Charity Governance Awards 2022 in the UK

Deadline: 26-Jan-22

The Charity Governance Awards 2022 is now open to celebrate outstanding governance and trusteeship in charities across the UK, allowing large and small not-for-profit organisations to inspire and learn from one another.

For its seventh year, the Charity Governance Awards will recognise inspirational success stories of small charities that have improved impact during the difficult past few years as well as trustees boards that have made long-term improvements by transforming with digital or embracing opportunities as a result of responding to the COVID-19 crisis. An ongoing area of focus for the awards is equity, diversity and inclusion in charity governance – never more needed after the difficult time charities and all their stakeholders have been through.

Categories

• Board Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Bringing together diverse talents to achieve your aims: This award is for organisations that can demonstrate diversity within their board membership, and a commitment to being inclusive. They are looking for diversity in its broadest sense: diversity of approach, based on differing life experience, culture, ethnicity, disability, professional or sector background, age or other factors.
• Transforming with Digital
  • Harnessing digital and technology for long-term change: They want this category to showcase the phenomenal efforts of the sector and to shine both hope and inspiration on what might be achieved using digital and technology – they are particularly interested to hear about how digital has created long-term change for your organisation and how your governance empowered that to happen.
• COVID-19 Response: Embracing Opportunity and Harnessing Risk for Long-Term Change
  • Finding opportunities for innovation and change even during times of crisis: This award is for a board that has leveraged the charity’s response to COVID-19 to deliver long-term benefit and change – finding a good opportunity and exploited it for the benefit of the community that the organisation exists to serve.
• Improving Impact in Small Charities:
  • Small charities, big impact: Improving Impact is split into two different categories based on the size of the organisation:
    • One category for charities with 0-3 paid staff
    • One category for charities with 4-30 paid staff

Prizes

• Shortlisted Charities: All shortlisted charities will receive a paid one-year membership to the Association of Chairs for their board and one training course via the Cause4 Trustee Leadership Programme for a new member of the board.
• Runners-up: Runners-up will receive a £1,000 cash prize (unrestricted grant) and a certificate following the awards ceremony.
• Winners: Winners will receive a £5,000 cash prize (unrestricted grant), trophy and certificate following the awards ceremony.

Eligibility Criteria

• Charities must:
  • be registered in the UK by the Charity Commission (or the equivalent in each devolved nation)
  • have been established before 31 December 2018
  • only submit one entry across all five awards
• Entries must:
  • cover activities undertaken in the last five years (2016-2021)
  • focus on the work of the main board, not sub-committees
  • be submitted by a trustee, employee or volunteer of the charity
  • be signed off by the charity’s CEO or chair of the board.

For more information, visit https://www.charitygovernanceawards.co.uk/