Voting open for ARA Excellence Awards 2025

Voting is now open - deadline for voting is 18th July 2025 - VOTE HERE

Find out all about this year’s nominees and choose who to vote for here.

The winners of the 2025 Awards will be announced at the Gala Dinner of our 2025 conference in Belfast on 28th August (and posted in the news section of this website here).

The awards give us the chance to celebrate the best of what we do and help raise the profile of archivists, conservators and records managers across the UK and Ireland.

The Archives and Records Association created the awards to recognise excellence and contributions by individuals and teams in our sector.

To celebrate the achievements of record keeping professionals and their contribution to society, ARA has four special awards: Distinguished Service Award (DSA), Record Keeper of the Year, Record Keeping Service of the Year, New Professional of the Year Award. There were no nominations for the New Professional of the Year Award this year.