OIA UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2025 – FINAL DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES ON 28TH MAY

If you have a new outdoor product that you’d like to get in front of up to a million consumers, now is the time to enter that product into the UK Outdoor Industry Awards 2025. The final deadline for entries is next Tuesday, 28th May 2024, but earlier entries would be appreciated to plan the display area. Make sure that your product is on display at OTS 2024 and to potentially thousands of consumers!

FIRST JUDGES ANNOUNCED!

• Nat Jackson, Outward Bound Trust
• Tom Cain, SportsShoes.com
• Cath Casey, The Climbers Shop & Joe Brown Shops
• Adele Sousta, JD Outdoor
  and more to be confirmed.

Finalists will be announced on the second day of the Show at the OTS Social, with online consumer voting between November 2024 and February 2025, and the winners announced at the 2025 OIA Conference.

There are 10 categories:

• Accessories including tools, food, gadgets, lighting, first aid, etc.
• Backpacks/Travel Luggage including wash bags, mobile phone bags
• Camping Equipment including furniture, stoves, cutlery
• Climbing Equipment including crampons, ice axes, helmets
• Clothing including clothing accessories – gloves, socks, hats, belts
• Footwear including insoles
• Sleeping sleeping bags, mats, pillows
• Sustainability innovation, functionality, use of materials, performance not fashion, appearance, circularity in the life cycle of the product – supply evidence to back up all sustainability claims which will be reviewed and validated
• Tech Accessories including Sports watches, GPS, Cameras, apps
• Tents/Awnings including tents, awnings, trailer tents, bivvy bags

The judging panel will ratify the winners of all categories and from these, choose the overall Product of the Year 2025. The winners will be announced at the OIA AGM & Conference 2025 in front of 150 industry colleagues.