Applications are now open for the King’s Awards for Enterprise 2027 and will remain open until Tue 8th September 2026. In order to encourage more applications for the Award in Scotland, an on-line briefing will be held for Scottish Companies by the Department of Business and Trade KAE team on Tuesday 16th June at 2.00 pm.

The briefing will cover an overview the Awards, highlighting changes for 2027 along with an introduction to the new the Young Founder Award. There will be also an opportunity to hear about the value of the Award from Scottish Companies who are recent winners in each of the categories of:

• innovation
• international trade
• sustainability
• promoting opportunity through social mobility

The briefing will last no more than an hour. Companies who are interested in attending the briefing should register their interest by emailing the Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire, regional lead for KAE in Scotland by Thu 11 June 2026 at: petermccarthy554@aol.com

Please provide the following detail:
• Name of company
• Details of who will be joining the briefing
• Contact email address

A Teams link to join the meeting together with an agenda will be circulated to attendees on Fri 12 June.

As a reminder, KAE recipients exemplify the finest talent, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit of British business.

To be eligible to apply, organisations must be based in the UK with at least two full-time UK employees (or part-time equivalents) and be a self-contained enterprise under its own management arrangements with its own accounts.

The King’s Awards for Enterprise are free to enter and open to organisations from the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Organisations can apply for more than one category of the Award.
Successful organisations are announced on 6 May, Coronation Day each year.

I look forward to welcoming as many Scottish Companies as possible to the briefing on 16 June.

Peter T McCarthy
HM Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire