Announcing the first Advising Londoners Awards presented by the Advice Services Alliance in partnership with University House, hosted by Clifford Chance LLP
The inaugural Advising Londoners Awards are open for nominations!
The awards celebrate the delivery of intelligent and good quality advice services available to people living in the London area.
Entering the awards and attending the ceremony is completely free for London advice services thanks to the support of University House and ASA. The ceremony will be hosted by Clifford Chance LLP at their lovely offices in Canary Wharf. The only cost to services is your time to nominate and your tube fare to the event.
Categories
There are nine awards:
1) Best pan-London advice service
2) Best borough-wide advice service
3) Best contribution to advice by a team
4) Best contribution to advice by an individual
5) Best use of innovation by an advice service
6) Best advice service promoting Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
7) Best advice wellbeing project or initiative
8) Best use of evidence in advice work to achieve positive change.
In addition, the special ‘Bennett Award’ is an award decided by the judges – there will be no nominations. It will be given to an individual, team or organisation who has made an outstanding contribution in the London advice sector.
What services can be nominated?
The awards are open for any ‘not for profit’ organisation that provides free legal advice services to people living within the 32 London borough area.
Any advice service can be nominated for any award whether it is provided by one organisation or by a partnership of different providers. This includes:
- those giving generalist advice or specialist legal services
- organisations running a dedicated advice service or providing advice alongside other services
- local community-based organisations and pan-London services
- long-established services or a short-term funded project.
Advice providers may apply on behalf of different services and may apply to more than one category. However, only one nomination can be per category.
Who can nominate?
Nominations can be made by anyone with good knowledge of an advice service including staff, trustees, funders, local councillors, partners or service users.
Nominations must include information required to judge the service against the category.
How will the awards be judged?
The judging will be based on the evidence provided. This should demonstrate the contribution the organisation or project makes to the delivery of good quality advice for Londoners.
Each nomination will be judged only on the evidence provided in the application. Even if the judges know the service, they will only take into account the evidence provided. The judges will be paying attention to the description of the key factors which make the service outstanding as well as the evidence of the impact of the service.
The judges are particularly interested in the quality of the reasoning for the nomination (why is this service/person better than other similar ones?) and a range of appropriate evidence to back up the nomination should be provided.
The judges will select a shortlist of three nominations for each category. Those shortlisted will be guaranteed to receive a commendation certificate and an invitation to the award ceremony.
The winner of each category will be announced on the night at the Advising Londoners Award Ceremony on the 18 November 2025. It will be hosted by Clifford Chance LLP at their offices in Canary Wharf.
Submitting a nomination
The application process is now open. Use our online form to submit your nomination.
- Please include the details of the project as well as who is making the nomination.
- Describe why you are nominating this service and any supporting evidence to back up the nomination.
- No other attachments will be accepted as part of the application.
- All the evidence must be supplied within the 1,200 word limit.
The deadline for nominations is 11.59pm Wednesday 08 October 2025.
If you have any questions on the process please email info@asauk.org.uk
We look forward to reading your nominations and celebrating the great work of the sector in London, through these awards.
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