Celebrating With Excellence 2026
The awards night may be over. What you’ve become part of isn’t.
Thursday 19 November | No. 1 Circle Square, Manchester
This November, we’re bringing the EVAS community back together in Manchester and this year, we’re making a day of it.
Our EVAS 2026 Winners will join us as our guests for Celebrating With Excellence, alongside finalists, sponsors, judges, partners, supporters and women from across the wider business community.
Because winning an EVA was never supposed to be the end of the story.
Some of the most valuable EVAS moments happen after the trophy has been handed over.
The introduction. The recommendation. The collaboration. The conversation that starts with “I’ve been meaning to speak to you…”. This is where we continue them.
Celebrating With Excellence is another opportunity to bring those relationships together and create some new ones.
Celebrating With Excellence
Success deserves more than one night.
From lunchtime, we’ll come together for an afternoon of connections, conversation, inspiration and celebration.
We’ll shine the spotlight once again on our EVAS 2026 Winners, hear from an EVAS winner about the story behind their success and create plenty of opportunities to reconnect with familiar faces and meet people you didn’t get the chance to speak to on awards night.
Expect:
- Lunch and time to connect
- EVAS Winners, finalists, sponsors, judges and supporters in the room
- An inspiring speaker from the EVAS community
- New introductions and conversations worth continuing
- Recognition of our 2026 Winners
- A few surprises along the way
Time to talk, celebrate and see where those conversations might lead.
You don’t have to be an EVAS Winner to join us.
Celebrating With Excellence has grown from our EVAS Winners Party, but this isn’t a winners-only event.
It’s a celebration with excellence.
A chance for women in business to meet some of this year’s winners, share experiences, make new connections and celebrate what’s being achieved by women across the UK.
Maybe you’re a finalist. Maybe you’ve judged, sponsored or supported the EVAS. Maybe you’re thinking about entering next year. Or perhaps this will be your first introduction to our community.
You’re welcome in the room.
Want to make a full day of it?
Global Entrepreneurship Week: Building Together
For 2026, Celebrating With Excellence forms part of a full-day WIB360 event celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week.
This year, there couldn’t be a more fitting theme. Very few successful businesses are built entirely alone. Behind the growth are customers, colleagues, mentors, suppliers, collaborators, advisers and the people who challenge us to think differently.
Building Together is about making more of those connections count.
The morning combines a powerful, practical masterclass with an interactive working session designed to get you thinking differently – and talking to women you may never have met before.
You’ll bring a real idea, challenge, ambition or opportunity from your business and work through it with a small peer group.
Different businesses. Different experiences. Different perspectives.
One morning could give you a fresh idea. The people you meet could help you do something with it.
Choose how you join us
GEW Morning – Building Together
Join the morning masterclass, interactive peer experience and networking as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Celebrating With Excellence – Afternoon
Join us for lunch followed by an afternoon of connections, inspiration and celebration with the EVAS community.
Full Day – Build + Celebrate
Start the morning working on what comes next for your business.
Spend the afternoon surrounded by women who show what’s possible.
Build what’s next. Celebrate how far you’ve come.
A room full of experience
The women joining us won’t all know each other. But they’ll have plenty in common. They’ve taken risks. Made difficult decisions. Started businesses. Built teams. Won clients. Lost clients. Changed direction. Backed themselves. Kept going when things didn’t quite go to plan. That experience has value.
Bring women at different stages of business together and there is always something we can learn from each other.
That’s what we want this day to create.
No. 1 Circle Square, Manchester
We’re delighted to be holding this year’s event at No. 1 Circle Square, with Bruntwood SciTech as our Venue Sponsor.
Circle Square is a thriving Manchester innovation campus bringing together global brands, start-ups and businesses across science, technology and creative digital sectors.
Part of the Bruntwood SciTech network, it’s designed around exactly the things this event is about innovation, growth, connection and collaboration.
The campus overlooks Symphony Park and is surrounded by cafés, restaurants and bars in the heart of Manchester. It’s approximately five minutes’ walk from Manchester Oxford Road station.
EVAS 2026 Winner?
This one’s on us. Every EVAS 2026 Winner will receive a complimentary invitation to the Celebrating With Excellence afternoon.
We’ll send booking details directly to our winners after the announcements in October.
If you’d also like to join us for the Global Entrepreneurship Week morning, you’ll be able to upgrade to the full-day experience. And yes, we’d love to see the trophy again too.
One day. Two experiences.
Spend the morning looking forward.
Spend the afternoon celebrating how far women in business have already come.
Come for Building Together.
Come for Celebrating With Excellence.
Or join us for both. Build what’s next. Celebrate how far you’ve come.
Put Your Brand in the Room
Want to be part of a day bringing together ambitious women in business, EVAS Winners, finalists, sponsors, judges and supporters?
We have a limited number of partnership and marketing opportunities for organisations that want to connect with our community, demonstrate their expertise and actively support women in business.
From partnering with our Building Together experience to event visibility, exhibitor opportunities and adding something special to our attendee goody bags, there are different ways to get involved.
This is about more than putting your logo on a screen. It’s about becoming part of the conversation.