Why enter the Money Marketing Awards?
Entries are now closed. Thank you for your submission.
The Money Marketing Awards recognise the very best the sector has to offer.
Enter the Money Marketing Awards to:
- Profile yourself/your business and gain recognition from your peers and the industry
- Showcase your business excellence
- Validate achievements
Read the entry guidelines here.
Each stage of the 2024 Money Marketing Awards entry process is free and couldn't be simpler but if you have any questions or need more information, please get in touch with Charlotte Covey-Crump.
ENTRY PROCESS
Please view the entry process for the adviser and provider categories below and be sure to read our FAQs and Rules & Guidelines before submitting your entry.
STAGE 1: ENTRY FORMS
Advisers and providers are invited to put themselves forward for the Awards, by submitting an entry form.
ENTRIES ARE NOW CLOSED.
STAGE 2: JUDGING
Our expert panels of industry judges review all entry forms, and their scores and comments create our shortlist.
STAGE 3: SHORTLIST
Shortlisted advisers are then invited to attend a short video interview with our judges. Interview times will be communicated in advance.
Shortlisted providers are debated by an industry panel who will decide the winners.
ENTRY FAQs
Hopefully you'll find an answer to your question below. If you need more information, please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump.
To submit your entry form, please follow the steps below:
- Visit the Award categories page and select the relevant category/ies.
- Create an account/log into your existing account. Please note we are using the same system as 2023 - if you entered last year, you will have an existing account. If not, you will need to please create an account.
- You will then be taken to the basket page (Step 1). The category/ies that you have selected will appear under the ‘Awards Nomination’ heading and there you can complete the entry form questions.
- You can then ‘Continue’ at the bottom of the page to proceed through the basket process.
- You will receive a confirmation email from the system once your entry/ies has been successfully submitted.
Please note, entries are now closed,
If you entered or booked a table for the Money Marketing Awards in 2023, you will already have an existing account for the site.
If not, you will be prompted to create a new account, which you will then use for any future entries or bookings on the Money Marketing Awards site.
You can create an account via any of the following options:
- Click the person icon in the menu bar and enter your details under 'Create Account'.
- Visit the Award categories page and select the category/ies that you would like to enter into either by clicking the 'Enter Now' button, or by using the tick boxes to select multiple categories and then clicking 'process' in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Please note entries are now closed.
- Visit the Book Now page and click 'Book Now' under the table package you'd like to book.
If you have any queries, please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump.
You can enter as many categories as you'd like.
To do so, visit the Award categories page, and use the tick boxes in the top right-hand corner of each category box to select the categories you'd like to enter.
You will then be asked to either log into an existing account or create an account, before being taken through to a basket page where you can complete the required information for each category and submit.
Click on the person icon in the top right corner of the Awards website menu bar, and enter the email address and password that you used when you first started your entry. You will then be taken through to your dashboard and will be able to continue working on your entry (up until the entry deadline). Please note, entries are now closed.
Please contact Charlotte Covey-Crump
RULES & GUIDELINES FOR ENTRY
In order for your submission to be considered, please adhere to the following rules and general guidelines for entry:
ELIGIBILITY
Adviser Categories
The Money Marketing Awards adviser categories seek to recognise regulated advice firms for both the quality of their advice and the strength of their business, covering independent, restricted and specialist advisers. Firms can operate any type of business model (small, large, network, national, IFA, vertically integrated etc) – our judges are simply looking for the best, most professional financial planners and planning firms.
Provider Categories
The Money Marketing Awards provider categories seek to recognise providers that went above in beyond in helping advisers deliver a first-class financial planning service. They acknowledge excellence across the market, from platforms and protection to discretionary management, with the aim of rewarding outstanding innovation, service levels and commitment to advisers.
All Categories
Some categories may require submission from an individual in place of a firm; please check the individual category criteria.
Unless stated otherwise in the category criteria, entries should focus on work carried out in the UK.
Companies may enter more than one category as appropriate.
Unless stated otherwise in category criteria, the awards are judging performance from 2023; this means that the bulk of work contained within the entry must have been carried out within this time period (please note it is NOT essential that a project or initiative has both launched and closed within this time period). Any material that arises to support your entry after the deadline should be brought to the judges’ attention during the shortlist interview (if applicable).
The judging panel reserves the right to move entries from one category to another if they feel it is more appropriate. However, they cannot be expected to routinely re-categorise incorrectly entered projects. The judges' decision is final.
Sponsors are not permitted to enter any category that they are sponsoring.
DEADLINE
The deadline for all entries has been extended to 5pm; Wednesday 20 March 2024. Entries will not be considered fully submitted until the entrant proceeds to the final stage and submits their entry. A confirmation email will be received once complete.
Entries may be edited up until the point of 'submission'.
FORMAT OF ENTRY
All submissions must be made online through the online entry portal and the requested information must be supplied within the entry form. Any information not provided via the online form will not be passed to the judges.
In all cases, the judges are looking for concise written submissions and your entry should cover as many of the listed criteria as possible.
Please keep the word count within the stipulations per category. Please note that the judging panel reserves the right to penalise entries exceeding the word limit.
SUPPORTING MATERIAL
Please read the relevant category criteria to establish what type of supporting material should be included, if any.
Digital uploads may take a variety of formats e.g. PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or jpeg file. Please ensure that uploaded logos, video and any supporting files follow the supporting material guidelines and together do not exceed the maximum upload limit of 10MB per entry. Please note when uploading supporting material file names must not include any 'special' characters e.g. _ / ( ) & * ".
Where websites/links form part of an entry, please ensure any URLs, access details, usernames and passwords needed for judging are supplied, that they work and that they will continue to work until August 2024. Sites that cannot be viewed will be eliminated from the judging.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Information supplied within the entry form will remain confidential and for the judges’ eyes only, with the following exceptions:
Money Marketing reserves the right to refer to information supplied during the shortlist interview process (adviser categories only).
Money Marketing may refer to information supplied within the entry form in the post-event Awards collateral and/or winner comments included in the script on the night. Should you wish to identify any elements of your entry as not to be shared in this way, please mark these clearly as ‘Confidential’ or ‘For Judges’ eyes only’ and contact charlotte.coveycrump@emap.com to flag these sections.
INFORMATION SUBMITTED BY YOU
All entrants must supply all contact details as requested in the online form for a main point of contact we can approach should the entry require any further clarification.
In the event that your entry is shortlisted, all entry form details e.g. Individual / Company Name as completed in the online entry process will be used on Awards collateral (e.g. Website, Awards graphics, Awards Supplement, and in the event that your entry wins, on the trophy). Any copy will adhere to the brand’s house style.
Please ensure that the information submitted is accurate and the correct companies are credited as appropriate. We accept no responsibility for any incorrectly submitted information.
When entries are submitted on behalf of clients or another third party, approval is assumed. Money Marketing accepts no responsibility for any issues that arise concerning approval once the entry has been submitted.
NOMINATIONS
If you are nominating a third party, please provide as much information as possible. Contact details for the nominee are mandatory.