2026 Award Sponsors

Platinum Sponsor

AB Walker

AB Walker is a trusted, independent funeral directors in Bracknell, proudly serving Berkshire for 200 years. AB Walker provide compassionate funeral services, direct cremation options, bespoke funeral plans & bereavement aftercare for every family, helping you plan a respectful service with professional guidance on traditional, modern & multi-faith options.

Platinum Sponsor

Bracknell BID

Bracknell Business Improvement District (BID) is a business-led, not-for-profit partnership established in 2020 to enhance the trading environment in the Southern and Western Business Areas of Bracknell, known as the ‘BID Area’. The BID funds projects and initiatives that directly benefit businesses within the area, reflecting their needs, while fostering continuous investment and supporting growth.

Spanning approximately 400 acres, the BID area is home to over 300 businesses across a diverse range of sectors, including retail, industrial, office, technology, logistics, manufacturing, and professional services. These businesses are vital to the local economy and have national and international significance.

Platinum Sponsor

Content Guru

Content Guru powers mission-critical CX, bringing together AI, communications, systems of record and IoT technologies into a single environment, storm^®. Trusted by large enterprises and public organisations in the UK and globally, including the NHS, UK Power Networks, DVLA, and Tesco Bank, Content Guru delivers resilience, scalability and intelligence across every interaction.

Bringing together its four ‘omni’ pillars, Content Guru is powering massive efficiency gains and cost savings in sectors such as financial services, retail, travel, healthcare, utilities and public sector, whilst simultaneously driving up customer satisfaction. Its clients consistently score at the top of their industries in customer satisfaction and demonstrate faster returns on their investments.

Platinum Sponsor

Easthampstead Park Hotel

Easthampstead Park is a beautiful Country House Hotel set in the gorgeous Berkshire countryside. Surrounded by 80 acres of woodland, parkland and formal gardens. This magnificent Victorian Mansion Hotel is perfect for weddings, special events & for a variety of corporate conferences, meetings training workshops & team away days.

Platinum Sponsor

Nike Group

The Nike Group is a privately owned limited company, now being managed by the “Second Generation”. From the luxury hotel to facilities for the leisure sports of skiing, supported by everything from manufacturing, builder’s merchandising and a petrol station.

The companies that make up the Nike Group may be diverse, in both location and business interests, but they do have something in common – they are all actively involved in the communities in which they are situated. Whether it be charity work, caring for the environment, or community support, the companies and their staff strive to give something back to the local area.

Platinum Sponsor

Shorts Group Ltd

Shorts Group is a family-owned, industry-leading business providing high-quality services across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey, and surrounding counties. The company specialises in waste management, skip hire, plant and tool hire, demolition, bagged materials, and agricultural contracting, and has grown steadily since its founding by David Short in 1957. Sustainability drives all operations through a “zero to landfill” approach, while Shorts Group actively partners with local organisations, schools, and charities to support the community.

Gold Sponsor

TSI World

TSI World is focussed on ICT service delivery to the education sector. It offers a range of IT support services and solutions created specifically to suit schools, academies, and colleges in their day to day operations. TSI`s ethos is to understand how schools operate across all their different areas and to then apply the right technologies and services to improve this. TSI believe it is vital to understand how the school wishes and needs to deliver the curriculum and design the technology solution to support those wishes and needs. They do not believe in forcing Schools into narrow ways of working with their ICT. ‘Let the Curriculum lead the Technology’ and not the other way around.

Offerings include:

• IT onsite and remote support services
• Cloud based data backup
• Internet and web filtering services
• Networking and Wifi services
• A/V solutions
• Anti-virus solutions
• Telephone system

Silver Sponsor

Cadence

Silver Sponsor

Abri