Are you a scheme trustee or a pension fund manager? If so, would you be willing to help judge the UK Pensions Awards 2026?
Professional Pensions is looking for a small number of additional pension managers and trustees to join the judging panel for the UK Pensions Awards 2026.
As a judge, you will help recognise and reward excellence among the advisers, providers and investment managers that serve schemes.
Taking part will also give judges the opportunity to both network with their peers and get a ‘behind-the-scenes' look at how an industry-wide awards process is run.
Judges will be asked to judge around six categories each and will receive submissions to review at the beginning of February
They will each score these submissions to come up with a shortlist for each of the categories.
A judges' meeting will be then held virtually in March to decide the final winners.
The winners will be announced at the 29th annual UK Pensions Awards, which will take place at the Brewery in London on the evening of 11 June.
All judges will be invited to attend the awards as guests of Professional Pensions.
If you are a senior manager within a scheme or a pension trustee and wish to put your name forward as a judge, please contact Professional Pensions editor Jonathan Stapleton at [email protected] or at 020 7484 9747 by 12 noon next Wednesday (14 January).
The full timeline is as follows:
- Submissions to judges for judging: 9 February 2026
- Results deadline for judges: 9 March 2026
- Judges' meetings: 17 or 18 March 2026 [via MS Teams]
- Finalists list published: 19 March 2026
- Awards evening: 11 June 2026
To find out more about the UK Pensions Awards and for details of how to enter, visit: ukpensionsawards.com.
The deadline for entries for this year's awards is 5pm on Friday, 23 January.
