Club Hub Awards 2027

Attraction or Venue of the Year

Sponsorship Available

For a business in the children’s activities industry that provides outstanding experiences for children and families through a dedicated venue, attraction or destination. This could include activity centres, play venues, farms, zoos, event spaces and family attractions.

Biggest Growth of the Year

Sponsored by Surge Online

For a business in the children’s activities industry that has demonstrated significant growth and development over the past year. This could include increased bookings, expansion of services, team growth or reaching new audiences.

Community Champion of the Year

Sponsorship Available

For a business in the children’s activities industry that is making a positive difference within its local community. This could include supporting local families, fundraising, partnerships, charitable initiatives or community outreach projects.

NEW: Customer Experience Award

Sponsored by Your Video Team

For a business in the children’s activities industry that consistently delivers an exceptional experience for its customers. This could include outstanding communication, ease of booking, customer service, use of technology and engagement with families.

NEW: Early Years Excellence Award

Sponsorship Available

For a business in the children’s activities industry that demonstrates excellence in supporting the learning, development and wellbeing of babies and young children. This award is open to childminders, nurseries, preschools and other early years class leaders.

Entrepreneur of the Year

Sponsorship Available

For a person in the children’s activities industry who has demonstrated exceptional vision, innovation and business success. This award recognises an entrepreneur who has grown a thriving business while making a positive impact on children and families.

Family Business of the Year

Sponsored by STA

For a business in the children’s activities industry with two or more family members actively involved in running the business. This award celebrates strong family values, business success and positive impact on children and families.

Rising Franchise Award (with up to 15 Franchisees)

Sponsorship Available

For a franchise in the children’s activities industry with up to 15 franchisees that has shown exceptional potential, growth and support for its franchisees. Only the creator or owner of the franchise may enter this category.

Franchise Brand of the Year (with more than 15 Franchisees)

Sponsorship Available

For a well established franchise in the children’s activities industry with more than 15 franchisees that demonstrates excellence across its network. This award recognises strong leadership, franchisee support, innovation and business success.

Franchisee of the Year

Sponsorship Available

For a franchisee in the children’s activities industry who has successfully grown and developed their franchisee business. This award recognises dedication, business success and positive impact within their area.

Inclusive Business of the Year

Sponsored by Blackwells.Biz

For a business in the children’s activities industry that is committed to creating accessible and inclusive opportunities for all children and families. This could include support for SEND, diversity, equality, financial accessibility and family participation.

Jen was born with Down’s syndrome and says, “With the right support at the right time we can go further and further”.

Out of frustration, with Jen already 28, the Blackwells created DanceSyndrome in 2009, where everyone matters and all are encouraged to lead happy, healthy and purposeful lives.

Jen, Sue and DanceSyndrome are international multi-award-winning leaders of change, disrupting the status quo and challenging perceptions and systems where necessary. They live life from the foundation of the art of the possible, whatever label or perceived ability are attached to ourselves or others, by taking one step at a time.

The Blackwells encourage everyone to follow their dreams. Jen’s mantra, ‘Dream, Believe, Achieve’ is available to everyone no matter the label, financial resources, perceived ability or cultural background.

https://blackwells.biz/inclusion/

Independent Business of the Year

Sponsored by Trustist

For a business in the children’s activities industry that operates independently and has demonstrated excellence, innovation and outstanding service. This award celebrates businesses that are not part of a franchise network.

Trustist help businesses by aggregating reviews from all platforms into one easy-to-understand rating, leading to Trustist becoming one of the most widely used review platforms in the children’s activities industry. The Trustist Reviews platform is designed to be straight forward, providing a solution for easy collection and management of reviews through which businesses can expect to get more traffic to their website and more reviews to show off to potential customers!

Recently, the Trustist team have created two new products, TrustistTransfer and TrustistEcommerce, which aim to streamline the payment collection process for all businesses. By using Open Banking technology, TrustistTransfer and TrustistEcommerce allow businesses to benefit from reduced transaction fees, improving their payment processes and keeping their business safe with 0% risk of chargebacks! In early 2024, TrustistTransfer integrated with Apple Pay and Google Pay to enable customers to use their smartphones to complete payments.

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NEW: Industry Champion

Sponsorship Available

For a person in the children’s activities industry who has made an outstanding contribution to the wider sector. This award recognises individuals who support, inspire and champion others while helping to raise standards and create positive change across the industry.

NEW: Small Business Champion

Sponsorship Available

For a business in the children’s activities industry with fewer than five staff members that consistently delivers exceptional value to children and families. This award celebrates passion, resilience, innovation and business success within a small team.

Start-Up of the Year

Sponsored by Daisy First Aid

For a business in the children’s activities industry that has been trading for less than three years at the time of the Club Hub Event 2027 in May and has shown outstanding promise, creativity and early success.

Daisy First Aid believes that every children’s activity provider should have access to great quality, affordable paediatric first aid training.

If a child has an accident or becomes poorly in a class we want both the activity provider and the carer to feel confident that the child is given the best care before medical professionals take over.

We are so proud to yet again sponsor these amazing awards and meet so many incredible businesses.

www.daisyfirstaid.com/

Supplier of the Year

Sponsorship Available

For a supplier serving the children’s activities industry that provides exceptional products, services or support. This could include booking systems, insurance providers, training companies, software providers, equipment, uniform and more.

Sponsor’s Choice Award

Sponsored by Book That In

Following the announcement of the category winners, our Headline Sponsor will review and rank the finalists before selecting one outstanding entrant to receive the Sponsor’s Choice Award. This special award recognises a finalist who has particularly impressed the sponsor and stood out amongst an exceptional group of finalists.

Designed with children’s activity providers in mind, Book That In is the online booking system that gives you powerful booking functionality at small business prices, so you can really compete with the big boys. Dedicated to being the best booking system in the UK at helping you to grow, the intuitive and easy-to-use platform looks great on your website, is hugely flexible, and helps you to attract new customers.

Learn more and book a demo at bookthatin.com – quote CLUBHUB to claim a free done-for-you migration service worth £99.

The Top 100 Children’s Activity Providers list is back for 2027 and is offered as an additional entry option for Club Hub members. The Top 100 is a standalone, judged entry. There is a separate panel of judges and the focus will be on 5 key areas: Activity Benefits, Safeguarding, Inclusivity, Community Impact and Business Achievements.

Top 100 applications are open to individual children’s activity providers. You must be personally teaching classes or running activities in the UK to take part.

The Club Hub Event 2027 will take place on Saturday 8th May 2026. 10am to 6pm at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham.

By entering you confirm that you are able to attend as attendance and proof of intention may be required for your application to progress to the next stage.

Sponsored by Thrive4Activities