IDPE 2025 Development Awards: Celebrating Excellence in Schools' Fundraising and Engagement
The IDPE 2025 Development Awards, sponsored by SuperKind, celebrate exceptional achievements in schools' fundraising and engagement. Open to both state and independent schools annually, these awards provide a platform to highlight the impact of creative and innovative development initiatives that have positively influenced young people's education.
- Ambition and Progress Award, which honours schools that have significantly advanced their development goals.
- Fundraising Campaign of the Year, which celebrates an innovative approach to a fundraising campaign that delivered a positive return on investment.
- Engagement Campaign of the Year, which recognises an engagement campaign that successfully strengthened relationships with the school community.
- State School Impact Award, which highlights the impact of fundraising and engagement within the state school sector
IDPE's development awards recognise the role of development in enabling schools to offer more bursaries, develop outstanding facilities, provide enrichment opportunities, and leverage community support. The awards are open annually to all schools, no matter where you are on your development journey, with winners in Ambition and Progress, Fundraising Campaign, and Engagement Campaign for both schools that have been established for less than five years and for schools with a more advanced development function of six years or more.
Our newest addition this year, the State School Impact Award, is open to all state schools regardless of how long their development office has been in operation. State schools are welcome to apply for any of our awards, with Ambition and Progress, Fundraising Campaign and Engagement Campaign categories open to both independent and state applicants.
Submissions closed.
"We are committed to championing innovation and brilliance across the schools' development sector and are proud to work with SuperKind this year to deliver our annual awards.
Schools continually demonstrate remarkable creativity and success in harnessing the goodwill, belief and support of their school communities. The IDPE development awards offer the opportunities to showcase these achievements across the sector, enhancing understanding of the integral role development plays in advancing education and demonstrating how philanthropy and community engagement cam make a positive impact on the lives of the young people. We urge all schools to participate and celebrate their contributions to the educational community"
Louise Bennett, CEO, IDPE
"At SuperKind we are proud to support development teams across the country to directly engage their students in fundraising for their school. Sponsored events routinely reaching 4x more donors than traditional campaigns and increase the donation size per family. They also teach essential education skills and inspire young people to be the next generation of philanthropists and alumni donors. SuperKind works tirelessly to provide schools with the tools and technology to make sponsored events one the lowest-resource-yet-highest result fundraisers available."
"That's why we are thrilled to be supporting the IDPE Development awards which recognise and celebrate the hard work of development teams across the country."
Keren Mitchell, Co-Founder, SuperKind
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Ambition and Progress Award
This nomination is for a school that has made a step-change towards delivering on their vision and ambition for development in their school. This will mean different things to different schools and could include anything from overhauling your data, to changing your organisational structure, or introducing new processes to make your fundraising or engagement programme/s more effective.
The activity may have started before 2025, but the progress to which the nomination relates to must have occurred in the 2024/25 academic year.
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Fundraising Campaign of the Year
This nomination is for a school that has demonstrated creativity or innovation and success, relative to your school and situation, within a fundraising campaign.
The campaign may have started before 2025, but the achievements to which the nomination relates to must have occurred in the 2024/25 academic year.
Engagement Campaign of the Year
This nomination is for a school that has successfully engaged with its school community.
The campaign may have started before 2025, but the achievements to which the nomination relates to must have occurred in the 2024/25 academic year.
State School Impact Award
This nomination is for schools which highlights the impact of fundraising and engagement within the state school sector.
The campaign may have started before 2025, but the achievements to which the nomination relates to must have occurred in the 2024/25 academic year.