Entry Terms and Conditions 2026

1. All products, initiatives and services must have been active in the UK after July 2025.
2. It is FREE to nominate and enter the Women & Diversity in Channel Awards, and winners will be announced in October.
3. Companies entered must have been trading in the UK for at least 12 months prior to the entry deadline.
4. Projects/programmes/initiative must have taken place between July 2025 and July 2026 and MUST be UK-based.
5. You may enter one or more of the categories but MUST stick to the word count. PDF entries and/or video entries are strongly encouraged but not mandatory. Please think of the judges when compiling your entry and avoid blocks of text.
6. ONE entry per category ONLY. If a company enters the same category with different business units, it will not count.
7. All material submitted will remain strictly confidential to the judges.
8. Descriptions of submissions from winners and finalists may be published in connection with the Awards. Entrants may, however, mark certain sensitive parts of their entry 'not for publication' such as exact budget figures/financial results etc.
9. The judges reserve the right to move entries to different categories if appropriate.
10. The judges reserve the right to disqualify any entry not meeting the expected standard of entry.
11. The judges’ decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into before or after the judging.
12. The Channel Company is not liable for any costs incurred by applicants in the evaluation and judging process.
13. CRN reserves the right to spike categories if they are not sufficiently entered.
14. Entries not made through the online submission system will not be accepted.
15. Shortlisted companies will be notified in advance of the presentation of the awards.
16. The winners and judges commended of each category will be announced on Awards day; under no circumstances will the details be disclosed before that time.
17. No entry will be read by someone from the same peer group – for example a distributor will not judge another distributor, a reseller will not judge another reseller, a vendor will not judge another vendor.
18. CRN is not obliged to provide feedback on individual entries that have either not made the shortlist or won an award.
19. Please stick to the deadline – it is there for a reason so the judges have enough time to read through them and CRN has enough time to prepare all the materials needed for the awards.