Entries are open for the Best Practice Awards 2025
IR Society 2025 Best Practice Awards entries open today (7 May 2025)
Celebrating excellence in Investor Relations
The IR Society, the UK’s professional body for investor relations practitioners, today launches its 25th Annual Best Practice Awards (the ‘Awards’).
These prestigious Awards celebrate the achievements of companies demonstrating their commitment to delivering best-in-class investor relations and communications. The Awards, which will be judged by an independent panel of esteemed investor relations and investment community professionals, comprise both Self-entry and Voted Awards. IR teams can now submit self-entries for awards rewarding best practice in investor relations in the following five categories:
- Best Communication of Sustainability
- Best Innovation in IR
- Best Corporate Website
- Best Annual Report
- Best IR Programme
In all Self-entry categories, awards will be presented to small-cap, mid-cap and large-cap listed companies integrated across all international markets, in recognition of the diverse range of companies looking to the UK for excellence in IR. There will also be a private company award in the Best IR programme category.
The IR Society Best Practice Committee continues to evolve the existing categories to ensure they are reflective of the current IR issues and align with best practice. While there were no major changes to our five Awards categories from last year, for the second year running we are recognising those private companies that are leading the way in broader investor and stakeholder communications in the ‘Best IR Programme’ category.
Furthermore, as we continue to see developments within innovation, we have reviewed the ‘Best Innovation in IR’ award to reflect the ongoing developments within IR, as well as to ensure there is greater clarity around the types of innovation we are looking to reward.
For the Voted Awards, which recognise excellence in individual and team investor relations, the IR Society is delighted to be working once again in partnership with Extel, as it seeks to address a wider audience and voting universe. Nominations could be made for:
- Best Newcomer to IR (individual)
- Best IRO (individual)
- Best Overall Company IR (company)
- Best Investor Engagement (investor)
Laura Hayter, CEO, The IR Society, commented:
“The IR Society Best Practice awards programme is a fantastic opportunity for companies to showcase how they are delivering best-in-class investor and stakeholder communications, as well as allowing us to feed back to the IR community what great looks like. The calibre and quality of investor communications across all company sizes and regions remains high, so I strongly encourage you to consider entering your company, as this is a great way to raise your profile and strengthen your corporate reputation. Best of luck to all the entries and I look forward to seeing you at our Awards Dinner in London in November, to celebrate the best in IR!”
Daniel Redman, Consultancy Director, Design Portfolio, and Chair of the Best Practice Committee, said:
“The Investor Relations Society Best Practice Committee is pleased to announce further enhancements to our streamlined submission process for this year’s Best Practice Awards. Building on last year’s updates, we have refined the criteria for the Innovation in IR award to ensure even greater clarity around the types of innovation we are recognising. We’re also proud to continue our focus on private companies with the second year of our award for Best Overall IR Programme – shining a spotlight on excellence across all aspects of investor engagement.”
Self-entries to the 25th Annual Best Practice Awards are open to all companies from today, 7 May 2025, and the Self-entry Awards remain open until 31 August 2025. Click here for more information, including our best practice criteria and entry forms for the Self-entry Awards. Further information regarding the Voted Awards, conducted in partnership with Extel, can also be found here.
For more information contact:
Laura Hayter, CEO, The IR Society
+44 20 3978 1980 or laura.hayter@irsociety.org.uk
Liz Cole, Head of Policy and Communications, The IR Society
+44 20 3978 1980 or liz.cole@irsociety.org.uk
Published 7 May, 2025