April 2024 – Building Innovation Awards.  Congratulations to the team at UK Business Events Ltd who have successfully managed to gain an Advanced Level Trust Mark for their Building Innovation Awards. These are very well-run awards with clear transparency on judging process, fees and a well organised feedback process for both winners and those that just missed out. It is great to have the UK construction industry able to gain recognition  for their innovations and modernisation via these awards which are run openly and fairly. Well done to everyone involved!   

April 2024 – Multiple awards run by All Things Business. We are delighted to announce that the Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards and Northamptonshire Education Awards and The Milton Keynes Education Awards all successfully re-accredited their outstanding award schemes. Feedback from entrants and judges alike, really stood out to The IASC with comments such as: “…the team at All Things Business are absolutely amazing and so, so lovely” and “The judging process is very well organised with dates and expectations provided well in advance along with reminders…The awards ceremony was amazing and really had “the wow factor”. Congrats again to All Things Business, a regional team showing how it can be done.

March 2024 – Arab Intelligence and Creativity Awards. We are delighted to announce a first-time accreditation for these credible awards which seek to support and encourage innovation and creativity across the Arab world. The criteria has been met for transparency, with a clear judging process, good communication with entrants and openness of fees and entry requirements. Congratulations to the organisers upon achieving the standard Awards Trust Mark accreditation.  

March 2024 – Multiple awards run by Plan3Media. Congratulations are due to the Plan3Media team who have had three of their awards programmes successfully reaccredited. The awards that demonstrate best practice and which meet the criteria for a standard Awards Trust Mark are The Employee Happiness Awards, The Customer Happiness Awards and finally The International Real Estate Community Management Summit (IRECMS) Dubai Awards. Well done to everyone involved!  

Feb 2024 – VisitEngland Awards for Excellence. Once again the VisitEngland Awards for Excellence have re-accredited their prestigious awards. Eligible winners from the local and regional tourism awards are forwarded to the national awards where they are celebrated amongst their peers. We were particularly impressed with the shortlisting process, which saw applications reviewed by an expert panel, including: journalists, industry body representatives, industry specialists, consultants, a member of the VisitEngland Advisory Board and a VisitEngland/ VisitBritain Director or topic specialist!

No charge is made for the use of logos or the promotion of a win. In-fact they provide access to a free toolkit that gives tips and advice on how best to achieve PR from their awards success – an example of best practice that other organisers may want to follow. 

Feb 2024 – Multiple awards run by Services for Tourism Ltd. Congratulations to Services for Tourism Ltd for achieving Outstanding Award Trust Marks for the third year running for six of the Tourism awards that they organise. Both judges and entrants provided glowing feedback that the awards were transparent, very well run and a pleasure to participate in. The awards that achieved the highest level of accreditation available are: Cornwall Tourism Awards, Bristol Bath and Somerset Tourism Awards, Beautiful South Tourism Awards, Dorset Tourism Awards, Devon Tourism Awards and South West Tourism Awards.
As one entrant summarised in their feedback:

“Very well put together awards and event. We found the process very professional and rewarding. We look forward to a detailed judges report for future help towards our business.” 

Jan 2024 – The Forum Awards. Congratulations to The Forum Awards for achieving an Advanced level Awards Trust Mark accreditation. The awards, open to all professionals in the customer contact industry, help raise standards in many types of customer operations from digital channels, face-to-face service, back office and a mobile (field-based) workforce to contact centres or sales operations. In order to achieve the Advanced accreditation, external validation was required, and this included positive feedback from both judges and entrants, including the following high praise for The Forum Awards:

“After being involved as a judge and as an entrant in these awards, they are the most prestigious, the most coveted and the most important rewards available to teams and individuals who are involved in Planning, Quality and Insight.  It has long been my personal ambition to win one.  A Forum Award-winning individual can expect their career to develop quickly whilst a team that is awarded a Forum Award can quickly see that their influence within their business can increase steadily.”

Dec 2023 – The Inside Out Awards. We are delighted to announce that the Inside Out Awards achieved an Outstanding Awards Trust Mark. These awards recognise the unique ways in-house creative teams have impact and influence and previous winners include such household brands as Trustpilot, PWC, Waitrose and The British Red Cross.Feedback from one of the entrants included this glowing testimonial –
“We found the whole process from start to finish very professional. At every stage of the awards Inside out let applicants know processes and timelines, either via the website or through email. Trustpilot is a company where trust and transparency is key, I did my due diligence and spoke with other industry associates prior to entering the awards and everyone only had positive comments.”  Congratulations! 

July 2023 – The Wakefield Business Awards. After an amazing first year which saw 13 awards winners from across the district’s businesses celebrated in style, The Wakefield Business Awards are back for 2023 and have secured another year of accreditation with the Awards Trust Mark – progressing to Outstanding status. Conducting themselves with professionalism, transparency and integrity, their clear scoring system elicits trust in their process and removes bias, ensuring entrants want to apply year after year. One entrant remarked: “We’ve taken part in a number of awards before and I have to say that the We are Wakefield have been the most transparent, and integral ones we’ve had the pleasure of working with…” Well done Wakefield, hopefully other regions will follow your example!

July 2023 – The Investors in People Awards. Celebrating the best in people, it is fitting to see that we too can celebrate The Investors in People Awards securing their Outstanding Accreditation rating for another year.

As one reference put it: “It doesn’t matter if you’re a household name or a small charity, The Investors In People Awards are given to those who have shown best practice, regardless of who they are or how influential their brand is.”

July 2023 – Global Good Awards. It is great to see the Global Good Awards re-accredit with the Awards Trust Mark at our highest accreditation level.

They are best summed up in the following refence feedback: “The Global Good Awards are unique in that they focus on impact, they recognise those projects and individuals who are rising stars, as well those who have ‘made it’ in terms of their results, and they are scrupulously fair, objective and demanding in the standards they expect from the finalists which top their categories. The programme really is a showcase of what ‘good’ can look like, and what others can aspire to, if they have the will and the purpose.”

Well done to the Global Good Awards, continuing to set the standards for other awards to aspire to!

The 2023 Teaching Innovation Awards will open in November and close in January 2024, dates TBC – follow their Twitter handle @LearnSciHQ for updates

• Care Home Awards
• Care Sector Supplier Awards
• Digital Signage Awards
• E-Mobility Awards
• Home Care Awards
• Learning Excellence Awards
• Hydrogen Awards
• Retirement Living Awards

All the awards they host, continue to demonstrate a consistent approach to running awards –  ensuring judging neutrality, clear websites in terms of dates and processes and the inclusion of forms and template guides. They also have a well-organised two stage judging process for each of their awards, where judges look for evidence of innovation, enterprise and performance, including ongoing response to the Covid-19 emergency.