CEO Kim Bayley was presented with the top award for Best Longstanding Event at the Association Excellence Awards, recognising the work of UK trade associations.
She also collected a bronze award for ERA’s Entertainment Champion Awards in the category Best New Event.
ERA has masterminded the organisation and logistics of Record Store Day UK for the past 15 years during which it has become not just one of the biggest revenue-generating days for indie record shops, worth around £10m, but has also proven the catalyst for the vinyl revival and a sharp uptick in the number of independent record stores in the UK.
The judges said, “This is a great entry for a great event which stands out because it is unique in that it is not based in one place - it is based in hundreds of places around the UK with superb results.”
ERA’s Entertainment Champion Awards, which launched for the first time in 2023, aims to highlight notable figures who work behind the scenes of the entertainment industry.
The judges said it is “a personable, enjoyable and human-centred event, at odds with the brashness of the industry. A clever and successful counter-intuitive approach with a positive result. What a great initiative and alternative way of thinking. Lots of transferable learning here.”