Sheffield Chamber has designs on new prize

Wednesday, 14th September 2011

Budding metalwork designers in Sheffield are being given the opportunity to showcase their talent in front of the city’s business community at a prestigious award ceremony.

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Sheffield Business Awards, businesses, schools and colleges in the city are being invited to redesign the trophy handed out to the award winners during the glittering evening.

The Sheffield Business Awards, organised by Sheffield Chamber of Commerce in association with First for Business magazine, sees more than a 1,000 people from the city region’s business community gather for this prestigious and ever growing event, which forms a key part in an annual celebration of business achievement in the region for individuals, SMEs and larger organisations.

Angela Wall, events manager at Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, said: “This is an excellent opportunity for business of all sizes and students alike to come up with a creative and innovative design to capture the attention of the people of Sheffield.

“The Sheffield Business Awards are all about celebrating the city’s successes, and what better way to do this than honouring the designer and showcasing their work in front of the city’s top business people.”

The winning design must be able to be manufactured from pewter, be no more than 40 centimetres in height and include space for the ‘Made in Sheffield’ stamp, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce logo and an area to engrave four lines of text.

Designs can be submitted as Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings or be hand drawn, but must clearly show the trophy’s dimensions.

Submissions in electronic form should be emailed to design@scci.org.uk and hand drawn designs can be scanned and emailed to the same address, or posted to SCCI Design Department, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Albion House, Savile Street, Sheffield, S4 7UD.

The winner will be selected by Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and will be announced next month (October). The lucky designer will receive two VIP tickets to the Awards evening, which is sponsored by Elevation Recruitment and takes place on 19 January at Ponds Forge International Sports Centre.

Deadline for design submissions is 30 September 2011. For more information please contact the Sheffield Chamber on (0114) 0114 201 8930.

To find out more about the Sheffield Business Awards visit www.sheffieldbusinessawards.org.uk