With more award ceremonies cropping up every year, and many heavily based on sponsorship, it’s no surprise that the issue of integrity crops up regularly.

This year we are extremely proud to be sponsoring The Big Chip Awards and the whole team here at MLP Law is eager to get involved with an event that is so important amongst the North's digital community. The awards are known for being the longest running of their kind in the UK, so we’re expecting to see some great examples of the best digital businesses from across the North of England on the night.

Motion design company, Mighty Giant, won the Best Established Freelance/Micro-Enterprise Big Chip Award in 2014 for the range of different styles the business showed across their showreel. The judges said the ‘freshness’ demonstrated in their approach to projects such as those with Blue Peter, Conservative Home, and the Wright Way, won it for them. Since then, the business has started developing projects in new fields online and is now working on events, all whilst building a more varied client base in the process.

The Big Chip Awards has 20 awards categories, plus an additional two awards that are given out to those entries that have impressed the most that year.

This means there are 22 opportunities in total to pick up an award on the night, which this year will be held at Manchester’s historic Midland Hotel on Thursday 2nd July.

The categories