Why enter?

Winning a Smee & Ford Legacy Giving Award is a prestigious achievement for individuals, teams, projects and partnerships that recognises excellence, innovation and impact. It helps with:

  • ​​​​​Improving your profile: Position yourself and your organisation as leaders in legacy giving, help inform the sector by sharing your contributions and insights, enhance your organisations reputation and attract the best talent to your organisation.
  • Securing Senior buy-in by highlighting the excellence, agility and success of your legacy giving strategy with your senior leaders and peers. 
  • Boosting team morale: These awards bring together teams and individuals to celebrate exemplary skills and giving people a boost to help them go back to demanding workloads with a renewed sense of purpose and positivity.

Not only that but our amazing judges are picked according to their expertise meaning you’ll also benefit from useful feedback on your entries from a diverse panel of sector specialists.