Women who are avid DIY enthusiasts have a chance to step into the spotlight by entering the Brights Hardware Women in DIY Excellence Awards.
The competition aims to spotlight the creativity, skill and dedication of women who are running small businesses or transforming their homes and communities through innovative projects.
Orlando Luis, CEO of Brights Hardware, said they created the Women in DIY Excellence Awards to celebrate the women who are embracing their hobbies, those who are following their creativity and making an impact in their own lives, their family’s lives, and their communities through DIY, renovations and upcycling.
Categories
1. Outstanding DIY, home décor and repairs, renovations and artistic projects: Celebrates women who excel in various DIY endeavours. Whether it’s building, creating, repairing, or maintaining, these women showcase incredible talent and creativity through their projects.
2. Best eco-friendly, sustainability, upcycling and restoration: Dedicated to women passionate about sustainability. This includes those who upcycle, re-love and reuse furniture and other materials to create new and innovative products, as well as those involved in projects promoting energy efficiency and water conservation.
3. Exceptional social responsibility, community development and local empowerment initiatives: Honours women who use their DIY skills to give back to their communities. From painting murals in under-resourced schools, to building planters for community gardens or volunteering for community improvement projects, these women make a significant impact through their charitable efforts.
“Entrants can be women who are making a full-time living from their skills, those with side-line businesses, hobbyists and crafters who do it for their own enjoyment, those donating their time – basically any woman engaged in a creative field that fits into the above three categories,” explained Luis.
How to enter
• Choose a category that best fits your DIY projects or the person you are nominating.
• Provide a detailed summary of your or your nominees’ projects, Include as much information as possible, including the backstory of who, what, why, when and where, and include high-quality photographs of finished projects, or links to social media profiles or digital portfolios.
• Send your entry to brights@brights.co.za with the subject line indicating the category (example, competition entry category 1 – DIY).
• The deadline for submissions is midnight on July 31.
The three winners will be announced during Women’s Month (August).
The overall winner in each category will receive a R5 000 Brights voucher and a product hamper worth R5 000.
