Entrants should have started their first financial PR role after 1 January 2024.

Entering and winning this award is an excellent endorsement of your developing skills, with previous winner's going on to establish successful careers in the industry.

Have you made your mark within your team and been an essential part of your brand's comms plan? Did you contribute to successful press campaigns?  Did you increase exposure for your organisation/clients?

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Entries will close at 11:55pm on Friday 30 January 2026 for the PR categories. Entries will NOT be accepted after the entry deadline due to a limited judging time frame.

How to enter:

• Entry forms for all categories can be found here

You'll need to submit:

• A short supporting statement (maximum 300 words) explaining why you should be considered for this award and 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
• A photograph of yourself for use in relevant Awards collateral, and on the night at the Headlinemoney Awards ceremony itself

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

• A summary of the media relations strengths you developed as a new PR
• Any achievements since January 2024
• Details on the success of stories/campaigns produced for your organisation/clients
• Any strategies you developed to increase coverage
• Examples and data to prove your communications expertise when it comes to working with the financial press
• Evidence of your dedication, professionalism, reputation for efficiency
• Use the opportunity to supplement your entry with up to two files - reports, data, clippings etc to support your statement

Past winners:

• 2025 2025 Katey Pigden, for work at the lang cat
• 2024 Alice Haine, Bestinvest by Evelyn Partners
• 2023 Jack Pattinson, AJ Bell
• 2022 Megan Crookes, Quilter
• 2021 Jenny Owen, AJ Bell
• 2020 Myron Jobson, ii

PR winners hall of fame

PR winners hall of fame

This is your chance to showcase your best work from last year, so don't miss out!

Closing dates:
PR awards: Entries will close at 11:55pm on Friday 30 January 2026

Please note, entries will not be accepted after the entry deadlines due to a limited judging timeframe.

Judging & shortlists

Entries in each category will be scrutinised by a panel of financial journalist judges. Judges will determine the shortlists, followed by by a journalist vote to select the winners.

Winners

The winners will be revealed at London Hilton on Park Lane on Tuesday 23 June 2026, in a celebration widely acknowledged as the biggest night of the year for the UK’s money media.

Entry enquiries:
Claire Beard, Head of Content & Strategy, Headlinemoney on claire.desilva@headlinemoney.co.uk