The Australian Workplace Giving Awards 2025

Winning an award can motivate and instil pride in your employees, inspire stakeholders, and create an overall sense of achievement across your organisation.

Award Categories

• Best Payroll Giving Program
  • This category celebrates organisations that are leading the way in building a culture of giving through an exceptional payroll giving program. Whether newly launched or well established, these programs demonstrate how regular, pre-tax donations can become a powerful force for good when championed across an entire workplace
• Best Corporate & Charity Partnership
  • This category recognises the power of collaboration between businesses and charities to achieve meaningful social impact. It celebrates partnerships where both organisations work together to inspire giving and create shared value for the business, employees, and the wider community
• Best Volunteering Program
  • This category celebrates organisations that are empowering their people to give back through exceptional volunteering programs. Whether through hands-on volunteering or pro bono initiatives, these programs demonstrate how employee time and talent can make a powerful impact when championed across a workplace.
• Best Innovation
  • This category celebrates bold ideas and creative solutions that have transformed workplace giving. It recognises organisations that have turned a challenge into an opportunity, delivering innovative approaches that inspire generosity, engage employees, and drive meaningful outcomes for charity partners and the wider community.
• Best Grants Program
  • This category celebrates organisations delivering strategic and impactful grants programs that create shared value for the business, employees, and the community. It recognises programs where employees play an active role in shaping or supporting grant making, ensuring the program drives meaningful and lasting community impact.
• Best Workplace Giving Promotion
  • This category celebrates outstanding campaigns that have elevated workplace giving and inspired action. It recognises organisations that have designed and activated time-specific initiatives to capture attention, communicate a clear message, and drive engagement with workplace giving.
• Workplace Giving Charity Champion
  • This category recognises charity employees who have gone above and beyond to champion workplace giving as a high potential funding stream. It celebrates individuals whose passion, advocacy, and innovation have raised awareness, inspired action, and grown support for workplace giving
• Workplace Giving Corporate Champion
  • This category recognises corporate employees who have shown outstanding commitment to driving workplace giving within their organisation. It celebrates individuals who have tackled challenges, inspired a culture of giving, and played a key role in growing program participation.
• Workplace Giving Program of The Year
  • This flagship category celebrates an organisation delivering an exceptional workplace giving program that sets the standard for excellence. It recognises a comprehensive approach that combines payroll giving with additional initiatives to inspire participation, engage employees, and deliver meaningful outcomes for charity partners and the wider community.
• Decade of Impact
  • This category honours workplace giving programs that have stood the test of time, delivering measurable impact over the past decade. This award celebrates the 10th Annual Workplace Giving Awards and recognises organisations that have been committed to fostering a culture of giving, engaging employees in meaningful ways, and creating enduring benefits for both the community and the business.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applications are open to all Australian organisations including business, not-for- profits and government and their representatives. The judges will be looking for programs and/or the individuals that have demonstrated excellence in workplace giving.

Judging Process

• Eligible applications which meet the criteria will be processed for judging.
• In judging the applications, scores will be given with the following weighting:
  • Intent (20%)
  • Input (20%)
  • Output (20%)
  • Impact (30%)
  • Supporting Materials (10%)
• In the first round of judging, judges will review and score entries independently. The scores will be sent directly to the Awards administrator, Workplace Giving Australia, for tabulation and verification. In the second round, the panels convene to discuss the shortlisted entries.
• Winners will be nominated at the discretion of the judges based on the scoring system and the collective assessment of the panel. The judges’ decisions are final.

For more information, visit Workplace Giving Australia.