Sponsoring a category at the Engaging People Awards 2025
The 2025 awards are special, it’s AHI’s 50th anniversary year and will take place at a special conference in Cardiff. As a charity, we run these awards to promote excellence in our profession, but we cannot do this without support from people like you.
Category sponsorship package is £500 and final payment is not required until September 2025.
The package includes
- Publicity for your company associated with the category you choose to sponsor
- Your company publicised to over 170 leading organisations via the Heritage Alliance
- An invitation to one representative of your company to the Awards Dinner along with professional photographs of your representative with the category winner
- A trade stand for the whole conference and a delegate pack insert
- Social media tagging linked to your chosen category in the run up to the awards ceremony in October.
What your sponsorship funds:
- Training of site judges including mentoring for those new to the industry
- Visits by site judges to evaluate entrants’ projects
- Contribution to our gala dinner to allow winners maximum publicity
- Publicity of awards to make sure we reach all potential entrants across England, Wales Scotland and Ireland.
The categories
Calling Out Climate Change
To sponsor this category please contact: admin@ahi.org.uk
This special category is for projects that engage audiences to highlight the impacts, challenges and opportunities of climate change for nature, culture, heritage or science.
Community Engagement
To sponsor this category please contact: admin@ahi.org.uk
This category is for projects where the community takes the lead, or where organisations work in equal partnership with their communities, to engage people in heritage, nature, culture or science.
Indoors
To sponsor this category please contact: admin@ahi.org.uk
This category is for permanent or semi-permanent indoor projects that engage people inside, and provide interpretive visitor experiences in heritage, nature, culture or science.
Temporary Event or Activity
To sponsor this category please contact: admin@ahi.org.uk
This category is for time-limited events or activities that engage people with heritage, nature, culture or science.
Online & Remote Engagement
To sponsor this category please contact: admin@ahi.org.uk
This category is for projects and activities that take place entirely online to engage people remotely with heritage, nature, culture or science.