certification and continues to learn and certify in Extended DISC profiler and Lean Six Sigma. Working with CEOs and their leadership teams, Andres experience extends across various industries with companies from 10 to 19000 staff.
Founder and Principal of Vitil People Solutions, established 2008, Vanessa focuses on creating environments where people can thrive and grow. A boutique HR consulting firm, Vitil provides flexible, reliable and affordable outsourced human resource support, people solutions and recruitment services to SMEs across multiple industries. Having experience running businesses for over 30 years, the lessons learned means that people remain the focus to running a successful business.
Sue Papadoulis is an ex journalist and founder of national publicity company Profile Media, which focusses on delivering results without the PR-firm hype.
Sue spent 10 years in radio and television within WA and London. That experience was then backed by 12 years in public relations and government corporate communications arenas where she dealt at a ministerial level with issues management around contentious projects.
Sue is also the founder of The Good News Movement – her own content channel aimed at promoting positive stories in the media.
Sue holds a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing and has co-authored three books relating to business success.
Congratulations to our 2021 winners
It was an honour to recognise and acknowledge the impact our small business are having within the dynamic Stirling business community at our Gala Awards Dinner. Congratulations to our finalists and winners.
presented by City of Stirling and Stirling Business Association
WINNER
Perway Construction Services
Congratulations to our 2019 winners
It was an honour to recognise and acknowledge the impact our small business are having within the dynamic Stirling business community at our Gala Awards Dinner. Congratulations to our finalists and winners.
Plumbing Bros
Congratulations to our 2018 winners
Our Gala Awards Dinner was certainly an evening of celebration, success, unity, connection and inspiration.
We are very proud of our dynamic business community and wish to congratulate our 2018 winners:
2017 Small business awards
Our 2017 Small Business Awards took place at the Rendezvous Hotel Perth Scarborough on Friday 19 May 2017.
Congratulations to our 2017 Winners: