ENTRIES FOR THIS CATEGORY ARE CLOSED - PR ENTRIES CLOSED AT 11PM FRIDAY 31 JANUARY 2025.

The prestigious trophy for Press Team of the Year will be awarded to the best PR team working in-house for a financial services company/organisation during 2024.

Winning this trophy is a fantastic endorsement for any comms team, as following an initial round of judging and shortlisting, the winner will be decided exclusively by votes from financial journalists.

Entering is a great way to raise the profile of your team, whatever its size. 

Judges will be looking for examples of where your team’s professionalism, diligence, hard work and knowledge has put your organisations' campaigns and stories front-and-centre in 2024.

Did you collaborate and create and implement any successful press campaigns? Did you work together to increase coverage of your stories? 

Has your team consistently leapt into action to provide expert comment and data at short notice? Or turned around a record number of press enquiries? 

Were you able to achieve positive outcomes/exposure for your organisation?

Entries will close at 11pm on Friday 31 January 2025 for the journalist categories. Please note, for the 2025 awards, entries will NOT be accepted after the entry deadline due to a limited judging time frame.

You'll need to submit:

• A short supporting statement (maximum 300 words) explaining why your submission deserves to win.
• A 50-word summary of your entry, for use on the Awards website during the journalist vote (should your entry be shortlisted).
• (Optional) Two attachments to supplement your entry, clippings, data, etc
• A team photo or corporate image

Judges refer extensively to supporting statements during their deliberations, so be sure to include:

• A summary of your team's strengths and achievements over the past year
• Quality and success of stories/campaigns
• Examples and data to prove your communications expertise when it comes to working with the financial press
• Summary of any new initiatives, services or resources for money writers
• Description of your efficiency, e.g. speed of response time or turnaround time for comment
• Evidence of dedication and professionalism
• Use the opportunity to supplement your entry with up to two files - reports, data, clippings etc to support your statement

Past winners:

• 2024 Hargreaves Lansdown
• 2023 Evelyn Partners
• 2022 interactive investor
  
• 2021 Quilter
• 2020 AJ Bell

PR winners hall of fame

Entries can be made using this form – select your categories and create an account to submit an entry.

Entries will close at 11pm on Friday 31 January 2025 for the PR categories.

Category shortlists will be announced in March 2025 followed by a vote by financial journalists to decide on the winners.

Good luck and we look forward to receiving your entries!

Contacts

Event enquiries
Vicky Finch
vicky.finch@emap.com

Entry enquiries
Claire Beard
claire.desilva@headlinemoney.co.uk