CRITERIA

These awards have been established by the Institute of Fundraising to recognise exceptional achievement amongst the fundraising community.

All nominations are marked against specific criteria by a panel of impartial judges. Every category is unique and therefore so are the individual criteria. For more information on category specific criteria please click on 'Nominate' on the navigation bar, click Nominate Now next to the relevant award category and see the category criteria listed at the top of the nomination form.

Eligibility

Nominations are open to all fundraisers, their support agencies and supplier partners. Applicants can make as many nominations as they wish and may enter the same campaign for more than one category where applicable. There is no charge to make a nomination.

Campaign and Technique-based awards
Nominations for the campaign-based categories should be in respect of activity completed by 1 March 2012.

Individual and team awards
The time periods over which activity must have taken place will vary widely depending on the category. Specific time periods are referred to on individual nomination forms.

Nomination deadline

All entry forms must be received by 5.00pm on Thursday 1st March 2012. No entries will be accepted after this date.

Who nominates?

Self-nomination is the most common route. If an organisation is proud of its fundraising record and/or practice then it is eligible to nominate itself. Agencies and suppliers may also nominate.

Who can be nominated?

All award categories are for non-profit organisations only, as defined below:

Any organisation, which is charitable in law, may win one or more of these awards i.e. organisations regarded as charitable by HM Revenue & Customs. Registered charities, Scottish and Northern Irish charities, and exempt charities including universities, industrial and provident societies and certain national institutions are all eligible to win.

Nominations are to be made in respect of work, whether voluntary or paid, carried out by individuals or teams for these organisations.

Authenticity guarantee

Applicants must confirm that what they have written in their nomination, to the best of their knowledge, is legal, decent, honest and truthful. The Institute of Fundraising and the judging panel reserve the right to ask for additional information from the charity, and to make enquiries outwith the charity where appropriate.

What counts as fundraising?

Any gift made under Gift Aid, Payroll deduction, or any other form of personal charitable tax relief scheme, or which would have been eligible for such relief had the donor been a tax payer

Any gift made by an organisation which itself has charitable status

Any income from sponsorship

Any gifts made by businesses and other corporate bodies where no significant consideration has been made by the charity in return for the gift

Gifts in kind, whether staff time, professional services, equipment, facilities etc. These should be valued at whatever it would have cost the charity to have purchased or bought in the same staff time, equipment etc.

What does not count as fundraising?

Any payment, grant or other receipt from Government, or an Agency of Government, where the ultimate source of the funds is the Treasury or revenue generated by the Agency in the course of carrying out its duties

Commercial transactions with other organisations whether for-profit or not-for-profit, other than sponsorship

Last Updated 16 November 2011, 9:00am by Institute of Fundraising.