Enter the 2025 awards

The 2025 Finance for the Future Awards are now open for entries, featuring new and refreshed categories to reflect the evolving role of finance in driving sustainability. The 2025 awards continue to celebrate innovation and leadership, offering categories like Team of the Year, Finance Changemakers, and individual recognition through CFO of the Year and Rising Star. With updated Leadership Awards, the programme honours finance professionals making a tangible impact in areas such as Communicating Integrated Thinking, Climate, Nature, and Social Impact. Enter now to showcase your contributions to sustainable finance.

The awards drive awareness, inspire action and foster a community of leaders committed to creating sustainable outcomes.

Richard Spencer, ICAEW Director of Sustainability

2025 awards categories

Get your work recognised in 2025 by submitting an entry today. Here are the categories:

Team of the Year
Finance Changemakers
CFO of the Year
Rising Star
Lifetime Achievement Award

Find out more about the categories and apply

Key dates for your diary

Entry deadline

The closing date for 2025 entries is Friday 17 January 2025.

Judging

Judging will take place in late March/early April.

You will be kept up to date throughout the process and all preparation details will be shared well in advance.

Awards ceremony

The ceremony will be held in central London in the week commencing Monday 2 June. Online participation will be possible for global entrants.

Highlights from the 2023 Awards night

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Finance for the Future Awards 2023 Highlights

The 2023 Finance for the Future Awards ceremony took place on Thursday 12 October 2023, and celebrated the best of the best across five main categories.

We continue to need lighthouse examples of best practice as we transition to sustainable economies. One of the great things about the Finance for the Future Awards is the way that it demonstrates real results. It is vitally important to get examples out there to our peers and the investment community to show how these actions can be transformational to businesses.

Joe Allanson, 2023 Head Judge

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