# Online Accounts award winners announced

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2003/11/29/online-accounts-award-winners-announced/
- Published: 2003-11-29T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The Woodland Trust, Life Education Centres, Rett Syndrome Association UK and SNAP
have beaten over 80 voluntary groups to win the first Charities’ Online Accounts
Awards.**

The Charities’ Online Accounts Awards are designed to seek out the best, Web-based
annual report and accounts from across the non-profit sector. The awards are intended
to become a benchmark for good practice by judging accurate financial accounting
alongside accessibility, value-for-money and ease of navigation.

At a ceremony held on Friday at Chartered Accountants’ Hall, London, the four charities
were awarded first prize in each of their income categories: above £2 million, between
£2 million and £500,000, between £500,000 and £100,000 and over £100,000.

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The winning charities received a cheque for £2,000, a winner’s seal for their Web
site and a free pass to attend one of Charities Aid Foundation’s Charity Conferences.
Runners-up in the competition were presented with a certificate of excellence and
a seal of recognition to post onto their site.

After the ceremony Charity Commissioner David Taylor, and Howard Lake, publisher
of the UK Fundraising, and one of the judges of this year’s awards, presented a 
free seminar on Web-based financial reporting. As well as covering good practice
in charity

accounting, compliance and the Standard Information Return, the seminar offered 
clear guidance on using the Internet as a dynamic and effective communication tool
for annual reports and accounts.

The winners were:

Category A – with an income over £2 million

[The Woodland Trust](http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk) is the UK’s leading charity
dedicated solely to the

protection of native woodland.

Category B – with an income between £500,000 and £2 million

[Life Education Centres](http://www.lifeeducation.org.uk) tries to reduce the level
of drug abuse by providing positive health education for young people.

Category C – with an income between £100,000 and £500,000

[Rett Syndrome Association UK](http://www.rettsyndrome.org.uk) is a national organisation
giving help, advice and support to parents, carers, siblings and professionals involved
with a

child or adult who has Rett syndrome – a complex neurological disease resulting 
in multiple disabilities

Category D – with an income below £100,000

[Special Needs And Parents (SNAP)](http://www.snapcharity.org) is a registered charity
that supports Essex families who have children with any special need or disability.

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