2025 Awards Night - Chartered Institute of Fundraising East Anglia

EVENT UPDATED! We are delighted to be bringing the annual awards to you once again this year, generously sponsored by PayPoint PLC. Join us in October to celebrate the great and the good in our region.

Join us for the virtual awards ceremony where winners of all categories will be announced and (virtual) trophies presented!

The awards night is a special evening where people from across East Anglia will be putting on their best glitz and glam to hear about the incredible impact of your hard work for charities across the region.

Everyone is welcome to this fun and interactive evening - we encourage you to gather with friends, family and/or colleagues and make an evening of it! Keep the bubbles on ice to toast the winners... All nominators and nominees plus anyone else is warmly welcomed for an interesting and moving evening when we hear about the amazing contribution that the nominees have made to charities in East Anglia, incorporating; Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire, South Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire (inc. Peterborough) and Bedfordshire (inc. Luton).

AWARD CATEGORIES 2025:

• Young Fundraiser/s of the Year (18 and under)
• Campaign/Event of the Year
• The Jane Hopkins Award for Outstanding Professional Fundraising
• Supporter/Grant Giver of the Year
• Volunteer of the Year
• Corporate Partner of the Year
• Team of the Year

This year we have renamed our professional fundraiser category to be called The Jane Hopkins Award for Outstanding Professional Fundraising. Jane Hopkins was a highly skilled and talented fundraiser, who most recently worked as Community Engagement Manager for Havens Hospices, and won the professional fundraiser award herself. Jane sadly died in March 2024. In both her career and personal life Jane was a passionate advocate for many good causes, and so we have renamed this award in her honour to celebrate Jane and all those incredible fundraisers like her.

Submit your nominations via the CiOF website here. Deadline for nominations is 5pm Friday 26 September 2025.

All fields are mandatory; the judging panel will not consider nomination forms with blank spaces to ensure that each nomination is compared equally. The nominations will be judged by an external panel including fundraising and marketing professionals and previous winners.

The East Anglia Awards are made possible thanks to our generous supporter - PayPoint.

Our headline sponsor, PayPoint Donate, provide flexible, digital payment and fund distribution solutions that can reduce the cost of collections, increase donations, and add value to your supporter journey. Their services can reduce admin tasks for your fundraising teams, freeing up resources for more fundraising activity as well as providing cost and efficiency savings. To find out how they might help you, send Matthew an email at matthewdickman@paypoint.com.

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I declare that:

• I am not currently suspended due to an investigation by the Chartered Institute.
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• My organisation (if relevant) may be notified of the violation and proposed course of action.
• Support may be withdrawn from me to attend the event, and I may not be invited to future events.
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