For entry queries please call Lucy Trevor on 020 3033 2661
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The awards will recognise and champion service providers who have worked in close partnership with a council or group of councils to deliver quality services.

Showcase the cost effective and innovative services you supply to local authorities and the successes you have achieved through...

• Exposure on LGCplus: all shortlisted entries will be featured as case studies on LGC's popular news website and daily email alert
• Feature in LGC: winning entries will be profiled in the pages of the magazine
• Prestigious judges: shortlisted entrants will be invited to present to a panel leading council chiefs and key figures, including LGC Editor Emma Maier
• Judges' report: all shortlisted entries will receive feedback from the panel
• Demonstrate excellence: winners and finalists receive an LGC Business Partnership Award medal to use on your marketing material
• PLUS: every entrant organisation will receive a quarter page advert and an EXCLUSIVE subscription offer for LGC

Councils are coming to terms with the largest front loaded cuts to their budgets for decades and are making real organisation change to ensure continued delivery of high quality services.

This means change for suppliers to councils. Rates and terms need to be increasingly competitive, but as councils' move towards outsourcing and partnership working, there are huge opportunities too. If organisations can demonstrate their commitment to working with councils in true partnership they have a unique opportunity to create new working relationships and capture new business.

If you are more than just a supplier, are helping shape organisational change and are delivering excellence through your relationship with a council or group of councils, enter the LGC Business Partnership Awards to have this contribution nationally recognised by the only magazine for local government read by chief executives and directors across the UK.

We look forward to judging your entry and recognising your work as an outstanding business partner to UK councils.

Emma Maier
Editor, Local Government Chronicle