The Accolades is an opportunity for your organisation to show your support for workers who do so much to support others in our communities.

By sponsoring the Accolades, you can:

• directly help raise standards of social care and childcare, play and early years in Wales
• align yourselves with excellence and achievement.

We’ll also publicise your organisation’s support of the Accolades to more than 100,000 workers and decision-makers in social care and childcare, play and early years in Wales. And all this for a relatively small investment.

Sponsoring the 2024 Accolades is cost-effective, with tangible benefits. There are several reasons why sponsoring the awards makes good business sense:

• they’re high-profile
  
  The sector recognises the awards as the pinnacle of achievement for those who provide services for adults and children in Wales.
  
  This means the 100,000-strong workforce has a high awareness of the Accolades.
  
  The awards ceremony is usually attended by decision-makers, such as:
  • the Deputy Minister for Social Services
  • senior Welsh Government officials, including the Chief Social Care Officer
  • local authority directors of social services
  • local councillors with responsibility for social services
  • heads of national social care and childcare, play and early years organisations
  • managers of social care and childcare, play and early years providers.

• they stand for excellence and achievement

The Accolades are designed to recognise the very best of social care and childcare, play and early years teams and workers.

The standard is very high, which makes the Accolades a great option for organisations that want to be aligned with excellence and achievement.

• they’re a direct link to achieving high standards of care and support in Wales

Your sponsorship will help motivate those who take part to keep standards high and share notable practice with their colleagues.

• they’re a cost-effective investment

More than ever, sponsorship packages need to be reasonably priced to make business sense for any organisation. That’s why the cost of becoming involved in the Accolades starts at just £2,500.

There are two ways you can support the 2024 Accolades:

• main sponsor
• sponsoring an award.

As the main sponsor, you’ll have:

• your name and logo on all communication about the 2024 Accolades
• your name and logo on our web pages promoting the Accolades
• a hyperlink to your website from the Accolades web pages
• online, email and social media marketing between now and the awards ceremony
• a specially-designed Accolades main sponsor logo for you to use on your stationery and marketing materials until 1 December 2024
• mentions in all news releases about the 2024 Accolades
• a table for eight in a prime position at the lunchtime awards ceremony on Thursday 25 April 2024 at Cardiff City Hall
• your name and logo in the middle of the stage display for the awards ceremony
• your name and logo on the slide presentation during the awards ceremony
• acknowledgement of your support in speeches by our Chair and the main presenter
• the opportunity to speak for up to five minutes at the start of the awards ceremony
• the opportunity to have a display stand at the awards ceremony
• your name on the trophies and certificates for all the finalists
• your name and logo on the awards ceremony programme
• a full-page advert in the awards ceremony programme
• mention of your name in our ebulletin items about the Accolades, which go out to more than 60,000 people.

If you’re interested in sponsoring one of the awards, there are six categories to choose from. Three are for teams and organisations, and three are for workers or teams.

For sponsoring one of the categories, you’ll get:

• exclusive sponsorship of your chosen awards category
• your name in all forms of communication about your category
• your name and logo alongside your chosen category on our web pages promoting the 2024 Accolades
• mentions in all news releases about the 2024 Accolades
• five free places on a table in prime position at the lunchtime awards ceremony on Thursday 25 April 2024 in Cardiff City Hall
• your name and logo next to your sponsored category in the programme for the awards ceremony
• your name and logo on the main stage display at the awards ceremony
• an opportunity to present your award to the winning project or worker
• photographs with your award winner.

If you’re interested in becoming the main sponsor or sponsoring an award category, email Bethan Price at accolades@socialcare.wales