AWARDS PROCESS

• Visit futureiconsawards.com to choose which award you feel your product/service falls into. 

• You can either enter yourself or you can enter on someone’s behalf. 

• The entry form will ask for details about you, your brand (so we can get in touch), more information about your business/initiative/campaign and will also provide an opportunity to outline and back up why you believe you should win the chosen category. 

• Payment for the entry will be taken during the entry submission process

• Once entries have closed, the first round of judging will begin by Country & Town House and our Sustainability Partners Cyd Connects to curate a shortlist. 

• The shortlist will be passed onto our expert panel of guest judges who will collectively decide on each category’s winner.   

• The awards will be announced in November 2025.

• Challenges faced and how they were tackled
• Transparent communication without greenwashing 
• Social and environmental impact made over the past 12 months at a company, community and/or industry level
• Business/brand size (to make fair judgement on the amount of impact made)
• Documentation and quantifiable evidence to support entry
• Overall quality of the submission
  

Entries

Please make sure you carefully read the description of the category/ies you wish to enter.

Complete your chosen entry form and submit it online along with any supporting documents and appendices you wish to include. Make sure you keep to the word limit specified for each category entry (appendices are excluded from this count). Entries exceeding this word limit may be disregarded without refund of the fee at the discretion of the judges whose decision is final.

All entries must be received by the closing date specified on the Awards website. If you have not received confirmation of receipt of your entry before that date, please contact us at the email address specified for submission of entries on the Awards website.

By submitting an entry, you or a company representative agree to be available to attend a possible awards ceremony later in the year.

You also agree that if you are shortlisted or win an award of any level, Country & Town House may publicise the fact, using your company logo, descriptions and imagery, prior, at the event and after, online and/or in our relevant publications. Photographs taken during the ceremony may also be used for publicity after the event. If you do not wish to be identifiable in these photos, please contact [email protected]

Payment for entries

By submitting an entry to the awards, you agree to pay for your entry online via card payment when you submit your entry. The payment is calculated per entry, so if you enter more than one category you will be charged for each entry you make. All fees are non-refundable: Once you have submitted an entry to the Awards, we are unable to cancel or refund the payment.

Judging

The Future Icon Awards entries are judged by a distinguished panel of industry experts, hand-picked for their extensive knowledge and experience in their respective fields.

All judging will be done collaboratively to provide a well-informed final decision. Please note judges will not be allocated to categories that they themselves or their company have entered into.

All judging is confidential, and judges will not share any confidential information with anyone.

The judging panel's decision is final and binding, cannot be disputed and they will not provide any feedback to entrants.

Good Luck!