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The Personal Injury Awards are open to every kind of practitioner, firm and service provider, and enable the very best of practice to be scrutinised, recognised and rewarded.

With over 20 categories, there’s something for everyone. View the categories and their entry criteria below.

Key dates and deadlines General rules and requirements

Key Dates for Your Diary

All the dates you need for the Personal Injury Awards 2025

  • Submission deadline 12 September 2025
  • Shortlist announcement October 2025
  • Awards ceremony 27 November 2025

How to enter the Personal Injury Awards

If you’re entering the Personal Injury Awards, follow these simple steps. Not only have we listed the necessary steps to make sure your entry is counted, we’ve also detailed some hints and tips, taken from both past winners and judges, on how to make your entry stand out and give you the best chance of taking home a prize.

Enter now to be in with your chance of winning at the 2025 Personal Injury Awards

The winners are announced at a glamorous black tie ceremony in Manchester in November 2025.

 

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How to enter

The entry deadline for the Personal Injury Awards is 12 September 2025.

  • Register

    To enter the Personal Injury Awards, you need to register. This will enable you to access the entry form and enter as many categories as you wish.

  • Pick your categories

    The categories are designed to encourage submissions from every kind of practitioner, firm and service provider, while also offering a wide range of individual and team awards, with a view to enabling the very best of financial technology and innovation to be scrutinised, recognised and rewarded.

    And you can enter as many as you wish.

    Read the criteria carefully for each and decide which will give you the best opportunity to demonstrate your strengths.

    The criteria are in a Q&A format, so follow this closely to provide the independent judging panel with a clear, easy-to-follow submission and include all of the information requested. Rest assured, the process is entirely confidential.

  • Choose the form of your submission

    Make sure every submission is unique for the category that you’re entering.

    We accept written submissions of between 250 and 1,000 words per category (please note: this is in total, not per criterion).

    Written submissions are at their best after several drafts, with input from everyone involved. Remember that your submission needs to stand out from the crowd, so keep it active, free of jargon, and don’t forget to proofread your words before entering.

    Alternatively, you can enter a video submission. You’ll have a maximum of five minutes to demonstrate why you, your team or business should win the particular category. Videos are easy to digest and revisit, and they allow the judges to put a face to an entry.

    Please note, we are no longer accepting video files. To submit a video, you must upload it to a third-party platform such as YouTube or your own website and supply a link (ensure that the video is private or password protected before submitting).

  • Submit via the form

    The entry deadline for the 2025 awards is 11.59pm on 12 September.

    Submissions can only be accepted via the entry form, which you can access after registering.

    Fill out all of the required information. There are mandatory fields for the person providing the submission as well as the subject of the submission.

    If you are putting an organisation forward for an award, mark the fields under the Nominee heading with an ‘N/A’ except for the Company name field and make sure you choose the correct category from the list. Doing so reveals the correct category criteria and fields in which to paste your submission. The form must be filled out and submitted for every category.

    The form removes all formatting, so don’t worry about italics, bolding, underlining or hyperlinking, as these won’t make it through our system. Furthermore, no supporting documents and attachments are allowed, so don’t use the attach buttons for CVs, promo videos, PDFs and Word docs—these won’t make it through our system, either.

    For written submissions, input your 250 to 1,000 words in the provided fields. For video submissions, fill out the form (except the criteria fields) and paste the link to your video into the one of the criteria fields.

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  • Attach your logo

    If you make it to the shortlist, we’ll need a high-resolution version of your logo for the ceremony and marketing campaigns. We accept the .JPEG, .PNG and .PDF formats, but prefer .EPS wherever possible. If you don’t have this, don’t worry.

  • Attach nominee’s photo

    This is for the Talent categories. Colour photos are preferred, wide, horizontal shots work well, and high resolution .JPEG is best.

  • Sit back and wait for news

    That’s it, you’re done! Around two weeks following the submission deadline our judging panel will convene to make their decisions. We’ll then get in touch with every finalist to give them the good news.

How to win

The key is to be memorable and compelling…

  • Start early. Give yourself plenty of time to carefully evaluate the criteria for the categories you’re entering and provide a well-produced submission before the entry deadline.
  • Check the criteria. Each category has its own criteria, and each submission should be unique.
  • Provide evidence. Include as many results and evidence of success as you can, including testimonials. Judges are there to be swayed, so sway them.
  • Keep it simple. Write or speak clearly and concisely so the judges can quickly understand the points you’re making.
  • Consult with the relevant team. Collaborate on your submission as you do your work, and ensure that your whole team contributes.
  • Be enthusiastic, transparent, and honest. Inspire the judges by sharing your organisation’s ethos and passion for your work without trying to pull the wool over their eyes. Honesty is the best policy.
  • Redraft and revise. Once your submission is ready, start again and interrogate every fact and figure. Are they correct? Question every claim. Is that true? Weigh your language. Is that a helpful term or an empty buzzword?

General rules and requirements

  • Entrants must be based in the UK or provide services in the UK.
  • Entrants can enter as many categories as they wish.
  • Entrants are encouraged to limit submissions to two entries per category; further submissions may not be considered.
  • Submissions must be unique and tailored to meet the criteria of each category.
  • Self-nomination is required.
  • Written and video submissions are accepted – both must follow the criteria format.
  • Submissions can be made until 11.59pm on the entry deadline day.
  • Entrants are expected to send at least one representative to attend the in-person ceremony.
  • Entries submitted by companies that have undergone administration, liquidation, or significant restructuring will be subject to review to ensure continuity of operations, leadership, and client commitments.
  • The Personal Injury Awards reserves the right to disqualify entries where there are concerns about corporate governance, financial stability, or ethical business practices.
  • The judging panel has the final authority to determine whether an entry meets the spirit and intent of the awards.
  • The Personal Injury Awards reserves the right to remove any entries or finalists that do not meet the above criteria or that, in the judges’ discretion, could undermine the integrity of the awards.

Any questions…

For information contact Hannah Buckley:

hannah.buckley@barkerbrooks.co.uk

0113 887 7007

For information contact Matt Gotting:

matt.gotting@barkerbrooks.co.uk

0113 521 6087

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The Personal Injury Awards provides a unique opportunity to highlight and celebrate the excellence of individuals and organisations across the sector. Enter now to be in with a chance of being recognised as one of the best and brightest.

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