Nomination Categories

Please see below for the Nomination Categories available for the Scottish Fundraising Awards 2022. 

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NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Best Partner Relationship - Corporate, Trust or Major Donor

For the best relationship between a charity and business, trust or major donor that provides benefit to the charity. The partnership should have taken place in the last 30 months.

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Best Marketing & Communications Campaign

For the best campaign or initiative aimed at existing or new supporters across the full spectrum of direct marketing channels (including digital media).  The initiative should have taken place in the last 30 months and the winning charity will demonstrate best practice and evidence of the number of supporters engaged in the process, costs and funds raised.

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Best Individual Giving Campaign

For the campaign that demonstrates the best use of Individual Giving, including legacies. The application can be for affinity building, or for new or current donors, and should broadly show who the campaign was aimed at, what it intended to communicate, and how effectively it did so. The initiative should have taken place in the last 30 months.

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Best Use of Event or Community Fundraising

For the campaign which demonstrates the best use of an event or community fundraising initiative. The initiative should have taken place in the last 30 months.

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For any fundraiser who, in the view of their peers, has shown excellence and best practice in the last 30 months, achieving high quality fundraising through either their own efforts or their vision and strategy.  Nominations may be made by anyone except the nominee. They are most likely to be made by their manager, Head of Fundraising, Chief Executive, a Trustee or a person of equivalent status in the charity for whom the nominee works, or from one of the nominee’s peers in another charity.

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Fundraising Excellence Award

For any fundraiser who, in the view of their peers, has shown excellence and best practice, over a number of years.  They will have achieved high quality fundraising through either their own efforts or their vision and strategy, and will also have contributed to the development of the sector.  

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 Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year

For any volunteer fundraiser who has made a major contribution to fundraising over a significant period for one or more organisations. The Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year award is made to someone who by their hard work, dedication and example has made a difference to the charity or charities for which they have worked. Any volunteer who by their efforts have enhanced the fundraising capacity and results of a charity. A volunteer is defined as someone who has worked for a charity without remuneration, or whose remuneration is so insignificant in the context of the time they have spent working for the charity that it is considered inconsequential. Nominations should be made either by the charity for whom the volunteer has worked, by fellow volunteers at the charity, or some other person connected with the charity. They cannot be made by nominee.

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Voluntary Fundraising Group of the Year

For any voluntary fundraising group that has made a major contribution to fundraising over a significant period for one or more organisations. The Voluntary Fundraising Group of the Year award is made to a group of people who by their hard work, dedication and example has made a difference to the charity or charities for which they have worked. Any group of volunteers who by their efforts have enhanced the fundraising capacity and results of a charity. A volunteer is defined as someone who has worked for a charity without remuneration, or whose remuneration is so insignificant in the context of the time they have spent working for the charity that it is considered inconsequential. Nominations should be made either by the charity for whom the volunteers has worked, by fellow volunteers at the charity, or some other person connected with the charity. They cannot be made by the nominees.

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