Best Practice Awards

The 2021 Best Practice Awards were launched on Wednesday 28th April.

Click here to join the Awards launch webinar at 11am on 28 April - passcode: 723255

About the Awards

These awards offer a truly meaningful opportunity to showcase best practice. Each award aims to cover companies from the largest to the smallest - across the UK, Europe and internationally - in recognition of the diverse range of listed businesses looking to the UK for excellence in IR. The real value of this awards programme is that it allows the IR Society to feed back to the IR community what great looks like in terms of how companies are communicating with their stakeholders.

Self-entry Awards

The Self-entry Awards are open to all companies listed on a recognised exchange that wish to demonstrate their commitment to leading investor communications. In 2021, following a review by the IR Society’s Best Practice Committee, the awards categories will be:

Best IR Communications and Engagement Programme
Best Innovation in IR
Best Communications of ESG
Best Annual Report

This year we have simplified the categories of the companies into Small-cap, Mid-cap and Large-cap with all international companies integrated into company size rather than separately as has been done in the past.

Self-entry Awards costs

Number of categories:
1: £100 +VAT
2: £150 +VAT
3: £200 +VAT
4: £250 +VAT

(Only multiple entries for different categories for the same company attract the discount)

Voted Awards

The Voted Awards recognise excellence in individual and team investor relations, and we are delighted to be working in partnership once again with Institutional Investor, which has helped us to address a larger audience and voting universe comprising both the buy and sell sides.

Best Investor Engagement
Best Newcomer to IR
Best IRO
Best Overall Company IR

Key Dates

28 April - Launch of 2021 self-entry awards

31 July - Close of self-entry awards

August/September - Initial review of all entries by IR Society

September/October - Long shortlists reviewed by our partner Business Schools

6 October - Self-entry shortlists announced

13 October - Voted award shortlists announced

Early November 2021 - Judging panel convenes

Late November 2021 - Awards Presentation (date and format TBC)