The Progressive Preschool Awards is returning to the Royal Lancaster London in 2025 – its 13th year – and entries for all categories are now open, including for the Eco Award.
Recognised as a benchmark in the baby and preschool sector, The Progressive Preschool Awards (held on 11 November 2025), celebrate excellence in product development, retailing, and marketing in the toy, nursery, and preschool product and retail sectors.
The Eco Award is for one product or range across all sectors in the 0-5 age range and will recognise and reward the credentials of a product/range on a sustainability front. Products must be new or significantly updated in the last calendar year (1 July 2024 to 1 July 2025) and must be being sold at retail.
Past winners of this award are:
2024
Nappies and Nappy Pants from Pura
2023
One Size Organic Bamboo Bedtime Pearl Reusable Nappy from Modern Cloth Nappies
2022
Fun To Learn Peppa Pig Bag O Fun Magazine from Redan Publishing
A quick guide for entering:
- Entries are online for 2025 via the dedicated awards portal: www.progressivepreschoolawards.co.uk
- Even if you’ve entered before, you’ll need to create a new account, which only takes a few minutes.
- You can enter as many products or ranges as you like, with a maximum of five products per range, as long as they meet the criteria.
- Products must be relevant for the 0-5 age range and have been launched and in retail between July 2024 and July 2025.
- Entries are completely free, and no samples are required.
- A panel of major and independent retail buyers, along with several specialist independent retailers, will judge the product categories.
The deadline for product entries is July 4th 2025.
“It is very exciting to be opening the portal for this year’s PPS Awards, the beginning of a process that sees fantastic entries, fierce judging sessions and lively roundtable debate,” said Rob Willis, director at Max Publishing, which owns and organises the Progressive Preschool Awards.
“The past year has seen some really interesting innovations across product, brave moves across retail and marketing prowess across the board, so we’re expecting this year’s slate of entries to have quality at the heart of them.”
For more information on the awards or the other categories up for grabs, visit progressivepreschoolawards.co.uk.
