Up Your Game - Award Submissions
Awards are great for your company’s marketing profile, and being associated with that level of success is great for your career.
These days, however, issuing a word doc and a folder of images is simply not enough. Many of today’s most prestigious Awards are extremely competitive and the judges expect to be “wowed” with an entry that is professionally written and expertly presented.
There’s no point going in with half a job - but preparing a professional, potentially award-winning submission requires time, dedication and skill. Are you willing to prioritise the task when you’re already busy and the result is unpredictable? Do you have the in-house skills to do it justice? It’s all too easy to keep putting it off and end up missing important submission opportunities as a result.
What you need is someone to take the hard work away!
Someone with the experience you need
Why not let Sesame...
Assess your schemes against awards criteria and identify possible winners (we won’t waste your time if the scheme doesn’t warrant a submission).
Provide a fixed price quotation for
- Research & management
- Copywriting
- Design
- Print/production
- Submission fee
If our proposal works for you, we can...
- Agree a brief
- Interview stakeholders and your professional team
- Construct a winning narrative
- Generate new imagery
- Write the award
- Design, print & deliver
Why should you do it now?
While many Awards have their closing dates in early summer, there are opportunities all year around – and we are the experts in finding chances for you to shine. Contacting us early means that we can give you plenty of time and personal attention, and put together the perfect Awards entry without any last-minute rush and stress.
Key Property Industry Award Submission Deadlines 2024 / 25
Award | Submission Deadline |
|---|---|
RIBA | 12-Dec-24 |
RESI | 8-Jan-25 |
The Planning Awards | 30-Jan-25 |
Property Week | Feb-25 |
AR New into Old Awards (Adaptive Re-use) Housing Design Awards | Mar-25 Mar-25 |
South Coast Property Awards | Mar-25 |
Housing Design Awards | Mar-25 |
North West Home Builder | Apr-25 |
BIID Interior Design Award | Apr-25 |
Northern Housing awards | Apr-25 |
First Time Buyer | Apr-25 |
Estates Gazette | Apr-25 |
Inside Housing | Apr-25 |
Brownfield Awards | Apr-25 |
Housebuilder Awards | May-25 |
British Construction Industry Awards | May-25 |
New London Awards | May-25 |
Brick Awards | May-25 |
Thames Valley Property | Jun-25 |
Building Awards | Jun-25 |
Evening Standard New Homes Awards | Jun-25 |
British Homes Awards (BHA) | Jul-25 |
What House | Jul-25 |
Herald Property Awards Scotland | Jul-25 |
FX Awards | Jul-25 |
Hyde Group asked us to prepare a submission for the “Development Marketing” category in the prestigious UK Property Awards for their “Spring” scheme in Stonebridge Park. Hyde’s marketing executive required support and submission deadline was approaching.
Planning was key. The submission needed to tell a story that would capture the judges’ imagination. The proposed narrative was that effective marketing of social housing at Spring had enabled overwhelming improvements, not only in the built environment, but in the lives and prospects of residents.
We contacted various stakeholders for information and images to support the narrative, including the residents’ association, architects, building contractors, media buyers, sales agents and local historians.
Our final, 60-page award submission comprised:
Highly targeted copywriting which addressed every aspect of the award criteria.
Infographics to demonstrate how marketing spend and progress outperformed targets.
An impressive array of 140 images gathered from all stages of the build and marketing campaign, photoshopped into presentable branded pages.
A series of before and after photographs demonstrating how the estate had improved.
Images of community events on the finished estate.
Hyde permitted us the budget for a really outstanding production. The award submissions were case-bound and covered in a combination of linen and matt-laminated print. A custom-printed, branded USB drive was loaded with the award and the supporting data. The book and drive were placed into a 2-part, recycled-leather bound case, into a dense foam, CNC-milled to our specification.
Our contribution took 8 weeks and included effective, dogged project management, skilful
copywriting and excellent design.
Our award submission won at The UK Property Awards and went forward to the International Property Awards, where it won again.
The award submission achieved competitive stand-out in relation to competing awards and exceeded the set objective by winning both available awards.
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