Winning a Bendigo Business Excellence Award was such a buzz for us last year that we’re throwing our support behind the event in 2018.

The Social Enterprise of the Year category success delivered nice recognition to our organisation and honoured the dedicated staff who deliver more than 50 programs and services to the community each week.

The application process was excellent because it actually made us stop for a minute and look closely at the great things we are doing for the community and why they're successful.

A new group of successful Bendigo businesses will be rewarded for the great things they do this year.

We’re sponsoring the People’s Choice Award – a category recognising businesses held in high regard by the community and ultimately the one people choose to love the most.

It’s our way of giving back to the Bendigo Business Excellence Awards and supporting Be.Bendigo who share our ambition of making this community a better place.

So we ask our friends, partners and consumers to please support the People’s Choice category of the Bendigo Business Excellence Awards by visiting http://bbea.com.au/ and nominating your favourite Bendigo business – a nice way to say thanks for the wonderful service they afford you.

The 2018 Bendigo Business Excellence Awards launch was hosted by last year's business of the year Frankie and Co this week and how inspiring to hear the story of how the honour has continued the success story of a young Bendigo business doing such great things.

It's time to find and honour the next Frankie and Co success story.

Good luck all.