2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE NOMINATING SOMEONE FOR AN AWARD, VOTING FOR A SHORTLISTED NOMINEE OR ATTENDING THE JUSTGIVING AWARDS CEREMONY.

BY NOMINATING ANYONE FOR AN AWARD, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS.

Terms and Conditions

The GoCardless JustGiving Awards 2024 are operated by Giving.com Limited (trading as “JustGiving”), a company registered at 5 Churchill Place, 10th Floor, London, United Kingdom, E14 5HU (referred to in these terms and conditions as “we”, “our”, “us”).

Please read these terms and conditions before nominating someone for an award, voting for a shortlisted nominee or attending the JustGiving Awards ceremony.

What are the Awards for?

JustGiving’s annual awards recognise outstanding contributions to fundraising by individuals and groups who have used JustGiving. (“Awards”). The JustGiving Awards are all about recognising amazing stories and inspiring others to fundraise. The winner of each category will receive an engraved trophy.

Who can be nominated for an Award?

For all Awards, you can nominate someone if they have/had an active JustGiving page between 30/05/2023 and 11/04/2024. It does not cost anything to nominate, and you can nominate as many people (including yourself) as you wish. But please only nominate someone who you know will be happy to be nominated and will not object to you providing their information to us.

What do I need to include in my nomination?

All nominations must be received by midnight on 15th April 2024 and must include your name and email address. You also need to tell us the nominee’s name and the URL of their JustGiving page so that we can identify them, and to explain (in up to 4000 characters) why they should win the Award for which you’re nominating them. Nominations that are incomplete or exceed the stated word limit cannot be accepted.

We reserve the right to verify the validity of nominations and to disqualify your nomination without notice if you tamper with the nomination process or do not comply with these terms and conditions. We do not accept any responsibility for loss of, or damage to, any nomination (including any failure to receive or transmit any nomination due to internet or website issues).

How will we decide who to shortlist?

All nominations received will be screened by a team of our staff as well as a Judging Panel, appointed by JustGiving. The shortlisting process is at our complete discretion. In general, we will be looking for outstanding examples of fundraising that have clear objectives, creative and effective implementation and tangible, demonstrable results.

We will also consider the structure, presentation, and clarity of each nomination, and we will shortlist three nominations in each category to be put forward to the public vote, with the exception of our Special Recognition Award, which will only have one. We reserve the right to change the number of shortlisted nominations and to alter the title and/or number of categories at any time in our sole discretion.

How does the voting process work?

For all Awards, all shortlisted nominations will be opened to a public vote. Voting opens on 1st July 2024 and closes at midday on 16th August 2024. There are two ways you can submit your votes – via this form and via Instagram. You can submit votes using both methods. For each method, you will have the opportunity to make one vote in each category.

Voting via the form

Votes must be submitted through the official voting form. You can vote in one or more category and can come back at a later date (before the deadline) to submit votes in the other categories you have not voted in.

Voting via Instagram

On the week commencing 1st July, we will publish one carousel post per award category on our @JustGiving Instagram account. Each post will include details about each finalist and how to vote successfully.

You must comment the name of the finalist you want to vote for in the comments of the specified post by @JustGiving and follow this Instagram profile.

Captions for the voting posts will include the following:

“You must comment ‘vote’ followed by the name of the finalist you want to see win a GoCardless JustGiving Award. For example, comment one of the following options: ‘Vote [Finalist name], Vote [Finalist NAME] or Vote Finalist Name]”

You have one social media vote category. Multiple comments from the same user will not be counted as more than one social vote. Only votes commented under eligible posts by @JustGiving will be counted.

Voting closes on midday 16th August and any votes submitted after this point will not be counted.

The winner of each Award will be the person or team with the highest number of valid votes submitted via the form and via social media comments (under eligible posts published by @JustGiving on Instagram) by the relevant closing date. Votes that are not submitted through the official voting form or on the comments of the specified posts on Instagram will not be counted.

Voting in the 2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.

How will my nomination or vote be used?

The information provided by nominators, nominees and voters will only be used in connection with the Awards and for the purposes described in these terms and conditions, including picking the shortlisted nominees and winners of the Awards and promotional activities. We will not share your data with anyone except as necessary in connection with the Awards (e.g. the Awards Ceremony venue) or otherwise permitted by these terms and conditions. For further information on how we protect personal data, please read our Privacy Policy.

BY MAKING A NOMINATION, YOU UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THAT YOUR NAME, YOUR NOMINEE’S NAME AND THE CONTENT OF YOUR NOMINATION MAY BE MADE PUBLIC OR USED IN THE MEDIA, OR IN CASE STUDIES OF WINNERS OR SHORTLISTED NOMINEES. YOU ARE FREE TO MARK ANY INFORMATION OR SENSITIVE PARTS OF THE NOMINATION AS ‘NOT FOR PUBLICATION’ AND WE WILL RESPECT THIS. IF YOU HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR AN AWARD AND DO NOT WISH TO BE A NOMINEE OR FOR YOUR INFORMATION TO BE MADE PUBLIC, PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE WILL REMOVE YOUR NAME AND PAGE FROM THE LIST OF NOMINEES.

If you submit a nomination or vote for an Award, we will keep in touch with you about the progress of the Awards process. If you do not want to receive these updates, you will be able to opt out of receiving them.

When is the Awards Ceremony?

Awards will be given during a celebration in London, on Wednesday 18th September 2024 (“Awards Ceremony”). All shortlisted nominees will be invited to attend the Awards Ceremony. Winners will receive their Award at the Awards Ceremony or, if a winner is not able to attend the Awards Ceremony, we will send the Award to them. We reserve the right to refuse entry to the Awards Ceremony to any individual or group in our sole discretion.

CCTV and film cameras may be present at and around the Awards Ceremony; this includes filming by the police or security staff carried out for the security of visitors, and filming and/or photography by us or people that work for us. By attending the Awards Ceremony, you give your express and irrevocable consent to all such filming and to your actual or simulated likeness being included within any film, photograph, audio and/or audio-visual recording (“Footage”), all rights in which will be owned by us.

You also agree that we may use any such Footage in any and all media for any purpose at any time throughout the world, including (with the exception of CCTV or security Footage) for commercial purposes, such as merchandising, streaming or DVDs, without payment or compensation to you.

Other important stuff

A full list of Award winners will be made available shortly after the Awards Ceremony. Our decisions are final and no other correspondence or discussion will be entered into regarding the selection of shortlisted nominations or winners.

You agree to release us and our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, agents and employees from (and each of the foregoing parties disclaims), to the fullest extent permitted by law, any and all liability and claims for damages or losses arising out of, or in connection with the Awards, including your participation in the nomination process and the Awards Ceremony.

Whilst we shall use reasonable endeavours to ensure that the Awards run smoothly, we disclaim all liability to any person for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to any claims, actions or demands arising in any way out of, or in connection with the Awards, including the nomination process and the Awards Ceremony, to the fullest extent permissible by law.

We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, including to change any of the dates or Award categories stated above and to cancel the Awards Ceremony or change the venue at any time and without liability to any party. These terms and conditions are governed by the law of England.

How to contact JustGiving

For questions about the 2024 GoCardless JustGiving Awards, please email us here.