Sponsor the 2026 Accolades

Our annual Accolades are awards that recognise, celebrate and share excellent social care, social work, childcare, play and early years in Wales.

We’re offering you the opportunity for your organisation to show support for people who do so much to care for others in our communities.

By sponsoring the Accolades, you can:

• directly help raise standards of social care, social work 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 in Wales. And all this for a relatively small investment.

Sponsoring the 2026 Accolades is cost-effective, with tangible benefits. There are several reasons why sponsoring the awards makes good business sense:

• they’re high-profile
  
  The care profession recognises the awards as the pinnacle of achievement for those who provide services for adults, children and families in Wales.
  
  This means there’s high awareness of the Accolades by the 100,000-strong workforce .
  
  The awards ceremony is usually attended by a number of key decision-makers, including:
  • senior Welsh Government officials, including the Chief Social Care Officer
    
  • local authority directors of social services
  • local councillors with responsibility for social care
  • heads of national care organisations
  • managers of care establishments.

• they stand for excellence and achievement

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

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

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

Your sponsorship will help motivate those who take part to keep standards high and share good 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 from just £3,000.

There are two ways you can support the 2026 Accolades:

• headline sponsor
• sponsoring an award.

As the headline sponsor, you’ll have:

• your name on all communication about the 2026 Accolades
• your name 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
• mentions in all news releases about the 2026 Accolades
• a table for eight in a prime position at the afternoon awards ceremony in summer 2026 in Cardiff
• 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 the main presenter
• the opportunity to speak for up to five minutes at the beginning of the awards ceremony
• the opportunity to have a display stand at the awards ceremony
• your name on the certificates for all the finalists
• your name and logo on the awards ceremony programme
• a full-page advert in the awards ceremony programme.

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

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 alongside your chosen category on our web pages promoting the 2026 Accolades
• five free places at the afternoon awards ceremony in summer 2026 in Cardiff
• 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, organisation or worker
• photographs with your award winner.

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