This Is Manchester: 2025 Award Categories

This Is Manchester have 24 prestigious award categories and take place on 6th November 2025. The deadline for nominations is Monday - 1st September.

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Imagine denying the world the Manchester music scene? Would we have had to forgo the Free Trade Movement? We may have never invented the computer or Graphene, or Atomic Theory, Vegetarianism, the first submarine, competitive football, or the Rolls Royce?

With grit and wit, the Mancunian way is world class. It runs deep in its people and has reached a global audience through decades of history.

This is Manchester.

Award categories include: Hospitality, Live Events & Entertainment, Arts & Culture, Fashion, Technology, Business, Well-being, and Sport.

Please ensure your entry is based on the previous 12 months unless otherwise stated. Once you have completed your nominations, you can save and amend your entry until our official entry deadline midnight Sunday 1st September

For support with writing nominations, please see our Nomination Toolkit

Entries must be submitted by companies themselves. If you are submitting an entry or nominating a third party, please make them aware. Individuals and Organisation can enter multiple categories.

This Is Manchester may merge or split categories depending on entries. We also reserve the right to move entries into a different category should we consider it a better fit, however, we will consult organisations & individuals before doing so.

All recipients and shortlisted are carefully selected by our expert industry judging panel. All shortlisted will be contacted directly and announced after the official deadline has closed. 

Please ensure all information submitted is accurate and checked, if your entry is shortlisted, this will be announced across This Is Manchester Awards event marketing, and across regional and some national media outlets. 

Please do ensure to follow our social media pages across IG, X, LinkedIn and Facebook for updates.If you have any queries, please contact us directly [email protected]

The deadline for nominations is Monday – 1st September

2025 Award Categories

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