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When you enter you will be required to register yourself, upon doing so, you will receive an email from noreply@employeebenefitsawards.co.uk Once you've received this please click the Activate link in the email to confirm the set up. You will then be able to complete your entry.
Entries to the awards are charged for at £285 + VAT. You can return at any point using your login credentials to manage your account and modify your entry until the closing date. To enter the awards please complete an entry form on the website filling out all relevant fields.
Read carefully the description of the category you wish to enter. Most categories are only open to employers – please check the category criteria to ensure you are eligible to enter.
If you're a service provider, you will only be eligible to enter the 'Best Supplier to Work For' Award.
Entries will close at 23:55 (GMT) on 23 January 2026.
The 2026 Awards categories are listed below:
Benefits Professional of the Year
This category will celebrate an in-house benefits, reward or HR professional who has made their mark on the industry.
Best Alignment of Benefits to Business Strategy
This award will celebrate an organisation that demonstrates how its benefits strategy is aligned with its broader business strategy. The judges will be looking at how your overall reward strategy (not just one specific benefit) supports both your organisation’s HR and business goals.
Best Benefits Communications
The winner of this category will demonstrate an effective and innovative approach to benefits communications, be it face-to-face, print, social or digital media.
Best Benefits to Support Families
The judges will be looking for a benefits offering that supports staff with family life, for example, on their journey to parenthood, regardless of gender.
Best Benefits to Support Menopause
The judges will be looking for a benefits offering that supports staff with their menopause journey.
Best Benefits to Support Work-Life Balance
The judges will be looking for strategies that offer greater flexibility to support employees in managing their lives outside of work, as well as their own wellbeing and wider workplace experience.
Best Financial Wellbeing Strategy
The judges will be looking for employers that have taken a proactive approach to their workforce’s financial needs and have supported staff in the making of financial, retirement or investment-related benefits decisions.
Best Flexible Benefits Plan
The judges will be looking for employers that have taken a proactive approach to their workforce’s financial needs and have supported staff in the making of financial, retirement or investment-related benefits decisions.
Best Healthcare and Wellbeing Benefits
The judges will be looking for a successful health and wellbeing strategy that helps boost productivity or engagement through employee health and wellbeing.
Best Mental Health Strategy
This award will recognise employers that have made a concerted effort to address employee stress and mental wellbeing in the workplace.
Best Motivation or Recognition Scheme
The judges will be looking for a successful motivation strategy that uses either incentives or motivational rewards to help drive employee performance, engagement or retention.
Best Pensions Strategy
This award will recognise an employer that has developed a pensions strategy that best meets the needs of its workforce.
Best Supplier to Work For
NB: This category is only open to internal HR teams of employee benefits providers, suppliers, advisers and consultants.
This award will recognise a supplier organisation that uses its benefits package to position itself as an attractive employer, beyond merely offering its own products and services to its workforce.
Best Use of Benefits Technology
This award recognises how an employer has best utilised and adapted technology to suit its benefits package, its business aims and the needs of its employees.
Best Benefits to Support Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
This award recognises the measures an employer has taken to support diversity, equity and inclusion among its workforce.
Best Voluntary Benefits
The judges will be looking for an organisation that has either launched or revamped its use of staff-paid, voluntary benefits or staff deals. These are benefits that are available for employees to take up at any time throughout the year.
HR or Benefits Team of the Year
This category will celebrate an in-house HR or benefits team that has worked to deliver benefits that meet the HR and business strategies of their organisation.
Rising Star
This category will celebrate an HR or benefits professional who has been in the industry no more than five years, but who has already had a considerable impact on the HR and business strategies of their organisation.